TALK OF THE TOWN
Trunks and suit cases at Blackledge's
Furniture store. . 5-17-tf
Acme Quality Paints and Floor Var
nish that wears at A, L. Miner's.
5-17rtf.
tuned and let harmony prevail. Katz
,s in town. 8 18 It
Leonard J. Moses came across coun
try from Tangent yesterday to see the
circus and visit friends.
Call up the Palace of Sweets for your
ice cream and sherbets. Free delivery.
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S. B. Bain went to Portland today to
see the sights and keep in touch with
the progress of civilization.
R. H. Katz the piano tuner is now in
town. Leave orders Hotel Corvallis or
-with Profs. Gaskins or Boone 5 18 3
General repair shop. All work first
class, promptly done. Back of Beal
Bros., blacksmith shop, Wood Bros.
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A string of automobiles followed the
busses to the depot this morning to
extend a cordial welcome to the stran
gers in attendance at the OAC field
meet.
Go to Dr-. Howard for the best and
most artistic dental work. Twenty-two
karat gold crowns reinforced, with 18
karat goldsolder made and put on in
-one hour. 8tf
Richard H. Angell, father of the Ath
letic Instructor at OAC., will leave
Monday after a month in Corvallis. He
hopes to return shortly, perhaps to re--jnain
permanently.
G. L. Gray, a prominent citizen of
Newport, came over yesterday to look
:after his renl estate interests in this
county. He took in the circus yester
day and had a front seat in the Monroe
picnic today.
Dr. Howard don't keep you in the
anxious chair and make you lose your
valuable time and punish you a half
-day for 15 minutes work. A mechanic
can always do a piece of work first
class in a reasonable time. . 8tf
E. F. Strout, a princely good fellow
living up on the Summit, was in town
yesterday looking at the elephant. He
reports plenty of rain in that neighbor
hood and the Snly thing needed to make
them supremely happy is warm weather
and sunshine.
The trial heats at UAU this morning
were very exciting and the youngsters
showed some remarkably fast speed,
the events equalling the time recently
made at the OAC-Idaho contest. The
,100 yard dash was run in 10 2-5, the 220
yard dash in 23 2-5, and the 440 yard
dash in 53 1-5 seconds. "
BROTHERHOOD CONVENTION
Presbyterian Men Promoting a Large
Gathering.
JOE CANNON HI 73
. The market for all classes of horses
continues very active. In the early
spring and summer good drivers brought
fancy prices, but now that the plug hat
-gentry have been taken care of for the
summer outing, the market again turns
to all purpose stock ranging in weight
from 1100 to 1500 pounds'. Jesse Wiley
shipped a nice little bunch yesterday
and is in the market for about one hun
dred more. Outside parties are also
keeping tab on all available stock,
' The prices for this medium class will
run from $80 to $200, thus making a
profitable year to the horseman as well
. as cleaning the country of surplus.
The great Presbyterian Broth
erhood Convention to be held
in Portland June 8 and 9 promi
ses to be - a gathering of great
interest. The Brotherhood
movement in the; church has
spread through many of the
leading denominations. Hund
reds and thousands of leading
laymen throughout the country
are swinging into line. The
Portland convention is to be
addressed by Charles S. Holt,
Esq.,of Chicago, President of the
National Brotherhood. Mr Holt
is a leading attorney of. Chicago
and is a very strong man of af
fairs. His coming is awaited
with interest. Rev.I. J. Landrith,
D.D. LL. D., is the National
Secretary of -the Brotherhood
and is well known as a platform
orator of remarkable power. Dr.
Landrith has many friends in
Oregon, who will welcome him
again to the state.
Henry E. Roseveor, Esq., of
Chicago, the Associate Secretary
of the National Brotherhood,
will also be nresent to conduct
a practial conference on Brother
hood, methods and work.
Besides these men, J. Ernest
McAffee, of New York City, will
represent the Board of Home
Missions, and probably a repre
sentative from the Board of For
eign Missions will be present.
To cap the climax, plans have
been laid to i' duce the Mode
rator of the next General As
sembly, which meets in Denver
May 20, to the coast to partici
pate in these conventions.
