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The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1903-09-16
OFFICIAL RECORDS.

Inc following Instruments were nlet
at the Baker county court house durinl
the week ending Sept. 10. 1903.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS..
Sept. lO-C. A. Rhea to II. w.
Estes. interest as husband Of Leon,
Estes, deceased, In the part Of Mt
Crary and In litigation; s3,7
Sept. lie. w. Beyea, by Sheriff
to Cora NJ. Beyea Al lots in Sarta,
to satisfy costs In divorce suit; s5l.
Sept. lit. n. Profit and wife
to A. NJ. Mann, 6.38 acres in N.
w. 4 N. T.. 4 Sec. 7 TIP. 0 X. 40
r.; 81.
Sept. Sd. w. Yoakum and wife
to Bert Prescott, N. Il. q s. w. "a
Sec. 80 TIP 10 X. A E;s 40.
June %, '79-State Of Oregon to
a. Elmer, 800 acres In Secs. 222
and % Il. .. X. 40 T.; s4OO.
Sept. 8--A. B. Elmer and wife to
Il. +. Cranston, same IN last. 81.
Sept. 5-Mary j. Janney to B. g.
X. l.. and Home Co., lots l, 2 and
10 Is. 20 Atwood's Ind and; $500.
Aug. 60. Il. h N. Co. to Oscar
jacobson, s. w. = SEQ. 10 Tp. 10
X. 30 +; 1920.
Sept. 81. II. Mcdowell and
husband to Hattie II. Olson. 9Oxl13
feet In northeast corner B. %
AtwoOd's Ind adm; 1880.
March 3l-John W. Hall to ID. W.
Yoakum, N. Il. q s. w. q Sec. 80
Up. 10 X. A T.; sl.
April 8-A. W. Ellis and wife to
Esther A. Stoddard, 65x575 feet in
N. w. y N. +. y Sec. 32 TIP. 0 II.
81 +; el2O.
Set. Sc. A. Stoddard and
husband to Clara J. Winborg, same
Hs last; $3.50.
May l2-Fred Fontaine to Henry
Hewitt Jr.. l4O acres In n. - Sec.
81 Tp Or. ~ Il; $500.
Jan. 28-Joel Il. Shannon to NJ.
Lynch, n. Il. Ia Sec. 10 Il. IL X.
~ Il; 1850.
Aug. 29-F. W. Angel aud wife to
=. Basche and n. Cooper, l.. . Is. .,
Stewards lst and; $3.50.
Arg. 81. Sorensen aud wife to
&. j. and NJ. Markle, ". y s. T..
Ii Sec. 3 Il. = Rp. ~ r.; 400.
MINING MATTERS.
Jan. s-A. B. Man ley ct al to
Pacific Coast Abstract Guaranty aud
Trust Co., Chief and Masters quartz
claims 1.-TWO deeds; slO.O5O.
May 25-A. llorner to Jas. II.
Buttcriicld. y interest In Gold Leaf
quartz claim; al.
Sept. IL JAS. Butterilcld to Sister
Mary Garmain, one.fourth interest In
Gold Leaf quartz calm; $1,000
Aug -, oil. II. Blanford to
Thos. Mcnfec, one.fourth interest In
Tclchonc uunrz claim; 81.
Sept. 9-E. j. Adams 1T al tn
John Harrington. Mt. Bell aud three
quartz claims; 1000.
Sept. l2-John Harrington and
wife tn &. &. Cox, y interest in
same as last; l.500.
Set. s-W. 4. Correll To j. NJ.
Doyle, Hidden Treasure quartz claim;
sl00.
Sept. &C. ". Kerns aud wife tn
j. NJ. Doyle, y interest In Mt.
Monarwch quartz claim; 81.
Sept. 10, 'o2-John Ballweg and
wife To Mrs John Beunes. interest
In Halfmoon aud fullmoon placer
a.. 500.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-04-24
greaves Miss Alwyn's found bargain
at the rummage sale, and won't be back
to tea New York Daily News.
Creating q Waterfall.

When the waters Of the Niagara
River were made to flow over turbines
to give electric power and light to the
city of Buffalo it was considered q
great revolutionary feat Of engineer
ing. But at Niagara the dam and the
fall were there from the beginning.
The power was ready In the rough
it had only to be applied to the ma
chinery. When, however, 1t was pro-
posed to utilize the speed and force Of
the Hudson River and to turn them
into the power that lights towns, runs
street railways and vitalizes factory
plants the problem was a different
one. The river was there, but the fall
had to be created, and to do this it
would be necessary to build one Of
the largest dams ever constructed, a
wall, in fact, 1,4OO feet long and 154
feet high, at certain points. No such
barrier, great or small, had ever been
placed across a river Of a volume and
flow equal to that of the Hudson just
above Glens Falls, NY, yet this has
now been successfully accomplished
Leslie's Monthly.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-04-24
Science and Disease.

