mel!on$6$ndrcn contractors ana Builders ?0w - , - ' P, V , . A VERY SIMPLE DETECTIVE CASE. Foundation work, sidewalk and curbing a specialty ftianufacturers of cement blocks, plain and fancy cement brick, porch columns, cement flues, jardi nieres, etc. Dealers in cement, plaster and' lime. First and Adams Sts. Phone 2318 Corvallis, - Oregon Cbe 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. , PhoneTnd. 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 Blackledjre fc Everett Successors to Henkle & Blaekiedge FUNERAL DIRECTORS and LICENSED EMBALMERS Carry a complete line of coffins and caskets in all colors and sizes; also ladies' men's' and children's burial robes. Calls attended to day and night. Lady assistant. EMBALMING FOR SHIPPItiB A SPECIALTY. Call at Blackledge's furniture store Both phones. ATTORNEYS J. F. YATES, ATTORN E Y -AT-L AW. Office Rooms 3, 4. 1st Natl Bank Bide. Only Bet of abstracts in Benton CountT PHYSICIANS G. E. 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. r. B. MORRIS, , M. D , PHYSICIAN and Surgeon. Corner Third and Mon roe Streets, Corvallis, Oregon. Office hours: 9 to 12 a. m.; 1 to 4 p m ,: 7 to 8 p. m. Phone in both office an I resi denee. W. T. ROWLEY, M. P., PHYSICIAN and Surgeon. Special attention given to the Eve. Nose and Throau. Otfiw- in Johnson Biag. Ind. 'phone at of fice and lesidence. UNDERTAKERS M. S. BOVEE, FUNERAL DIRECT or and Licensed Emhalmer. .Sac- cvenor to Bovee & Bauer Corvallis, Oregon. Iud. Phone 4s. Bell Phone . 241 , Lady attendant when desired. PHOTOGRAPHERS PICKEL'S STUDIO, . 430 SECOND . Street. . Phone 4209. . , .: 2ND-HAND GOODS OOODMAN'S SECOND-HAND STORE Cash paid for household goods. 424 Second Street. Phone 4325. By BERTHA DALSOP. , Copyright, 1909, by American Press Asso ciation.! "Waiter, call a cab." So spoke Walter De Forest while sitting in the cafe of his club. In a few minutes the waiter announced that the cab was at the door. De Forest went out, gave a street and number to the cabman and got Into the cab. There, before him on the seat, lay a package. Ah," exclaimed De Forest, "some one has lost something." Taking up the package, he opened It and saw on the top a bank, bill for $1,000. : He opened his eyes very wide. Lifting the bill, he came upon another for the same amount. He opened his eyes wider. Fifty bills, each for $1,000. were in the parcel. He looked at the wrapper. There was neither name nor mark on It to give the slightest clew to its owner ship. He tied up the package and put it In hia pocket. On reaching his des tination he said to the driver: "Who was the last person In this cab Defore me?" "A young lady, sir." "What name?" "I don't 'know, sir." "Where did she engage you?" "She called me from the sidewalk." "Where did she tell you to drive?" "To 84 Union street." Mr. De Forest started. "Did you take her there?" No, sir. A pair of horses were plunging in the crowd of rehicles be side us. I drove on. but when I got down to open the door there was no one inside. - I think the lady got scared and slipped out." Did you go to the location she gave you to collect your fare?" "Not yet. sir." "How much does she owe you?" "A dollar." "Here It Is. I know the lady. I'll tell her." "Thank you, sir." The coincidence was a strange one. Julia Drayton, aged twenty-one, that day had been paid in bills a legacy of $50,000. She had stepped from a bank to the sidewalk, got into a cab, suf fered from a fright, jumped out and left her fortune Inside. Walter De Forest was an admirer' of hers and had at the time made up his mind that he would marry her If he could. Mon? ey was no special object to him. The next morning he saw an adver tisement in the papers of a large re ward for the lost money. In the even ing he called on : Miss Drayton. The servant who received him said that her mistress was indisposed. "Tell her that I have called to speak to her about her loss," said De Forest, and in a few moments Miss Drayton came down. She was much agitated. I saw an advertisement this morn ing," he said, "which from its reading I think must be yours." "I have lost my inheritance." De Forest asked her to tell him the story, which she did. "I am very sorry for you," he said when she had finished, indeed so sorry that I am going to exercise my ingenuity to find who has the bills. have a plan that I will put Into opera tion, and if it succeeds I shall recover your fortune." "All of it?" she. gasped. "All