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Newspaper Page TextCorijallis (ga-jtttt. CORVAIXIS, OREGON, July 23, iS97- Ribbons Desirable colors, Taffeta, Sat in, Moire. A bargain line of satin for and io cents per yard. . Veilltlg The correct styles, the proper quality, the right price. Gloves A dollar glove that is great for wear; a seventy-five-cent glove, and better gloves. Chiffon and MohsscHm de Sole Lav ender, Blue, Pink, Cream, Yellow, Black, and at 75 cents per yard. Laces Our stock is large, our story short. A good line of Black Chan tilly. Cream and White Silk Laces at low prices. Valencinnes. nar row edges, 1 cent and up. Heavy cotton laces suitable fer trimming Wash Goods. Our appetite for orders is enormous. Our Mid-Summer; mmsm iReductioii Sale We are selling'all our Summer Goods at cost and some less. See our prices in 5.E.YOUNQ 6r SON, W (ALBANY, OREGON.) Agents for Bttttrick Patterns. SeMd for Metropolitan. LOCAL HAPPENINGS. Shoes. SS.OO Ox Blood for - S5.O0 Tan, (Vioi Kid) - : S3.50 Ox Blood all styles - 3.50 2.75 Straw Hats at your own price. . Suits. We have about 250 nice, lean summer suits that we have sold for $ lO.OO and $12.00. Come and take your pick ot the lot for 87,50 cash. These suits are not trash. They are good, clean, stylish all wool suits, and worth every sent they are marked to sell for, but we want money to pay for our new stock, and must sell what -we have on hand. Pants. We haye the the largest stock: we ever had. and are willing to lose money on them to make room our new Fall Stock al ready purchased in the East. . W"e are selling pants worth S3.00 for all wool, and guaranteed however, . 3s true. Based upon prices of 1878, when gold and silver were nearly at par, we find that the price on coffee has doubled while gold has trebled, other products are one and a half to two while gold is three, labor is one to two while gold is three. Briefly, the laborer gets $1.50 now, whore in 1878 he got only $1, but for his present f i.50 he can only buy a 50 cent article iu the market of the world. Silver looks to me like the bow and arrow of ancient times gold is th modern artillery. BHt as stated before, I am unable to make a satisfactory com parison between, Guatemala and the U. S., and I sincerely trust that no person to-day living in Oregon will ever see the United States so reduced that compari son will be possible. C. H. Pearse. DEATH OF THOS. SAMUELS. never to refunded. rip, or money Columbia bicycles $75. There is a demand for harvest hands. There willl be 11a vacant houses in Corvallis this fall. Extra copies of the Gazettk, this is sue, 10 cents each. Aermotor windmills for sale by Simp son, Huston & Co. J. M Nolan and family are enjoying the summer at Newport. Dr. Chas. Lee is in Portland attending A. O. U. W. grand lodge. Capt. Crawford and family are now domiciled in the Tuller residence. Will Skipton is back from his Califor nia trip. He rather prefers Oregon. "Our Very Best" cutlery sold by Simp son, Huston & Co., is fully warranted. Hodes & Hall sport a new baker this week. He is an artist in bread making. F. H. Powers is acting O. R. & N. Co's agent during the absence of W. S. Stone. Walter Mercer, now a resident of Lake county, visited his old Benton home this week. Miss Helea Holgate returned Tuesday from a stay of ssveral months in Portland. John Scraffbrd and wife returned horns Wednesday from a two weeks visit at Elk City. . "- Mrs.. Bryson and her sons have rented the Mansfield cottage at Newport and go over tomorrow. - Arrangements are being made for a time of baseball between Albany and o . . Corvallis printers. 1 - "- Recorder Gellatly has been taking a short vacation, leaving Capt. Crawford in charge of the office.. . On account of the death of Mr. Sam uels, the fire delegates' reception to Mr. Kline has been postponed. Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Hemphill took the train Monday for Newport, where- they will remain during the summer. John Spangler visited his family this week, who are camped in Alsea valley,' Wednesday. Mart returns to-day. Dr. T. K. Chapman has sued S. G. and M. A. Thompson for $253.75. the county court, for medical services. T. C. Sutten and wife, of Salem, .re turned home Monday after a visit with their old friend Mr. John Barnhart. Recorder Gellatly is a temporary grass widower. His wife is visiting friends in Spokane and will be gone several days. Mrs. Effie Eglin, widow of Jas. Eglin who was drowned last winter, has asked for letters of administration on the estate. George E. Waggoner, . chief clerk in the U. S. surveyor general's office, Port land, is visiting the "folks at home" this week. . Jas. Flctt spent a few days fishing iu - the Mc Kenzie. He reports trout being fairly plentiful and saluipn very much in evidence. Miss Jenmie Mecklin, who for the past five years has been employed in the Van couver telephone office, is visiting her cousin, Mrs. Wm. Buchanan, in this city. Let your eastern friends know where you live and the kind of a place it is. A limited number of extras of this issue can be had at the Gazbtte office. Price 10 cents. A McCsrmick binder left the ware-1 house of Simpson, Huston & Co., last Wednesday, bound for Eastern Oregon. It was one of the New Right Hand, open elevator machines. Jerry Noonan, formerly editor of the Grants Pass Courier, but whose head quarters are now in this city, started for the bay, yesterday, accompanied by Mayor Woodward. The summer school at Newport opens August 2nd, with a large corps of in structors recruited from the faculties of the several Oregon colleges. It will con tinue in session five weeks. O. R, & N. Agent Stone is in Marshal- town, Iowa, settling up an estate, and .nor-tt to he pone several months. A Portland employee of the company the position during his absence. M. Schmidt, the jolly landlord of the of the Occidental hotel, goes to Al aska soon. He represents a " com pany of some twenty Corvallis people and will spy out the land for them. A sign of the reviving times is the presence of so many co mmercial travel lers.. Every day bri ngs a fresh lot (no roflortinn on-drummers, personally, in-. tended) and nearly all seem to sell goods. Artistic business stationery is in itself a business catcner. The Gazkttk ?ob presses turn out all kinds of work with - the exception of poor and unsatisfactory - work. ' They do lots of printing and do it right. The O. C. & E. R, R. Co., offers tempting mountain excursion for next Sunday. For only one dollar one can spend the day in the heart of the Cascade mountains, 7:12 a. m. All Youths' Boys' and COME Children's Suits at strictly first cost for Cash only. F. L. MILLER, Leading Clothier, CORVALLIS, OREGON. fills Train leaves Corvallis at The best way to avoid scalp diseases, hair falling out, and premature baldness, is to use the best preventive known fer that purpose Hall's Hair Renewer. Lyman Kelsay arrived home Saturday from San Francisco. Pat had been gone just a month and didn't walk home this time. . He had job, but thought that "working twenty-five hours a day for six bits, is no snap." And Spencer keeps on shaving. Every body has heard of Spencer and his famous barber shop. The whisker laden and the long haired man go to him for comfort, and the travel-stained, laving in his baths, are made clean. In a hop contract, on file at the court house, between Lilienthal Bros", and R. D. Cooper, the former agrees to pur chase 16,000 pounds of the latter at 10 cents per pound, 5 cents per pound to be advanced at picking time. The commencement number of the University of Oregon Monthly is at hand and is highly creditable to those having it in charge. It contains a number of illustratsons and a portrait of Rock Bry son, the handsome business manager, is one. The Helping' Hand, a religious month ly published' at" Portland, . in its July number devotes most of its columns to articles and illustrations concerning Philomath College. The magazine makes a good appearance editorially and typo graphically. Pure Manilla binder twine at Simpson, Huston & Co's'. Services next Sunday evening at the the Evangelical church. Sunday school at the usual hour, 2 p. m. No service in the morning. " The pastor, W. N. O'Kel- ly. preaches at Suver 11 a. m., and at Wells 2:30 . p. in.; next Sunday. All are cordially invited. Dell Davidson received a letter this week from Wm. Brown, the Salem hop buyer, that expressed confidence in good prices for .hops this fall. Mr. Brown urged extra care in handling the crop, for carelessness in this respect would knock off much of the