--HE warfare of science with disease those
everold ever-new contests which have fascina-
ton for many minds. While the training of special
lists has doubtless done much to effect in indi
- vidua cases. and while the experiments Of investiga
have certainly enlarged the boundaries of human
knowledge respecting disease neither of these factors have
toward the control of the half dozen
maladies that annually say their thousands
gradual spread Of elementary knowledge respecting
disease among increasing numbers of the earhs nhabit
immortal Jenner has for than century
the discovering the efficacy of vaccination
saving of millions; yet it is probably
gained his knowledge of the method
of disseminating 1t among human beings and the protec
ton it afforded against smallpox from the simple dairy
folk of Gleucestershre, who had long observed It, The
world him debt of gratitude for spreading abroad
informaon he had gained but hardly for true dis
generalization in science Pasteur worked out
contributing consistent theory of
diseases and following his reasoning Behring and Roux
perfected diphthera probably
greatest contribution of science to the specific
of disease In the of typhoid fever while
science has done much in Investigating the causes Of its
epdemc only the gradual education Of the public to the
protection food and water supplies
ravages Fortunately the public is growing
alive the Importance of such protection and
the death from typhus is decreasing Only the
operation of large numbers widely people
destroy the malaria burdened mosque but in the of
yellow fever intelligent action by single local health
board like that of Havana, will suffice practically to
quer disease Tuberculosis again. clearly
able by of knowledge that consumptve spuum
dnfected and the end Of cholera infantum waits
growth simple practice of sterlizng
infants
all various directions while science
pioneer remains for the slow spread elementary
knowledge among the people to work the cureCurren
Literature
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-04-24
THE MORALS OF MANNERS.

"Now, Aunt Margaret, it is rainy
afternoon, and I want to have it out
with you about my bad Manners as
you call them. I've been here just a
week, and you have spoken to me seven
times about my behavior. Here's the
list, as nearly as can remember 1t.
'You told me l mustn't whisper IN
church, even about something In the
sermon. That was the FIRST day was
here, and 1t wasn't 4 very good begin
ming, was IT.
street Wednesday l. was scolded for
eating a chocolate bonbon in a street
car, though ! was dreadfully hungry.
Then l didn't put on my gloves to go
over to Hattie's, and. didn't look up
from my book or rise when you and
grandma came int the room. You OBJ
jected to me liking my hair at the con-
cert last night, and this morning you
criticised my eating my cream toast
with a spoon instead of fork.
'.Now it seems to me, Aunt Margaret,
that IL am to put my mind on all
these trf1es / shall think about myself
from morning till night, and presently
be the most self-eonscious prig in the
world. That would be worse than these
lapses from your code Of manners.
Don't you really think so?"
That was Helen's case, and it was
not such a bad one. Her pretty face
looked very grave over 1t. Let us try
to deal with her trouble as the wise
Aunt Margaret dealt with 1t.
To think of ones behavior all the
time is little like thinking of ones
clothes or ones eyes or ones clever
ness. But underneath most of these
apparently arbitrary rules lies the gen.
eral law that no one shall do anything
in the public eye to attract attention to
herself. Loud talking, eating, toilet
making are non-social acts; that is,
they ignore the claim of society that
no one person shall do what would be
painful and confusing If all did it at the
same time.
Again, the mark of respect for age
and position has moral reason for it's
existence. The quick perception Of the
fitness of things is the mark Of true
breeding.
Whatever the conventional demand is
and it is substantially the same the
world overt is based on a sense of
proportion, on an unselfsh wish to
make life easy and pleasant for others,
and on just feeling Of ones own place
In the general order of the world.
Gloves, forks, chairs, voice, gesture, are
all to serve one end-the art of gentle
living.
To think about that art-not about
ones self-for one year or five years is
the time spent, IL one may acquire 1t SO
that at the end Of the time it comes as
natural as 1fe."
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-04-24
The Increase of Crime.