or none." "But there is the reward." "That we may talk of after getting the bills." Mr. e Forest called often to report progress. Miss Drayton begged mm to tell her of his methods, but he as sured her it was not best Though at times he spoke encouragingly and at times the reverse, he continually kept her up by a steadfast hope. One evening De Forest left the young lady conscious of the fact that he might as well bring his detective in vestigations to a close. - A few days later he showed Miss Drayton a piece of paper on which was scrawled by some illiterate person an agreement to return fifty $1,000 bank bills provided that immunity were guaranteed. Miss Drayton caught her breath. But De Forest reminded her of the many frauds in . such matters and warned her not to feel too sure. Nevertheless she wrung his hand.- - 1 A week passed, during which Miss Dravton suffered alternate chills and fever chills of despondency, and fever of hope. And all the while she was thinking of that good, kind man who was devoting his time, his . energies, his genius, for investigation to the re turn of her lost fortune. One day she received a note from De Forest notifying her that if her doorbell rang between, 7 and 8 that evening she would do well to answer It herself. At a quarter to 8 the bell rang. Miss Drayton opened the door. A man in working clothes handed her a package and without a word hurried away. , Turning to the light, she opened the package and saw her lost bills, Counting them, she found all she had lost. , She was still In a delirium of joy when the bell rang again. She flew to the door and admitted Mr. De For est. She could not control herself. Throwing her arms around his neck, she wept for joy. - There was one and only one matter to be settled between them. That was Mr. De Forest's reward for his patient labors." Miss Drayton asked him to name it and it should be his. Then he- told her that the1 reward he had been working for was herself. She kept her word. Young Spreckels, Heir to Sugar Mil lions, Denies His Is a Sweet Lot. Claus Spreckels, son of John D. t Spreckels, who did not marry Adcle Case, says, according to a Chicago dis patch, that he is among the "too rich." Said the heir of the sugar millions: , I shall do as father wishes. He said he'd rather have me be a sugar king than a chorus man, so he told me not to get married. There are too classes of unfortu nates In this world who cannot afford to marry young. They are those who are either too rich or too poor. I hap pen to be in the former class, but might as well be in the latter. They are equally unfortunate, T "There is ' said to be so much in store for me in this life that I am try ing to begin to choose what I may best enjoy; hence I must obscure my self In the branches of the family tree and wait until I am mature enough to start one of nay own. For the other class there is so little to enjoy that the wise ones say they must save un- they are older. They will enjoy it til more. , I have so much money that I can not afford to get married. If I had to get married in order to eat it would be different. But I have too much of- life before me. No, I never was en gaged to Miss Case and may never be. met her while we were both staying- with Frank King Clark of Paris. I knew her only in a friendly way; simply admired her, that's all. She became entangled in a lawsuit of some kind In Paris and had to leave sooner than she expected. I was coming home In two weeks anyway, and so I offered to come with her and see her safely on this side of the ocean. ou see, father had heard of my intended engagement to sing in The Hague and Paris, and I guess he thought that I was going to turn chorus girl. Anyway he flashed the C Q D;' said that the sugar business needed me here." Young Spreckels stopped in Chicago on his leisurely journey to his home In San Diego, Cal "TOO RICH TO WED." STOCKS H ;9um if 1 em -;9nbni r iujeld - . . ; ' g These I. YOKOHAMA'S BIG DAY. Japanese Port Will Celebrate Fiftieth Anniversary at Cost of $250,000. The celebration of the fiftieth anni versary of the opening of the port of Yokohama, in Japan, to foreign com merce will be held on July 1 and 2 of this year. It is proposed to spend about $250j 000 in entertainments, and the foreign squadrons of the nations represented In the Pacific and the far east will be invited to the harbor during the cele bration. The foreign residents gener ally have expressed