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About Corvallis gazette. (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1905)
RUSSIAN HOME LIFE. 'OSTRICHES NOT STUPID BIRDS. ', Eating! Sleeping and Smoking Chief Occupation of a Head of a House. , . The daily life of a Russian couple of the wealthier classes is singularly reg ular And monotonous, varying ouly with the changing seasons. In summer the lord of the house gets up about 7 o'clock and puts on, with the assist ance of his valet de chambre, a simple costume, consisting chiefly of a faded, plentifully stained ' dre3siug gown. Having nothing particular to do, he eits down at the open window and looks into the yard. Toward 9 o'clock tea is announced and he goes into the dining room a long, narrow apartment, with bare wooden floor and no furniture- but a table and chairs. Here he finds his wife with the tea urn before her. In a few minutes the younger children enter the room, kiss their papa's hand end take their places around the table. As this morning meal consists merely of bread and tea it does not last long, and all disperse to their several occu pations. , . The head of the house begins the la bors of the day by resuming his seat at the open window and having his Turkish pipe filled and lighted by a boy whose special function is to keep his master's pipe in order. The house wife spends her morning in a more active way. As soon as the breakfast table has been cleared she goes to the larder, takes stock of the provisions, , arranges the meals and gives to the cook the necessary materials with de tailed Instructions as to how they are to be prepared. The rest of the morn- . ing she devotes to her other household duties. i Toward 1 o clock dinner , is an nounced and Ivanoviteh prepares his appetite by swallowing at a gulp wineglass of home-made bitters. Din ner is the great event of the day. Food is abundant and of good quality, but mushrooms, onions and fat play rather too Important a part In the repast, and ' the whole is prepared with little at tention to the recognized principles of hygiene. No sooner has the last dish been removed than a deathlike still ness falls upon the house. It is the time of the after-dinner siesta. The young folk go into the garden and all the members of the household give way to drowsiness naturally en gendered by a heavy meal on a hot summer day. Ivanoviteh retires to his own room,, from which the flies have been carefully expelled by bis . pipe bearer. His wife dozes in a big armchair in the sitting room, with a pocket handkerchief spread over her face. The servants snore In the corri dor, the garret or the hay shed, and even the old watchdog in the corner of the yard stretches himself out a full length on the shady side of his kennel. In about two hours the house grad v ually reawakens, doors begin to creak, the names of the various servants are bawled out in all tones, from bass to falsetto, and footsteps are heard In . the yard. Soon a man servant issues ' from the kitchen, bearing an enormous tea urn, which puffs like a little steam engine.- The family assembles for tea BABOONS CAUTIOUS ANIMALS. In Spite of Their Great Strength They Are True Conservatives. : One of the farm boys drew our at tention to what seemed little more than a couple of dark specks on the slope of the hills to the right, says a writer In . the Youth's Companion, but . we could soon see that they were moving, and when they came within half a mile of us we could distinctly recognize them as a herd of baboons. The boy said he was quite sure they were on their way to the water, but to our surprise they did not' make any advance. A quarter of an hour elapsed half an hour; still no sign of their ap- ; proach. All at once, as If they had started from the earth by magic, at the open end of the pond, not sixty yards from our place of ambush,stood two huge males. When or how they got there no one could tell. Probably they had come by a circuitous way through the val ley, or it might be that they had crept straight down through the grass. They had certainly eluded our observa tion. .. Being anxious to watch the move ments of the animals and to ascer tain whether they belonged to the herd playing under the mimosas, I refrained from firing and determined to see what 'Field Marshal the Marquis Oyama, chief of the general staff and commander-in-chief of the Japanese army, Is one of the few generals of modern times who may claim to rank among the giants of war who have led troops in the field. The English call him the Wellington of Manchuria, which is the highest praise they 'can bestow upon any commander, but in European capitals, strategists, amazed by the boldness of a campaign now crowned with complete success, style him the Napoleon of the Orient It Is certain that no general, fighting against a worthy enemy, has achieved so unbroken a series of victories; that none has conceived a more stupendous plan of campaign to execute It so successfully; that none has exceeded the gigantic feat of driving from stronghold to stronghold and finally enveloping a force as big as the army of General Kuropatkln. The Marquis Oyama, who is 62 years old, was educated in France, and served in. the Franco-Prussian War as an attache. Up to the time he made his report oh that conflict the Japanese