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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-23
GLOVES MADE OF RAT SKIN.

Hide Of Rodents Too Small for Even
the child's etze.
A report comes from Copenhagen
that q great rat hunt has been organ
ized there and that the skins Of many
thousands of the victims are to be
used in making gloves. II the rat
hunters in the Danish capital cherish
any such hopes they are doomed to
disappointment, says the Pail Mall Ga
zette. Rat skins cannot be made into
gloves fit for commerce. The belief
that valuable raw material is being
neglected here survives only in the
minds Of the inexpert. The glove
maker knows much better. A Norws-
gian merchant once came to England
and informed a well-known glove
maker that he had collected over 1OO,-
600 rat skins and was prepared to re-
ceive offers for them. He was fully
convinced that the skins were suitable
for glovemaking. But the manufact-
urer found that the largest skin was
only some six inches long and he held
up a kid skin for the smallest size
of glove, a child's, which was eight
inches long, and asked how he was to
cut such glove out Of rat skin.
Then he took up the smallest kid
skin for lady's glove, eleven inches
long, and when he asked how that was
to be cut out Of rat skin the Norwe-
gian merchant laughed at the idea and
went away disappointed. The best
offer he got for those skins, which he
had collected with SO much care, was
shillings a hundredweight from
man who was willing to boil them
down for glue.
A famous glovemaking firm has
collection Of curiosities relating to the
trade, and one of them is the largest
pair of gloves ever made out Of a
rat skin. The belief that such skins
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-23

Keeping them IN repair IuIs
upon and result the road commissioners
Of four townships returned negligent IN their duty
Following indictments have been prepared
against township road commissioner At the
time the district attorney has prepared indictment
the for negligence in making
repairs upon a county road.
Here Is excellent precedent which well be fol
lowed generally in other counties Is practical good
roads which to produce excellent results
township commissioners supervisors and the
county commissioners charged with the duty of seeing
roads in good condition They liable
punishment If they fail in their duty When number OF
felt the Of their neglect
of duty their fellows likely to make haste
avoid similar fate The Importance OF good roads
not be overestmaed Those who voluntarily assume the
Office of securing then fail properly fulfill their
duties entitled consideration They guilty Of
injury the public Of light character and their NAL
feasance richly deserves punishment-Pttsburg Press
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-23
LIFE IN ENGLISH VILLAGES.

It L. Not the Idyilie Form that Po-
cts Sing About.
II know a village where there are
no fewer than thirty cottages with
but one bedroom apiece, and in each
Of these single bedrooms six, seven and
more people are sleeping" says A.
Montedore Bruce, writing In the Lon
don Mail about life in the average
English village. I'm one Of them.
died together. In another, father,
mother and six children-three OF
whom are grown up-are sleeping. In
these cottages there Is one living room
downstairs and no sanitary arrange
ment Of any kind. At the back of the
cottages runs an open ditch. 1t is also
an open sewer.
Here, in the very heart Of the coun-
try, I expect to find abundance of
pure water, abundance of sweet air.
Too often l find neither about the
cottages. Hundreds of villages have
no water supply, though a compare
lively small expenditure could provide
it. 1 know village-it is typical Of
hundreds the cottagers have to
60 half a mile to get water. A foul
ditch furnishes another village with
the whole of its water supply. Odens-
i've refuse heaps lie piled round the
crumbling walls Of the cottages. The
wooden floors without are rotten with
sewage.
Norfolk. Suffolk and Essex contain
many such villages, and other coun-
ties-such as Bedford, Cambridge
shire, Wiltahire, Dorset, Somerset
easily vie with them. l could write
Of lonely cottages far across the fields,
with no water within a mile, whence
the children morning after morning
walk two miles to school, and drag
their tired limbs that distance back
again at highland this whatever the
weather; where the postal service
comes but once a week: where the
men and boys walk daily five or six
miles to and from work; where Of
drainage there is none; where of the
simplest sanitation there is none:
where the medical officer Of health
comes not, and where the inspector Of.
nuisances is unknown"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-23
A Triple Tragedy.

