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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-11-11

would be safe to carry sail and get
back to where we belonged. While
we were doing this a big sea broke
over our quarter and washed Nor
wegian sailor overheard. He was a
powerfully built fellow and a good
seaman, and we were short handed,
so as soon as the skipper saw him go
he roared out to heaye to and lower
boat But as soon as he gave the Or
der he realized that no boat could hVe
in that sea, so he regretfully counter
manded it and we had to let the poor
fellow CO.
The captain paused to relight his ci-
gar, but the first two match heads
broke.
"Was he rescued?" asked some one.
The captain checked himself in the
application of the third match. whats
that?' he asked.
"Was he rescued?'
The captain looked reproachfully at
the speaker. Now that's an awful
foolish question to ask" he said.
Didn't tell you that he was washed
overheard 1000 miles from anywhere
and away from the track of any sort
of vessels in sea that no boat could
have lived in? Why, how could he be
rescued? That fellow couldn't even
swim. Must have gone down like
lead.
mo. that incident only goes to show
that sometimes it's about as danger
Gus at sea as on a railroad.
Daily News.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-11-11
JUDICIAL DECISIONS.

A mutual benefit society is held, In
L'Union ST. Jean Baptiste VS.. Ostiguy
Or. L., 81 L. r. A. 15S, to have no
right to sue former member for dues
for nOn-payment of which it has ex-
PEELED him from the society.
The insolvency of the debtor is held,
in Engbretson VS.. Seiberling Qowa), "a
l.. r. A. 75, to be sufficient to create
an exception to the rule that accept
ance of part of an amount due cannot
effect the satisfaction of the whole
debt.
That a particular use will be of ben
eft to the public is held, in Healy
Lumber Company VS.. Morris (Wash),
63 l. R. A. $50, not to be, alone, sufti-
cient to make it a public use, within
the meaning of a constitutional pro-
vision that private property shall be
taken only for public use.
The condemnation Of private proper
ty for the erection of public mills and
machinery generally without anything
to show what is meant by a public
mill, or anything to give the public
any interest in a mill after it is erect
ed, is held, in Gaylord VS.. Sanitary
District Qlf), 63 L. r. A. 5S2, to be
beyond the power of the Legislature.
Transactions of a broker which be-
come the basis Of a note given by his
principal and which are performed in
one State where the note is delivered
under directions of the principal by
telephone or letter from another State,
are held, In Winward VS.. Lincoln (R.
~, Ga L. R. A. 16O, to be judged for
the purpose of determining the validity
of the consideration for the note by the
law of the place where the broker per-
formed them.
One assaulted by citizens of town
for the purpose of compelling him to
leave it is held, in State VS.. Evenson
Qowa), "a l. r. A. II, not to be bound
to retreat to avoid conflict in order
to protect himself from liability to
prosecution for assault, but to have
the right to repel force with force so
long as he uses only such force as is
necessary, short of killing his assail-
ant, even though he provoked the at
tack by drunkenness and disorderly
conduct.
A conductor Of train running be
tween two points connected by differ
ent routes is held, in Illinois @. R. Co
VS.. Harper (Miss.). 64 L. R. A. 2S3, to
be bound to listen to the explanation
Of a passenger holding a ticket which
does not specify the route she Is tt
take, that the agent selling the ticke1
had directed her to take the route or
which the conductor finds her and tt
have no right to eject her from the
train because Of regulations of the car
rier, unknown to her, requiring her tt
take the other route.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-11-11
FAMOUS STATUE OF LIBERTY.
Will Long Perpetuate the Name OF the
Late Sculptor Bartholdi.

Will Long Perpetuate the Name OF the
Late Sculptor Bartho1di.
Long afer his dust shall be indistin-
cuishable from it's mother earth the
name Of Frederic Auguste Bartholdl,
the famous French sculptor, who died
in Paris recently, shall be remembered
and revered in this country. The colos-
sal Statue of Liberty on BedloW's
Island, New York. is the first object
to greet the incomer as he enters the
chief portal of the new world, and as
the satue is a commemoration OF the
traditional good feeling existing be-
tween France and the United States
the ages will be many before its sig
nificance is lost sight of. With that
statue the name and fame of Bar
tholdi are inseparable.
Bartholdi was born in 1884 and was
intended for the legal profession. He
chose sculpture instead, and at an
early age entered upon what proved to
be his lifework. His first statue was
exhibited when he was % years old,
and thereafter the greater part Of his
life was devoted to his chosen pursuit.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-11-11