army, which was only in its begin ning as a modern force, was being trained on the French - model. After his return home this system gave way to that of the Prussian, and this in turn' has been greatly improved by Japanese originality and by the adoption of what is best and most useful In the other armies of the world. Later In life Oyama again traveled extensively In Europe, absorbing the ideas of the military systems, and once more in Japan threw himself Into recasting the whole military system, winning the appreciation and favor of the Emperor and of Field Marshal the Marquis Yamagata. To Marquis Oyama among others belongs the glory of creating the Jap anese army inside of thirty years. Nor was his genius confined to the Min istry of War, as he stood for a space at the head of the navy, and also as Minister of Education when the transition of the new world Power wa completing. A queer compound of ugliness, wit, strength and Oriental cunning, the Marquis Oyama has an enormously receptive mind. He Is a rapid and deep thinker, and not only attracts, but molds those about him 'to any set purpose with Napoleonic directness, although with admirable and characteristic Jap anese grace. While not a tall man in any sense, he is a shade above the average Japanese in height, with a strong head apparently placed upon I Immense shoulders without the Interposition of a neck. He Is a linguist, as are most of the Japenese officers, an advantage not possessed In the same proportion in any other military or naval service in the world. Smallpox has pitted his round, brown face, but his ugliness is relieved by a pair of tnagnetlc black eyes, which twinkle with, humor, or squint when their own er is deep in thought. ' - The first real war experience in which he was an actor came in the civil war in Japan, in which the Satsuma revolt was suppressed, but fame came to him In the Chino-Japanese War, ten years ago. As a strategist and com mander he .there achieved distinction which has been heightentd by his wonderful work in the present Manchurian campaign. He was the captor of Port Arthur which he took from the Chinese garrison in a morning. Rus sian cartoonists have ridiculed him for' ten years, making little of his vic tory, the fruits of which Russia and the Powers were to prevent the Jap-, anese from enjoying. , Marquis Oyama has a. memory for these things, and his command in the field against Russia was assured before war broke out For a time he eat at home, advising and directing General Kuroki, as became the chief of. the general staff under the Japanese system. When the right moment arrived, the Marquis moved into the field, where he has since remained personally directing a campaign unexcelled In brilliancy by any of which history tells. Story that They Hide Their Head Whan Frightened Base Slander. ' There"aW many (.gia"nts- Jn Af rica"B feet' high, ; Some of them' weigh 300 pounds and lare jstrong enough to kill a panther at one blow. Perhaps you think such big fellows must be clumsy, . ' but they are not They can run faster than any horse, spring 12 to 14 feet at a leap. This all sounds like a fairy story, 'says a writer in the Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune, but not so when you hear that these African giants are ostriches. Perhaps you have been told some foolish stories about these birds that when pursued they stick their heads in the sand and because they cannot see Imagine that no one can see them. This is base slander. Instead of be ing stupid, ostriches are very cunning. Their long legs will take them away from men unless they have their fam ilies to protect. Then all is different The papa ostrich sends mamma ostrich and the baby ostriches off at full speed, while he runs" the other way. What do you think be does next? He rolls on the ground, pretending to be hurt The hunter rushes toward the fallen bird, thinking he can easily catch him, mentally counting how much money he can make out of the splendid tail feathers which adorn the bird's talL V After the papa ostrich thinks his . ; family has got a good start, up he . Jumps and skims over the ground, leav ing the disappointed hunter to think that the ostrich is not as silly as he has been led to belief. A singular thing about ostriches is the way they bring up their little ones. To begin with, there are a good many eggs in the nest (dug out of the hot sand), but the eggs are of different mothers. Ostriches do not lay eggs every day. Being far apart they would not hatch together. When the nest is prepared all the female ostriches In the neighborhood are invited to contribute an egg apiece, the hostess returning the favors in due time. Ostrich eggs are delicious. One weighs three pounds, or Is equal to a dozen of a hen's. They are very con venient too, for the hunters In the desert They not only furnish a de lightful meal, but a dish to cook it in. The shell Is hard and thick and the egg Is set on the fire, a hole is broken in the top, it is stirred with a stick and when It is done the saucepan serves a a dish as well. RISE OF A POOR BOY. Ieft a Fortune of Fifty Million Sallars When He Died. Meyer Guggenheim, of Philadelphia, who died in Palm Beach pf pneumonia recently, aged 78, was another exam- pie of the possiblll l ties of youth in the .1 1 L V. fill H. . UC came to our shores