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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-24
COMMERCIAL CORRESPONDENCE
Young Man Inadvertently Mixed Busi-
ness with His Social Note.

Young Man Inadvertently Mixed Busi-
ness with His Social Note.
There-is no worse literary style than
that of the ordinary business letter
which begins, yours received and
contents noted. In reply would say
that we received orders for goods Both
ult., and shipped same day following"
When this style gets mixed up with
the formal conventionanity of "socie-
ty" correspondence, as related in a
story in the New York Times, the COM
bination is funny. A young woman in
Baltimore received this letter:
'Mr. Blank requests his compliments
to Miss Dash, and requests the pleas
ure of her company at the theater
Thursday evening next.
:Awaiting an early reply, and hop
ing 1t will be favorable to our propo-
sition, we are, yours very truly,
BLANK & CO."
The writer was the Junior partner
in a large manufacturing company.
He had written many letters that day
for the company and signed the name
of the firm, and the stereotyped
phrases of commerce ran OFF his pen
from habit
The lady, however, understood what
had happened, and was equal to the
occasion. The next day the young man
was astonished to receive this reply:
'Messrs. Blank & Co.: Gentlemen.
Your favor Of recent date at hand and
contents noted. In reply will say I ac-
cept the proposition therein made and
hold the goods ordered subject to yr.
further instructions. Very respect
fully, MISS DASH"
OF course it was easy to apologize to
a woman with SO much humor as that,
but the young man had to listen for a
long time to the question, Flows
business? p
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-24
Those Who Read Novels.

But" we object, speaking to the
author who has written a historical
novel, "this historical data is absolute.
ly wrong. Why, it's ridiculous to have
George Washington fighting three
duels, fighting battles he was never
in, ETC."
ST know 1 took some liberties with
George and history" the author says
naively, "but what's the difference ?
He'll never know and it won't hurt
his feelings"
But the people who read your box, y
we again object.
Surely you know that people who
read historical novels know nothing of
history!'' he exclaims in just scorn.-
Baltimore Herald.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-24
sHREwD WOMEN CROOKS.
I'm Criminal Walks the Sex Is Keep
ing Well LIN with, Man

L
ing Well Up with Man.
"Women are making progress along
more than one line" remarked an old
member of the police force. "a recent
example shows that they are quite as
efficient as men in the matter of safe
blowing" Woman in the role of safe
blower is new to the police. The fact
is that the operation of female offend
ers has heretofore been confined to Of
fenses of the daytime or of the early
part of the night. But here comes a
story from Tennessee Of the arrest of
several women who belong to gang of
expert cracksmen, and who actually
took part in a safe blowing in a small
| town near Nashville, where they
robbed bank and got $1,7O0.
women have often developed into
expert forgers, as, for instance, in the
recent case Of an American woman
abroad, who succeeded in conducting
forgery scheme for a considera BILE
length of time, and until she had
fraudulently collected a vast sum of
money. They make high-class pick
pockets, and, in fact, infinitely more
successful in this line Of work than
men.
Zone curious fact in this connection
despite the frequent announcements
publicly made of offenses of this kind
committed by women, men are never
on the lookout for the female pickpocket
unless they find themselves in ques-
tionable resort, or in bad company.
For this very reason women find 1t
much easier to pick a mans pocket.
They can get closer to men, too, with
out becoming offensive, and can lift the
diamond pin out of his scarf, nip his
watch and chain or any other valuable
thing he may have before he will ever
dream of anything wrong.
In that kind Of pilfering, too, pc
culiar to kleptomania, she is more
successful because in this instance of
the way she dresses and woman's pc
culiar demeanor around the counters
in dry goods stores. If man, for in
stance, should go into a dry goods
store and begin to pick up little things
and tumble over them, apparently for
the purpose of inspection, he would at
once arouse the suspicion of every
clerk within visual range. On the
other hand, a woman may do exactly
the same thing without exciting the
least suspicion. 1t is simply looked
upon as a matter of comparative ease
for the kleptomaniac.
"But the woman safe blower is a
new type, as far as my experience
goes, and 1 suppose it simply means
that the police of the country will soon
be confronted with many new problems
in dealing with the female offender
New Orleans Picayune
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-24
The Art of Canning Fruit.

