Corvallis daily gazette. (Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon) 1909-1909, June 16, 1909, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextCORVALLIS DAILY GAZETTE Published every evening except Sun lay. Office: 259-263 Jefferson street, corner Third street, Corvallis, Oregon. PHONE 210 address all communications and make ail remittances payable to the Corval lis Gazette. . In ordering changes of address, sub scribers should always give old as well as new address. SUBSCRIPTION RATES DAILY Delivered by carrier, per week $ 15 Delivered by carrier, per month 50 By mail, one vear, in advance 5 00 By mail, six months, in advance 2 50 By mail, one month, in advance .50 CORVALLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE Published Every Friday Entered at the postofEce at Corvallis, Oregon, as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year, in advance $2.00 Six moths, in advance- 1.00 CHAS. L SPRINGER,. Editor and Publisher. TRAVELERS' GUIDE Arrival and Departure of Trains UNION DEPOT, CORVALLIS r. c. LlNViLi.E, Agent Arrive Southern Pacific . Depart 11:30 a m. Passenger 1:30 P- m 5:40 p.m. Freight 6:4o a. m. Corvallis & Eastern 11 a. m. passenger east n:isa m. Ss a. m. " " 6:30 a m. 1:20 p m. 4:35 p. m 8:35 p. m. west. " east 2:15 p. m 6 p. m 1:40 p. m Sunday Trains 1:15 p.m. Daily except Sunday, trains dailv. 11:15 a. m, All other CORVALLIS P0ST0FFICE Opens 8 a. m , closes 6 p. tn. Sundays and holidays, opens 10 a. m., closes 11 a. in. Mails Open ' From 7. 10 a.m, 12 m. 10 a m, 2, 5 p m 7, 10 a m, 12 m 10am, 5pm 11:30 am 10am r 12m 7am 5pm -10 a m 6pm Mails Cl:se For Portland D:0, 10:S0 a m, 12 m 5:30 Dm . Albany 5:30, 10:30 a ui, 5;30 pm Washington and 10:36 a m, 12:30 Eastern states 5:30 p m California a and 10:30 a m, 5:30 - pninta South ' p m . rhilnmath and points West 12:30 p m Monroe 1:30,530pm' MeMinville and Welside paints - Mill City and waypo.nts ' Philomath and Alsea V Monroe stage Philomath stage 12:15 p m 5:30 a m 8-45 a m 2pm Jim WASTED WATER. If the American people do not today begin protecting their common rights to the water pow er of their streams they will be in the grip of a greater trust than the Standard Oil. Intelligent action, and that by the whole people that is what is demanded, and it is to that we are being gradually aroused. For conservation means more than power, and rain water run ning off means far more to us - even than this equivalent of 650,000,000 tons of coal which the engineers have figured out. It means wild water and flood "water penned up in gigantic res ervoirs, to be released in dry sea sons. It means river channels always full and never dry. It means a green and bounti ful earth, storing up annual treasures of fertility instead of them being swept as now out to sea. Swamps drained, deserts irrigated, forests restored, swift water harnessed and channels open to navigation over the en tire country these are the pur poses which conservation is to attain. But we shall sea that it can be attained only by .the clos est fellowship among the states and among the citizens of the states, raid by retaining tight control for the public of all parts of tho running streams. Wild water, the unrestrained runoff of the surplus rainfall, is one of the most destructive for ces in nature. It cuts away' the earth, dissolves and washes out the nutritive elements in the soil, wears chasms in the hill sides, fills up the river channels ,with debris, and dumps into the ocean everv vear more of our ac- cumulated elements of fertility than are constfrned in several years' crops. DIVINING-ROD MYSTERY. The enthusiasm with which men have written to disprove and discredit the claims of those who relate successfnl experiences with the divining-rod, for the finding of hidden underground springs, has served to create a rather unusual inteaest in the subject. It is somewhat like shaking a red rag at a bull to raise the subject again, beiore the heat of a recent discussion has fairly cooled, but a new the ory and a new account of success have come together from France both of which are worth relat ing. That springs are actually found, and with surprising fre quency by men who use the di vining-roc is a fact that cannot be disputed. But whether it is the rod or the man is the sensi tive medium upon which the unexplained influence works, while the rod is but a means of expression which shows the el feet. Both observers and- the workers with the rod state that only