The ruddy, blue-eyed elderly man in
the blue serge coat, who was address
ed as captain" by his two friends in
the smoker, was commenting on re-
cent newspaper account of the suffer
ings of some shipwrecked men who
were taken from an open boat by a
passing vessel.
"Of course, on a well-traveled track
like that there's always the chance OF
being picked up" he said. I'D sooner
be in shipwreck than railroad
wreck There's nearly always an op-
portunity to launch a boat or lash
some gratings before ship goes down,
or to grab life belt, but if anything
hits us now at the rate were going
what chance would we have?
II was cruising in the south seas
about twenty years ago. he continued,
refiectively. I'VE We're clear out Of
any of the trading routes, after an un-
charted island that was said to be one
part coral and ten parts guano. There
came up a stiff gale one night and the
seas rolled in on us mountain high.
We had shortened sail as much as
we dared, considering the seas, and we
scudded along before the wind all
night. We were driven clear out of
our course At noon the sun came out
little and our skipper took an OBJ
servation and made out that we were
in the exact middle of nowhere and
GOO. miles from any land.
snTouar5 evening the wind drOpDed
enough so the skipper thought 1t
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-11-11
NIi,lions Are Not Claimed.

The funds in official custody in Eng
land awaiting claimants amount to an
enormous sum. During the recent par
liamentary session questions were
asked as to these unclaimed deposits,
and several returns on the subject
have been made. The total balances
in the hands of the paymaster general
were S273. .612 .3O5 on Feb. %, 1903.
In the chancery division large por-
tion of this great fund is dormant, but
as a fund is not considered as I'M
claimed until it has not been adJudl-
Gated by the court for fifteen years,
the proportion due to missing owners
cannot be estimated, but is an enor-
nous amount. Many persons are neg
lisent in collecting government securi-
ties and dividends, or have died with
out leaving heirs who have demanded
the funds. The balance of government
stock and dividends unclaimed for ten
wears in the hands Of the national
debt commissioners on March 81, 1904,
was s13.912,OO5. The government has
taken over S5,COO,OOO Of this fund fol-
current expenses.
Similar appropriations Of these un-
claimed funds were made by the gov
ernment in 1871 and 1903, and in 1868
Gladstone Cancelled not less than $15,.
100000 of the unclaimed stock. A
large estate, $4,000, that Of Mrs
Helen Blake. reverted to the crown in
1888 in default of claimants who were
able to prove their right to estate.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-11-11
During the FrancO-Prussian wa

During the Franco-Prussian war
Bartholdi served with distinction and
fought under Garibaldi. In the days
of the Commune he visited the United
States. being unable to pursue his
studio work in Paris. The magn1hcent
position presented by New York hac-
bor for a statue of colossal dimensions
struck him, and when a body OF dis
tinguished Frenchmen formed socl-
ETY. to carry out the project his design
was approved. nfive years France SUD-
scribed the S25OOOO necessary for that
purpose. Bartholdi spent on the statue
nearly ten years. Levi P. Morton,
then United States minister to France,
received the gift July 4, 1884; it was
brought over on ship of state, erect
ed on Bedloe's Island and dedicated
with imposing ceremonies October %,
1856. President Cleveland making the
speech of acceptance and Bartho.dl
himself unveiling the statue. For this
work Bartholdi made deep study of
colossal figures in Egypt, Greece and
eastern lands. The statue Is the largest
bronze figure in the world. being lo1
feet from the pedestal to the extremity
of the torch, the figure being Ill feet
high and the torch being 3O6 feet
above the tide level.
The masterpiece of his creation,
however. is The Lion of Belfort. To
commemorate the defense Of that place
during the Franco-Prusstan war lie
sculptured the immense lion, figure
80 feet long and 80 feet high, partly
rent in the rock and partly built up
with stone, which stands against tie
face of the citadel's plateau. AS tes-
timonial of gratitude to Americans fol
their sympathy and service in that
war the statue of Lafayette, in Union
SQUARE, was given to New York. II
came from Bartholdi's chtsel, as also
subsequently did one of the public
fountains of Washington and the four
has-reliefs around the steeple of the
Brattle Square Church, Boston. lr
fbe last named the faces Of his friends
and welI-known public men are repro
duced. --'=
The sculptures by Bartholdi are nu
merous. In 1865 he was decorated by
the cross of the Legion Of Honor
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-11-11
STOP DISORDER ON DIAMOND.