growers' profits. Brady Burnett lowered the Pacific northwest record for half mile run at Portland last Saturday, in the Oregon Washington meet. He made the half -in ' 2:02 3-5. He ran a magnificent race, and although not in form, came in a close second in the mile. Oregon won, 70 to 56. Sheriff Rickard and Deputy Burnett, in the case of Olsen vs. Norton et al, from Lincoln County, have served 15 Benton County defendants. There are several other defendants, in all parts of the state. There is seme despute as to whether fees can be collected in the several counties for the service of the summons. F. Berchtold, Virgil Watters and Jesse Spencer are attending Grand Lodge A. O. TJ. W. which meets in Portland this week. Deputy Vic. Moses holds down the County Clerks office during Mr. Watters' absence, and James Gibson acts as clerk in the circuit court which convened yesterday in special . term, to finish up odds and ends. The Hook & Ladder Company elected the following officers Tuesday Bight to serve for the ensuing year: President, G. W. Denman; vice-pres., Luther Smith; cor. sec, Geo Ciark; fin. sec, Bruce Burnett; treasurer, Dick Smith; foreman, Eugene Allphia; fire delegates, H. W. Hall, Brady Burnett, B. W. JohH son. Billy Currin and Logan Hayes started for Philomath awheel the other evening About half way there Billy started to chase a butterfly, and in leaping his bike over a six toot fence, disabled the ma chine. Logan pumped him back to town and Billy changed wheels. They made Philomath this time, although Currin, in trying to ride up a tree, suf fered some painful bruises. Hartford bicycles I30, $40, $45 and $50. With the change of times from good to bad, the active demand for "ready money" seems to have abated. County Treasurer Buchanan says that of the $3 200 ready to meet warrants called for July 10, only $1,000, or less than one-third has been called fer. - Interest, of course stops and the holders evidently have no cash demands to meet. The two larger warrants included in the June call were only presented Tuesday. The Women's parsonage and home missionery society of the M. E. church south, surprised their pastor, Rev. P. A Moses and his wife, at the residence of Mrs. Purdy Tuesdey evening, and pre sented them with a handsome, quilt. About 40 were present. An elegant lunch was .served and a fine programme rendered Mr. S. E. Trask took and ex cellent flash light photograph of the party. It was in all respects a-very en joy able affair. 1 Officer Skipton arrested a young fellow Monday for drunkenness. The young man had money in his pocket, but refus ed to pay his fine, saying he could not make $2.00 per and board any easier man by staying in jail. However, after a two days' incarceration, a farmer who wisnea to employ him, paid the balance due on his fine. He was turned out Wednesday morning, but claimed his dinner from the :y, and kicked because the chief had "locked him out of his room." bo ne proceeded to fill np again and now occu pies his old quarters. In the Scientific American for July 10th, is a three column article by E. W. Had ley, formerly receiver of the O. P. R. R., giving a graphic description of his former experiences when, as division-superin tendent, he was "fighting snow'; on one of the great Westeru railroads. - Ac companying illustrations take up the first page ef the paper. J. B. Walker, son-in-law of B. W. Wilson, and a former Corvallisite, is one of the editorial writers on the Scientific American, and m the same issue he describes a two hundred miles per day bicycle ride. ,- " GUATEMALA. A Former Corvallis Man Dis cusses Its Present Condition. Free Silver and Fiat Money. It is your duty as weli as a privilege to look young as long as yon can. One way to do "so is by dressing your hair with Ayer's Hair Vigor. It causes the hair to retain its color and fullness to a late period of life, ynd keeps the scalp in good,' healthy condition. - - - Come On, McDuff. , The printers of Corvallis have chal 1 enged the Albany printers to a friendly game of base ball to be played in Albany on Saturday, July 31. Our Corvallis brethren do not know what disaster they are inviting upon their "heads. Their challenge will be accepted, and their nine typographical ball players will be transmogrified into the neatest brown "pi" it was ever their fortune to behold. Albany Herald. Talk about your not knowing! Why you don't know our Pinkey, our Weary Willie, our Georgie Lester Booth, our little Jimmie Flett, our Croquet George, our speedy Albert Wellington, our double Horace Grecly, our well, we don't want to frighten you cleas off. We are after those gallons of ice water. If we could trace . Dyspep sia to its source, it would lead Dacit 10 our kitchens. In fact, the secret of good health is good cooking. , If well cooked, foods are partially digested; if poorly cooked, the are less digestible than in their raw state. If you aro a victim of faulty cooking; that is, if you suffer from Dyspepsia, the rational cure must be looked for in an artificially digested food, aud a food which will at the same time aid the digestion of other foods. . Sueh preparation virtually rests the tired digestive organs, thereby restoring them to their natural strength. The Digestive Cordial, as prepared by the Shakers of Mount Lebanon, is just such a preparation, and a single 10 cent bottle will convince you of its value. If your druggist doesn't keep it, he will be glad to get it through his wholesale house. Laxol is the best medicine for children Doctors recommend itlH place of Castor Oil. . Parents and guardians should not miss the opportunity of buying their boys suifs during Nolan & Callahan's great slaughter sale. - "... For hoo bailers eo the Franklin Ma chine Company. Buy Nolan & Callahan's hand sewed buckskin gloves. They are the best for harvesting. . ' - Remember that it takes cash to buy at Nolan & Callahan's great slaughter sale. When you mower, binder, thresher, engine or other farm machinery breaks or gets out of order, take it to the Frank lin Machine Company. Immense bargains in all lines at Nolan & Callahan's great slaughter sale. Hur ry up for the time is limited. "I crave but One Minute," .said the speaker in a husky voice; and then a he took a dose of Ohc Minute Cough Cure, and proceeded with his oratory. One Minuta Cough Cure is unequaled for throat and lung troubles. Allen. & Woodward. The whole fabric here, social, mor al, political and financial is so extreme ly different from ours in the United States, that it is difficult to compare one with the other. Taking up first the SOCIAI, CONDITIONS. . The mass' of the people a.e Indians. They do all common labor, are not land owners, and climatic conditions demand little clfthing or shelter. Consequently we find them lazy, dirty and poor. Their wages are about as follows: (a) Men on farms (fincas) $100 to $200 per year, with but and one acre of land rest free. They board themselves. (b) Men, carriers, etc, $1 to $2 per day and board themselves. 1 c Women. $3 to $10 per month and board. All the ' above are paid in Guetemala money at 2 "per cent discount, which makes the wages in American gold . ()' $40 to $80 per year. (b) 40 cents to 80 eents per day (c) $1.20 to $4 per month. '" Next comes the foreign element, Ger man, French, - English, American and Spanish. They do the business of the country and own most of the coffee and sugar fincas (farms). Lastly comes the government' circle. All are natives, (many . nearly pure In dian) and they hold every office and gov ernment position from policeman and soldier to president. The only compari son I can make is: Guatemala, govern ment circle and financial agents; United States, political officeholders and bank ers. Guatemala, foreign elements; U. S., merchants and manufacturers. Gua temala, laborers, Indians; V. S., farm hands and unskilled laborers. This, y6u will see, leaves out our farmers, skilled mechanics, transportation companies, etc., which haye no equivalent in this country. MORAT, CONDITIONS. The Indians are, with a single except ion, the most immoral people 1 ever saw, the exception being the balance of Gua temala's inhabitants. All houses are built flush to the street line, leaving a small court enclosed by the building. Driveways are guarded by iron gates. Doors are heavy and solid, locked by ponderous bolts and padlocks. Windows are grated with iron rods like a jail. All these are to prevent theft, and miles of houses, each having this prison-like ap pearance, tell a most pitiful story of man's knowledge of his neighbor's weak ness. Divorce is