An Indian from the Flambeau reser-
vation in northern Wisconsin recently
came into the fishing resort Of Squaw
Lake with a curiosity in the way Of
deer horns he wished to sell. Failing
to make a sale, he took the horns back
to the reservation. The Montreal Wit
ness describes his treasure as three
sets of antlers inextricably interlocked.
Two sets of antlers so locked are rare,
but not unknown. 1t is believed that
the Flambeau Chippewa has the only
set of three-locked antlers in the world.
The accident could have happened
strength were fighting In the forest
and became locked Then, while they
were still struggling, third buck ap-
peared and charged them both, prob
ably repeatedly. until his own horns
became fastened.
The Indian says he found the horns
north of Flambeau Lake, about a mile
from the water. They were lying on
the side Of hill, and there were no
bones near them. The condition Of the
horns proved that the fight occurred
not more than two years ago. The
antlers were all of full-grown bucks,
showing eight and ten points each.
The third pair had been driven into
the others just above where they were
Joined, and the branches Of them were
about equally locked with the branches
of the others.
They were not broken or Clipped in
any way, which seems to indicate that
when the third buck had made his last
charge he was fastened SO firmly that
there was no room for any one of his
points to play in the forks Of the 9th
ers. Indeed, all the horns were so
stoutly Joined that they could not be
moved at all. They are as rigid as If
nodded in that fashion from steel.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-23

them any latitude, however. When
ever one of these big birds Is seen soar
ing about the poultry yard, or, in fact
anywhere on the farm, it's Johnnie
get your gum because it not infre-
quently happens that good-sized chick
ems, young lambs or little pigs are car
ried away by them, SO they're very un-
welcome visitors. l know a gentleman
whose little son, a boy about 6 years
of age, was attacked by an eagle. and
but for the promptness of some Of the
farm hands in coming to his rescue the
child would have been carried away
beyond a doubt.-Washington Evening
Star,
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-23

One consideration that is making
our people impatient Of hard work is
the example Of riches quickly made
through the semi gambling activities.
Men whose fathers would have died
rather than live on bread they had
not earned find themselves willing to
be taken care of. by the government
perhaps, or by "the party" Or by
their more fortunate or. industrious
relatives. Such drones know nothing
Of the satisfaction Of him who "scorns
delights and lives laborious days"
who can hold his head high and say
he has earned his right to live, and
whose death is thus not debt paid to
nature, for he owes her nothing.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-23

A study Of newspapers east and
west, north and south, may possibly
indicate growing sentiment that,
whi.e this republic holds out hands
of welcome to every useful and valu-
able element among immigrants, 1t
may be compelled In self-defense at
some time in the future to consider
soberly whether it will be helped or
hurt by the tremendous inrush of un-
skilled laborers who have no intention
OF taking out naturalization papers
and becoming American citizens at
any time.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-23

An insolvent woman has applied for
relief from her debts in one of the
United States courts. Her appeal, so
unusual as to excite general comment,
speaks well for the fair sex and it's
keen understanding Of financial obli-
cations. AS a rule in insolvency pro-
ceedings woman is generally the cause
of mans predicament, but is kept dis
creetly in the background.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-23

While 1t is that mothers should teach their daughters
the mysteries Of the culinary well per
form other household dutes 1t is unfortunately quite
that many mothers do this do
not themselves know how to cook while others do
motives Of false pride.
While in the interest Of the better physical development
of the girls in the public schools
studies should be required the study Of cooking
practical nature and Its requirement
welfare and that Of their future households
deserves attention.
No other land under the is bountfuly provided
with the OF good living the United
it probable that other much
waste among ourselves while bad cookery respons
BILE for the existence dyspepic Good cooking
should mean not only marked decrease in expend
ture of multitudes OF homes but equally
in the health and comfort Of nhabitants
Philadelphia Bulletin.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-23

The weird rumors which the Eskimo
have repeatedly, published about the
existence Of strange men and beasts,
which walk abroad only during the
sunless days in the hyperborean re-
gions, may after all be founded upon
truth. However, until positive proof
ds furnished, Professor Frazzle's state
ment about the live mammoth must
be taken as travellers highly colored
faiA.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-23

sailed away to region that 10 fraught
with danger and death. And all this
that science may benefit from their
dreadful experience and at the ex-
pense Of Illness, cold, hunger and lone
illness. Science and scientists are, of
course, duly grateful, and they have,
without a question, been immeasure-
ably benefited from these arctic ex-
plorations, but once In a while some
one is bold enough to say: lis it worth
While? And is it?
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-23