their desire to co operate in every possible way,-, Among other things It is purposed to erect 'a memorial hall especially commemora tive of the opening of the port.. CAN A MOOSE GALLOP? Rev. Dr. Long Calls Roosevelt "Nature Faker" on This Issue. Rev. Dr. William J. Long of Stam ford. Conn., whom former President Roosevelt once attacked as a "nature faker," said in Pittsburg the other day: 'Mr. Roosevelt is neither naturalist nor sportsman. , He lived a few months on a ranch and shot game around the cabin. He says he has seen, moose galloping, when every man who knows anything about the animal knows that a moose could not possi bly gallop. Its means of locomotion make such a gait impossible." Prices Boiled ' Down to Make Best Bargains tractive Specials One Dozen Ladies' Wool Tailored Suits At Actual Cost. . . All Ladies' Oxfords . At a Big Reduction Men's and Boy's Clothing at Sale Prices A Lot of Boy's Cloth ing, 4 to 14 years, at HALF PRICES Get on to Our Bargains for next week ARRIS H H Highest Cash Price Paid for Second Hand Goods C.W.McKee 312 Second St. Phone 1323 Airship Traveling Trunk. German ingenuity has lost no time in devising special equipments for air Ship passengers. One offering Is an ex tremely light airship traveling trunk" made of. aluminium, with cunning leather attachments for fastening to the airship car. The "malle aero," to give it its international name, has no compartment for the large, fashionable feminine hat yet, but it contains, among other things, a small medicine chest filled with medicaments that may be useful for a sojourn in high altitudes. Sardine Oil by Tank Car. A tank car of 163 barrels of cotton seed oil recently shipped from Ken tucky, for a Maine canning company is said to have . arrived at Eastport, Me, a few days ago in good condition. This being the first attempt to ship oil east in other than barrel packages, the experiment was awaited with much Interest. Capture of World's Biggest Tarpon. ' A recent telegram from the Califor nia Tuna club at Los Angeles from Tarpon, Tex., says that L. G. Murphy while fishing at Tarpon landed the world's record tarpon, measuring six feet six inches in length. The catch was taken on a nine ounce rod with a nine thread line. Edward Everett Hale. Some spirits of this world are born to ' drive. They do not know nor do they care to . learn The gentler means that win. Their na tures spurn The rioble kindliness that keeps alive The better part of man wherein survive The human sympathies which always yearn For those who need direction most and turn - Unerringly to those' too weak to strive. No driver was the spirit of this man. His force of arms, his . power In grand ;. display, . ... , . No poet in resounding verses sings." His glory is not measured by a span. . He knew the right, and. having shown the way. He led the weak and strong to better thing. - . W. J. Lampton in New York Times. ' ' Daily Gazette 50 cents per month Why not take it. Hay Baler ' Wijl rent on the shares for the sea son's run, a Hay Baler. Address M. S. Woodcock, Corvallis, Oregon. 6-7 D4.Wtf. Taunton & Burnap Cement Contractors Makers of Best Cement Walks in Town All work guaranteed first class. ' Corvallis, Ore HYDRAULIC WELL DRILLING Powerful and rapid well ma chine run by gasoline engine. Wind mill pump repairing, and drove wells a specialty. Place your orders now before the season's rushwork is on. A. N. HARLAN Box 526 Corvallis, Oregon MONEY LOANED ON REAL ESTATE LONGTIME EASY PAYMENTS RELIAALE REPRESENTATIVES WANTED The Jackson Loan & Trust Co. Fort Worth, Texas Jackson, Mississippi The Best Paint There is no better paint made for appearance anc durability than Acme Quality Paint Specially prepared for exterior and interior use. "FLOOR VARNISH THAT WEARS" WALL PAPER AND PAINT STORE Second Street, Near Palace Theater Occidental Lumber Co. Successors to; Corvallb Lumber Co. We are here to supply your needs in the Lumber line. Please call on J- B .- IRVING for information and prices. And take notice that if we have not got exactly what you want we will get it for you. G. O. BASSET f, Local Mcr. and eygtEmUlfiSSi ta frtiOL3S I' TRIM. 8CTTIE FREE AK&AILTHROAT AND LUNG TROUBLES GUARANTEED SATSFACTORV Of? FfONcTf ffEttAfDED. Benton County Lumber Co. Manufacturers of all kinds of fir Lumber, Mouldings, Cedar Posts, Sawed and Split. Gcdar Shakes Dealers in' ; r . .-..... . .- - - . .,1 Doors, Windows, Lime, BriCK Cement Shingles, etc