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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-04-17
The Panama Canal.

HE treaty signed by Secretary Hay and DR.. Herran
the Colombian Minister. Is long step taken toward
4 the construction of the Panama Canal by the United
States. special session of the Colombian Congress
will be held in the spring to consider the treaty and the
option of the French company, which will undoubtedly be
extended.
The caanl will cost the United States: ~ $4O0OO0OO
be paid to the French company the present value of
charter and construction computed Walker
commission e. $40 10000 down and $250O0O per year
after years the Colombian the
cesson including the Panama Raroad and 81 the further
expenditure of $145 100000 the canal Is authorized by
the act Of 1902; may be needed. The lease from
Colombia 100 and is renewable by the United
States And by arrangement with Great Britain most
credabe to the Of her statesmen the United
States will have exclusive control of the canal strip sub
ject to arrangement with Colombia.
OF the 465 miles the one-half will at sea
level and this portion nearly completed Thirteen miles
will In lake created in the valley of the Chagres
by dam Bohio which will impound half cubic mile
water The remaining ten miles, the famous "Culebra
cut the backbone of the continent presents the
greatest difficulty 1t will probably be passed by section
about seventy feet above the And the sides of the
will than 800 feet above that level
The canal will be nowhere less than 120 feet wide at the
and usually considerably The locks planned
the French company be 73s feet long, but the
rapid increase in the size Of craft dictate
greater length The minimum depth of ten metres 328
feet planned by French engineers also be increased
These facts convey impression OF the magnitude
of the undertaking Its total cost will be than twice
the Suez Canal than five times that of the
Kiel Canal In Germany. From engineering viewpoint
be Of the wonders Of the world it's usefulness
trade will be and rapid in growth.-New York
World
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-04-17
THE REAL KING OF FRUITS.
A Boy the True Apple Eater, but Leave
the Skins ON for Him.

A Boy the True Apple Eater, but Leave
the Skins ON for Him.
The boy is indeed the true apple eat
er, and is not to be questioned how he
came by the fruit with which his pock-
cts are filed. 1t belongs to him and he
may steal it If 1t cannot be had in any
other way. His own juicy flesh Graves
the juicy flesh of the apple. Sap draws
sap.
His fruit-eating has little reference
to the state of his appetite. Whether he
be full of meat or empty .; meat he
wants the apple just the same. Before
meal or after meal 1t never comes
amiss. The farm boy munches apples
all day long. He has nests of them in
the hay NOW, mellowing, to which he
makes frequent visits. Sometimes old
Brindle, having access through the
open doors, smells them out and makes
short work Of them.
The genuine apple eater comforts
himself with an apple in their season as
| others with a pipe or cigar. When he
has nothing else to do or is bored he
eats an apple, sometimes several of
them. When he takes a walk he arms
himself with apples. His travelling bag
is full of apples. He offers an apple to
his companion and takes one himself.
They are his chief solace when on the
road. He tosses the core from the car
window and from the top of the stags
coach. He would, In time, make the
land one vast orchard. He dispenses
with knife. He prefers his teeth shall
have the first taste. Then he knows the
| best flavor is Immediately beneath the
skin, and that in a pared apple this is
llost. If you will tew it, by all means
leave the kin on. 1t improves the color
| and vastly heightens the flavor of the
| dish.
The apple is masculine fruit; hence
women are poor apple eaters 1t be.
longs to the open air and requires an
| open air taste and relish.-John Bur
| roughs' winter Sunshine
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-04-17
LANDLORDS OF THE WEST ARE
NOW LEAVING FARMS TO TENANTS.

EBRASKAS
n landordsm in
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It's all the Western insisted raising such
forced him prices for what he has produced It has
Nebraska
a
from following the plough
a
$1,000 1t comparatively for Its get from $500 to $500
a
a OF
to
run to live we'll
will
in the cities and the nantry Usually
condtion-Utca Globe
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-04-17
WOODEN LEGS AND REAL ONES.
Modern Inventions Counterfeit Ma
ture Almost Perfectly.