those to whom the gift is given naturally can hope to suc ceed with the divining of springs and claim that the criticism and ridicule that is turned upon them is due to the fact o& failures where the gift is absent. SELF-IMPROVEMENT. The very reputation of having an ambition to amount to some thing in the world, of having a grand life-aim is . worth every thing. The moment that your associates find but that you are dead-in-earnest; that you mean business; that they cannot shake you from your determination to get on in the world, or rob- you of your time or persuade you to waste it on frivolous things, you will not only be an inspiring ex ample to them, but the very peo ple who are throwing their time away will also admire your stand respect it,'profit by it, and you will thus be able to protect your self from a thousand annoyances and time-wasters, an experience which would only hinder. In othe-r words, there is every thing in declaring yourself in taking a stand and therefore an nouncing to the world that you do noi propose to be a failure or an ignoramus; that you are go1 ing to take no chances on the future; that you are going to pre pare yourself for something out of the ordinary, away beyond mediocrity, something large and grand. The moment you do this you stand out in strong contrast from the great mass of people who are throwing away their opportunities and have not grit and stamina enough to do anything worth while, or to make any great.effort to be som e body in the world. OREGON IS BEST. The following glowing tribute to Oregon was recently paid by Frank B. Tichenpr, Organizer of me vv ooamen 01 tue woria: "When you speak of out west you must speak of Oregon. Ore gon is the last west and the best west. Here we find the most westernly city in the United States; here people live in a re gion of exceptional natural con ditions. There a great and abid ing physical cause which creates a, southern temperature in a northern latitude. Climatic con ditions along the Oregon coast have no counterpart save in the Mediterranean region of South era Europe and the causes are exactly similar. Here is Italy, here the South of France, the Portugal, the Northern Spain of Europe, and here is the temper ate Oregon of the Pacific coast in an equally mild and delight ful climate. The climate is not unlike that of Southern England but it is better in everything in which England's climate is good. If it has less sunshine than the south' of France, it has a more constant and equable tempera ture, and the significance of this every farmer ought to appreciate. Given fertility ol soil, warmth and moisture and you have the elements of production, and here we find the happy neighbors of Western Oregon living in the beautiful Willamette Valley. THIS STATE'S GREATEST NEED. The greatest need of the state is railroads. We are expending our energies and our money in attracting people here, while four- fifths of our land is away from railroad communication. It is not hard to attract people here, and once they come it is easy to keep them. No section of the country so complctey makes good to the visitor as Ore gon. People who come here want to stay and here make their homes. There is an attraction to the country which the man born here hardly realizes. But the drawback is lack of transportation facilites. We are beginning to build electric roads out into the state, but hardly more than a good start has been made. There is room and busi ness for hundreds of such road3. W nai is true of electric lines is more than true of steam roads, There -has been no enterprise shown in this direction for years l ne country back ol the main lines has slowly developed in spite of the railroads; with rail roads, it could add imensely to the. value of the state's annual product. But we are fed on prom ises, and year after year we have been content with them; "No people in the country have beeii more easily satisfied. We have seen the money made by our lo cal roads diverted out of the country to strengthen lines in competition with us or to .buy stock in lines hundred of miles away. We have seen this done while this section fairly stagnated for improved service on the one hand and branch line extensions on the other. But the time has dome when something must be done. The people who are coming in muet find a way to the cheaper land and better means of transporta tion to carry to market what they produce. The tendency of population is in this direction. In the next