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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-03-06

retIres once more, to reappear at 6
o'clock, when the great event Of the
day-the preparation for dinner COM
mences. That over, the artist is free for
the evening. 1t is worth noting that he
owes his enviable post solely to hard
work and genius, for the cook, like the
poet, is born, not made. An additional
interest attaches to this culinary auto
crat because of the encouragement he
gives to women cooks.
1t has always been said that women
cannot attain to great heights as cooks
and creators of dishes, and that just as
they fail to excel in music, poetry and
painting they fail also in the higher
mysteries of cooking. It is very inter
esting to learn on the testimony of the
kings cook that this is no longer true,
however true it may have been for.
merly.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-03-06
LONDON WOMAN INSPECTORS
They Are Trained for Duty and Fill
Important Posts.


In view of the recent victory of wom-
an principals here in the struggle for
recognition in the selection of the high
er officers of the school system, it is in
teresting to look abroad and see how
the weaker SEX are faring in their
endeavors to obtain a footing in posi-
tions from which they have hitherto
been excluded in London. On Jan. 10
a meeting was held by the Linnaean
Society to discuss whether women
should be admitted to fellowship. A
circular having been sent to the mem
bers requesting votes on the question,
301 answered fayoring their admission,
126 negatived it, while 313 were still to
be heard from. The Botanic Society
already admits them.
AS sanitary inspectors women are
were utilized as inspectors of the slums
of the overcrowded city Of Glasgow
many years ago, but it was not until
1898 that London followed the exam
pie. The vestry of Kensington appoint
ed two in that year. They have been
found such success that there are
now twenty-five women employed in
that capacity under the borough coun-
ellis, at salaries ranging from $400 to
$3.50 a year. The work consists in the
inspection of all public places where
women work, including homes where
they take in outside work, tenement
house visiting, and last, but by no
means least, the investigation of causes
of infectious disease. These inspectors
must be trained and undergo an exam
ination before being eligible for a
berth. Their training embraces the
study of physics and chemistry in rela-
ton to air, water, soil and vegetation,
also municipal hygiene and building
construction.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-03-06
WHAT wou.DYoU TAKE FOR MEq

She was ready to sleep as she lay on my
In her little frilled cap so fine,
With her golden hair falling out at the
edge,
Like circle of noon sunshine.
And l hummed the old tune of "Banbury
Cross"
And "Three Men Who Put Out to
Sea-" =
When she sleepily said, as she closed her
blue eyes:
Papa, what would you take for mel?
And 1 answered, ga dollar, dear little
heart,"'
And she slept, baby weary with play,
But l held her warm in my love-strong
arms,
And l rocked her and rocked away.
Oh, the dollar meant all the world to me,
The land and the sea and the sky,
The lowest depths of the lowest place,
The highest of all that's high.
All the cities, with streets and palaces,
With their people and stores OF art,
1 would not take for one low soft .hrob
Of my little ones loving heart;
Nor of all the gold that was ever found,
In the busy wealth finding past,
Would stake for one smile of my darling's
face,
Did 1 know it must be the last.
So rocked my baby and rocked away
And l felt such a sweet content,
For the words of the song expressed more
to me,
Than they ever before had meant.
And the night crept on, and L slept and
dreamed
Of things far too gladstone to be,
And 1 waken'd with lips saying close IN
my ear,
"Papa, what would you take for re?'
Eugene Field.
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Education An sweden.

The largest school house In the
world, one which has accommodations
for nearly three thousand children, is
claimed by Stockholm. In the base
ment are one hundred bath rooms,
where the children are required to
bathe If their teachers think they are
not taught habits Of cleanliness at
home. Soap and towels are furnished
free by the city. A wholesome dinner
il furnished poor children at noon in
all the public schools if they need it, as
In Norway, which insures every child
at least one warm meal each day. Chill
dren whose parents can afford to pay
for the dinner are charged a nominal
price, and the personal pride and inde-
pendence of the Swedes compel many
people to pay who really cannot afford
to do SO. This is a characteristic of
the race, says William q. Curtis, who
adds: 'Swedes abhor charity, and as a
rule, IL they cannot take care Of them
selves, will suffer and even starve Ia tn
er than accept it. They take care Of
their poor in a generous manner, and
have asylums for the diseased, the
afflicted and distressed, but you sell
dom see beggar in Sweden. 1 visit
ed every part of Stockholm, and did
not see beggar; one may travel for
months in Sweden without being ask
ed for aims"
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C|vEER SroRbE5