The art of canning fruit in large
quantities has reached a stage little
dreamed of by our grandparents 25 and
80 years ago. The best example of
this advance is found in the Monopole
brand of fruits and vegetables. The
fruits are delicious and sweet and re-
tain all their natural flavor. The vege-
tables taste almost exactly as though
they were direct from the garden.
They are packed under beautiful blue
label. First class dealers handle them.
Wadhams & Kerr Bros, Portland.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-24
A Butcher of Taste.

There is butcher in one Of the
New Orleans markets who has built
up an immense family trade entirely
by reason of his taste in doing up par
GELS of meat. His modus operandf is
very ingenious. If he is handling a
porterhouse he places it between two
squares of pasteboard, uses a sheet of
pearl gray manila paper as a wrapper
and ties it up with baby blue string.
The result Is neat rectangle which
has every appearance Of having come
from some fashionable drug store or
confectioner's. Chops and such like
he slows away in neat little cardboard
tubes, and he keeps a supply of one
pound candy boxes especially for
chicken livers and chopped sausage.
The system is very effective.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-24
EASY TO MOVE TO EUROPE.
Household Effects Can Be Transported
with Very Little Trouble

Household Effects Can Be Transported
with Very Little Trouble.
"In these days." said a storage and
van man. sit is just as easy to move
from New York to London as from
New York to Hoboken. Ones furni.
ture and household effects can be
transported across the Atlantic In vans
as easily as across the North River.
"Of course, vans have long been
used here for comparatively long
distance moving by rail and steamboat
1t is common thing in summer, for
instance, to see teams on the decks
of boats running to and from this
city. They just run the vans aboard
on their own wheels, and run 'em off
at the other end of the line, and back
in the country, or wherever they want
to take them.
"The vans used In transatlantic
moving are lift vans. They are really
van bodies and can be lifted from their
wheels and swung onto a car of trans
| portation by rail or down hatchway
into steamers hold.
"At the end of it's rail or water
transportation the van can as easily be
lifted off the car or out of the steam
er's hold and swung upon the trucks
upon which it is to be hauled to the
house where the goods are to be put.
"Who are the people that thus cas-
ually pack up and move across the At
lantic? Well, they may be foreign
merchants who have been living in
this country, but are now going back.
They may also be Americans who are
going abroad to live.
with the modern facilities for the
transportation of people and goods ev-
erywhere and the very great increase
in travel there are now many people
who, crossing the Atlantic for more
or less extended stay, take their house
hold goods with them.
"Of course, there are people moving
in this way all the time from Europe,
as there are people moving thither
from here, and when we move any
body over we want, Of course, freight
back; we don't want to bring our
vans back empty, and we move some
body this way.
'In some German cities there are
published weekly newspapers, or rath-
er extended bulletins, devoted to the
interests Of the storage van men. In
those several publications you would
find lists Of the vans to be had in the
city where the list was published and
other Information concerning them, in
Guiding the name of the owner of the
van, where 1t was from, its cubic ca
pacity. where it would be at disposal
and the name of It's agent or the rep
resentative of it's owner, at the point
where this list was published.
Foreign lift vans come filed with
household effects to American ports,
and through the representatives Of
their owners here they get return ship
ments, as American vans in Europe,
through their representatives there,
get shipments this way.
$50 you see that really in these days
it is about as easy to move to Europe
as it would be to move into the next
block, and there is lots of trans-Atlan-
tic moving. New York Sun.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-24
Vast Wine Cistern.

At Asti, in California, cistern TO-
feet long by 81 feet wide and p fee
deep was formed in hillside for the
storage of wine. The immense tanl
was lined with concrete 2 feet thick
and coated inside with glaze as i'm
permeable as glass. The capacity Of
the tank is 100000 gallons.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-24
"A VENERABLE PASTOR
CURED BY PE=RU=rNA.