Leading Presbyterian laymen
of the state are being assigned
places on the program, provisio
nal copies of which will soon be
oat. .
The men of this community
especially the Presbyterian men,
will no doubt be interested ; in
this proposed convention." Let
ters . are being received from
Portland asking many of them
to plan to come.
Speaker of the House Frisky as
a Colt.
BELIEVES
WORKING
HARD.
Albany Alumni Elects Officers
The Alumni Association of
Albany College' has elected offi
cers as follows: - President,
Willard L. Marks; vice-president,
Mrs. EUa M- Rhodes; sec
retary -treasurer.. , Miss Edna
McKnight; committee on an
nual banquet and reunion, Mrs
J. C. Irvine, Miss Emma Sox,
Mrs. J. H. Ralston, Miss Anna
Flinn. JoSeDh E. Torbet and
Owen Rean.
Dates' matches need
Constant Repairing
Their method of carrying them is
responsible for the fact Pinned to
the waist or hanging on a chain the
delicate mechanism is easily disar
ranged. We pay special attention
to ladies' watches, and when re
paired by us you will find that they
keep in order longer.
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E WSr PRA.TT, Jeweler and Optician
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Young or old, who wants to dress well at the most reasonable
cost, can do so right here. You may take it as a fact that the
ready-to-wear clothing we are now offering represents the
greatest bargains for the bets suits to be found anywhere.
Nothing has been omitted. Quality high. Prices low.
Fashionahio F urniahinga
Dsn' t you wadt a new outfit of collars, cuffs, ties, socks, dress
shirts, underwear,? We have exactly the line that will suit you.
"Put Best Foot Forward and Keep
A-hustling," Is His Rule of Life.
Danced a Jig a Few Weeks Ago and
Outshuffled an Orchestra Strong In
His Likes and Dislikes.
Uncle Joe Cannon, the speaker of
the house, havingsurvived the ordeal
of his seventy-third birthday, looked
as chipper the other day as he did ten
years ago. hie appeared just as pug
nacious, too, as ever, and he said he
expected to be around and "doing
things" on a good many more birth
days. He put in his seventy-third an
niversary much the same as he does
every other working day in the year.
After a call on President Taft and a
visit to the committee on appropria
tions he put a red carnation on the
lapel of his coat and waded through a
mass of letters and telegrams of con
gratulation. '
The speaker stands pat on his decla
ration that "this country is a hell of a
success." This was a quotation as
cribed to the speaker which properly
summed up his estimate of the United
States.
"I don't believe I said It," said the
speaker. "It shocked a lot of good
people, but it lasted,, and it's true. In
this country, where 90 per cent of the
people are trying to push ahead, where
they are racing to get in advance of
the other 10 per cent, it is up to those
in the rear to try to qual them by
using their mental, and physical abil
ity. The country has no patience with
those who are discontented and abnor
mal. Tne applause is for the one in
front. The man who attains power
and keeps it deserves his success.
Carping and complaining will not ad
vance the man in the rear. He must-
put his best foot forward and try his
hardest." ' - " "
These sentiments ' were born with
Uncle Joe in Guilford, N. C, on May
7, 1836. It was the practice of these
sentiments that got him into public
life and kept him there. He has spent
thirty-four years in the house of rep
resentatives. Prior to that eight years
were given to the state of Illinois as
a district attorney. In all of that time
Joseph G. Cannon has been trying, and
trying hard. He has had to try, be
cause leadership in the house "of rep
resentatives is not a birthright or a
legacy. The man who wins must be
the best politician of 390 other best
politicians of the United States.
Aside from the ' constitutional au
thority -to preside over the house, the
speaker has a wealth of political wis
dom- as a scepter., of power, With
these two attributes he has popularity
and an iron hand. Seven years ago he
was elected speaker of the FiftyH
eighth congress. He took the gavel
from General Henderson of Iowa.
Speaker Henderson had taken the
place of Czar Reed and hifa rules along
with . it. Speaker Cannon has taken
the Reed rules and outczared the czar.
No man who has ever presided over
the house has . dominated it as com
pletely as the present occupant of the
chair. True, many fights have been
made on him, but not once has the op
position been able to put .much of
dent in the "iron duke's" armor.
