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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
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blocks, plain and fancy cement brick,
porch columns, cement flues, jardi
nieres, etc Dealers in cement, plaster
and lime.
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Concrete blocks ot all kinds. Concrete
bricks, fancy and plain, Concrete tile
and steps, Concrete window sills and
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We Sell
High grade Cement and Lime in any
quantity.
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CORVALLIS - - OREGON
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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. ..