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marvelousiy embroidered b. the def brown
fingers % the women % Hong Kong. There
are also panels % silken crepe embroidered
in native designs. most o. which we're pre-
scntei to Ms Grant b. the vieeroy.
Prize KvnE added 20 his Jade cup an
exquisite little vase % TIE same stone. 90
ge-he- with large Jars Powered with fruits
and vines IN gar primitive colors. Fitting
about are quesrly shaped bats that must
have taxed the Imagination % even a
Chinese arts, 20 achieve.
Almost q thrill q eastern superstition
cones over one e. 50 close a contact with
a Hindoo idol which. General Grant was
told. possessed mysterious powers and was
over 1850 years old. This snail dark
stone is rudely carved and labeled "Lakh-
smi's Hand" II vas given TO the general
by a Hindoo teacher IN che Of the sacred
temples.
Circling an elaborately stitched saddle are
two colossal tusks which lead one 10 think
that they are as ancient &c the idol, 50
y%elloved arc the worries from time.
slams Cigar Box.
Sian is represented By a small temple Of
eIquisitely wrought silver. BY ivory boxes
and a cup and saucer made By the royal
~ VI u EEA4AA hAAA u
Siam. The first king appropri-
stely recognized General Grants fondness
for smoking By q gift TO him Of a cigar
box OF solid gold. beautifully engraved
From siam also there are draperies from
native looms.
An engraved dinner card OF silver re-
calls Mrs. Grants interesting "Reminiscences
Of that royal banquet given by the FIRST
king. the absolute monarch OF siam, who
extended the invitation to General Gran
Immediately after his arrival. The center
piece OF the dinner table consisted OF tbs
~three-hesded elephant which belongs TO tn,
arms Of Sian. and the solid silver service
which vas bought in England, cost. so tn,
king told Mrs. Grant. $1,000. There vert
two bands. one for native and the othe.
for European music. and as they occasion
ally i~nfringed on each others musical ter
ritory the effect vas surprising rather thai
sweet. The Siamese officials present wor
coats OF gold cloth. encrusted with en-
broidery. and in addition the king vor
the family decoration. q big star with
diamond center. and with each OF its min
points set with a native stone.
An interesting feature Of the exhibit I
the collection OF medals and coins. Thes
almost entirely fill the Hoor OF one cas-
and the pyramid in the center. Place
closely together on the dark red surfac
are many queer-shaped coins representa-
the currency Of Japan. They bear no re
semblAnce 10 American money, not on
Of them being round nor any OF them 5
small as our silver dollar.
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RELIGIOUS.

The Boston Pilot says there are 100000
Catholics IN the United States.
A letter from shanghai "a une F~ranEfurter
Zeitung reports the death OF the Jesuit
Father Zottoli In his seventy-seventh year
he was one Of the foremost experts OF our
day in the Chinese language and literature.
Pope Leo XIII has bidden the bishops in
the Philippines 20 educate the native
priests and promote them 70 higher ohhces
as soon e. they are found worthy. as the
nerd Of priests Is greater than the need OF
Al Is expected az Boston that the pope
viii shortly name a ~coad1utor 20 Arch
bishop Williams in that archiepiscopal see.
The Is nov q years old and
fast becoming physically Incapable OF per-
forming the aruuous duties OF his position
II is estimated that there sre about az
m the United States and they are noW
raising for their six societies about X..50g.o1
annually, including legaciss. u is believed
that a united forWaru hrancisl movement
would double the receipts ano perhaps
more.
Rt Rev. John L spaIding. T.. D., bishop
OF Peoria. A.. VINO IS q member Of the
anthracite coal strike commission, has re
ceived q unique git from the miners a
Scranton Il is a miniature cathedral altar
carved out Of anthracite. II was made by
q common miner. Peter Conway. who las Z
rare artistic g1ft
he maintenance OF the thousands o.
churches in the United states cost last year
s2sl@0o4 OF this amount the Bapusu
/ paid u4.I&.0c the Episcopal churches SIS,
lA-04 the Congregaticnansts uaz7Seol
The Presbyterian OF the north eXpsncec
l.in the maintenance OF church and 10.
church activities uIGSlo0 The Methodists
north and south. Ei[2ea All this VA
IN addition 10 the completion OF the TWEEN
usth century fCna5 a~ggregatlag in Amen,'
and England Sf000LuA The American
Methodists secured E.0o0Oo Of thi
church debts. E.0o0N 10 church college
and semlnaries and the balance 70 age
ministers ana Dhlanthropies- The Presby
tenaus Of the north raised EE0.0u N
i Canadian Methodists 500 the Can
actan Presbytenans N.So.0a the Brtis
Mesieyans the British CongreEa
uonalists n&0les and TIE British Baptist
1 A E0uu
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POINTED ~PARAGRAPHs.