Eupatorium Rebandium is the name
Of the new plant that is to supersede
sugar cane and the sugar beet, being
twenty or thirty times as sweet as
either. When used in connection with
tabloid coffee and condensed milk it
ought to be a great thing for picnics.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-23

the belief that the employer s the
of aborng This belief due largely the
capital WISE while labor has been ignorant
Capital grasped opportunities and strengthened its posi-
ton while labor through poor advice and minded
antpathy spent its best efforts in goryng martyr
dom which s mostly of its making.
Capital is stronger to-day than it has been for time
has combined its strength and worked toward
common end Labor has combined and has worked at
purposes with its best interests An evidence
this is the silly expensive and disastrous sympathetic strike
system If labor profted q small through this
system 1t has lost in large way by it because the prin
ciple which denies the right living
wrong
Money is very important factor In the world,
possession Of wealth what employer
Its influence. but labor does realize that it
capital which is quite important money
The capital Of labor skill in the trades which the
industries of the country strength capital
has been scattered through improper
yn Times.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-23

Poultney Bigelow declares that there
are several millions of Americans who
would like to see this country annexed
to Canada. Poultney evidently makes
the mistake Of believing himself to be
several millions Of Americans.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-23

8enerazauons Wien tney say cing II mas all the GER
tanty that figures give It. and figures according
the proverb don't lie. Emory NcCiintock
these statscians declare that living
sonably expect have longer period life
Of even a decade ago.
Better hygiene, thorough knowledge selfcare
water thorough drainage less drinking
all these things and many others combined
the twentieth century finer physical product than
existed generation ago. The American people be-
coming more temperate and intelligent It is
longer the fad for and girls be puny
delicate Short skirts wheeling riding golfng walking
swimming. fencing boxing have contributed
the coming mothers Of the At to strong
and daughters Physical culture is part Of
public school system and daily most
men and women Of Europe and America.
Hence we are gradually beginning to live longer ".
may do even better, II wan-New York Daily News
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-23

When Charlie Schwab gets his tai
loring trust in operation he should
make a speciality Of boiler-plate vests
for kings and emperors.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-23
Enforcement BraceIet.

Designers have been busy with love
affairs and their symbols. The en-
gagement ring will probably never lose
its favor, but there are now several
nov elites in the way Of engagement
gifts that vie with the ring for popu-
larity. A pretty idea is the curb
bracelet with the heart clasp in which
reposes the portrait of the given
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-23

We presume that the women persist
In wearing high-heeled shoes for some
such reason as the men persist in
wearing those bob-tailed coats and cir
Gus tent trousers.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-23

The servant problem is simple mat
ter, according to Mrs. Russell Sage.
Just do without any servants and you
will never have any trouble.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-23
BEING RAISED TO TOP
OF HILL $50 FEET HIGH

Foot by foot the old Brown home
stead, for many years landmark on
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at
Brown Station, Pa, is being raised to
the top of a bluff, a distance Of $50
feet. The lot on which the house stood
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-23

Now the farmers want trust. The
best trust is trust in elbow grease. 1t
is the man who works his muscles
and not his politics who gets ahead in
this country.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-23

Cheap funerals are the fashion in
England just now Lord Salisbury's
having cost only $40. This will cause
a large mortality among impecunious
noblemen, it being a wellknown fact
that many of them have been keeping
alive through family pride because
they didn't have enough for a decent
burial.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-23
III Informed.

Mr. Upjohn-I wish you would tell
Kathleen that she cooks her steaks
too much.
Mrs. Up5ohn-You are three girls
late, John The name Of the present
one ts Mollfe.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-23

Live shells were fred at French
warship without any apparent effect
upon it. However, Dewey's men were
not behind the guns.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-23
The Worm Turns.

you're forever trying to give the
impression that you're a martyr"
snapped Mira Henpeck. 81 suppose
you want everybody to think that you
suffer in silence"
''No," replied Mr.. Henpeck, "I suffer
IN the perpetual absence Of silence. a
little silence would be a positive pleas
ure to me."-Philadelphia Press.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-23

A branch Of Yale University in
China would at least determine to
what extent the pigtail can be taught
to handle the pigskin.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-23

We don't need an elastic currency
as much as one with a little glue on
each side Of every dollar.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-23

At the exact moment the proposal is
made a young man actually believes
that he isn't worthy Of the girl.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-23

What has become Of the, old fashion
ed woman who referred to her enemy
an ian old gumpf"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-23

young y.
Standing alone this seems harsh. But Bishop Joyce
explain that something than theological
education needed to make good preacher con-
that in good too much book learning
eliminated the traits Of character that made the
preachers of the Methodist Church strong in the
pulpit and power outside.
He urged that there be cultivation Of spirit that
would make the preacher in fact the shepherd
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-23

The pension rolls have passed the
great divide. 1t will be gradual de-
scent from now on to the end.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-23
ToS OF
THB TYMES.