five years the state should make great gains in pop ulation coming from outside its borders.' But if the railroads continue to maintain the policy that has so consistently marked them in Oregon, we shall soon reach the point where we will be wasting money in exploitation work because the natural oppor tunities are lost through lack of tiansportation facilities. Tele gram. Aiding Civic Improvement. The "Union Depot" given last Friday evening at Albany, by lo cal talent under the direction of Miss Ethel Snyder for the bene' fit of the Civic Improvement Association, was one of the best entertainments ever presented in Albany. All who took part did themselves justice and the large audience was more than pleased and have been speaking in high praise of the event. The play made such a decided hit that it was repeated by special request Saturday night. Daily Gazette 50 cents a month. THE TELEPHONE AS AN INTERPRETER By F. A. MITCH EL. (Copyright, 1909, by American Press Asso ciation. "Hello, Simmons. Got back all safe, X see. Had a good time?" ""Well, yes; rather." "You look as if you hadn't Any thing unpleasant happened?" "1 don't exactly you see they tell me there's a certain time In a man's life when he doesn't know whether he's done a very big thing or a very little one." "Haven't got into trouble on account of one of your practical jokes, have you?" "It's something like that Come here and sit down. I'll tell you." They had met in a city park. Sim mons led the way to a bench. They seated themselves, and he began his tale of woe. "When I was In Paris, at the pension wnere 1 stoppea tney call 'em pen sions over there; we call 'em boarding or hash' houses here was a French girl. I took a kind of shine to her and I fancied she took a kind of shine to me, but neither of us could speak a word of the same language. I met Turpin over there. Remember Turpin? Red headed chap with big mole on his left cheek. He and I played jokes on each other. One day I told a gendarme to watch him for a suspicious charac ter and had a lot of fun out of it" Oh. you did, did you?" Yes. Well, the girl I was telling you about it was a tantalizing busi ness, sitting along side of her without being able to say anything to her, so wrote out some things such as 'I'm sorry 1 can't talk to you' and 'TV ill you walk with me this afternoon In the Bois de Boulogne?' and all that Then I asked Turpin Turpin speaks French tolerably well, you know to write out the French for these sen tences. He did so, and it helped things along amazingly with the girt Tur pin told me that 'Good morning' in French wa Toi que j'alme' or some thing like that and I noticed that she blushed every time 1 said it." :' "Do you know what Toi que j'aime' means?" "Yes; 'good morning,' of course." : "Rats! It means 'I love you.' " Simmons stood - paralyzed with sur prise for a moment and then went on "I learned from people in 'the house that the girl's father , had been well onV but he had lost, all bis property and then up and died, leaving his daughter with little or nothing. I felt sorry for her, and well, I expect looked it ; At any rate when April came, and I started for Rome I saw a tear In her eye; ' It made me uneasy, for I wasn't thinking about gettln; mixed up In any affair, especially with a girl I couldnlt talk to, but when got on the tram I forgot all about It supposing the girl wouIJ do the same. Turpin and I went down to Rome to gether, ' and he. didn't" seem to think I'd done anything out of the way, and this satisfied me. "One day, a month later, while walk ing down via Cavour that's Cavour streetvyou know in Rome, who should I meet but my French girl, and what do you suppose she was doing?" "What?" "Crying. - She was so distressed about something .that she didn't see me. I spoke to her, and you should have seen the reUef light up her face. "The only thing I could remember to say to her In French was 'Good morning,' so I said Toi que j'alme.' She burst into a fresh crying spell. I was dying to know why she was In Rome and what was the matter, but how could I since she could only jabber French at me? Then a happy thought struck me. Turpin couitt act as interpreter. Of course I couldn't take her to Tur pin, but I might get him on a tele phone and he could tell each of us what the other said. Good Idea, ear "Very.". "I stepped Into a place where there was a 'telefono' sign and succeeded In getting Turpin just as he was starting out to visit tne Koman aqueduct rums. I