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Buy all you can of STANLEY and save ONE-HALF SPEAKS OF TH E ETRUSCANS the Greeks. As all things had once Groceries, Flour and Feed contributed to the rise of Etruria, C o n fe ctio n s, T a blets. N o tio n s Professor Dunn Lectures Before Societas so now all contributed to her fall. S tu d e n t« ' T ra d e S o lic ite d The closing scene of Etruria’s down Quirinalis on Popular Subject T h irte e n th a n d P a t te r s o n S ts . P h o n e M ain Will fall gathered around the city of Vei. Wars and truces followed the feud Take y o u r HOOT and SHOE repairing to ' T H E BEZEL H I V F " The Societas Quirinalis and the between Vei and Rome, until Etru «- , II. H. D A V I D S O N general public listened to an address ria settled herself for her last strug on “The Passing of the Etruscans,’’ gle. Etruria sank before Rome not Groceries, Crockery and delivered by Professor Frederick S. by force of arms hut by the force W ork Quarnteed S tric tly First-C lass Fresh Produce Dunn, last Monday evening, in his of crushing destiny. While Rome W i t l i I l e i K l e i MDii c l W e l l « Cor. Stli and C harnelton Phone 1571 own peculiarly pleasing manner. struggled with her, there burst upon The lecture treated fully of this the scene Brentius, the Gaul, with PALACE OF SWEETS K A R R BRO S. great nation of which we have so his mystic band from the north. Hot Tam ales O ysters It A M I little left, besides archaeological Livy says that the Etruscans were C on fection s findings, drawing upon Latin au the first to bring the Gauls into All w o rk K urnanteeri, R asorn honed free Hot D rinks C o ckta ils to purchaser!». thors for many interesting tales and Italy, in their despicable internal F a lr ix io u n t A d d itio n legends. In scant detail the lec dissension. The Gauls were inticed PALACE OF SWEETS ture follows: to this country by the richness of “Centuries before Rome was the country and the sunny climate. thought of there preceded her a Or they may have been forced to T l I K A T B N I 114 ) C K race whose history is now entirely migrate from the north. Crippled R E L IA B L E G O O DS A T R E A S O N A B L E P R IC E S lost to us. Though its history is and weakened by the repeated G e o . W . D ix o n , P r o p .j almost a blank, there are still to be attacks of the Gauls on the north found in modern Tuscany the walls and Rome on the south, it was only built by the Eutruscans, and which a question of time when Etruria modern engineers could hardly should fall. After thirteen success hope to construct. This great na ive wars Rome settled down to a tion ruled the Italies and swept the determined siege ot Vei. The city seas. Twelve great cities rose to stood before Rome and laughed at he great centers; a powerful navy her besiegers, until Camillus under was developed which became a mined the city and the Roman army source of terror and power upon the rushed in. Camillus triumphed as seas. While the history of these never Roman had done before. The great gaps is lost, it is pleasant to same day was doubly disgraceful DEPARTMENTS AT EUGENE see how they are bridged over by for Etruria, for her great strong Graduate School. Colleges of Literature, Science and the Arts; the good old stories of Livy and hold in the north also fell. The Virgil. The twelve cities fell one Gauls now fell upon Italy and Eiru- Surveying and Engineering; School ol Mines and Mining; School ol by one because they failed to help ria melted away before them. 1 he Music. Courses Preparatory to Medicine and Dentistry; lbr Teachers, and each other. Etruria may have curse of Vei now fell upon Rome hardly noticed the little colony of lerself and the Gauls camped about Preparatory to Law and Journalism; especially numerous and advanced people who settled on the banks ot the seven hills. Rome, however, Graduate Courses. the Tiber. Rome was not built all recouped herself and rose again at once on the sight of the seven Etruria, however, was crushed and In te rc o lle g ia te B ureau o f A cade m ic C ostum e hills. Etruria kindly received the never rose again. ’ COTRELL 4 LEONARD, Albany, New York young republic and fondled in her W H O LESALE M AKER S OF THE CAPS AND GOW NS “ The buried Etruscan city o bosom the viper that afterwards Volscium was discovered a b o u t To the Amerioen Universities end Colleges .U n iv e rs ity o f Oregon, U niversity o f C alifornia. S tanford, U n i was her death. The Etruscans eighty years ago, when a peasant versity of Chicago, Colombia, Yale, Harvard, and others.; were skilled in magic and divina in plowing had his oxen fall into a Illustrated bulletin, samples, etc., upon application. ’ Class c o n tracts a H|>eciulty tion and were acquainted with all cavern in the earth. Since that sorts of luxuries long before Rome time the Etruscan has been resur last spring, entered politics immedi EXCHANGES ever knew about them. P'or years rected and re-habilitated in the veiy ately after his graduation and was Rome alone stood in the way of a garments of the Tarquins. Are A Democratic Club was recently elected state representative from complete hegemony in Italy, but these cities and walls all that remain Idaho County. the proud young state fell to the of that great empire that defied organized at \V illamette. It is expected that Rockwell, the Force, tackle on the California power of Etruria at the time when Rome? ’’ the Etruscans were reaching their 'Varsity team, has been chosen cap brilliant Oregonian who is now A Glee Club has be n organized tain of next year's team. playing quarter-back on the Vale zenith. Rome’s first fall was at the hands of Lars Parsena. She was at Willamette and a trip is being Michigan team averages 199% ’Varsity football team, will l»e completely humiliated. It seemed planned. pounds. The two tackles, Curtis chosen captain of the eleven for that all things were passing over to and Graham, weigh 240 and 235 next year. the Etruscans; Etruria was at her F . b . C h a m b e rs . P res. II. B. A nkeny, V. P res. respectively. George Eyre, ’03, is professor of D a rw in B risto w , C a s h ie r zenith, but she rushed into a most The financial report of the Stan Science, Latin and Geometry at ignominious defeat. Rome lost no CHAMBERS - BRISTOW ford-California game shows that the Pendleton High School. The Ilak- time in regaining her strength B an kin g Co. gross receipts were $3°'3°^» ex* awinn says: “ Mr. Eyre comes to us Scarcely five years afterward was penses $1,000, thereby leaving from the Astoria High School. He Rome in arms again, and that too, Paid up Cash Capital, $50,000 $29,308 to lie divided between the is a II. of O. man, gentlemanly and in the very heart of Italy. 1 he enthusiastic, and his experience as E u g e n e , O re g o n two universities. world was watching for the one a teacher has lieen marked with J. Loyal Adkiusoti, who gradn- Notes and M ortgages Bought. Money » » blow that was to tell Etruria. I he ,„nncd on ap p ro v e! security. Interest, success from its very beginning. ate<l from the University of Idaho naval power of Carthage and Etru paid on Time Certificates ot Deposit ria was shattered and replaced by J . McLower L . ~ , THE flODEL GROCERY THE STATE UNIVERSITY Yoran’s Shoe Store