Modern Inventions COunterfeit Ma
ture Almost Perfectly.
In the case of a man who had been
awarded So 900 for the loss of leg by
a railroad and who had appealed the
case, deeming the compensation too
small, Chicago judge has decided
that artificial limbs should be accepted
as part recompense for the loss Of r. al
ones. During the trial, on appeal, W.T.
nesses were introduced by the railroad
who testified that though supplied with
artificial legs they could get around as
Lively as persons with real onas, cou,d
daEce and ride the bicycle. To this test
mony the appellant strongly objected,
whereupon the court handed down this
ruling:
Art and invention have done much
to mitigate the inconveniences occa-
sion d by the loss of limbs and to restore
the power of locomotion and the earn
ing capacity which otherwise might be
greatly lessened or lost, and evidsnce
tending to show facts of that nature is
competent for the consideration of the
jury
During recent years the progress
made by artificial limb makers has
been wonderful. An interesting story is
told in this connection of a man who
was lost In blizzard in the wilds of
the Dakotas. When he was finally
picked up he was so badly frozen it
was thought he would dia, but by care
full nursing part of the man was
saved-that is, his trunk and his head,
both in a damaged condition. 1t so hap
pened he had some money and was able
to piece himself out.
After he was sufficiently recovered
from his injuries he was brought to
Chicago and taken to an artificial limb
maker, who was told to go to work on
the foundation and see what he could
build. In the first place he put On two
artificial legs, and the man could walk
The next job was TO furnish the man
with two arms, and this was done after
much work, and the battered trunk.
dressed in the latest fashion, began to
look quite like a human being once
more. The man was still minus both
his ears and his nose and one eye,
while his hair had all fallen out The
artificial limb maker said he could fix
the ears and nose all right, and he
went to work and made pair of ears
for his man, fitted them on and then
took up the task of a nose. This was the
most difficult of all, but finally very
neat celluloid proboscis was made,
which was held in place with specta-
cles. The man next got a wig and a
glass eye and went out new man in
the real sense of the word.
Wonders are certainly performed in
the way of making artificial limbs.
Time was when the peg leg was the
only thing known, and the man who
lost one of his lower limbs had TO go
stumping through life with a wooden
peg. Now he takes $10O and goes and
Il L q
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-04-17
Schools Sfur Study of ERoliSh.

- NGLISH is of the most piable and adaptable
- tongues. 1t has plundered all languages of their
riches. 1t has the greatest Of all Hteraures, save
l. that of Greece, and it has the advantage Gre
literature of being concerned with modern life and
being living speech English probably Will become
day the universal language
Until very lately pedagogues seemed to have
English a medium Of education Earlier scho
curricula made Latin and Greek the main forces In
higher The college twenty ago
stuffed with Cicero and Virgil Demosthenes and
Then the scientific movement In the schools
Laboratory work declared to be the educational
method Physics chemistry and political economy
the Latin and Greek The humanities fell into dis
repute The old college graduate
ashamed of his classics in the presence
superclious young that had been brought up on
physical science.
But physical science 1t Is admitted, Is sufH
for liberal education writer in the Popular Sei
Monthly confesses that there undoubtedly
uarrowaess little general culture
sign which is the bad Latin published by
of younger in the form of geological
erence that language and literature
clear and exact thinking and its
tive, clear and exact expression.
Why not then, English supply the necessary hui
manarian in education English has been
the schools for the student supposed
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-04-17

about as servicsable as a flesh and
blood one, not subject to corns, rheu-
matism, and the other ailments to
which flesh Is heir.
1t is only about a century ago that
the first artificial leg was made, and
it was considered one Of the wonders of
the world. 1t was called the Anglesea
leg, from the fact that it was made for
the marquis Of that Eame. This a: st
limb was wonderfully and fearfully
made, as heavy as lead and as clumsy
as an iron leg. Since that time great
Improvements are made, until to-day u
man with an artificial leg can walk,
run, jump, hop, skip and do nearly, ev-
erything that the man with flesh and
blood legs is able to accomplish.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-04-17
TRIALS OF THE ACCOMMODATING MAN
WHO HAS A TELEPHONE AT HIS FARMHOUSE


to
In vicinity; my to
who
to
In
out to the
n another friend of the nks family teephoned
disturbance al
everybody blame
mad
country Is hard"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-04-17
DIVORCE HAS A DEFENDER.
Marriage Needs Regulation More tina
the Dissolution of the Tie.