An ordinary oak tree raises 120 to
$50 tons of moisture from the earth dur
ing single season.
cended the British throne was Henry
VII. He was eight months and twenty
five days old at his accession.
A raindrop one-twenty-ffth Of an
inch in diameter cannot fall at any
greater speed than thirteen feet in a
second. Raindrops rarely exceed one
eighth Of an inch in diameter.
Originally the common or domestic
goat was a native Of the highlands Of
Asia. Naturalists generally regard it
IS having descended from an animal
ound In the Caucasus Mountains and
,he hill country Of Persia, called In the
Persian language the pesang.
Fancy two plants being so unfriendly
that the mere neighborhood of one is
death to the other! Yet this is the case
with two well-known British plants.
These are the thistle and the rape. II
the field is infested with thistles, which
come up year after year and ruin the
crops, all you have to do is to SOW 1t
with rape The thistle will be absolute
ly annihilated
The use Of hard coal has become so
common that it is hard to comprehend
how the community could be satisfied
with soft coal Yet the available supply
Of anthracite in America is so small
that unless some other fuel be discov-
cred, the use Of bituminous coal must
prevail within seyenty-dve years at the
most. The anthracite fields Of Penn
sylvania will be exhausted within sew
enty-fve years, and there is no other
deposit Of the sort in the United States
Of any Importance. Europe has very lit
tie anthracite. Most of the Welsh coal
is bituminous, though the coal Of the
western part Of the South Wales field
Is hard coal. China has vast fields, how
ever, compared with which our Penn
sylvania field is but dot on the map.
The China fields underlie forty thou
sand square miles in Human, Honan
and east Shansi.
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anyhow, l have kept my promise-I am
going to give Jonas a wife for his birth
day.''-New York Daily News.
just to Give Confidence.

Sam is a gentleman of color. Occa-
sionally he takes a seat at the poker
table with some of the boys, and his
winning ability is matter of wonder
among the 'perfesh." A new recruit to
the gambling ranks showed up and
Sam was informed that he had big
roll.
sWall, ah don't mind takin' hand
at de table wifi de gemman wifi de
finance" responded the ever-willing
Samuel.
well, he's got the dough, SAM" said
his friend. land I've got line on him
for tonight. Now, I'll tell you what
we'll do. Well take him a spin at
poker and I'll deal. I'll give the mon
eyed guy four queens. Then I'll deal
you four kings, and, Of course, we'll
land him."
'Yaas, sab, yaas, sab. All see. Yo'
'gwine t. gimme fo' kings, an glib de
gemman wifi de money fo' queens. And
den you gwine ter deal to yo'se'f."
"Sure thing"
"Yaas, sab, yaas, sab; git de fo'
kings-he git de TO- queens. An 70
gwine ter deal. Umph, umph! Waal,
say, don't play cahds so much, but /
wish yo'd give me a ace jes' as a sort
OBJ confidence cahd. Jes' to gimme
confidence, dat's all. all."-Indianapolis
News.
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onas. with a decided shake of his

