davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-06

Hardy got ready to square accounts
at home While thinking it over he
jotted down list of the things to the
good, which was as follows:
Feel 20 per cent better4
Weigh nearly five pounds more.
Business increased.
Worth $4,000 more than expected.
Having a jolly time at home.
That night, after dinner, Hardy wait
ed impatiently for Mrs. Hardy to bring
up the subject. It had not been re-
ferred to in any way since the evening
of Dec. 81, 1t having been a part of
the compact that it should not be men
toned.
"Well, Jack" said Mrs. Hardy, 81
suppose you'll wait up until midnight
and start out as soon as the last min
ute of January is gomez"
"Oh, 1 don't know" was the reply.
"The fact Is, my dear, this has been
a very pleasant and certainly a very
profitable month to me. If you don't
mind, dear, 1 think I'll remove the
time limit from the pledge and make
it for an indefinite period"
Mrs. Hardy's eyes fairly twink!ed
'Just to Think" she said, sit took
me six years to do thisr'-New York
News.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-06
TWO BLUE COATS.
The Owners Met in a Great Depart
ment Store.

The Owners Met in a Great Depart
ment Store.
Bargain day. in city is generally
productive of comedies and tragedies,
which appeal especially to the feminine
mind. But at least one man, who was
stranded near the door of big Bos-
ton department store, waiting for his
wife, witnessed an incident which
cheered his spirit.
Near him was q handkerchief coun-
ter, and as he idly watched the tide
of women surging round it, his glance
was arrested by a remarkably pretty
and somewhat conspicuous blue jack
ct, curiously braided in black He
gazed at it with approval for some
moments, as the wearer's back was
toward him most of the time.
At last he looked away. AS he
turned his eyes toward the door, his
glance fell upon another blue jacket
exactly like the first. The woman who
was wearing it was just entering the
store. He glanced back to the hand
kerchief counter. There was the
other jacket, and what was more,
the eyes Of the woman who wore it
were fixed on the approaching coun-
terpart Of her own garment. AS she
looked, an expression Of anger and
disgust crossed her face, and the man
who was waiting said to himself,
'There's trouble ahead"
The two women approached each
other slowly, but with evident inten-
ton. The wearer of the second jack
ct had a conciliatory air as she pre-
tended to examine a fur scarf that
hung near the door.
"She won't speak unless the other
one does," thought the man, but he
was mistaken. When the woman from
the handkerchief counter reached her,
the other suddenly turned with smile
on her face.
II know just what you're thinking" !"
she said, impulsively. "You are the
one who was coming back at the end
of half an hour, aren't your
Eyes, am," said the other, quickly.
"And she told me the lady who had
bought the first one lived in"
"Providencew said the latest conner
nodding violently. well. I do. She
said you told her you wouldn't mind
having another jacket just like yours
If you weren't afraid somebody who
fived within stones throw of you,
or went to the same church and be-
longed to the same clubs would buy
it."
''That's just exactly what said,"
admitted the other woman, with re-
lenting expression about the corners Of
her mouth. "I've had that happen
with hat, and it's so exasperatingp
81 know. / bought golf cape once
-one Of three; and both of the others
are on my street"
How horrid! She said there were
only Just two imported, and when
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-06
What the Hague Court Is.

HE mtsconception that The Hague court a body Of
/ international jurists that assemble at The Hague
whenever called is rife that it may be time
4 ly to repeat how the is tribunal but
consists Of large number O men "of acknowledged
skill questions of international law possessing the high
est moral reputation and willing accept office of arbi
traitors when called sigaatory powers has
appointed four members tribunal in any
particular in the absence of special
the contrary consists of five arbitrators
the members of the being each
party to the dispute and the choosing
fifth If they fail to agree the fifth member to be
chosen by agreed upon if such agreement
be reached, by two powers agreed how the
tribunal to consider the Venezuelan will selected
will not be known until the terms Of the protocol made
public The Hague treaty Intentionally gives very
latitude the constitution
cerned Its trainers seeking to make arbitration
easy and therefore did impose any more
restrictions than necessary-St Pioneer Press
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-06
How to Succeed in Life.