In old age the mucous membrane be-
comes thickened and partly lose their
functions.
This leads to partial loss of hearing,
smell and taste, as we'll as digestive
disturbances.
Peruna corrects all this by it's specific
operation on all the mucous membranes
of the body.
One bottle will convince anyone.
Once used and Peruna becomes a life
long standby with old and young.
Mr.. Samuel Saunders of Blythedale,
Mo-, writes: "My disease was catarrh
of the urethra and bladder. l got a
bottle of Pe-ru-na and began taking it,
and in few days l vas relieved and
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-24
srATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO,

FRANK j. CHENEY makes oath that he Is the
senior parter of the firm of F. J. CHENEY-& Co.,
doing business in the City of Toledo, County
the sum OF ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each
and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured
by the use of HALLS CATARRH CURE.
FRANK J. CHENEY
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, this 9th day of December, A. D. 1886.
A. W. GLEASON,
t~~) Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts
directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of
the system. Send for testimonials, free.
f. ]. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by druggists 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best. -
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-24
Very Fashionable.

Ida Was it a fashionable summer
boarding house?
May-Oh, yes; every Sunday we
had chickens for dinner that had been
run over by millionaires' automobiles.
Chicago Daily News.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-24
"I RELY UPON
PE-RU-NA FOR
ALL CATARRHAL
DISEASES"

years have w1thStood the changeable
climate of the United States. Durin.
my long life I have known a great
many remedies for coughs, colds, ca.
tarrh and diarrhoea. 1 had always
supposed these affections to be differ.
ent diseases. For the last ten or fifteen
years l have been reading DIR. Hart.
mans books, and have learned from
them one thing in particular: That
these affections are the same and that
they are properly called catarrh.
GAS for DIR. Hartman s remedy, Pc.
runa, have found it to be the best, il
not the only reliable remedy for these
affections. 1t has been my standby
for many years and l attribute my
good health and my extreme old age
to this remedy.
cit exactly meets all my require
ments. have come to rely upon il
almost entirely for the many little
things for which I need medicine. |
believe it to be especially valuable to
old people, although have no doubt it
is just as good for the young. ."-Isaac
Brock.
A New Man at 7o
Major Frank O'Mahoney, West Side,
Hannibal, Mo-, writes:
81 am professionally a newspaper
correspondent, now 79 years old.
have watched the growing power of the
Peruna plant from its incipiency in the
little log cabin, through its gradations
of success up to its present establish
ment in Columbus, Ohio, and I con-
clude that merit brings it's full reward.
cup to few years ago 1 felt no
need to test its medicinal potency, but
lately when my system needed it, your
Perupa relieved me of many catarrhal
troubles. Some two years ago [
weighed 210 pounds, but fell away
down to 1853 pounds, and besides loss
of flesh I was subject to stomach trou-
bles, Indigestion, loss of appetite, in
somnia, night sweats, and foreboding
of getting my entire system out of
order. During some months gave Pc
runa fair trial, and it reiuvenated my
whole system. I feel thankful, there
fore, for although 79 years old I feel
like young man. Major Frank
O'Mahoney.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-24
Glass Bricks.

Glass bricks are gradually coming
into use, and it is said that glass will
soon be used for making statues for
public places, as it lesists the corroding
effect of the weather much better than
marble or granite.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-24
A Deduction.

stYour wife," said the embryo Sher-
lock Holmes, as the stranger entered
his presence, sis an intellectual
Woman.''
"Right you are," replied the stran-
ger, "but how did you know that?''
''By the buttons missing from your
coat" answered the great detective.
Chicago Daily News.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-24
He Had Learned.

81 heard good story the other day."
began the grocery man, "about GER
tain politician"
..'That will do," interrupted the dis
appointed oficeseeker. 'tIn the first
place, there are no certain politicians"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-24
caustic Comment

Miss Elderleigh-My friends tell me
these photographs fail to do me justice.
Mr.. Frank-Of course they do.
But then, justice should always be tenn
pered with mercy, you know.-Ex.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-24
Hoods S JarSdpdriHG
Knew ALI About IL.