THE statistics Of crime set forth in report made
to Congress by DR.. Arthur Macdonald indicate that
thirty years past crime has been increasing
world In spite of the progress of education
labors OF philanthropy, mental and nervous Diseases
suicide insanity juvenile crime. and pauperism at
present increasing faster than the population
crease due apparently concentration population
increased strain the mental apparatus of mankind
necessarily imply that the world growing worse
merely that it Is changing An increase Of crime
incident of development that in the long be
salutary. DR. MacDonald's report accompanies bill to
provide laboratory for the study Of the criminal pauper
and defective classes the discovering
of crime and eliminating it.-Harper's Weekly.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-04-24
TEN DOLLARS FOR A SLAVE.

Owner Was Glad to Take the Money
Eventually.
They had been speaking Of the far
back days, the days when the men
of the old regime used to put negroes
upon the block and sell them, the
mellow antebellum days before the
proclamation had been issued giving
the negro his freedom.
''That reminds me of one OF the
most interesting slave sales I ever
made" said an old auctioneer, who
lives down in the old quarter, accord
ing to the New Orleans Times-Demo-
crat, land 1t may be interesting to
state right here that the sale was
made just before the war between the
States. I was conducting an auction
business in the neighborhood of the
old Cabildo.
zone day a friend of mine who was
a very large slave owner came to me
and said he had an old negro woman
that he wanted to get rid Of. He said
she was not worth much, and he was
willing to take almost anything for
her. She is too old to work. said the
owner, but she makes about 30 cents
every day by picking up coffee on the
river front, which means SIS month.
But just give her away If you want
to- he said, as he left me, and as a
matter of course thought he meant
what he said.
"a few days later put the old wom-
an up and sold her under the ham,
mer, and she brought the sum of $10
The owner came around. WELL 1
guess you sold the old woman for a
song,' he said, as he brushed into the
office; "a couple of hundred was all
she was worth I began to feel heavy
in the throat, for I knew he would
have fit when told him had been
able to get only SO for her. But L
had to tell him, just the same, and he
did have f1t He refused to take the
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-04-24
HEARD BY AN OLD MAN.

Here in my easy chair / sit,
An old, old man before the fire,
Deaf to all sounds of every day
And dead to every past desire.
Perhaps the failing outward sense
Quckens the spirits inner ear,
For sitting here before the fire
You'd scarce believe the sounds hear.
All this long afternoon l heard
The brook in the old orchard sing
Just as it used to, on the farm,
When first the grass grew green in
spring.
You know that gurglins gladstone
-.- noise
The voice of water wild with glee
When it has burst it's icy bond
And finds itself alert and free.
The birds, too, in the beech-tree grove,
| hear them, as in days of yora
When l went forth at break of day,
Call through the sunrise hush once
more.
And that one bird that nested high
1 thought she had silver throat
a trickle of clear melody,
1t thrills me oft, her slender note.
My mothers voice, too-oh, so plain
1t calls across the fading light:
Come children, time to leave your play;
Come in the house, it's almost night!'
.,metimes when you have left the room.
And | alone am sitting here,
] speak the answer right out loud,
Yes, yes, I'm coming, mother dear!'
Then there's one song comes back to me,
Your mother sang 1t, my dear wife,
u slender girl dressed all in white,
First time 1 saw her in my life.
She used to carol like a bird
'Tis an old-fashioned song, I know,
But day by day hear her still
Singing, John Anderson, my Jo."
l sometimes think that when [ go
To join her in the angel throng
Her voice, above the heavily hymn
Will rise once more in that loved song. |
An DID, old man-and common speech
But seldom reaches my dulled ear;
Yet sitting here before the fire
You'd scarce believe the sounds l hear.
Youths Companion.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-04-24

lavender dress! How came that here?
l must have it back; there has been a
mistaken So 1 told Mary, MISS says
1; but now it's sold.' Sold! she cries,
with her face as white as~my apron.
: No matter, will buy it again. How
much was givenT Two sovereigns,'
says I. She seemed a bit set back at
that, but she pulled out her purse.
Fortunately have as much,' she said.
Make it right for me, Betty And not
staying for BY your leayep she
catches up the gown and offs with it
hanging over her arm. I ran after her
to wrap it up, but, lor' bless you! she
never took no heed. So came back to
the stall. Mr.. Bartram had returned.
I've come for my bargain says he,
smiling 1t. oh, SIR says I. Miss Rog-
ers left me in charge Of her stall and
I've sold it!' Sold itY said he. But it
was sold! bought itr I'm very sorry,
SIR says I; but the young lady as is
governess at Mrs. Hargreaves took 1t
and left this for you,' and Isshowed him
the money. But 1 don't understand.
Why Is she so anxious for it7 he says.
Well, you see, twas her dress, and
only sent by mistake answered back.
'Her dress-Mrs. Hargreaves' COVER
ness! What is her name? he asks
Miss Clarice Alwyn,' says I. And
could have laughed out loud, for with
that he was off and away down the
lane and all the folks looking after
him.
ssThey were leaning on the stile lead
ing to 'squire's fields, and the gown had
fallen between them. AS 1 came near
I heard him say, And you wrote the
letter because your father lost his
money! OF course 1 did How could
I keep you bound to beggarr she
made answer. And I thought 1t was
because you didn't love mer he cried.
'Oh, Robert, how could your she said.
And with that they looked up and saw
me. I dropped curtesy. Miss Alwyn
blushed. 'Please'm, you've dropped
your frock,' says 1, demure-like. And
at that MIR. Bartram laughs quite
hearty. Betty says he, 7 see you've
guessed the story. HeFe's half q sover.
eign. Run along. and tell Mrs. Har-
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-04-24
"wHrTE coal. OF FRANCE.
Glacial Streams of the Alpine Region
Put to Work.