Marriage Needs Regulation More than
the Dissolution of the Tie.
There is a general demand through
out the United States for the enact
ment of more stringent divorce laws.
A recent writer in an Eastern maya
zine, however. presents some reasons
for regarding divorce as the only prac-
ticable way out of an unfortunate sit
uation in many cases and points out
what he considers to be the true solu-
ton Of the matrimonial problem. He
says:
1--WE are told that the institution Of
divorce separates husbands and wives
and breaks up homes. Nothing could
be further from the truth. Divorce
never separates, just as the marriage
ceremony never unites. Each is but
the symbol, the sign. which sets it's
seal upon that which took place be-
fore. II the husband and wife find
that they have made a mistake and
that the lives of both are made wretch
ed by the mutual companionship 1t is
their duty to separate and obtain free
dom by legal process.
1t Is a mistake, a perversion of the
truth to make the statement that
homes are being wrecked In this way
No home that Is a home indeed has
been broken by divorce. and none will
be, for this legal step Is but the clos
ing scene of the last act In a domestic
tragedy. 1t is a crime to rear children
in a home life where father and moth
er are mutually abhorrent. where love
dwells not, where the contact of pa
rents serves to bring out all the innate
evil Of their natures instead Of being
an inspiration to virtue.
'The rational. reasonable way to
minimize divorce Is to place barriers
against easy matrimony and make
marriage a bulwark of sincere and
holy purpose against which the waves
of youthful impetuosity and unripe af
fection will dash in vain. The greatest
social evil in our country Is the marry
ing habit. There is practically no
check on marriage, and young people
wed at will and at times In haste.
with an angry parent in pursuit. Even
those below lawful ages find little diff
fculty in getting the protection Of law
and are pronounced married.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-04-17
Are Advantages Disadvantageous.

wv RE wealth and ancestry handcaps which SO hea'-
Y lily weight aspirant for success ana honor thal
in spite Of them, he Is entltleu 10 extra
4 1 credit? Frankly do not believe It, Inc numDer
of those of origin who attain conspicuous
in life is very greater than the number OF those nof
fo the advantages wealth and distinguished ancestry
who do this precisely the that white sheep
more wool black sheephere are great many noe
of them 1T be remembered that to maintain
bpb level of intellectually capacity Is much
less conspicuous rise from the obscuy OF
and Iliteracy to a place Of influence and honor
To saw that wealth distinguished ancestry are
handicap wishes be in the hiShest degree
seful in life is no more than 1t would be to say
the same of good constitution or system free from
hereditary say that they diminish the incentive
to struggle with obstacles Is true enough
since one who with great advana does not nave
so far to lift himself need not do much hard work
hand-overhand climbing. That In many instances the
sons of rich great men show degeneracy ana
relapse into obscury unquestionably true but would
not be difficult show that poverty an iterae ancestry
and the lack of incentive sefmprovemeHt hold millions
annually round of the social ladder because
they ncomparaby better fitted to stay there than TO
Heredy counts for great DEAL and lsa sa1e
generalization that better mans ancestry the better
his chances developing high welldirected and sus-
fained ambition. That this Is not hfeX1b4e law OF
nature is congratuation If 1t were society
would gradually srafy into castles AS 1t Is. the fact
steadily sinking from the top to the bottom
while more steadily. and much more rapidly rising
the and that between the ootto
and the top great of solid commonplace right
minded citizenship to the highest and the lowest
strata with generation establishes the
existence operation OF law not founded on senti
mental concept the disadvantage of advantages nor OF
the advantage of disadvantages.-New York Times.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-04-17