Hooting at Umpires and Similar Out
breaks a Menace to Game.
1t requires no stretch of the imagina-
ton to predict that some time or an
other, somewhere and somehow, some
thing is going to happen to that inn
portant American functionary, the base
ball umpire, and if we do not misin-
terpret the steady drift toward vio-
lence on the diamond the happening
will be trifle more serious than a
profane bombardment Of the eardrum,
more serious than any Of the disgrace
full things yet noted in connection with
this feature of the great American
game. What happened in Jackson.
Miss, to Umpire Harlow, when it be-
came necessary for Mayor Heming-
way to visit him at his hotel and d~as-
sure him of protection, and what hap
pened to Umpire Clifford at Monroe,
La, during a game there, are but
straws showing the drift of the wind.
Baseball is a great game. 1t has a
splendid recreative value. It sweeps
the citizen away from the dull cares,
the sweat and CRIME Of life's routine
! with somewhat of the glow Of yester-
day, for though we have slipped into
the slim groove of age and may be
| hurrying to a hole IN the ground, we
| may yet be boys again, and thrill with
the remembered passions and excite
ments of the schoOlground. But base
ball is too often robbed of its poetic
color and the fine eXhilarating value of
| the game by just sucn disturbances as
noted at Jackson and Monroe. Um-
! pires, like other men, are made out
| of clay. Being clay, they must err.
Bias may now and then dominate
| them and shape their judgments. Con-
| sciously wrong sometimes, uncon-
| sciously wrong at others, in the de-
| cisions they make, they are no better
| and no worse than the common run OF
partisans, whether they are Of the dia-
mond or not. The presumption of hon
esty should run in every mans behalf,
whether he be baseball umpire or
what not, until there is good proof to
| the contrary.
| In any aspect of the case the dis
orders which now so often mark the
progress Of ball games cannot do 9TH
er than injure the sport Aside from
the strictly baseball interest Of the
question, there is an issue Of greater
Significance and Of deeper public con-
Germ. Baseball Is a passion with the
young American. No other form OF
amusement, no other kind Of contest
will so stir the blood of the American
boy. No other game has ever been
able to take it's place in his affections.
He generally sees the game, stalking
all his youthful enthusiasm on one
side or the other, though frequently
put to the stress of pouring his soul
through a knothole in the fence. But
no matter how, he sees the game and
| It's excitements and passions find lodg-
ment in his nature. If for no other
reason, the game should be kept clean
and on the square for the good it may
do to the American boy. Assaults on
umpires, the profanity, the grumbling
and other violences in word and deed
can do the young American no good
and should not be countenanced. Base
ball managers should put stop to all
this disorder and vulgar byplay on the
diamond.-San Francisco Call.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-11-11
BV Paul De Ldney