THE problem of how to succeed in life will always
exercise human minds and human curiosity. Every
successful man has, doubt, a theory by which to
4 explain his own success, and of them have
been generous enough to publish these to the world.
According to famous American millionaire If
ber Alright be industrious succeed that dicum
must have been delivered in optimistic moment out
of spirit of modesty which would discam for itself
other virtues We cannot credit that industry alone
joined with temperance will necessarily achieve sue
and DIR. Max Nordau confirms scepticism Dr.
Nordau his instructive essay THE Conditions of Sue
cess in the Fornghty divides into three classes
pecuniary, another political and the third artistic It
should be pleasing artists generally know that to the
last he confines the of the word fame DR.. Nordau
us not to despse money, which should hardly
looked necessary advice in these days He also
considers that unusual qualities make money, quail
of why he called millionaire 1t is probable
however that there is not great difference between
human beings between their circumstances and the
chances which them. The tide may once in
the affairs all men, and the food pass unnotced by
most but would look if had many tides.
Nordau, glad to observe, does not the
whole recommend search after riches. On the other
hand he approves ambition to succeed in public life,
which may of honesty rmness of character, sound
sense public spirit sympathy with ones fellow
man. little genality, and little gift of the gab-Lon-
don Morning Post.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-06


I'll William United
the Senate floor
large
his political He always always
length
a n
times He served thirty Besides ncmbency
Thghh his legis
in a
is
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-06

Up on Columbia Heights there's a
cunnin' little boy-che-ild with many
flaxen curls and ultramarine eyes like
moss-agates, who was totally cut out
of his maiden aunt's gift-giving scheme
at Christmas.
About ten days before Christmas the
maiden aunt was visiting her sister,
the boys mother, when, in a violent
explosion of laughter, her store teeth
became loosened and fell on the floor.
The boy happened-to be in the room at
the time, and the dropping of his spin
ster aunt's teeth caused him speeches.
amaZement.
Three evenings later there was din
ner party at the Columbia Heights
house, at which the maiden aunt was
one of the guests. The aunt is just at
an age when she doesn't want to look
it, and she touches up' her hair and
goes after the makeup box a-plenty.
She was fixed up pretty splendiferously
at the dinner party and was talking
animatedly at the table with a widower
who is just commencing to take no
tice," when the angel boy, from his
little chair down at the end Of the
table, piped:
''Auntie, auntie!'
''Well, what is it, precious 2" inquired
the spinster aunt.
''Say, auntie," said the kid, amid the
solemn hush which usually falls upon
a table company when one Of the
youngsters of the family is about to
say something cute, 'show 'em how
you kin spit out your teeth an then
swaller 'em again, like you did the 9TH
er, day."
AS observed above, the presents that
that boy didn't get from his maiden
aunt on Christmas would fill large
folio catalogue.-Washing Post.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-06
A CHEERING OUTLOOK.

Proposed Expenditures This Year by
Various Railroad Corporations.
The Railway World, adverting to the
prevailing opinion of prominent bank
ing and business men that 1--WE have at
least another year of business activity
ahead Of us, and that the railroads, in
the work of reconstructing their lines,
and upon which hundreds of millions
remain to be expended, will be an all
powerful factor in continuing business
activity" gives Importance to the fact
that enormous expenditures by various
railroad systems are scheduled for the
coming twelve months. It is stated,
the Pennsylvania Railroad will enter
upon contracts calling for an expendi
ture of over $5OOOO,O0O, provision hav
ing been made for an increase of $780,
100000 in the company's capital stock
Some $6,O00O00 is to go into new yards
and buildings at Pittsburg, $10,000,O00
into real estate, etc., in New Ysrk
City $5,OOO,OO0 into the new union
station in Washington, $3,OoO,O0O into
track elevations, ETC., in New Jersey,
$1,O00,OO0 for the Trenton bridge, and
$2,000,OOO for Improvements in Phila-
delphia.
The Baltimore and Ohio also has
work in contemplation that calls for
the yearly expenditure of many mil
lions. the total not falling below $780,
100000. The New York Central has
$25,0O0,000 to spend on general i'm
provements. The Southern Pacific and
old Central Pacific are to have nearly
$4O,OOO,OOO of new capital put into
them. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
will spend $2O,OOO,OOO on new. lines
In Oklahoma. And these are but few
of the large outlays to be made by
railways, the effect of which upon
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-06
WHEN THE LANE TURNS.

Thore'll be light and joy forever
When the long lane turns
The singing of the river
When the long lane turns;
The singing of the river as it ripp!es to
the sea
In the light that falls in showers over
you and over me,
And We'll revel in the gardens where the
fairest roses be
When the lane-when the long lane
turns!
Wen forget our cares and crosses
When the long lane turns,
With gains for all our losses
When the long lane turns;
The birds will fill with music all the
forests and the dells
To the ringing and the singing OF tne
golden-throated bells,
When the lane-when the long lane
turns!
Atlanta Constitution.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-06
BIGGEST CRAB EVER FOUND.
One i'm Brooklyn Museum Over Eleven
Feet in Diameter.