a $ poor boy; he ' died 1 leaving $50,000,000 4 as an inheritance (or his children. Mr. Guggenheim was a Swiss Hebrew, born in 1827, In 1846 with his family he it. guggerheim. galled for - America, settling in Philadelphia, then a city of 160,000 people. ; Young Guggenheim began business selling stove polish. He made a little money and then he tried embroidery. A small store was opened; a larger one followed. In the pend the limb with a weight attached, in order to keep the extension perfect at ' all times and to prevent- at the same time, any Inadvertent or inten tional twisting or turning of the limb due to restlessness or fatigue. In most cases the surgeon is compelled to ex ercise his ingenuity in devising a home made rig for the purpose, so that the simple' arrangement shown in the 11- mAanimA Vi nnV Vl H if mlnlnor In nvuiu luuun 1IUU i .17 1 il UaUUUilS 1 -i . ,. .. . 1, . sprang toward the water, andV leaning down, they drank until they were sat-, isfled. Then, having gravely stretched themselves, they . solemnly stalked away on all fours in the direction of the herd, i There was little doubt therefore, that they belonged ' to the herd and had been sent forward to re connoiter, for as soon as they got back the entire herd put itself in motion to ward the pond. . There were mothers taking care of their little ones; there were half -grown animals, the boys and girls of the company. At first only one baboon at a time came to the water's edge, and, having taken its draft retired to the rest but when about ten had thus ventured separately, they began to come in small groups, leaving the oth ers rolling and jumping on the sand. . An Obstinate Stand. "The trouble with you," said the ntusleal enthusiast' "Is that you do not understand classical, music." . "Perhaps," answered Mr. Oumrox. "But I refuse to be regarded as a man of inferior intelligence until I find some one who i competent to prove that he understands it" Washington . Star, ' ' '" " ,- ' --'."7 A man can feel in his pockets at any time and bring out a little ball of fuz. ter this field. He was very successful. Smelting the ore being very expensive, he had a son learn the business, and then he began buying smelters as fast as his profits would permit In the meantime he made big profits from selling Swiss embroideries, handling only the most expensive kinds. . He sold this business out to continue the erection of smelters, several of which were placed in the mining States of the West, in" Mexico and in South Ameri ca. These properties yielded a profit all the way from $4,000,000 to $10,000, 000 a year. When1 the smelting trust was formed Mr. Guggenheim declined to join, but later he did and was chos en president of this very powerful or ganization. Deceased was very methodical In his habits and his expenditures. He kept track of his annual expenditures and found to within a very short time ago he had expended $9,300,000. This did not Include his gift of $250,000 for an addition to the Jewish Hospital of New York, nor a like sum to a similar institution In Philadelphia. '.--'"Sr.. . MECHANICAL LEG-PULLER. - - MECHANICAL LEG-PULLER. Weil-Known Device of the Surgeon in f Fracture Treatment. Occasionally in the surgical treat ment of deformities of the limbs, as In cases of fracture, it Is necessary to sns- musicians, made a tour through the principal streets of the city. The com poser, Eysler, performed' the duties of organ-grinder, while the others sung a repertoire which inoluded such well- known songs as "Geh, Mach Dien Fen- ster Auf" ("Go, Open Your Window"), Kussen 1st Keine Sund" ("Kissing Is No Sin") and "Jetzt Spielt's Uns an Tanz" ("Now They Play and Dance for Us"). The incognito of the celebrated band remained undiscovered and the day's takings" aggregated a paltry 68 kreut- zers (about 1 shilling 2 pence), which they laughingly divided among them selves. Their previous doubt as to the ability of the public to judge of the value of art unassisted by theatrical effect have now given way to settled conviction. But nevertheless, it would have been interesting to find out what the day's takings would have amount ed to had the quartet openly announc ed themselves as the. leading lights of the Austrian musical world. Doubtless the man in the street, even in Vienna, does not look for talent in the streets. lustration, which is portable and can be used repeatedly, will come as - a boon to the medical fraternity. A sim ple frame of finished lumber is set up and attached to the foot of the bed stead. A window frame would be as effective as anything else for the pur pose. A pulley bracket is attached to this frame, and provision is made for increasing or decreasing 'the amount of traction applied to the limb by adding additional weights, the pull being transmitted by a rope to the limb in a conveniently s"hapeu pair of splints. NOTED ARTISTS SING IN STREETS Vienna Stage Celebrities Test Public's Judgment of Music A merry quartet of performers made an interesting experiment in the streets of '. Vienna, says' the New Orleans Times-Democrat, In order to see with their own eyes how the general public would appreciate the highest artistic talent if it were exhibited in the open street unannounced and unadorned. Miss Gerda Walde, prima donna of the Vienna stage; Louis Treumann, the popular