by mutual consent. In Quezaltenango and Retalhulen provinces the prefect of police has fined a father who married nis daughter and also repri manded several men who married their own-sisters. Such extreme measures, however, can hardly become popular. Bribery is general and open. . POUTICAI, CONDITIONS. The president is supreme. He is elect ed by a popular vote, wherein his friends vote their laborers as many times as may be necessary to insure a good majority, and so the present incumbent practically hands the office over to whom he likes, since it is all arranged beforehand. Three men have had the temerity to an--oonnce themselves candidates for presi dential honors (and profits) since my ar rival in May. All have been banished. The president grants concessions for in dustries (for a consideration), appoints all officers (also for a consideration), forces loans from banks, levies duties and revenues, reverses court decisions and amasses wealth at his own sweet will. The Czar of Russia isn't a circumstance to him. I mailed you a copy of his "de cree," relieving the ' banks from specie payment. This was immediately follow ed by a forced loan of $1, 500,000, as per clipping from the "Journal" May 29th herewith. These will be further discuss ed in the financial section of this letter Incidentally, "La Republica," a liberal newspaper, found fault with the presl dent's policy and was suspended until its editor could prove his statements. goes without comment that the paper is still in suspense. practically as much as an American gold dollar, and by its valuation all products were measured, including labor. That was before silver became a merchandise in the markets of the world. Now a Guatemala silver dollar is worth 40 cents in American Erold. and labor has stood the loss.' Here is a list of common arti cles used by everybody in America, with prices in the U. S. in gold, also prices in Gvatenaala silver.: Will you kindly com pare the list and make your own com A Well Known Citizen Has Passed Beyond. Business suit, woolen Men's calf shoes, medium. Ladies kid shoes. Overralls, Strauss 8c Levy Negligee cotton shirt. White shirt.Lin.&Wamsutta lib Star plugtobacco 50 lbs Benton flour - 100 lb keg2od nails;--, 100 lbs barb wire Lady's straw hat Lady's kid glove- Board and lodging per day Pint bottle beer : Bulldog revolver r Colt revolver - - Toothbrush- gold isilv'r inUSjin G 12 00 45 00 3 50)24 00 4 0028 00 75 4 co 1 25 9 00 1 25 8 00 50 4 00 1 5 5 75 3 0021 00 3 00 12 00 1 00 .16 bo 1 25 8 00 2 50 8 00 10 62 2 0020 00 13 005000 251 2 00 ' Now I don't wish - to be impertinent, but if a farm hand gets $100 a year, how many f 45 suits or $9 shirts will he buy? And the4 poor -j woman at io per month; will she wear 28 shoes or $16 hats? . I rather guess "nit." She goes barefooted and wears a dirty towel arewnd her neaa, with a basket or stone pot on top of all. Now look at home industry: jr . Agricultural implements repaired at the Franklin Machine shops. 1 ' I 1 A "Tl"r- TA t . FINANCIAL CONDITIONS. I do wish Mr. Bryan were here. should be delighted to witness hi meet intr with a silver dollar on its native heath." It seem right that a few prelim inary statements should be made before a judgment is rendered in this case. - .Iu 1878 a Guatemala silver dollar was worth Beans, per lb Corn, " "--v Coffee "" Large baskets, each-- Hammocks : - -. Chickens, each-- Eggs, per doz Sucrar-: Cattle, 3 yr. old beef- gold silv'r in US in G 03 04 01 01 20 32 50 IS 2 50 1 00 20 30 20 15 05 08 30 0040 00 'The community was startled and pahfed Wednesday morning when it was announced that lhomas Samuels bad succumbed to a very brief illness. It was not generally known that h was ill, although he was confined to his room lor several days. The end came Tues day night, shortly after 12 o'clock. Mr. Samnela was an active en ergetic citizen, and has been a member of the city council for several years. He was reelected last May. He engaged in the warehouse business upon his ar rival in the country and continued in that line until his .death. Thomas Samuels was born in Edinburgh Scotland, Oct. 10, 1839 and . was the - eldest of four children. He came to America with his parents in 1849 and located iu New York state. The family from there moved to Beaverdam Wis., where