problems. All are determined, how
ever, to know lots more" before the
advent of the warm spring weather
calls them away from scholastic labors
and back to the workaday world.
Most of these young men are Of
Italian and Greek extraction, aud
nearly all are busy, during the more
temperate seasons, at fruit selling or
some kindred business efforts. No
time for the securing of the education
they are so desirous of attaining can
be found from early spring until late
autumn. But when Jack Frost sets
them free from their ordinary iabors,
the Jones school claims interest and
time. In order to facilitate their eff
forts and endeayors the boys and
young men are placed by themselves In
the Railways Of the second and third
floors, instead of in the rooms and
classes where preliminary Instructions
are more normally carried on. Thus
the adult students are spared the NOR
tification and annoyance of receiving
the instruction also impaired to the
more youthful first grade pupils in
company with these fellow workers of
small size and fewer years.
Few of these students meet with
any home encouragement or assistance
toward studying, and their school work
is necessarily of fragmentary aid in
termittent nature. But Miss Cora Ca
verno. the school principal says that
they make thoroughly good. earnest,
and devoted students.-Chicago Trib-
me
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-04-17

circular towers, as well as the outer
walls, still show signs of Roman work
manship. Roman coins and medals
have often been dug up in the neigh
borhood. The keep at the northwest
angle of the castle seems from its ap-
pearance to have been originally Saxon
and there are clear marks of Norman
and Tudor styles.
In the time Of King John the castle
was prison, but more attractive to
the King, and the cause of his frequent
visits there, was the wine store In the
cellar. AT one time, during war with
France, 5000 prisoners were confined
there at one time and were huddled
together in the castle. The walls of the
castle are from eight to twelve feet
thick and enclose nearly five acres.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-04-17

chance of winning the pennant. Nc
Ginnity did not appear to be affected
by the extra work, but on the contrary
appeared to relish it. as he received
bonus for the job. But even since thea
the Iron Man" has not been the same
in point of effectiveness.
Managers Of top-notch reputation
have profited by these incidents in
baseball history. They want to pre-
serve their valuable pitchers as long
as possible, SO they readily consent to
the two games week proposition and
proceed to hire half dozen boxmen.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-04-17
His STYLE of Haircut,

An elderly and rather irritable gen
tleman entered a harber's parlor to
have his hair trimmed. All the seats
were occupied. He was about to leave
when a voluble operator persuasively
remarked: "Ready in a minute. sir"
Reassured, the customer sat down.
picked up a paper. and absently began
to peruse it. Meanwhile the barber ex-
hibited an extraordinary loqaeiousness.
discussing the merits of race horses.
the possibilities at Saratoga, and vari-
GUS other subjects. Finally he invit-
ingly offered the vacated chair to the
old gentleman.
"How would you like your hair cut?'
the barber inquired.
"In perfect silence, please" was the
curt and ironical reply.-Philadelph
Public Ledger.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-04-17
EASY FOR PITCHERS NOW.
They Have a Snap Compared with Stars
of Bygone Days.

They Have a Snap Compared with Stars
of Bygone Days.
Baseball pitchers In these days think
they are performing wonders If they
officiate in two games week. IL they
were asked to go In the box more than
twice they would imagine they were
being worked to death.
Looking back, however, to the days
when John Clarkson. Tim Keefe, Char
ley Radbourne, Ed Crane. Charley
Sweeney and other famous boxmen
were in their prime one cannot help
feeling that the star pitchers Of mod
ern times are enjoying comparative
snap. When Radbourne was MEM
Der of the crack Providence team in
the National League he was called on
to pitch every day. The box was only
fifty feet from the plate, to be sure
but "Old RAD had the best batters
in America before him day after day.
He had marvellous speed when he
wanted to use it, wonderful slow
ball, great curves and head filed to
overfiowing with gray matter. Day
after day RAD pitched, winning con-
stantly and soon creating a furore In
the baseball world. Providence, as a
result, won the National League cham
pionship in 1884, and Radbourne was
famous all over the land.
In 1894, when the New Yorks were
making a great bid for the pennant.
which was won that year by the Balti-
mores, Manager Ward during the last
month of the campaign induced Amos
Rusie and Jouett Meekin to pitch every
other day. Both were giants in build
and depended chiefly upon speed. They
pitched phenomenal ball, and with an
other week added to the schedule they
would have landed the pennant in the
metropolis. AS it was though the New
Yorks came second. Rusie and Meekin
practically won the series for the IA
nous Temple Cup by their fine work in
the points But that was the last year
either showed the form which had
brought him to the front rank of pitch
ers.
AS late as 1900 McGinnity, the 'Iron
Man." consented to pitch every day
for the Broeklyns toward the close OF
tIa saa son for Hanlan Thought ha had
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-04-17
DATES BACK TO THE ROMANS.