Although seventy-three and weighed
down with more problems and cafes
of state than many a younger man
could shoulder, the speaker is as frisky
as a colt and likes to show it At
dinner of the Jamestown survivors
few weeks ago he danced a jig in
competition with a boy of twenty-five,
He put such life in "Turkey In the
Straw" that the Hungarian orchestra
called it a day and knocked off with
Uncle Joe still shuffling.
Uncle Joe is strong in his likes and
dislikes. Strongest of his dislikes is
his contempt for the man who tries to
upset the standing' order of things by
demagogy or appeals to popular fancy.
His heartiest like is for green corn on
the cob. It is told that while he was
a new member of congress he boarded
at a Washington hotel which put up an
excellent lot of green- corn. Mr. Can-j
non had invited a friend to dine with
him. When the corn on the cob was
brought in the congressman fell to
with vigor, inviting the . man from
home to. "pitch in." The guest side
stepped the corn, but Uncle Joe kept
after it nntil he had finished about six
ears. Then he insisted on his friend
taking some, and when he refused Un
cle Joe started again, "not to let it
spoil." He was just polishing up the
last ear when the guest broke" In with:
"Say, Joe, don't you think it would
be a little bit cheaper for you to board
in a livery stable?'
The speaker has a wholesome regard
for the United States senate,1 but he
has an old fashioned Idea that the
house Is the superior branch. So it
happens that when a messenger from
the senate arrives and addresses "Mr.
Speaker" with a lowly bow Mr. Can
non sits bolt upright and says, "Mr.
Secretary" without the bow. ""A JTriend
chided him for this and told him that
It was customary to bow to the sen
ate's messenger.
"The whole d senate can't make
me bow to it. and I'll. be d if I'll
bow to one of its messengers," said
' the speaker, settling that tittle matter.
In commemoration of his birthday
the Republican - members of congress
from North Carolina, where the speak
er was born, presented to him an un
usually- large dipper made' of a gourd
from the Tar Heel State.
S'RIBUTE TO SiOUX INDIANS.
Email Band's Brave Deed to Be Com
memorated by a Monument.
After the lapse of well nigh half a
tentury the band of young Sioux In
dians known as the "fool soldier"
band, which in November, 1SG2. at
great personal risk to themselves, res
cued at a spot near the Missouri river
in what is now Walworth county,
S. D., two women and four children,
whites, who had been abducted by a
roving band of Sioux from their homes
at Lake Chetak, Minn., are to be re
isembered and their heroic behavior
commemorated by a suitable monu
ment. ..
Under the auspices of the South Da
kota Historical society and the South
Dakota Pioneer association a granite
shaft will be erected, on June 27 a
mile from Mobridge, S. D., where the
rescue was effected.
The "fool soldier" band consisted of
eleven young Indian braves, and their
act was one "of the exceptional deeds
of the aborigines in which the whites
were befriended at the risk of incur
ring ostracization and the enmity of
not only their own tribe, but the entire
Sioux Nation, at the time powerful and
warlike. ' ,
After conceiving the idea of saving
the white captives the young braves
watched with unceasing vigilance un
til .the opportune time came, when they
secured possession of the captives and
rushed - them to a white settlement
whence they were returned to their
homes.
Walworth county was at that time
totally unsettled by whites, but after
the whites settled the. country the
members of the band were always wel
come guests at any white man's house,
and after the Walworth County Old
Settlers' association was formed the
survivors of the band were features of
every reunion of the association.
The monument erected to their mem
ory will be a plain granite shaft, stand
ing upon two mammoth native bowl
ders and suitably inscribed with the
account of the deed which won the In
dians immortality; Doane Robinson of
Pierre, S. D., state historian, will de
liver the address at the dedication of
the monument.
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TOUR OF SUNDAY SCHOOLS.
" are fresh Roasted
every Week by Wad-
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and Cleanliness. . .
DIAMOND W. COFFEE MAGNOLIA COFFEE
40c per pound . 25c per pound
Please give these Brands yovx attention when ordering
'coffee.. '.
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Second Street, - - Corvallis, Oregon
Dealers In
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THATCHER & JOHNSON'S GROCERY
Where They Will be Promptly Filled.
