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All work guaranteed satisfactory and done, on short notice" Give us a call. , We can please you. Located back of-Bsal Bros-' blacksmith shop on Second street. Phone No. 3145 Ind. CORVALLIS, OREGON YOU GET WHAT WE GET prove!! " Our books are open for your ' inspection. lELjfaL Buyers name given if wanted. We not only get top prices, but you can satisfy yourself rStSSS absolutely at any time that you get what we tuiBlrFW!-ne PROMPT GASH RETURNS CHBGklEkJS ' ShiP 7ur produce to us. Write to us now for coops, tags, etc SOUTHERN OREGON G0UUI8SI0N GO. VV. H. MCCORQUODALE. PROP. 95 FRONT ST., PORTLAND, OREGON Amherst Man Will Ascend Higher Than Ever Before When Planet Is Nearest to the Earth How Professor Doolittle Would Signal Mars. Professor David Todd of Amherst college does not believe it absurd to plan for communication with other worlds and in an attempt to get sig nals from Mars will ascend in a bal loon to a height greater than usually reached, says a Boston dispatch. He will be accompanied by Leo Stevens, the aeronaut. This plan to surmount natural difficulties will be tried hot later than September, when the .planet Mars is nearest the earth. Professor Todd, speaking of the novel test he has planned, said in part: 'lr life really exists on Mars they have been trying for years to get into conversation with us and perhaps won der what manner of stupid things we are not to respond. Followine this as sumption, I have thought that we might feel their presence if we could get high enough up, away from the noises and the ether waves that sur round us, up in the rarefied regions of our atmosphere with nothing to dis turb the communication. "In mounting high up in the balloon to attempt to intercept any ether waves that may be radiating from the planets I shall be shut into a metal box made of aluminium for lightness and fitted with apparatus to drive out tne carbonic acid gas and supply oxy gen and with air pressure to prevent sickness. In that way I can ascend much higher , than balloons have here tofore gone. We shall take along the wireless receiving instrument and try to Intercept messages from Mars, Ve nus or any other of the planets. "The planet Venus defies the tele scope. All we get from Venus Is a reflection from the planet's atmosphere or gaseous envelope. This very at mosphere of Venus is a sign of proba ble life on the planet. "We cannot presume to send mes sages to Mars on this coming trip, but will only try to receive. The question has been raised of how we should get our grand connection necessary for telegraphy. "There are several answers. We will use what is practicable. If, in the meantime, it is established that a thou sand foot wire hanging from the car with surrounding atmosphere forms a 'grounding,' we will use that." i &y a - ? jl "Wat . .. . l& ni rt w 0-1 s When asked about the practicability of recent plains for establishing com munication with Mars, Professor Eric Doolittle of the Flower astronomical observatory, University of Pensyl vania, said: v " ; "The idea of signaling to Mars with the object of determining whether or not the planet is inhabited is practical and might be easily carried out by the construction of large geometrical re flectors in the plains of Siberia. The triangle, the square and the. circular plane could be used. Were we now on Mars with our telescopes, such a set of figures would-be distinctly discerni ble. If Mars is inhabited lw Intplli- gent men, and if among them there are astronomers watching this earth.' those men would see these geometrical hgures, and they would communicate by constructing similar devices." . Professor Doolittle thonsrht rlmr tho expenditure , of the proposed $10,000,000 tor establishing communication with Mars would be impracticable until it was definitely determined that Mars was inhabited. CLUB TO LIVE ON FRUIT. Society Called the Golden Age Is Formed In London.' A new society club formed in Lon don, called the Golden Age; has been established to advocate a fruitarian system of living for philanthropic, hu mane and hygienic reasons. The club is for men and women who are inter ested in the suffrage movement. : It will be purely social, and bridge md other games will furnish diver sions. A medical" leader in the move ment affirms a man should reach the age of 128 under the proposed diet. Chance For Aeronauts. - King Leopold of Belgium has offered a $5,000 prize fot the best treatise on aeronautics to be brought out this year. ' The Umpire. Who is It, reckless of his fame And deaf to yells of praise or blame, Unmoved by glory or by shame. Hands down decisions on the game? 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