Jonas, with a decided shake of his
head.
There's three of them that would"
began the old farmer, but he checked
himself abruptly. He had come very
near betraying his pretty niece's Sc
cret "Just you ask 'em,' he finished
abruptly, but with an encouraging
smile.
(Which one'll ask?' queried Jonas.
"Ask 'em ALL" said the old farmer,
with a roar of laughter. He had evil
IDENTIFY thought of something that was
exceedingly funny.
John Gardner, be you out of your
head?" said Jonas, half angrily.
But the farmers words burned in his
brain long after he had parted with his
friend and neighbor.
And that evening he put on his best
suit and went over to call on Jennie
Deering.
An hour before midnight they were
sitting alone in the kitchen, for the old
folks had gone to bed in most accom-
modating manner.
"Did you know my birthday was
next week, Jennie?" said Jonas, sud-
denly. He was sitting as near her as
he dared when he asked the question.
Suddenly, Jennie giggled in most
unaccountable way.
do you want birthday present,
Jonas?" she asked, with fit of laugh
ter that bordered on Mysteries.
Jonas looked at her with some sur
prise, but when he answered her he
was in desperate earnest.
81 want a wife!" he said boldly, and
then blushed as red as poppy.
"That's what 1 mean," said Jennie,
still lowering on Mysteries. "Do you
want wife for birthday present?'
Jonas caught his breath and looked
at her sharply. Had she turned mind
reader, or was it simply chance ques-
ton?
But Jennie was desperately in ear
nest, as well as Jonas. She had to full
fill her part toward securing the COM
bination wife and present.
"May Gardner or Sallie Green would
marry you, l am sure. They are both
nice girls, and you're bound to like
them" She blurted out the words in
the most astonishing way, and then
| finished by bursting into fit of crying.
"But I don't want Sallie Green or
May Gardner! 1 want you or nobody,
for my wife," Jonas said bravely.
The sight of her tears had made
him bold, and he was holding her hands
| now in the tenderest fashion.
And before 12 o'clock she was his
promised wife, and when he left her
there was only one cloud upon her hap
| piness. ''The girls will be awfully
mad" she said over and over, "but,
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-03-06
REPLY AMAZED EneLIsHMAN.

Lingering Suspicion in HE Mind that
She Poked Fun at Him.
1.-THE conversational versatility Of
your American girls astonishes me"
said the Engishman who was ap-
preaching the close Of his first month
In New York "Not only do l find
that in society the young women have
quickness of perception and readiness
Of repartee, but I have found that
in the downtown restaurants, where
girls are employed as mattresses, they
are extremely handy with their re-
torts."
Been trying two jolly 'em bit, eh?"
said the college graduate, who was
finishing off in Uncle Jim's Wall street
office.
"Not at all-not at ALL" replied the
Englishman, hastily. 'My observa-
tions are based on what l hear them
saying to other men. The girls are
quite bright, y'know."
What led you to think them other
wiser" said the American citizen.
81 did not look for the quality Of
glibness in girls Of that class" said
the man from London. 'In eating
places on the other side the mattresses
never talk to you, not even after you
have been going to the restaurant
every day for months. Here in New
York it is vastly different. And they
seem to know where you are from,
too.
Il went to my usual restaurant to-
day. There was a new girl at my
table, and the one who usually waits
on me was sort of assistant head
waitress. She came over to the girl
at my table before 1 had a chance to
tell what wanted and said:
Bring the gent a rasher of bacon,
Two eggs, underdone, toasted muffin
and tea. Is there anything else? and
she looked at me. I said that would
be all right, and remarked that the
weather was changeable, and what do
you think she said?'
Something equally bright" 1 sup
pose," remarked the college man.
The Englishman eyed him a mo-
ment. 81 wonder If she was poking
fun at me?" he said. well, she just
answered.: We have so many foreign
ers In New York we have to have all
kinds of weather to suit 'em. This is
not our day for English weather, but
hope you won't get tired waiting for
your turn. Mail and Express.
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ceded that the would benefited much II nos
more. than other class of people by such roads
The real for the farmers objection is found In
the fact that according the ordinary scheme of improve
nen he would be called the entire burden Of
cost which he nvey feels be greater than he ought
to bear, if not greater than he is able to bear.
Considering this long continued opposition by the people
the general government and especially considering that
road building is undoubtedly public duty which rests
the in form, it clear that the
farmers are entitled to assistance in bearing the
necessary burden of cost the public highways
The United States should step forward with
definite policy and share of the burden
and responsibility which necessary produce credit
able system Of public highways Whatkwe have and
seeing in the development of rural free mail delivery
should be repeated in the matter of improvements
to the highways
What members of Congress want is expression from
their constituencies showing what desired the several
districts There many rural districts which have
great rivers great harbors great cities which ene
them to public buildings; but there district but has
miles of public roads which need be permanently
improved.
1t is remarkable fact that the United States govern
ment has already appropriated $OOOOOO Porto Kco for
oadbuildng and another $1oOOOOO the Philippine ISL
to Congress through the President of the United States
who strongly indorses that appeal to have $3o0O000
propriated for the of the Philippine government
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He LOVED HER JUST THE SAME.