American Workers to Visit Institu
tions In Great Britain.
Four prominent Sunday school work
ers will spend June in making a Son-
day school tour of England, Scotland
and Wales. They are William N
Hartshorn of Boston, chairman of the
executive committee of the Interna
tional Sunday School association
Marion Lawrence of Toledo, general
secretary of the association; Philip E.
Howard, publisher of r. the Sunday
School Times, and F. N. Peloubet, au
thor of "Peloubefs Notes." They will
depart oh the Cunard steamship Sax
onia. leaving. Boston for Liverpool
Tuesday, May 18.
One purpose of the trip is to arouse
an interest in tne woria;s sixtn sun-
day school convention, which will be
held in Washington in May. 1910. They
hope to induce at least 250 workers
from 1 Great Britain to come to the
American capital next spring.
This tour will be under the direction
of the British Sunday School union,
the oldest organization of its kind in
the world, which was started 106 years
ago. .The tourists will visit all the
large cities and address meetings on
their particular work. An interna
tional welcome will be extended to
them June 16 in Crystal palace, Lon
don. A feature of this will be the
singing of the British national anthem
and other songs by' 5,000- Sunday
school children.
Dr. George W. Bailey of Philadel
phia, chairman of the executive com
mittee of the World's association, al
ready has much of the program for the
sixth quadrennial convention mapped
out. The last gathering of this organ
ization was in Borne and the one pre
vious to thai; in Jerusalem.
Fine Line of Crockery, GlassWare, Cut
Glass, Haviland and Chinavvare,
LAMPS ETC.
ROGUES' GALLERY ON LINERS.
Steamship Company's Plan to Protect
Card Players From Sharps.
Chagrined because of the failure of
passengers to prosecute ocean gam
blers, Captain Clippers of the steam- j
ship Kaiser Wilhelm II. and the offi
cers of the North German Lloyd have
arranged a new method to warn pas
sengers, which, it is believed, will be
effective. It is the posting of photo
graphs in -the first class smoking room.
As warnings printed in various lan
guages in big black type seem to De
of no avail, the system of framed pho
tographs .of men whose methods are
so well known that there can be no
mistake will be installed.
The photographs of the gamblers
with- their various aliases attached
will be framed, and it is believed that
no gambler whose face is pictured will
dare to set his foot pn the steamship
that is so decorated.
The express ships will be first equip
ped, and if this proves a success all
others will have the interesting bureau
of faces for travelers to scan.
Pen Picture of Turkey's New Sultan.
The new sultan of Turkey as he ap
peared at the selemlik is thus de
scribed by a correspondent: "Nobody
knows what he thinks. He said noth
ing. Many believe he feigned ignorance
and indifference in order to save bis
own life, and to look at him today It
appears as If the simulation will continue.-
One can only read in his pro
truding eyes good natured ingenuousness-
and almost infantile curiosity,
which , contrast strongly with his aged
appearance. . He certainly is good, but
weak. ' I was unable to see in him a
sovereign of the new epoch, a reorgan
lzer of Turkey, a sultan of progress."
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During the Season 1909
via the '
Southern Pacific Co.
from
CORVALLIS, OREGON
To OMAHA and Return - - $62.60
To KANSAS CITY and Return $62.60
To ST. LOUIS and Return - - $70.10
To CHICAGO and Return - - $75.10
and to other principal cities in the Bast, Middle West and South.
Corr espondingly low fares.
On Sale June 2, 3; July 2, 3;, August 11, 12
To DENVER and Return - - $57.60
On Sale My 17, July 1, August 11
Going transit limit io days from date of sale, final return limit October
3ist. -
These tickets present some very attractive features in the way of stop
over privileges, and choice of routes; thereby enabling passengers to make
side trips to many interesting points enroute. .
Routing on the return trip through California may I e had - at a slight
advance over the rates quoted.
Full particulars, sleeping car reservations and tickets will be furnished
by R. C. LINNVILLE, Southern Pacific local agent at Corvallis or
WM. NTMURRAY, General Passenger Agent'
Portland, Oregon
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The Benton County
Heal Estate Agent
Corvallis, Oregon
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