II Is easy 10 gauge a mans emptiness
when be IL full.
The more a man Is wrapped up in himself
the colder he is
Silence may be the Wit CT fools. but they
seldom have II With them.
The average man is a good nurse when Il
comes 10 Nursing a grievance.
A South SIDE museum curiosity Is a man
who can talk faster than his wife.
Any woman who speaks III OF her neigh
bors gives them license TO get hack Al her
Practiee Is said 10 make perfect. yet feV
doctors or lawyers are models Of perfection
Never Try 10 dispose Of wedding presents
II you would preserve FOUR confidence Il
friends.
The unexpected never happens. There II
always some wise guy standing around VII,
says Il told you so"
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-21
4 Literary H~and-Me-Out.

An how did you fare at the house on
the hiHT' inquired Wandering Willie OF
Mesndering Mike.
Pine" replied the meanderer. Tho
lady gave me a little OF most everything
you could mention"
Not hssh:'
No; q pocket ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Plain Dealer.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-21
Tem III to Your VIC.

Electric Buffers cure female complaints
surely and safely; dispel headaches. hack
aches. nervousness or 70 pay. SOC. Fer
sale b. Kuhn 4 c.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-21
Beats All Its Rivals.

No salve. lotion. balm or oil can compare
with BuckIen's Arniea Salve for healing.
II kills pain. Cures or no pay. sc For
sale BY Kuhn & Co
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into tiny chop suey mouthfuls, but he is
dear at Thanksgiving time. and the Ameri-
can, who, upon a lark bent. seeks the
Chinese restaurant. is rot looking for New
England cooking. and will take a head au
Chinese, instead of drumstick after PIym-
outh Rock. In Germany they get up the
turkey beautifully, but look out, In the
interior will lurk bologna sausage. put
there to flavor the meat. Ii is all right IL
you like bolognas, but a little smoky to
the taste il you do not.
In Spain they take the baking tin I'm which
the turkey is to be put and scrub the inside
with the cut half of an onion. Up and down
the pan they go rubbing in the onion thor
oughly. When they are ready to put In the
turkey they have secured a flavor that will
linger there above the fumes OF the meat,
above the spices OF the cookery and strong
than all the butter and gravies that may
be poured over him-of pure onion. In
parts of Spain they use a garlic instead OF
onion end here again individual taste
may fall out with the ways OF the chef The
garlic permeates the turkey and makes OF
IL a strong. odorful substance delightful 10
the cultivated taste. Tie Italians, including
many Of those who keep restaurants, haste
the turkey with stewed-onion Juice
stirred thick with melted butter and serve
1t in slices with the sauce made brown by
stirring it in the pan after the turkey has
been removed.
The New England way is we'll known.
Just plain turkey. a favored bread dress
ing and a browning. Very good indeed
after the tastes OF the worlds ways with
turkeys, which most OF us have had. But
in the middle of the country. where New
Englanders mingle with others. the turkey
is served partly like the original bird. but
more in accord with la;er-day cooking. IL
is stuffed with forcemeats of all kinds and
served in ways and with dressings that
would astonish the New England house,
wife. who has always thought the plain
article good enough for her and hers.
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A VOYAGE BY AIRSHIP
PLAN I'd TRAVEL ACROSS THE AT.
L..NTfC BY DIRIGIBLE BALLOON.
Aeronauts Are Encouraged by Lebau-
dy's success-Ships May Meet I'm
Midair While Crossing.