"What do you think of this scheme
of telegraphing without wires?''
''That's nothing. My wife has kick
ed my shins under the table for twenty
years. ."-Exchange.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-24
Hfndus in Australia. ,

The Hindus in Australia, basIng their
claim on the fact that they are sub
Jects of the crown, are clamoring for
direct political representation In the
commonwealth parliament.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-24

Mothers will fIno Mrs. Wins1ow's Sooth-
ing Syrup the best remedy to use for their
children during the teething period.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-24
A TRAVERER
AT SEVEN rY.ONE
YEARS OF AGE.

with 1t for over a year, and also a
cough. Now my cough is all gone,
and all distressing symptoms of catarrh
of the stomach and bowels have disap-
peared. L will recommend it to all as
rare remedy. I am so we'll am con-
templating trip to Yellowstone Park
this coming season. How is that for
one II years old?'
In later letter she says: ssI am
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-24

! only too thankful to you for your kind
advice and for the good health that I
am enjoying wholly from the use OF
your Peruna. Have been out to the
Yellowstone National Park and MANY
other places of the West, and shall
always thank you for your generosity"
Mrs. F. E. Little.
If you do not derive prompt and sat-
isfactory results from the use of Peruna.
write at once to DR.. Hartman, giving
full statement of your case, and he
will be pleased to give you his valuable
advice gratis.
Address DR.. Hartman, President of
the Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus,
Ohio.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-24
Forty to the Square Mile.

The United Kingdom has 200 people
to the square mile, Belgium 4S0, Russia
only forty.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-24

For forty years Piso's Cure for Con-
sumption has cured coughs and colds. AT
druggists. Price 25 cents.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-24


the mind
gard to Pe-ru-na medicine"
Strong and Vigorous at the Age of
Rev. J. N. Parker, Utica, N. Y,
In June loo lost My hearing had
could hold with friends but in June
all speak highly
suffering humanity. REV. J.N - 80 -
F Ell thankful
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-24

medicine for chron-
ic catarrh of the
stomach and bow
els. I have been
troubled severely
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-24

to my entire satis-
faction is the prop
er remedy for all
ments due directly
to the effects of the
climate, For ia
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-24
Pe-ru-na Is a Catarrhal Tonic
Especially Adapted to the De-
Ginning Powers of Old Age.
The Oldest Man i'm America Attributes
His Long Life and Good Health
to Pe=ru-na.

Mr.. Isaac Brock, of McLennan coun-
ty, Texas, has attained the great age oi
ia years.. He is an ardent friend oi
Peruna and speaks of it in the follow
ing terms. Mr.. Book says:
tAfter a man has lived in the world
as long as have he ought to have
found out a great many things by ex-
perience. think have done SO.
Gone of the things I have found out
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-24

could sleep and rest all night. / think
that Pe.ru-na is valuable remedy. I
had tried other very highly recon-
mended medicines, but they did me no
good. My physician told me that /
ould not expect to be cured of my trou.
,le, as I was getting to be an old man
>57 years.) 1 feel very thankful for
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-24

ENT& Permanently CureQ so Hts Nervousness
5AbO after first days of DR. Kline's Great Nerve
Restorer Send for FIR EE 81. 90 trial bottle and treat
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-24
And One of Them Went Wrong.

12 oHIS Oh KhSna VIII WIOHSs
Adam was lucky in another way.
He had no friends to come around
telling him how he ought to bring up
his boys.-Chicago Record Herald.
The sun., 1903-06-03
WOODRUFF READY FOR FIGHT.
But. He Says, Everything IL Lovely in the
Brooklyn Organization.