Porchester Castle, One Of the Oldest
Structures in Great Britain.
In the many ruins of castles. fort
resses and palaces found in various
parts of the British isles, is found a
variety of architecture. Most interest
Ing, perhaps, from an architectural
standpoint, is Porchester Castle, on a
narrow neck of land jutting out into
Portsmouth Harbor. which is a quad
rangular structure showing traces of
many different styles of architecture.
The Britans possessed fortress on
this spot which they called Caer Peris.
Under the Romans 1t was called Pertus
Magnus and the circular and semi
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-04-17
CROW WITH LIVES TO SPARE.
It Tormented HoRs and Caused
Farmer No End Of Woe.

Farmer No End OF Woe.
Say you seed a hundred crows In
one f1ockY" asked an Illinois farmer
Of a man who was telling him of a
visit he had made to the country a
few weeks ago. The farmer leaned
ever in his chair. took aim at cuspi-
dor half way across the lobby of a
Dearborn street hotel, and turned
again to the city man. "Seed hun
ared? I've seed millions on 'em. But
you don't see 'em any more. Crow day
Is well nigh gone. Time wuz when
the pesky birds mighty nigh eat us
outen house an home. I amt seed
'em SO thick fer five or six years or so
an reckon they amt a-goin' to be SO
plentiful again. I larned a good many
Idees about crows when they used to
be lots on 'em.
You may not know that crow is
the thing that comes clostest to cat
In havin' its life renewed a lots of
times. It's fact. When the corn belt
was simply a-swarmin' with them, an
you couldn't hear yer own ears fer
the Gavin, they would almost eat our
hogs up.
"One year had bunch of fine
porkers and the crows would light on
the backs Of the hogs and peck away
until they nearly killed 'em. ] stuck
up all kinds Of scarecrows, but that
didn't do speck of good. 1t got so
bad at last that had to lay out in the
hay NOW by the winder and shoot
crows all day. They are mighty shy of
the smell Of gunpowder. but they will
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-04-17
~ ! IN ORIAISR
OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS

pick up casually. The average
dent In the scientific did pick up all and
left college knowledge English tongue
and literature.
Ii English prescribed study in all schools and
colleges and taught thoroughly the speech
the land would improve and the dictiou Of our
writer's would become and elegant We lack
pride in language and conscenousness In the Of
It, 1t is time literary mission work DONE
San Francisco Bulletin.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-04-17
MEN IN PuBtlc SCHOOL
Adults Who Are Learning to Read
and Write.


and Write.
Visitors of the Jones public school,
Harrison street, between State and
Dearborn, are frequently astonished at
sight Of the large and eager groups Of
adult students at work in the second
and third hall ways. Long tables have
been placed in these Railways, and
about them sit serious faced, deter
mined youths of anywhere from sew
enteen to twenty-one or twenty-five,
each busy with slate, primer. or some
simple school problem.
Between seventy and eighty of these
ambitious young students sit out In the
Railways daily, and most Of them are
studying in the first reader" or work
ing at similarly simple and elementary
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-04-17
A Woman,s Happiest Day.

~ f Three hundred New York club women met re-
ANf Gently to hnd out. One woman pumped for the
day and moment when the carriage arrived to
honeymoon, because she leaving all
her old clothes behind her, although she would probably
want them again In month so Another speaker de-
cared boldly that the happiest day Of womaRs life
she struck real bargain In support Of this
Instances the woman who, hearing that a bank had
lowered its interest to cent scraped together all
the money she could lay hands and deposited forth
with The demoralzing effect of feminine clubs
the contention Of third orator. who argued that
happy when she had read her first paper
womans club meeting and had account Of in
papers the day. fourth the happest day
because it always In anticipation
fifth declared it wasn't day at ALL but moonlight night
On the whole Is puzzled than to how
to trim his sails.-London Chronicle
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-04-17

The British Home Secretary last to release Mrs May
of numbering her English husband She to be released next year
behalf