Columbia. But fortune had favored
the man, as the reader already knows,
though his escape was still by no means
certain. AS the boat had approached
the rocks, Lapham watched like pam
ther preparing to leap. The white
spray dashed upon the rocks with angry
recoil, and the water seethed and
foamed about the pIace like the boiling
of huge caldron. The prospect was
as uninviting as death itself, but Lap
am stood straight in his boat, oar in
hand his eyes piercing the precincts OF
the boulders and his muscles standing
out in knots. 1t was case of a power
full man looking death in the face, a
man equal to the fearful emergency.
The boat was heading straight for
the base OF the group of rocks. To the
left of the center the boulders divided
some six teet above the water line.
Lapham saw this at glance and knew
that if he could reach this point he
would be safe for time.
Quicker than words he hurled his
oars forward with all of his strength.
He blocked the way of his craft and
spun it around like a top. Then he
threw her sidewise to the rebounding
waters which filled hel almost TO the
top. But the heavy undercurrent up
ON which he rode struck the rocks deep
down toward the bed of the bay and
rose up like living thing. Lapham
found himself opposite the coveted OPP
ening in the rocks and leaped. He
caught his footing and c1awled to a
place of temporary safety.
| His boat was let down as rapidly as
it had been hoisted up by the swell
and he saw it no more. His position
was such that he could not see what
was going on around him. His vision
only covered a narrow line of the
water to the east and west but along
this line he saw nothing but white caps
and surging waters.
Throughout the evening he had
climbed inch by inch up the slick side
of the emooth boulders. clinging here
and there to bumps and slight project
ing bits like a lizard, as the tide
rose and drove him before it. The
storm ragged throughout the day ano
1.-The rain beat down upon him in tor
rents, drenching him to the skin.
The lie savers had seen him strike
the rocks through the early morning
mist and spray and had seen him NJ
more.
i But at the hour when Joe Colder
had reported his death and his friends
were drinking to his memory, Dar
Lapham was still clinging to the rocks
He had ascended as far as he could
however, and the water was biting a
his uncertain footing, while his be
numbed fingers clung, blood-stained, II
the narrow crevies in the boulders.
But the tide had reached its highes
point and throughout the remainder o
the night, the waters would return t.
the oceans depths.
If Dan Lapham;s e strength would hol'
out, there might be hope for him yet
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-11-11
CHAPTER XII.
Dan Lapham Makes a Discovery.

Dan Lapham Makes Discovery.
The storm went out with the tide.
The wind lulled with every receding
wave. Inch by inch Dan Lapham de-
scended the rocks. 1t would be relief
once more to secure good footing where
he could stand or sit with ease. He
had clung to the side of the upright
boulders until his fingers were worn to
the quick. His toes ached under the
continual strain and the bones of his
body seemed torn from the flesh so
long had he been in contact with the
rocks.
When once the tide was out he found
himself upon large nest of rocks.
This he knew would be the case for he
was acquainted with the bay and river
as one is acquainted with his home and
the landmarks about the place.
At high tide Chinook rocks were sub
merged, save that one spur near the
center of the group extended above the
high water mark. 1t was to this that
Dan had clung throughout the day.
Finding himself again able to walk
about he began to plan for escape. He
had hopes that he might hail some
early morning fisherman by picking a
conspicuous place on the rocks from
which point he could view the river
and bay, but he was anxious to leave
his place of imprisonment earlier il
possible
He peered into the water at the loot
of the rocks and examined every NOOK
and corner, with the hope that he
might find his boat or some other craft
that might have drifted to the place
and lodged.
A few lights in the village to the
north showed that some of the lnhabl
tants were yet awake. He noticed ONT
light with which he and all the fisher
men were familiar. 1t was light il
an isolated cabin far up the beach.
This light tonight was source o
mystery to Dan. 1t shone from thu
cabin of Riugwold and Sankala. III,
had seen them going to their doom
that morning. He did not believe an.
earthly power could save them. Hi
final conclusion was that they had left
I the light burning in the early hour O
morning when they went out into th'
storm or that their bodies had been re
covered by the life savers and neighbor
who were sitting up with the dead.
Poor Sankala! Dan sat down upol
the rocks and reflected. He thought Q
the frail girl whom he had SO often as
sisted in fishing her net while her agc'
companion sat helpless in the boat
, He thought of how cheerip! the llttl
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-11-11

Throughout his life he was an admirer
of the United States, and it is prob
able that his Statue of Liberty will
do as much to perpetuate his name as
any other, perhaps all, of his works.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-11-11
Travel in Japan.

The railway traveller in Japan buys
first second or third class ticket;
or, if he wishes to go cheaper still, he
can get a ticket emitting him simply
to stand on the platform! Many Of the
cars can be entered either from tho
side or the end.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-11-11

After all, there isn't much worse
sensation than discovering that con-
temporary looks suddenly old.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-11-11
Ito be continued)

True friendship is like sound health.
the value of it is seldom Known until it
be loSt.-Cotton.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-11-11

Electric Light in Egypt
Nearly every city in the interior of
Egypt is now lighted by electricity.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-20
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Missouri Junior Sunshine Report,