Feet in Diameter.
.he biggest crab ever discovered, it
is said, Is now mounted and on exhibi-
ton in the Brooklyn Museum of Arts
and Sciences. The natural home of
this creature is under from 600 to 4, 900
feet of water The crab measures 111a
feet in diameter and for the most part
it has very beautiful complexion
for crab-ranging from delicate
old rose tint on the top of the carapace
and legs to a pale brownfsh shade on
the underside.
The two front legs have the usual
crab claws, which are big enough to
crush a man, but the others end in
narrow brown hoofs without toes. The
eyes on the branches are enormously
large and the feelers are as big as
garden hose.
The crab was taken off the japanese
coast and formed a part of collec-
ton made by Professor Bashford
Dean. of Columbia College, last year,
and it was presented to the Brooklyn
museum by Eugene G. Blackford It
took more than a month to mount 1t.
1t is supposed that the giant crabs
grow to twelve feet in diameter, says
the Detroit News-Tribune, but the one
in Brooklyn is the biggest ever cap
tured. Not many Of them are cap
tured-not more than ten or twelve a
year-although the Japanese are fish
ing over the grounds where they are
found all the time.
The Japanese fishermen set lines sew
eral miles in length, with many hun
dreds of hooks, which are sunk to the
floor of the ocean and left over night.
When the lines are hauled in the next
morning all manner of extraordinary
things are found attached, from giant
crabs to sea lilies.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-06
~ dit IORIAIS6Z


twenty ago. when he put together the ingenious lin
gustic system which he called Voapuk Volapuk absO-
lutely fulfilled the requirements of universal language
cabuary based hreefourths words of Teutonc
origin and onefourth words contained in the Romance
language Its synax simplicity itself No will
ever invent artificial language better than this 1t
taken everywhere great enthusiasm. Schools for
teaching 1t cropped in all countries Grammars of
were published in Occidental tongue At twenty
lex1cons of Volapuk appeared, and had
say against it. Nevertheless may doubted whether
this moment there is single human being it.
studies it. or even speaks of it.-London Chronicle.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-06

one chap knows enything. He does
the work for the whole class an his
name is all over the board. I'm think
in if that teacher don't get a move
on her soon she'll lose her place."
"And what is the name of this boy
wonder?" asked the writer of the flu
ture, according to the New York
Times.
81 don't know his name IN full,' re-
turned the observant sweeper, "but the
letters he signs to his jomerty sums
is @. E. D."
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-06

Miss Anne T. Morgan, daughter of j.
Pierpont Morgan, has undertaken to
raise fund of $15O,OOO with which to
Of Mime. Eleonora Duse, the actress.
While Nine. Duse was attending a re-
ception Miss Morgan heard her speak
of her long cherished plan to erect a
temple of art to be devoted to the pro-
duction of classic and modern drama.
The young New York woman at once
raised $21,O 900 among her friends and
pledged her support to the project un-
til the theater is built. Only the wom-
en- friends of Miss Morgan are to be
asked to subscribe to the undertaking..
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-06
A Universal Language.

~ URING the Paris exhibition of 1900 several
crosses and committees met to take up the question
of ian auxiliary international language" and signed
a report embodying certain conclusions on the sub
iect committee permanently established,
with Dr. it's secretary and it has begun
an active propaganda.
This idea of made-up tongue first suggested as
far back as 1910 Sir Thomas Urquhart, and has
ceyed the approval such Leibnitz, Grimm and
Max Muller. But remember what happened
language actually constructed by Schuyler some
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-06
Go Back to the Farm.

THERE is for conditions of depression IN
either organized labor organized capital Both
depend the markets and neither one nor the
other can command them. The real remedy for hard
times the enforced remedy for redundant labor is
reversal of the downward tide of population.
resort must dig to live and they go
land dig The revvng for the occupation
the public lands in the West is healthy where
the of migration cheaper lands
of Canada.-Philadelphia Record.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-06
Popcorn Is Excellent Food.

popcorn is one of the best foods we
have; people don't begin to appreciate
its value" said Mrs. Mary D. Cham
bers, in the course of lecture on
cereals to a class of women in domes-
tic science at the library building in
Brooklyn. And then, seeing the sur
prise on the faces of the women before
her, she went on:
"Let your children eat all the pop
corn they want 1t contains valua-
BILE oil, has high calorific power. and is
mostly starch cooked thoroughly by
high pressure of steam."
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-06

business must be very considerable.
The mines, the furnaces, the machine
shops, and the factories will be kept
busy in filling the contracts made nec-
essary by the extensive wants Of the
railroads All branches of business
will doubtless feel the benefit of the
large outlay, provided everything goes
right in the financial wor1d.-BaIti-
more Sun.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-06
Letter Writing.