His Antics We're Not Due to Any De-
rangement of His Affections.
1t was $50 o'clock in the drawing
room of the home of Miss Clara Arm
stretch. AS the last notes of the piano
died away the young lady in question
suddenly whirled around and gazed
long and fxedly at the agitated coun-
tenance of her embarrassed fiance.
MIR. Mainspoke," she said, bitterly,
this is too much. When you first
came in this evening it was evident to
me that you intended to provoke q
quarrel. There was a marked cool
ness in your manner, and as we sat On
the sofa together you edged away ana
insisted upon changing to chair.
Even there. however, you were not
contented, but you suddenly arose ana
I caught you glancing at the clock.
Several times l saw you start to pace
the floor as if something was on your
mind, and now, when at your request
play your favorite air on the piano,
1 catch you trying to mimic me behind
my back. This has gone far enough.
If, sir, you wish to break off the en-
gagement, you have only to speak.
Let there be no further shillyshaily.
ing"
James Mainspoke loved the indig-
nant girl before him better than his
life, says the New York Times, and he
became conscious that unless he told
the plain truth she was lost to him
forever.
Darling" he said, his face sufkused
with bushes, If you must know, /
have on suit of brand-new under.
wear"
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Clock" said Jennie, but again May
frowned upon the suggestion.
NO. indeed! That won't do. Jonas
has no end of clocks and needs no more
Let's give him something that he would
never dream of getting for himself"
''Oh, girlsw broke in Sallie Green,
with a ringing laugh. 1--WE thought of
the very thing! Let's give Jonas wife
for his birthday present! He has ev-
erything else that he needs, and you
know he is altogether too timid to even
secure a wife without some assist
ance!
won't he resent it?'' asked the girls,
timidly, but May checked them i'm
periously.
Certainly not if she is the right one.
What man would? Tie only thing is
to see that she is in every way worthy
of him, for Jonas is really a splendid
fellow, even If he is bashful. Jonas
shall have wife for his birthday, that
much is settled! Now, who shall she
be, and how will we present herY
The three girls sat for a moment in
silence; then suddenly May was struck
with a bright idea. The other girls
stared at her in breathless amazement
when she told them what it was.
"Why, May Gardner, you must be
crazyr' they cried simultaneously.
Not a bit of itv' said May, stoutlv.
"Now, see here, girls, be sensible. Here
we are, getting older and older eyerv
day, and not man in the village that
is marriageable except Jonas. Now.
we all like him, you know we do; but
if we wait for him to propose we'u all
die old maids, and that would be
awful. ALI Jonas needs is a little en-
couragement, and no one will ever
know that we used our influence for
each otherv'
And, finally, her reasoning prevailed,
possibly by the aid of a tender senti-
ment existing toward Jonas in the
hearts of both the blushing maidens.
ST say, Jonas, you'd oughter be think
in of marryin'," said Uncle John Gard
ner shortly after the important agree
ment between the three young ladies.
81 s'pose so," said Jonas absently,
with little blush.
"'Pears to me you'd better be lookin'
around" continued the old farmer, as
indifferently as possible. "Your thirty
fifth birthday is comm and you've
ben half your life without a wife.
Must be sort o. desolate fer We, I'm
thinkin'."
"That's so," said Jonas, a little
mournfully. "There amt so much fun
a-settin' alone O. evenin's but I'm used
to it," he added, despondently.
"Pshaw! There amt no sech thing
as gittin' used tew it! 1t amt nat'ral!'
said Uncle John, stoutly.
"What'H / do?" asked Jonas, sheep
ishly.
ASK one of these pretty girls around
here to marry you-sort of birthday
present to yourself, don't you know"
The old man chuckled as he glanced
slyly at Jonas.
"They wouldn't have me-" said
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His Observation-Disclosures