Correspondence OF the indianapolis Journal.
PARIS. Nov. 1.-THE remarkable feat In
dirigible ballooning, just performed by the
Lebaudys, lends additional zest to the sew
eral preparations for crossing the Atlantic
by airship. planned by Louis GODDARD, who
expects to start from New York. and
Messrs. Capazza and Reclus. who will enter
upon the journey on this side of the ocean,
beginning their aerial flight on one of the
Canary islands.
Both GODDARD and Capazza waited to COM
plete arrangements for the advent Of a bal
loon that proved its dirigibleness by actual
test. and now that it has arrived, nothing
can stop these men from attempting what
was long thought possible. though not en-
tirely practicable.
Aside from settling some most important
technical questions. the successful Lebaudy
experiment helped the projectors of trans
atlantic balloon journeys in other respects.
Above all. it helped to loosen the purse
strings OF certain faanciers. who are now
ready. nay eager TO furnish the necessary
funds for the two great undertakings
/ was unable 10. see Louis GODDARD, who
was first in launching the project of flying
across the Atlantic. This most celebrated
OF French aeronauts Is at present under the
care OF physicians, overwork having
brought on nervous prostration, which tenn
porary sncapactates him. However, his
chief coworkers told me that the prepare
tons are proceeding just as II the master
who conceived them was present
AS a matter of fact GODDARD laid out the
work yet to be performed in such a wa,
and Indicated such comprehensive instruc
lions for his assistants, as to enable then
to bring the rest of the preparations to {
successful elimination without him. Me
THEOLOGICAL studies and technical reckoning
Is 10 the possible carrying capacity OF tn.
airship are the subjects on which Godardi
xtaff are now mainly engaged. The meter
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lower one will contain the registers and
scientific instruments. To this will be at
tached nonsinkable boat, equipped with
a sixty horsepower motor and provisioned
for twenty-day run.
Louis Capazza, who is the inventor of the
parachute balloon, will be assisted by Rec
lus, noted French geographer and two
sailors.
Capazza found that the best time for the
voyage was the month Of May, when for
fifteen days persistent winds blow from
the northeast to the southeast, from the
Canaries to South Africa.
1t is calculated that the balloon may land
at one of the three points near the mouth
of the Amazon river, near the Island of
Trinidad, or in Yucatan, Mexico.
From the Island of Palm, in the Canaries.
the distance to Para, Brazil, is 1900 miles;
to Trinidad, 300; to Yucatan. crossing the
Caribbean sea, 1850.
The highest average speed Of the wind is
reckoned at fifty miles an hour, and the
lowest at thirty.
Assuming that the balloon Travelled at low
speed over the greatest distance, the time
required will be six days and nineteen
shortest distance, the time required will
be two days and four hours.
Capazza insists that his balloon is dirigi-
BILE, allowing him to change it's course
north south, and choose a landing at
any point on the north coast Of South
America
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LOUIS w. JONES.