comedian of the Carl Theater Edward Eysler, the composer, and Al fred Deutsch-German, the playwright arrayed In the garb of ordinary street thing to raise his name from the dead level of a commonplace party hack. As an absentee landlord, he stands for a system which has been the bane of Ireland; and as an opponent to all concessions to Ireland he has. already invited the hostility of the Irish peo ple. Instead of being. a strength he is a weakness to the Balfour ministry, which is rapidly tottering to Its fall. IRELAND'S NEW 8ECRETARY. Representative of Land System Which Is Abhorrent to Irish. . The ' Balfour cabinet has not strengthened itself by the appoint ment of the .successor to George Wyudham, who has resigned the chief secretaryship of Ireland. Wynd ham resigned be cause his policy, which favored a wider -extension of government pow ers to the Irish people, was repu- diated by the walteb long. House oi Com mons as well as by the cabinet and naturally his successor was selected because of his opposition to such pol icy. And that is for what Walter Long, the new secretary, essentially stands. He is one of . Ireland's ab sentee landlords and Is resolutely op posed to all concessions to Irish feel ings. "- He is a man of mediocre abil ity, without one atom of distinction of any kind. For a score of years he has sat In parliament but never "did any- kvmtrrt(tffi,iFm,tm,..t Ymm , It Paid to Advertise. The most refractory among , dumb beasts may sometimes be won by per sistent kindness. It is also evident that the obstinate of the human species rnqy be influenced by an assault of hu mor. Phil May, the English artist "of most dear memory," had promised to do a colored design for the Christmas number of an illustrated weekly pub lication. The date fixed on for its de livery passed by, and no design had been forthcoming. . f . Letters and telegrams were unan swered,- and when a messenger was sent to May s house It appeared that he had gone to Paris without leaving any address. This, according to M. A. P., is what happened next: The publishers were at their wits' end, but one of them, paying a day's visit to Margate, was overjoyed to see May basking in the sunshine by the water. The publisher did not make himself known, but calmly ascertained where May was staying. Then he hired six sandwich men to parade up and down before the artist's window, with boards bearing different legends. This was their tenor: "What about our Christmas cover?" "We are waiting for.Nthat cover." , It was a delightful reminder, and in a few days the publishers received one of the most brilliant designs May had ever executed. Ways and Means. , The first time Billings married Was in his salad days; ' . He loved a maid because, he said, She had such charming ways. The second time, grown wiser, .. He shunned the social queens, To ' a widow's charms laid down . hit arms - ' T ' She had snch ample means.- Cleveland Leader. No, Cordelia, painting tne town red isn't one of the cardinal virtues. When a farmer plants his wheat in the fall he doesn't expect a harvest in a week or a month. When you give an order for a ten-story office build ing you don't go around to the site the following day and expect to find a complete building. The farmer knows he must wait un til the seasons and the chemicals of the earth work their changes, and you know that your building" must proceed by gradual stages, brick upon brick. until finished. So it is with advertising. The first insertion does not influence the public mind, nor the last, but one added to the other, every one gathering strength from those that precede it gradually influence the public mind and bring to your bank the business you desire. A single week or a month of adver tising is merely a blow or two of a cork against a bar of steel. Its effect is absolutely nothing. It is money and effort wasted, but the continuous, per sistent hammering, week after week, month after month, is just as sure to start the pendulum of business swing ing your way as day is to follow night UNCLE SAM VALUES HER. Miss Kstelle Keel Is His Highest Paid Woman Employe. The highest paid woman in the United States government service is Miss Estelle Reel, who is superintend ent of all the In dian schools. She Is : very handsome and distinguished looking, and . not much over 30 years of age. Though she has- headquarters at the Indian bu- ' reau In " Washing ton, most of her time is spent in estelle bf.el. traveling about all over the country, her task being to im prove the management of and the edu cational methods adopted In the day schools, boarding schools, kindergar tens and other establishments main tained by Federal authority for train ing the minds and bodies of our youth ful aborigines. Miss Reel's power in such affairs is well-nigh absolute, and she has instituted many important re forms in the schools. Her pay is $3,000 a year plus traveling expenses, anj she earns the money. - : . Just a liittle Slap. Tess I. thought you weren't going to send Marie Maclnnes an invitation to your tea? jess Oh! I decided that I couldn't hurt her feelings that much. Tess So you sent her one? jess Yes, but I addressed It to "Miss Mary McGinnis.". Philadelphia Press. '''.. , " ;. If a woman is young she alwaya get considerable wear out of a gar meht before the bill cornea in.