'Well, FISH, said Mr.. Ryefuddle,
partially steadying himself by clawing
on to the door-frame and gazing at the
wife of his bosom with fshy and TO-
cusless eyes, sis the hic) first time I
ever saw a liv(hic)ing puzzle-picture
Now, which Of the two is (hic) which
and which is not (hic) which In osher
words, which of 'em Is Chic) and which
of her amt one of (hic) 'em? On the
ozher hand, which one of the two THAT
/ see is the (hic) one I don't see, and
which is the (hic) one I see but don't
think do? / pause for a (hic) re-
ply"
N. Bile got it.-Judge.
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Jonas Birthday Present

q CERTAINLY, Jonas must have
D birthday present! Now the Ques-
ton is, what shall it be?" said
black-eyed May Gardner in deter
mined manner. "Just think! He'll be
35 years old, and has never had one,
except when he was a little boy, almost
too young to rememberw she added,
sympathetically.
''Did he say that?" asked Jennie
Deering, with curious blush.
Eyes, he told Uncle John so,'' said
May quickly, land when uncle repeated
It to me 1 just decided that he should
have a present this year, sure"
Lets send him something that is
useful An old bachelor needs so many
things that he would never think of
buying himself. We could send him a
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copied reduced their ices, and
solicited business.
AS matter Of fact there few, if any, real trusts.
and the is given promscuously large corporations
Of all kinds especially if composed of combination Of
number Of smaller 1t is of the term
carries unjust inference, but it has into
common
The country has occasion fer alarm than the
Ifrit have for the Of child
hood. And the situation really threatening still
would have supreme faith the ability people Of
the country to protect themselves in that
might arise The danger not to the people from the greed
corporate asserting itself unwisey but to the
corporations themselves.
Because of this alleged danger it has become the fashion
day to assa corporations general principles and
public who is bold enough say word in their
the risk of bitter criticism to his motive
it crime to be stockholder and
the friend stockhoder 1t is time the should
cleared The corporations have their rights the ind
have theirs We undertake here in New Jersey to
them in their rights We have taken their
and them the charters under which they do their bus
ness continue to take their money each year in the
shape taxes for which give them the continued pro-
lection Of laws.
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made. She has often visited Ireland
since, but has not been molested.
Miss Come is a beautiful woman
and is a forcible writer and lecturer.
Major Mcbride is a native Of County
Mayo, Ireland, and since the close Of
the Boer war has been living in
France
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of goodly Inheritance, she decided to
devote her life to the amelioration of
the conditions surrounding her. She
would go among the evicted tenants,
prea ching to them the necessity of raj
lying to the cause Of home rule. That
her labors were effective is proved by
the fact that the British government
issued an order for her arrest. She fled
to France before the arrest could be
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fers questions past the present the future In
caress falsehood in kiss Indifference in love
hypocrisy What life of torment!
Jealousy being elementary psychic phenomenon,
but variable different ethnic forms
they varied. The Jealousy of number
of oriental peoples is familiar Of all Europeans the 1al
Spaniards and above ALL the Portuguese, the
most Jealous Braziians the jeal
Jealousy is necessarily stronger in poygamous
than among And just as it has already
diminished in the homogeneous society will tend to de-
crease future wien marriage will longer be
sanctied love, when the choice will always be
reciprocal when trace Of hypocrisy shall have dis
appeared from the relations Of the sexes.
Can love any dearly than children !?
Certainly Yet not jealous of those who love
them although father and mother with submiy vie with
each other to who love them the most Love
companion in love in the But this vain
sci. words thrown to the wind.
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Also Her Prices.

PATHS voice at SO may not be all II
used to be, but If she comes over here
monds retain all their pristine splen.
dor,-Boston Globe.
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N. Bile got it.-Judge.


Around the World in Seven Months.
Seven months and half was the
time taken in travelling round the
world by picture post card which
has just been delivered to its sender at
Berlin.
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Died Happy.

Wigg-At any rate, poor old Hard
uppe died happy.
Wagg-Yes; he had lived on tick SO
long that he was just tickled to death.
Press
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Puttins It the Right way.

ST have no doubt you have heard
some stories to my discredit," he said.
81 don't like to put it in that way"
she quietly replied.
"How then?" he hopefully asked.
81 have never heard any stories to
your credit" said she.-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.