With the full belief that CHEEKY, merry,
kind hearted boys and girls will make
sunshiny, noble men and women, and be-
ing a great lover of children, l accepted
this field of Sunshine work and was APP
pointed superintendent of juniors for Mis-
souri, by our state president, Nov. Is, 1902.
My plan to let each branch choose its own
work and elect it's own officers has proven
satisfactory to all. Put boy or girl in
congenial field Of work; then they will
take Hvelfer interest in the same. In this
manner my junior branches cover an i'm
mense field. The juniors gave Valentine
parties to the Martha Parsons hospital.
Longwood Deaf Mutes, Cass Avenue Deaf
MuteS, Sisters of Guardian Angels, st.
Louis Chfldren'S hospital, St. Joseph Or
phan. Asylum. Home Of Incurables, Epis-
copal Orphans Home Webster Grove
Protestant Orphans Home, also to fifty
Shutfns
A Washington Birthday Sunshine party
was given the Sunshine Day Nursery
The entertainment was juvenile and the
Chinaman contest created much mirth.
The little ones surely did justice to the
lsmonade and cake brought by Mrs. C. w.
Trowbridge.
The Jolly Juniors and BfsseH Merry
Sunbeams sent In Easter eggs, which,
coming rather late, were sent to the near
est place where they could give sunshine,
which went to the Home of Incurables
Bethesda Home and Episcopal Orphans
Home. Helen Adams sent in number Of
cute little Easter souvenirs, which were
sent to the shutins.
The Fourth OF July party given to the
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-20

that Of Roland, and the translator has
done remarkably we'll considering the
difficulties involved. She says: The
few notes aim only to give in a form
convenient for use in the class room a
slight summary of the historical COM
ment current in the modern French
editions, SO far as that comment really
adds to the understanding of the story"
The little volume is in convenient form
for students.
Foreign cable dispatches dwell de-
pressingly upon the gravity of the
European financial situation. The war
has hit hard the London stock exchange
and the continental bourses; and be-
cause France holds, it is said, $780,
600, 600 in Russian bonds the Paris
bourse may be called the storm center
of the threatening trouble. Peculiarly
timely and valuable, under the condi
lions, then, is Cleveland Moffett's ac-
count Of "The Paris Bourse," the lead
ing article in the March Century. Mr..
Moffett's sketch deals in detail with
the essential differences between the
Paris bourse and the stock exchanges
of London and New York, and with
the scenes, composition and workings
of the Paris bourse. There are char
acteristic illustrations by Andre Cas-
taigne.
The ever discussed question of labor
unions is presented in a new phase in
the March Atlantic, where Prof. VIII
liam q. Ripley, Of Harvard university,
writes of Race Factors in Labor
Unions" Prof. Ripley, who Is the au-
thor of the well known work on 1.-THE
Races of Europe" has been making an
exhaustive study of the racial COM
position Of the labor unions Of this
country, and of the part played by the
various race factors in the organiZa-
ton. His account of the results of his
study is both entertaining and instruct
i've. His conclusion, that the hope for
the greatest efficiency of labor unions
in the future is to be found only in
the supremacy Of the American work
man, will interest many, and his keen
statement of the actual obligations of
the American-born craftsman will
DrOVe stimulating
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-20
BOOK. NEWS.

"The Woggfe Bug" is to be one of the
book for children. esThe Further Adven-
man. Mr.. Baum is at Coronado Beach,
Cal. putting the finishing. touch to his
story and incidentally playing golf.
A most amusing book has just appeared
with the imprint of Dodd Mead 81 Co, en-
titled 1.-THE Weedhouse Correspondence,
It consists of a series of letters 1.-THE pub
lie is apparently not tired of letters, after
ALL, which are quite the cIeverest and
keenest that have appeared for some time
They treat almost entirely of the fdiosyn-
crasfeS of human nature, and of the char
acters supposed to be writing this CORE
spondence. SelfishneSs is the prevailing
iGiosyncrasy; and the manifold and va
rfous forms of human selfishness are here
depicted with a spontaneity and clever
ness quite out of the ordinary.
1t is rarely that novel of acknowledged
literary merit awakens it's most particular
interest in the ranks of the life insur-
ance cornpa MES. The scene in 1.-THE Fore
runner" Cox, Duffield & Coz, where
Daniel Devin on his deathbed regrets not
having made his will and not having in
sured his life, though given naturally as
an instance in psychological analysis, af-
fords too good a text to be neglected by
the practical solicitor.
''The Close of the Day" Frank Spear
mans last novel. published by D. Apple