Don't shoot the Holsteina They are
doing the best they can.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-23

Perhaps we may have to dig the
canal first and ask permission Of Co
lombia afterward.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-23

The Macedonian life insurance com
panies must feel like a fried egg.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-23
A Practical eood Roads Move.

PRACTICAL good roads movement has been
inaugurated In venango County, Pennsylvania
Judge Criswell called the attention of the con-
stables to the poor condition of the roads and
instructed them to return the road commits
sioners If they did not comply with the law in
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-23
Longevity ls Increasing.

CTUARIES. men who make a study Of sta-
tstics relating to life and death, say that mans
years are gradually growing longer.
These actuaries Of great insurance compan-
les should certainly know what they are talk
ing about. They are not accustomed to deal in
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-23

1t will ruin any man to be hem
pecked. We never knew such . man.
to amount to anything.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-23
Common Sense In the Ministry.

BISHOP ISAAC JOYCE said to the Methodist
conference at South Bend, Ind: 81 do not
wish to be put down against the theological
schools, but do wish those schools would in
troduce a new chair and call 1t the chair of
common sense 1t is NEEDED in the training of
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-23

Wise is the man who can recall a
previous engagement when re receives
a dasagreeable invitation.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-23
Teach the Girls to Cook.

o the average woman a practical knowledge Of
the art Of cooking will be worth a dozen solo
gieA" Such an accomplishment will make her
the unquesdoned mistress Of her own house
hold instead Of the helpless servant Of incou-
petent servants AZ many women are nowadays
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-23

When a mother lays down rule, its
effect Il about as lasting as the curfew
lava
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-23
Labor and Capital

T goes without saying that neither capital nor
labor can be turned to any practical or lasting
good unless there is cooperation. One cannot
be successful without the help Of the other, but
labor has regarded itself as ground down. for
so many years that many workmen have been
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-23
OLD
FAvORITES
silvor Thread. Among the Gold.


silvor Threads Among the Gold.
Darling, l am growing old
Silver threads among the gold
Shine upon my brow to-day
Life is fading fast away;
But, my darling, you will be
Always young and fair to me!
CHORUS.
Darling, am growing old
Silver threads among the gold
Shine upon my brow to-day
Life In fading fast away.
When your hair Is silver white
And your cheeks no longer bright
With the roses Of the May
I will kiss your lips, and say:
Oh! my darling, mine alone,
You have never older grown.
Love can never more grow old;
Locks may lose their brown and gold,
Cheeks may fade and hollow grow,
But the hearts that love will know
Never winters frost and chill;
Summer warmth Is In them still
Love Is always young and fair,
What to us is silver hair,
Faded cheeks or steps grown slow,
To the heart that beats below?
Since I kissed you, mine alone,
You have never older grown.
-Eben e. Rexford.
The Star.
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How wonder what you arel
Up above the world so high,
Like q diamond in the sky.
When the blazing sun is gone,
Whsn he nothing shines upon,
Then you show your little light,
Twinkle, twinkle, all the night.
Then the traveller in the dark
Thanks you for your tiny spark
He could not see which way to 60,
II you did not twinkle SO.
In the dark blue sky you keep,
And often through my curtains peep,
Fu1 you never shut your eye
Til the sun is in the sky.
Az your bright and tiny spark
Lights the traveller in the dark,
Though I know not what you are,
Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
Jane Taylor.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-23
The Star.

Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How / wonder what you arel
Up above the world SO high,
Like a diamond in the sky.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-05-31
MANY OPINIONS ABOUT VAGRANTS{

such person should be poor and unable
to pay his fine, he would have 10
languish in jail or in the workhouse for
the full term OF his sentence-eleven
months.
1t is claimed by many able lawyers
that such a statement shows the alb
surdity and untenability of the position
taken by the Police Court, and that the
real meaning of the law is that where al
OfTense is punishable with a fine of not
less than $50, or imprisonment not ex-
ceeding thirty days, the party is not en-
titled TO a jury trial, but that whenever
as a punishment for the offense, the
judge of the Police Court has authority
to incarcerate a person convicted before
him for a period of more than thirty
days. the person before the court is
clearly entitled to trial by his peers
that it is not a question as to what the
judge does in given case, but merely a
question of what the judge may do under
the law for violating which the persecu-
ton is had, which determines whether
or not the ACCUSED is entitled to trial
by jury
Harris counsel have announced that
they will take an appeal to the Court
of Appeals for the District