told him what had happened; then the girl told him her situation; then I took the receiver and he translated the story to me. She'd answered an ad. of a Roman family for a governess to teach the children French and. had beea sent for to come to Rome. She was delayed for want of funds, and when at last she arrived found the family had been called suddenly to Berlin. Well, she was In a pickle. "I telephoned Turpin to tell her that I begged she would accept funds from me 'to return to Paris. Turpin told her. She dropped the receiver on a table and her head on my shoulder. Then she took my arm, and the next thing I knew we were in one of those measlv thousand-yeaivold churches over there. The girl jabbered French to a priest which he seemed to under stand, and a little English, too, for he told me that to be married I must go through the proper forms. ' "It was that rascally Turpin. He'd told her that I asked her to marry me and go to America with me." "What did you do?" "'Vt'itat -iuld I do? Go back on a ttflng like that? We were married end here I am." "Well, old man, I'll caU on your wife tonight and after I've seen her and talked with her I speak some French myself, you know I'll tell you whether Turpin has done, you a good or an evil turn." The promise was kept and, after the call, on the doorstep the friend said "If s a 'horse' on Turpin; he should have got your wife for himself. You've had a big stroke cf luck." MISS ADAMS' STAGE MOUNT. How Actress Coehes Her Horse Fo- His Part iu "Joan of Arc." Any morning these days if you hap pened to drop Into the Central Park Siding academy at New York between the hours of 8 and 9 o'clock In the morning which, however, without credentials-you would not be allowed to do you might see Miss Maude Adams, the actress, in the strangest sort of costume mounted on a beautiful white horse which she rides around the ring. To the horse are fastened all sorts of metal objects, which jangle as he can ters, and grooms throw colored ban ners and' flags into his face until the performance takes on the aspect of a bullfight. Noises are also playing a part in this horse's education, and he is being treated to all sorts of strange sounds from various instruments. The reason for all this is that the horse is the steed which Miss Adams is to use in her performance of Schil ler's "Joan of Arc" in the Harvard stadium at Cambridge, Mass., on June 23. When the horse, a beautiful white Arabian animal, was selected Miss Ad ams decided to undertake his training all herself. She wanted him to be come accustomed to her and to know her. In the Schiller drama the horse plays an important part. In fact. Miss Adams will be on his back or dis mounting or mounting throughout four acts. In the battle scene she gallops at full speed across the stadium. Con sequently it is necessary that the horse should know how to behave, even In the face of Beethoven's "Eroica" sym phony, which is to be played piecemeal through the performance. Now, Miss Adams knows that you may ride a horse for several weeks and imagine you have trained him not to be afraid of anything when he will discover some bit of paper in the road which will throw him into spasms of terror. And she doesn't want any thing of that sort to happen on the evening of the play. So every morning she goes to the rid ing academy. .A mediaeval saddle, sev eral inches higher than the modern one. is put on the horse, which she then mounts. Miss Adams' costume is not the one she will use in Cam bridge. It consists of divided skirts, to which pieces of metal are fastened and which will serve to accustom the horse to the real suit of armor she will don later. The banners of various col ors are waved in the horse's face so that he may not suddenly become frightened at the battle scene. After all this has been gone through with for an hour or so Miss Adams takes the horse back to the park, hav ing garbed herself more convention ally, and rides him for an bour. occa sionally feeding him lumps of sugar. and already the horse is becoming ex tremely tractable under her training. Miss Adams will continue her re hearsals with her' horse until June 16, when she leaves for Boston to begin general rehearsals of the Schiller play, OCEAN GOLF NOW THE RAGE, Played on Bread Deck of a Steamer, All Rules of Game Observed. Ocean golf, played on the broad deck of a steamer, is the latest pastime for transatlantic passengers, and to Mr. and Mrs. J. 