Euc Co work.
There has been quite great deal of
activity in the past few years In the
development of the glacial streams OF
Alpine France, says the Philadelphia
Record, and the torrents which until
recently flowed aimlessly through that
country have In many cases been put
to useful labor and the engineers have
designs on number Of others. One
of the chief spirits in this movement
to utilize the mountain streams is M.
lserges. well-known engineer, and he
has estimated the hydraulic forces of
France at 10000, 600 horse power. This
Is more than sufficient to drive. all the
industries. Of the country. According
to his figures the 25,OO0 miles of rail-
roads In France make use Of 100000
horse power and the other Industries OF
the country require 2,5OO,OOO, making
total of 100000 horse power.
In most cases the method of making
use Of the wafer has been to divert it
and conduct it to point where 1t can
economically be availed Of. Large pipes
of metal bring the water from vast
hCASAICs ~ 5CSLlOA vi oAc Vi IACS0
great conduits is few inches less
than eleven feet in diameter. or about
the same size as the tunnel under the
Thames at London, but the latter is
less than 100 feet in length, while those
In the mountains of France are in some
instances Of great length. The one
spoken Of, which is laid near Grenoble,
| wv hie1, 10 GtryIt 20 tol io
over $1,000 feet long. A little ever
5000 feet of this is .of steel and the
rest Is Of wired cement.
AT Lancey, few miles northeast Of
Grenob1e, the water which gives pow
er to mills of various kinds and to the
electrical plant which lights the valley
of the Graisivairdan and maintains
its several tramway systems is brought
by three successive falls, whose total
L. $3.50 feet. y,
Light is furnished to the houses and
farms of the vicinity at a very moder-
ate cost. For example:
Per year.
First lamp, ten candlepower. .$4. .S21a
Second lamp, ten candlepower. 2.S9h
Three lamps, five candlepower
each 2.S91a
Total for FIVE lamps, 35 can
dlepower .........-. $10.6l7a
An average of ~$2.12 per lamp per
year.
In 1863 it was deemed bold
achievement to bring water from
height Of 260 feet, as at Uriage; but
now al. Berges has succeeded in canal
of 1,s04 feet. At Epierre (savoie, NJ.
Jeya used a fall of 1885 feet and at
Chapareillan twenty-five miles from
Genoble) another of 2,O40 feet.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-04-24
New tendency In lmmiaration.

alluding to the fact that during the
ing with the close of 1902, 323641 aliens
United States, Commissioner Sargent of the Immigra-
ton Bureau points that the bulk Of this army
Of newcomers promptly sought employment the
throughout the country and assisting populate the
ing regions Of the West.
The change that has about In this respect is
marked Formerly the majority Of immigrants came
from Great Britain Germany and Scandinavia. Those
from the last two territorial divisions Europe
their way in great numbers to the West Northwest
where their and industry made them valuable
tors in building the prosperity of agricultural
monweahs which play such important parts feeding
the nation and producing the surplus food products which
the United States send abroad furnish subss
for the of the Old World.
This general distribution of the immigrants whole
every account since it tended to equaze the
national population. Now however the people who
to shores chiefly from Russia and the south
Europe and their tendency stay in the cities
the congestion In Industrial eenters, while it leaves
marked scarcity of labor the farms Of West where
during most Of the the demand for workers
wages is keen and constant.
this trend toward concentration is overcome
apparent. But 1t s manifest that 1t much
healthfu development than the former pracve 1t
better that the immigrants who arriving in such
should distributed widely
population comparatively than that they should
herd together the Atlantic slope in colonies which
tend make the progress Of Amercanzaon slower and
more Observation-Disclosures Bulletin.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-04-24

OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS. ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS

Court preferred creditor may retain the amount
pad provided of course the not fraudulent
while at the time regards debts unpaid. he will
share the rights of other creditors Another important
amendment provides that the appointment of receiver
Tor an insoveht corporation shall be deemed act Of
bankruptcy emitting the creditors to choose their trus
tee Among the objections to discharge which in
Guided In the new law is the giving Of false mercantile
statement the proof that voluntary bankrupt has
sought to through bankruptcy than in six
years The bill just enacted also adds to the list of debts
from which bankrupt cannot be relieved by discharge
in bankruptcy. Among these additions debts the
wife and children, and aimony also due under
judicial decision to seduced support
an iegtmate child We note finally that the list Of
poratons permitted to voluntary bankruptcy will
hereafter include mining corporations that the
of referees and trustees average
Harper's Weekly.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-04-24
A DisaoDearina Race.

- WO decades the native population of the Esqui
maux lands, Labrador Greenland and Alaska. was
10000 To-day the population of these countries is
only 15OOO-a decrease Of so per cent. At this
the Esqumaux will soon have vanished OF the face
Of earth There is something about this
Of totality which Is than dramatie-it is
tragic This in spite of the fact that the Eskmos only
of inferior divisions the great human family
disappearance of distinct subdivision humanity
shows how dubious Is the the earth
when the question considered with regard the destiny
of beings in their relation to the great march
historic progress One naturally thinks disappear
of the Indians in the United States a parallel
great asis the decline of their branch
commonwealth within recent years, relatively
equal the losses sustained by the En-
Ou
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-04-24
On the Way Home.

A wind is a wind, from whatever
quarter 1t may Glow. So the lght the
hote1-keeper in the Scottish Highlands,
Of whom tourist asked:
els this good place, do you think.
for a person with weak lungs?'
'Nane better, sir. name better" was
the encouraging reply.
'I have been advised to settle In a
place where there is a south wind.
Does 1t blow much here?"
"Oh, aye" was the answer. Its
aye the south wind that blaws here"
"But it's blowing from the north
noww
"Oh. aye. sir. It's a. one. It's the
south wind a the same, sir. on its road
back again"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-04-24
money, and told me rather curtly L
could keep it. I did keep it.

money, and told me rather curtly L
could keep it. did keep it
''More than six years rolled around
before saw my friend again. In
the meantime the war broke on the
country and the South wakened from
the bloody orgy poor in purse and
broken in spirit One day worn and
hagsard man walked into my Office.
l scarcely knew him even after he had
reached out to offer me his hand. But
In a few moments recognized him,
and he began to tell me about the
hardships Of the war. He was penni-
less, and did not hesitate to say so.
BY the way. old man, owe you $1O,'
l said to him in friendly way, and
I'll pay 1t now IL you don't mind
"He took the $40 and was apparently
glad to get It All of which goes to
show that you can't always tell just
how the dice will roll out Of the box
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-04-24
;Ss6jffa,hnal,l.a. 5, :.
,SHietov.

The eel has two separate hearts. One
beats sixty, the other 160 times nin-
ute.
A large numbr of swans from Russia
and North Germany wintered on the
Swiss lakes.
The boa and python have the largest
number Of ribs of any animals, the
number being 800 pairs.
Near Tiverton, Devonshire, there is
to be seen a blackbird with a white
head and speck1ed back.
A curious butterfly exists in India.
The male has the. left wing yellow
and the right one red; the female has
these colors reversed.
The house fly is very rapid in flight,
its wings making 800 beats a second, In
which time it goes twenty-five feet.
When alarmed the rate is increased to
that Of fifty feet second.
1t has often been stated that sixty
miles an hour was the utmost rate at
which swallow could fly. Recent ex-
periments upon Competgne and Ant
wNAP 4A0FG0 N&t0l a o u AAAOn Ill u NHuKIy
can cover 1854 miles In an hour.
When feeding, the stride Of an Of
ntch is from twenty to twenty-five
inches; when walking, but not feeding.
twenty-six inches, and when terrified
eleven and half to fourteen feet, or at
the rate Of about twenty-five miles an
hour.
Originally the common or Domestic
goat was q native Of the highlands Of
Asia. Naturalists generally regard 1t
as having descended from an animal
found in the Caucasus Mountains and
the hill country Of Persia, called In the
Persian language the pesang.
New kinds Of living buttrfies can be
produced from existing forms by great
ly increasing or decreasing the temper
ature Of the place where the butterflies
are kept. A difference in coloring and
even in form has thus been obtained
by Prof. Fischer in recent experiments.