non. Later a solemn procession filed to-
ward the meeting house. Elder Brewster
carried the great Bible and Governor Brad
ford followed in the rear After the serv-
ices every one sat down to a dinner the
like of which had not been tasted for many
a month. The one day of prayer and song,
of feasting and pastimes, heightened into
three. During the years that followed
special days were set apart for similar
celebration. August was at first the usual
month for this on account of the harvest
season. BY 1854 we read that the festival
had become formal and annual in Massa-
chusetts, and it not long before all the
New England colonies had followed her ex-
ample
During the revolutionary war Thanksgiv-
ing lost some of it's local New England
character. Washington sent out a procla-
nation for general Thanksgiving by the
continental army Thursday, Dec. Is, HI,
and again at Valley Forge May z, 177S, In
1889, a few days before the Continental Con-
gress adjourned, a motion was made and
carried that the President be asked to rec
ommend a day of thanksgiving and prayer
to God, especially for His goodness in al
lowing the establishment of government
for the safety and happiness of His people.
And the President appointed Nov. 26 Of that
| year.
ONE WAY OF CELEBRATION.
! Since that time the annual holiday has
| been generally observed, and turkey is
king of the merry-making and feasting.
There is only one menu the housewife would
prepare for the midday meal-it is turkey.
Turkey with stuffing. turkey with cranber-
ry sauce, turkey with celery and oysters,
turkey with all the "fixings' that the in
| genuity of man can DEVISE and yet turkey
| in spite of it all. In short, enter the
Thanksgiving turkeys lively music.
This great American bird descended from
the phoenix of old, has a way peculiar to
| itself of turning up at stated intervals. II
| is indeed possible that the ancients when
| they wrote about the fowl that rose tri-
| umphant from the ashes made hitherto
undiscovered reference to the Thanksgiving
| turkey. OF course, there is gaping hole
| in this argument, because the ancients had
no Thanksgiving day nor yet turkeys, but
| that is matter for theorists to fuss about
Thanksgiving day 1903 is at hand. The fat
| gobblers many rustic farm have ut.
tered their last despairing gasps and now
the markets and stores are crowded with
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turkeys of all sizes, ages, degrees of tender
ness and previous condition of servitude."
The supply of the toothsome fowl is about
as usual and will be fully equal to the de-
mand, although this seems to be increasing
with each succeeding Thanksgiving.
From the time that the little turkey
breaks the shell until he reaches the size
and prime condition that fits him for
slaughter great care is taken with his diet
Plenty of milk and curd in his baby days
is followed by corn-meal mush, wheat and
barley. Later in life whole corn is fed
literally. From the first the turkeys get a
large portion of their food by foraging in
the meadows ard woods where insects
abound Early in November the turkeys
are pretty well grown and they are then
put through a fattening process to prepare
them for the Thanksgiving slaughter.
Many different methods are employed.
Some farmers feed all the corn that the
turkeys will eat three times a day. Others
shut them up to prevent exercise and feed
a mixture of -four and corn-meal dough.
When the turkey tires of eating the dough
is made into pellets and crammed down his
throat. Oil-meal and sunfower seeds are
also used for fattening, and In some sec
lions the Italian method of feeding wal
nuts is resorted to. 1t is claimed that the
rich favor OF the nut gives the turkey the
taste of wild game.
WAYS OF SERVING THE BIRD.
The old-fashioned turkey is not set forth
alone The bird is gaiy dressed outside
his up-to-date stuffing, and appears before
you beribboned, decked with slices of lemon
peel, and wearing garlands of parsley.
Brown he must be, too with a sweet tend
erness that disdains knife of steel Many
hostesses bone him, doing IL dexterously
with a sharp knife, after which they re-
store him to plumpness with some Of his
own stuffing saved from the inside. Others
cook him until he is tender in new and
patent pans, and bring him TO the table
with the meat fairly begging to be eaten.
In Paris they get up this turkey and
offer liz TO the forlorn American who
chances 10 be within their gates on that
luckless day They parboil the fellow and
then roast him without stuffing and then
| expect ia belle Americans" TO be pleased
In England they get mp the turkey very
we'll. but they know nothing about making
him tender. They cook him they would
a roast, until the blood no longer runs; and
marvel that he should be our national bird
of feasting The Chinese cook his head
his feet and his tongue and offer him al
| over the world to those who viii step In
their little restaurants and eat. They woult
fain cook the entire beast, chopping hin
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OUR THANKSGIVING IDAY
ORIGIN AND CUSTOMS OF THIS FA-
VORITE AMERICAN HOLIDAY.
First Observance Was Among Col
onists of New Misunderstanding
the Indispensable Turkey.