'H. Conrad of Chicago is given the credit for the creation of sport bound to become very popular among the voyagers of the deep. Probably most of the credit for the Innovation belongs to Mrs. Conrad, who Is a devotee to golf and Is not un known among the golf experts in the western metropolis. She, with her hus band, was a passenger on the Ham burg-American liner Kaiserln Auguste Victoria, which recently arrived New York. - The Conrads suggested to their fellow passengers the adoption of the game, and before the voyage was fairly begun ocean golf was quite the rage. Four days of fine weather were devoted to the game, many wom en participating in It. Charles Bishop of Lockport, N. Y., captured all records, his best effort being twenty- seven points. , "The game of ocean golf is played on the steamer's deck over a nine hole course, explained Mrs. Conrad, "and we use the disk and other implements of the shuffieboard game. I can asstir every one that ocean golf is a sport and divers: in just too lovely for any thing. All the rules of regular golf are observed, though the holes, bunkers and all other obstacles to be overcome are drawn in chalk on the deck. Just say to all skeptics that ocean golf is the finest game aboard ship that ever was." Woman as Tennis Referee. A recent lawn tennis tournament at the Dulwick Farms Tennis club in England had on the tournament com mittee Miss Norah Lattey. The regu lar referee of the tournament was tak ing part in some of the events, and Miss Lattey as assistant referee took charge of the tournament. According to an English authority. Miss Lattey handled the tournament very capably and as far as is known is the first wo man referee of any lawn tennis compe tition in the metropolitan district. Shell to Hit Two Marks. A shell which will hit two marks will he tested during the summer. The solid steel head of the shell contains a ch8rge of high explosive, which is detonated on impact. Back of this is the shrapnel chamber, containing 120 bullets and a charge of high explosive. Ihe shrapnel portion can be timed to explode above a body of troops, leav ing the solid head of the shell to pass on and strike an independent blow. Some preliminary tests have proved very satisfactory. mellon fy 8 etui ton Contractors and Builders t Foundatio, - . k. sidewalk and curbing a specialty Manufacturers of cement blocks, plain and fancy cement brick, porch columns, cement flues, jardi nieres, etc Dealers in cement, plaster and lime. first and Adams Sis. Phone 2313 Corvallis, - Oregon be City Stables Everything new and up to date. Rigs furnished on short notice. Call and give us a trial. Cor. Madison -and 3d L. F.GRAY, Manager Whitney's & Colbert We Make Concrete blocks ot all kinds. Concrete bricks, fancy and plain, Concrete tile and steps, Concrete window sills and caps. We Sell High grade Cement and Lime in any quantity. Phone Ind. 3181 413 Second Street South CORVALLIS - - OREGON 20 Per Cent DISCOUNT 'In order to clean up our SPRING SUITS We will give 20 per cent discount until all are sold A. K. RUSS Dealer in all Men's Furnishings CORVALLIS, - - OREGON Blacklectee & Everett Successors to Henkle Blakledge FUNERAL DIRECTORS and LICENSED EMLMERS Carry a complete line of coffins and caskets in all colors and sizes; also ladies' men's and children's burial fobes. Calls attended to day and night. Lady assistant EMBSLUHB FOB SHIPPING A SPECIALTY. Call at Blaekledge's furniture store Both phones. ATTORNEYS I. F. YATES, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Offiee Rooms 3, 4, 1st Natl Bank Bldg. Only set- of abstracts in Benton Countv PHYSICIANS G. It. FARRA, M. D., PHYSICIAN AND Surgeon. Office in Burnett Block, over Harris' Store. Residence corner Seventh and Madison. Office hours: 8 to 9 a. m.; 1 to 2 p. m. Phones: Office, 2128, Residence, 404. . J. B. MORRIS, M. D, PHYSICIAN and Surgeon. Corner Third and Mon roe Streets, Corvallis, Oregon. Office hours: 9 to 12 a. m.'; I to 4 p. m.; 7 to 8 p, m. Phone in both office ani resi dence. W". T. ROWLEY, M. IX, PHYSICIAN and Surgeon. Special attention given to the Eye. Nose and Throat. Office in Johnson Bldg. Ind. 'phone at of fice and tesidence. UNDERTAKERS M. S. BOVEE. FUNERAL DIRECT or and Licensed Embalmer. Suc cessor to Bovee & Bauer Corvallis, Oregon. Iud. Phone 45.- Bell Phone 241. Lady attendant when desired. PHOTOGRAPHERS PICKEL'S STUDIO, 43 . SECOND Street Phone 4209. 2ND-HAND GOODS GOODMAN'S SECOND-HAND STORE Cash paid for household goods. 424 Second Street. Phone 4325. ..