Ex-Lieut Gov Timothy l.. Woodruff
was in town yesterday and spent several
hours in his new business office at Broad
way and Reade street. In discussing his
relations with the Republicans In Brook
lyn he declared that he had no intention
Of taking any part In district contests,
He also expressed his belief that there
would he no ontest in the organization
thi, year of any consequence.
Last year." he said when a whole
lot of people were interested in the prini-
marics and as good a fight as could be
put up was inaugurated, the organization
people won SIS OF the 500 elect ion districts
In Kings county. Anybody who now con-
templates attacking the organization after
its splendid showing Of harmony IS very
foolish. We have had grand cleaning
up OF petty differences. and l cannot too
strongly emphasize that there wi be no
fight worthy Of the name this year.
Il would like to say, too, that the forces
which were arrayed against MIR. Worth
six years ago are with him to-day. There
is no fight or quarrel bet ween Mr.. Worth
and Mr.. Dady. You can also put it down
that the organization is intact and that
there will be no split here for years to come.
At the same time, II anybody wants to fight
let him come on.
Mr. Woodruff also said that he and Col.
Michael j. Dady were in thorough harmony
and that there was no thought OF break
between them.
The sun., 1903-06-03
A Remarkable Art Magazine.

No handsomer periodical, geographically
or artistically, than The Burlington Mdgd-
zine for Connoisseurs 10 published in English
1t addresses itself to persons who know
something about art in any Of its forms,
and the articles are written by specialists
who have something OF Importance to say.
The second number now at hand, contains a
description by Sir E. Maunde Thompson Of
THE Pageants Of Richard Beauchamp, Earl
of Warwick" with splendid facsimile repro
ductions OF the manuscript pictures; an
interesting account Of Clifford's Inn. that
is to be torn down, by Philip Norman, with
admirable wood engravings by F. l.. Griggs
lavishly illustrated articles on Evolution
Of Form and Decoration in English Silver
Plate" by Percy Macquoid, on Hans
Sebald Beham," by Campbell Dodgson
and on early Painters of the Netherlands
at the Bruges Exhibition" by w. H. James
Weale, There are also fine full page
reproductions of three unpublished Italian
portraits by Francia. Titan and Luini
and OF some Holbein, and many other pic
lures besides. With it comes The Burlino-
ton Gazette, containing more ephemeral
news of the month. accounts Of picture
sales and other notes. The first number has
the story Of "The Tiara Of Saitaphernes
by the Vicomt 6. de Rorthays The pub
fishers are the Savile Publishing Company
in London, and Samuel Buckley Co. in
New York. The price is astonishingly low.
The sun., 1903-06-03
POPPY nat GONE 4-SWIMMING.
If You Find II on the East River Let Miss
I'll hair knnw

East River mariners are requested to
keep their weather eyes open for hat
There is IA dainty bit Of feminine headgear
ahoat somewhere on the turbulent strait
a charming concoction OF fmy palmetto
fibre pure white, set OF with red peoples
and green leaves, and the little black haired
girl from whose head the breeze lifted II
Yesterday morning as she sped cityward
on Bridge trolley car won't have happy
holiday this summer unless 1t is recovered
IT is n real Fifth avenue creation not to be
duplicated this summer. Even AT the
end-of-the- season sale last week il cost
sl2, and it had then been marked down
three times.
1t will float, it's owner says, the fibre
body will buoy it up, and even If the frame
is ruined she is sure the poppies and leaves
will do to Use over, for they were guaranteed
fast color.
"Oh. if can only get it back" she ex-
planned to the sympathetic Bridge, police
man, Il could Use It as a copy and new
frame wouldn't cost much. It's the ar
rangement that makes 1t so pretty. OF
course, | can remember how 1t went. but
If tried to rim one ii wouldn't be the same
and had three hat pins. too: Oh. could
just cry. I'll never ride on the front plat
form again.
Il saw that hat before Easter, and they
wanted $40 for it, but nobody bought IT
You see, I'm dark, and I've got such black
hair and eyes that l could wear bright
thing like that. 1t isn't everybody that
can, and that $ why got it cheap
The policeman promised to send an alarm
out from Pier A. He thought the hat
might be picked up of the Battery on the
| last of the cbb
The hatless young person very evidently
wasn't going to keep the tears back. and
the copper in his emba rrassnent took her
into the Bridge drug store. She was par
TALLY consoed by the loan of the cashiers
sober black head covering to wear down
to her Dey street office. At lunch time she
brought 1t back, wearing a jaunty little
sailor.
She told the policeman that she was 60
ing home for the afternoon to settle her
nerves, and that ne should send word, II
he heard anything, to E., II Dey street.