On Thursday next by proclamation of
the President and in accordance Iith the
custom of years, Uncle Sans nephhws and
nieces throughout his broad domains will
give thanks to the Almighty for alyear of
blessing and prosperity.
With the single exception of the, Fourth
of July Thanksgiving day is the osnly hol-
iday distinctively our own which: is now
celebrated by the entire United STAGES. AL
though in some States it is not statutory
holiday yet it is everywhere obser+ed. and
Governors usually take the form ctt an in
vitation for those in every part of the
United States and also those who ase at sea
and those who are soiourning ins foreign
lands to set apart the last Thursday in
November as special day of Thanksgiving
and praise to God for his blessings the I'M
numbered blessings of health ant; power,
of fruitfelds and plenteous harvssts, of
peace and courage and love for country.
At the very first real Thanksgiving day
especially set aside as such in America, a
feast formed part of the days programme
In the autumn of 1921 Governor bradford,
the first Governor of Massachusetts, Colony,
decided to acknowledge the peoples graft
tude to God for the much-needed plenteous
harvest by a season of prayer arid feast
ing. He sent out in quest Of gam: a COM
pany of men who soon returned with their
shoulders bending under the weight of nu-
merous turkeys and other fowl. The wom-
en- FASTENED to aid in preparing these, and
from the stores in cellar and larher they
worked out many wonderful com .ina lions
of pie and cake and toothsome. things
which had almost been forgottet during
the period of scarcity and depression just
past. Next day the stiffness of the dawn
was broken by the booming of a e: eat can
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illogical calculations are of the highest i'm
portance. as much now known as such with
respect to the airline to be followed. is
mere guess work.
THE AIRSHIP ROUTE
The chief of Godard's technical bureau
said: ''Maitre GODDARD expects to leave
New York in May next, when the west
winds have become more or less stationary.
These are calculated to carry the airship to
Europe. If the wind should change to
northwest, however. we would have to land
somewhere in the neighborhood Of Africa,
perhaps on the Canary islands.
THE distance we expect to cover In the
first case is 3.l25 miles, in the latter about
400 miles. We hope to make about twenty
five miles an hour.
THE experiment will be quite inexpensive
from an American point of view, about 2oo.-
0O0 francs. Maitre GODDARD is now in his best
years, and has the courage, the technical
resources and the enterprise to carry
through this tremendous undertaking.
NOT THE LEBAUDY TYPE.
''Our dirigible is not of the Lebaudy type.
but the principle employed in both seems
similar. The type that will be used on the
transatlantic trip was Invented by Maitre
GODDARD under assistance of aero-engineer
Lieutenant de Altamira. Let Ii be known
that we do not claim too much for our bal
loon. We do not say that IL is absolutely
independent of the air currents, but we do
assert that ii can be steered despite of
them, 10 a certain extent.
The balloon will carry about II, 900 square
meters of gas. enough for the weight of the
car. according to most generous calcula-
tons.
The aeronaut end his assistants will
travel in an air-tight steel car that can be
made to float and travel on water IL neces-
sary. Ii has complete steering gear and
the cabin is furnished with apparatus for
producing either heat or cold, and In addi-
ton. with arrangements for generating and
passing upward through tubes any amount
of gas needed TO replace gas in the balloon
that may have evaporated."
CAPAZZA'S GREAT AIRSHIP.
CapazZa told me that he would start from
the Canary islands about the middle OF
next May in an enormous balloon TO cross
the Atlantic. IF Maitre GODDARD carries
out his present intentions we may arrange
| for a midair meeting somewhere between
Europe and the United States he said.
| While GODDARD Will travel I'm a parlor car
| so to speak. Capazzas balloon will carry
| two baskets. The upper one will be furn-
ished as q living and sleeping room. The
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illogical calculations are of the highest i'm
portance as much now known as such with
respect to the airline to be followed, is
mere guess work.
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B y Ann Is b l ] a

ONWARD the western border of
Kansas in the prairie that reaches
for more than $50 miles without
a tree or bush TO mar the clear
axnanSn or IN lrelieva the mnnnt-
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How Things Even Up.


Its an old saying out in my country"
said the colonel from Arizona, that if you
let things alone long enough they will even
up of themselves. Take, for instance, the
case of Jack Cade. There were two brothers
of them-Jack and Bill, and day a
crowd got after Bill for demonstrating and
caught and strung him up. He protested his
innocence, but 1t was no go. We found out a
month later however, that we had actually
hung the wrong man and let the real thief
get out of the country"
And did things even up later on?" was
asked.
"They did. We couldn't restore Bill to life
and beg his pardon and elect him alderman
Of the town, but when We caught his broth
err Jack after he had robbed settler of his
outfit we not only let him of the hanging,
but made him sheriff and squared things in
proper shape.
Things don't always even up for the man
who's been planted, but If he leaves any
relatives behind the public will see to it that
his loss turns out to be their gain
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A Book Sale.


New York Letter.
First editions went cheap at the auction
sale of the private library OF the late John
II. Reid last night and to-day A thin
little brown cloth book. representing Thorn
as Bailey Aldrirh's first contribution to
literature. sold for Sle5o. An early Eugene
Field, Cultures Garland" with an In
PRODUCTION by Julian Hawthorne. brought
$3.50. First editions OF Colonel John Hays
Pike County Ballads and Jim Bludsoe''
brought very little ever their published
price. There were number OF first edi-
lions OF Bret Harte. the best OF which.
Miss" paper. first edition. sold for SIS.
Angeles pic Me the table talk OF the
great fencing masters with the famous
colored etched front BY Cruikshank. sold
for 90
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Turkey Dinners on d
Entertai n IN n Is will
Make the III O lid a y a
Merry One for the I'm
fortunates -. A nm u a l
Dance at the In "a N G
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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-04-24

The producers and business
men of the first district well re-
member the prosperity and in
creased prices of grain and other
produce to nearly equal Portland
prices when Mr.. Hermann was
in congress. They also are
aware that such increase was
largely due to the appropriations
obtained through Mr.. Hermann's S
efforts in congress to improve the
harbors on the coast, which gave
increased facilities to transporta-
ton, This will induce the peo-
pie to vote for Mr.. Hermann for
congress, and the expressions of
Mrs. Chamberlain in the Oregon
ian will make little difference.