the father engaged in milling. Mr. Thos, Samuels received his education in .New York and Wisconsin, and at the age of 22 years engaged in the raili ng business at Watertown, Wis. Jan. 1, 1862 he was married to Miss Amelia Goetschins. He removed to Kansas in 1879 and remained there five years, coming to Cregon in 1884, first -locating at Corvallis. With his family he later moved hv' Pendleton, where he stayed one year and then re turned to this place. Mr. Samuels' brother Alex, who was also a .resident of Corvallis, and who is still remembered as a genial gentleman and useful citi zen, died in '1886. "'Mr. Samuels leaves a widow and four children, Elmer, Anna, Harry and Alex, and many warm and admirinr friends to deplore his loss. .Of his children all are here bat -Harry,- who is in the southeru part of -California.-. The deceased was prominent in Odd Fellcw circles and the funeral services, which took place y ester day afternoon, were held under the auspices of that, order. Inter ment was made in the Odd Fellow's cemetery. The services were attended by a very large number of citizesis who appreciated the worth pf' the departed and mourned his taking off. .It Will Pay You. 10 WALK TWO BLOCKS SEE The Story Is Soon Told. We will move into our New Quarters the lat ter part of August. We want to open with a Brand New stock of. Fall and Winter Merchant dise. Now, in these few remaining weeks, buy all you can of us; try us first and see if we have what you want, if we have, you can buy it cheaper of us than of. anyone else if you can don't patronize us at all. We can save uoumoneii on Men's, Boys' and- .Children's Clothing. We can save you money on everything we handle. We necessarily undersell any and everybody who are in business to make money. We are in it to lose money for the next six weeks. Here are a few of the many PLUMS at your disposal. MEN'S I5.00, $5.50 and f6.oo Suits at... $ 3 85 MEN'S $7.50, and $8.50 Suits at 5 50 MEN'S $10.00 and f 12.00 Suits at J 50 MEN'S I15.00, $16.50 and $17. 50 ; at: ....... 10 00 CHILDREN'S SUITS (4 to 8 : years') worth $4.50 to $6.00 . Your pick, for . 2 50 ALL our $4.50 and $5.00 JOHN B. - STETSON HATS reduced to 2 50 MEN'S FINE PANTS worth .- from 1 4.00 to $6.50, now.. 2 50 MEN'S COTTON PANTS some worth f 1.25, at $ SO MENS FINE SHOES worth $5, $5.50 and $6.90 reduced to 3 80 MEN'S TAN SHOES worth $2.50 at -- BOYS' and YOUTHS' FULL- STOCK SHOES worth $1.75 and $2.00 reduced to BOYS' SUITS (13 to 18 vears) worth from $6.50 to $10.00 Your pick for . i 60 1 20 5 00 Children's Straw Tarn O'Shanter and Sailor Hats at 25 cents, some worth 75 cents. A lot of Children's Brownie Overalls at 25 cents per pair. A lot of Boys' Linen' Coats at 25 cents, each worth 75 cents. Bargains in Sweaters and Bicycle Suits. Big Bargains in Straw Hats, Summer Underwear, Trunks, etc. We have the Best 50-cent Overalls in America. A Complete Stock of Harvesting Outfits at Bedrock Prices. ' Remember" the location, Allen and Farra block, J, H. Har ris' old stand. - There can be but one result: 1st. All those good things which adorn the home and the person of an American are en tirely beyond the reaeh of the mass of the people here. . 2nd. Being obliged to live some . way, they wear a few rags, sleep in quarters unfit for humans and eat everlastingly their beans ana corn cake. It is misery and filth ana squalor and silver against home and comfort and gold. If any one wants it, let him come here and get it. When arrived the chief money was sil- .... - 1 ri I JJ-. . . ver. All oanks naa lssueu dius rcurcm- acle in itver, aad were supposed to have silver on hpnd to redeem with. Once each month a government official check ed up the silver reserve and the bill issue of "each bank, ist. May ist, Banco In ternational; 2nd. May 3rd, Banco Amer icano; 3rd. May 5th, Baneo de Guate mala, etc., and all were found to have a surplus of silver, but it was noted that drayage was very active between banks during inspection, and uncharitable peo ple hinted that silver was carted about to make a showing. Then the government rot behind and the soldiers were about o to revolt and something had to be done. So the president relieved the banks of the redemption clause, as before stated Then he borrowed (?) the one and a half millions in silver and paid the soldiers, and the country was safe. For a thor ough going patriot, he is the greatest fin aacier I ever met. Now the country if confronted with an irredeemable paper money, backed by the government, and good ftfr everything (and nothing) public or private. Tell our greenback friends to come to the. feast Even free silver got to he too dear a money, and cash in hand is obtainable and quoted as follows Banks pay for N.