LII children should be carefully the art
of letter writing, and should be encouraged
/ I to parents at regular intervals when away from
home An instance is recalled, and such instances
are not infrequent, where daughter who married
and left her old home in her early womanhood
parents week for fifty years.
the tie is broken when children depart strength
ened by faithful and systematic correspondence. The
strongest family erection is subjected to severe test
when brothers all sisters separate and very rarely
the old family life by frequent visits or COM
munication by letter.
Owing to cheap postage of communication the
arrival of letter such important as it was
when postage costly mail transit was slow In
former days letters from absent friends warmly
coined and carefully preserved.
Children should be encouraged write letters because
the habit is educave if practiced under the direction Of
Intelligent parents. Nothing reveals knowledge of
the language certainly than letter
effort Our forms of speech acquired chiefly in the
family and not in the schools The accuracy ones writ
ten and spoken language depends parents
upon teachers Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-06
None to Spare.

Tacoma speaks up and says she is
not suffering for sweet girls for
brides
"Well, there is one thing sure, and
that is that none Of the other cities is
suffering from an overplus. 20 Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-06


accident station
Ill three lives
~ remarkable conditions
train and when the big engine struck the day coach the the
"OwI
o
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-06

A man wearing rubber heels ought
to be compelled to carry sleigh bells
Start to roast him, and you are liable
to turn around and find him at your
elbow.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-06


man takes his opinions exparte from some
biased authority and bothers to inquire
they right He accepts statement OF
fact without question and, having adopted them and
lodged them mind is not unusual for him to resent
any attempt to correct them.
is a of observation that the most violent and
and partsans those who know least
about the side Ignorance is the mother of bgots
but knowledge tends to make man tolerant
No man has right to have opinion and no mans
opinion question respectable unless he has studied
both sides ought be ashamed to give judgment
question unless he has heard and considered the
arguments for and against
We the weightiest matters without either infor
reflection. How citizens are in favor of
free trade protective tariff and yet cannot
ntegenty great problem involved in the tariff ques
ton rSow many people shouted and voted for the free
coinage of silver who could not define what the term
meant?
education and culture train man to study both sides
of question he voices opinion of they accom-
piish that be expected Of them Even among edu
Gated men it is the exception find who studies both
sides of uuestions-San Francisco Bulletin
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-06
Too selfish to Carve.

"Did you never learn to carve tur-
key?"
Never, answered the intensely sell
fish man. 81 could never see the wis
dom of putting yourself In position
where you must offer everybody his
choice and content yourself with what
ever happens to be left.
Star.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-06
just Makes IL.

"she borrows everything she can
think of"
'tOh, no; she never borrows trouble,
Bulletin.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-06
Study Both Sides.

w !; E ::
biased authority and never bothers to INQUIRE
The sun., 1903-09-23

When he came out OF that meeting he and
Mr. Fulton went into small room where
they remained together half an hour
When they came out Mr. Fulton reiterated
that he would make no statement Mr.
Cutting said
II do not believe these letters were ever
written. think q correspondent has been
deceived. In view Of this, you will see that
1t Ia impossible for me to talk about them.
Then Mr. Cutting went home. At mid
night THE SUN read to him the substance OF
the letter in which Mr.. Fulton said that Low
II pounded hard enough would quit and
that Mr. Cutting was . man who could
win.
Mr.. Cutting said, Il do not care to make
anv statement about it. Until / see the
letters themselves do not care to consider
them, or to base any comment on them.
! shall say. nothing tonight must see
the letters.
In December. 1901. when Mayor Low
was considering the appointments ne
would make Mr. Fulton was frequently
mentioned as the probable selection for
Water Commissioner, at $500 a year Mr.
Fulton did not hesitate to make It known
that he would like the Office, and he asked
the Citizens Union to support his candi-
dacy. He didn't get the job.
The sun., 1903-09-23
QUEENS DISENTANGLING.
Delegates to Republican Conventions May
Have No Trouble.


Have No Trouble.
The action Of the City Board OF Elections
In declaring some Of the ballots cast at
the Republican primaries In the Fourth
and Fifth wards Of Queens borough illegal
and the men chosen under them to various
convent ions not elected, will not cause
much trouble to the party managers. The
delegates were chosen by wards instead OF
by election districts. as required by law.
The form was all right for the city con-
vention and also for the city and county
committees, but for the borough, ward and
Assembly district conventions the form
was wrong
The onlv real trouble that will result
ia in the case OF the ward conventions to
nominate Aldermen. The delegates not
allowed will be seated by the delegates
from the other wards under the law which
permits those regularly chosen to NIL
vacancies.
For the aldermanic conventions it is
believed that special primaries must be
held or else nomination made by petit ion
Ieander B. Faber will this morning apply
to the Supreme Court for an order directh &
that the certificates of those declared not
elected be accepted. Action must be taken
to-day, as some of the conventions meet
tonight
The Fifth ward delegates to the Assem-
bly, district convention join with Nassau
county as dist rict, and arrar gements
will be entered into by which the delegates
from that county will seat those from the
Fifth ward