-Y. exchange 242 per cent.; Banks sell New York exchange 247 to 250 per cent. - .- Banks sell Guatemala silver 102 per cent. " ' - - - : Money changers pay for U. S. gold coin 250 to 275 per cent. . . Money changers sell, IT. S. gold coin 275 to 300 per cent. Paper money being the base of all transactions at 100 per cent." I never thought it possible to work the "transfor mation scene" so quickly. Within three hours of the decree all silver was out of sight and. change was made in part by brass checks and partly by tickets. Some 25 cent pieces 2 reales rhave now appeared and change is possible, though scarce. As .1 general proposition the sil ver basis here has resulted as follows: Domestic" raw materials, fair to very low; domestic :' manufactured articles, very low; imported raw materials, high to medium; imported manufactnred art- irles. very high. This Republic manufactures Lut little, iherefore' an exact comparison with the Suited States is impossible. This much Walker's Ride. The New York" Kvening Tele- grain describes the bicycle ride of Bernard Walker, lormerly ot Corvallis, from the New York City Hall to the Philadelphia City mil, a distance of over 200 miles, in 21 hours and 54 minutes. This is the fastest time, unpaced, on record for that trip. Two others have made better time, but paced. Mr. Walker found a stiff side wind blowing on his outward trip and faced a hard wind reluming. His wheel with fittings weighed thirty seven oounds. and was geared to eighty four inches. In a letter to Mr. Ed Bryson, Mr. Walker gives to 'Ed much credit for the Derforraance, and savs that Ed's advice as to train ing and dieting, followed, enabled him to do the feat. - Here's Coffee Sunday in the cascades. Hundreds of Valley people will spend next Sunday iu cool and shady nooks at the head of the Santiam river. An excursion train will run awav ud in the heart of the Cascade mountains, where the heavy timber Gasts a grateful shade and streams of ice water abound. T The Scenery on the whole trip is magnificent. Trout can be found in the various streams and the flora will tempt the lovers of the beautiful. The round trip from Philomath Corvallis and Albany is only one dollar. Those not desiring to take lunch along will find good meals at Berry and Detroit, Train leaves Philomath at 7 a. m. Corvallis 7:12 and Albany 7:50 a.m. a Yankee in Gray. A serial story by Charles B. Lewis, xne of the most popular of m-esent writers, commences in this issue. - Mr. Lewis, who is better known as "M. Quad" has a style that is all his own. and a style that is eminently, pleasing. The story 'A Yankee in Gray," is one of his best efforts. It is a story of the civil war and Mars and Venice figure very prom inently. The hero, Roger Kenton is a Northern young man, but moved to the South and when war breaks out. fights for Ins adopted land. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. bet For Everyone A cup of Good Coffee is halt the meal. That furnished at the justly celebrated Dining Parlors of HODES & HALL is the talk of the town. Excellent meals and lunches served at all hours. It is delicious. It has a reputation. Tobacco and Confectinery. . First class Bakery Department. Clearance Sale. Shirt Waists - 4S s Hosiery Lace--1 1 to 200 per yd Embroidery 5 Ladies' Vests i Ladies' Chocolate and Ox Blood Oxfords, $ 1.50 These are in the latest styles and all hand sewed; regular 2.50 values. Men's shoes one-third off. " 30c " ' IO to 25 cts 9 to 30 ct Men's Hats (a good one) for------80c Men's Socks 8 to 2Sc-pr Jersey Shirts (summer weifcht) 48c THE CASH STORE, Nextto Postoffice, - - - uoivaiiis, ur. Tampers fl j and COTTAGERS Will find Elegant tinned Meats and Preserved Fruits at A. Hodes, Headquarters. The best Groceries. A Special and Unequalled Line of Teas and Coffees. Read "A Yankee In Gray" by Mr Quad. Begins this issue.