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IS ANegetable Preparalionfor As similating thcFoodandBegula ling the Stomachs artdBowels of a trares era w : 1 1 w m c&s Promotes Digestion.CheerfuI nessandRest.Contains neither Opium,Morphine norIineral. 'OT "NAR.C otic . fyape of Old JJr SAMUEL PfTCHER mpkm SeeJC" Mx.Smn Kxk4l SL Stmr Strit hpentwte - JjiCitrbottatrSaiii IfSmtSnni- MuMrumen. flam: A perfect Remedy forCortslipa Tion , Sour Stomach. Diarrhoea Worms .Convulsions .Feverish ness and Loss of Sleep. Facsimile Signature of UEW YORK. EXACT COPY OF WRAPPED incoln's Lincoln's j Abraham as a Hunter. , A postof&ce was established at Gen tryville In 1824 or 1825. Dennis Hanks helped to hew the logs used to build ithe first storeroom. The following .let ter from Mr. David Turnham presents 'some interesting and perfectly authen tic Information regarding the village nd the settlements around it In those early times: I When my father came here in the :aprlng- of 1819 he settled In Spencer coun try, within one mile of Thomas Lincoln, ithen a widower. The chance for schooling !was poor; but, such as it was, Abraham land myself attended the same schools. , We first had to go seven miles to mill, and then it was a hand mill that would grind from ten to fifteen bushels of corn !in a day. There was but little wheat I grown at that time, and when we did have wheat we had to grind it on the mill described and use it without bolUng. 'as there were no bolts in the country. Abe and I had to do the milling on horse back, frequently goicg twice to get one grist. The country was very rough, especially In the lowlands, so thick with bush that a man could scarcely get through on foot, and abounded in game. At that time there were a great many deer licks, and Abe and myself would go to those licks sometimes and watch of nights to kill deer, though Abe was not so fond of a gun as I was. The people in the first settling of this country were very so ciable, kind and accommodating, but there was more drunkenness and stealing on a small scale, more immorality, less religion, less well placed confidence. For two years Lincoln continued to live along In the old way. He did not like to farm, and he never got much of his land under cultivation. His princi pal crop was corn, and this, with the game which a rifleman so expert would easily take from the woods around him, supplied his table. It does not ap pear that he employed any of his me chanical skill in completing and fur nishing his own cabin. It has already been stated that the latter had no win dow, door or floor. But the furniture if it may be called furniture was even worse than the house. Three legged stools served for chairs. A bedstead was made of poles stuck in the cracks of the logs in one corner of the cabin, while the other end rested In the crotch of a forked stick sunk in the earthen jor. On these were laid some boards BAXO.T sons i.TToorAMAtirt cm For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of In Use For Over Thirty Years 111 THI CCHTAUH miNllf, NEW YORK CITY. Boyhood WARD HILL LAMON, Hi Friend. Partner a.nd Bodyguard Birthplace and on the boards a "shakedown" of leaves covered with Bklns and old pet ticoats. The table was a hewed punch eon, supported by four legs. They had a few pewter and tin dishes to eat from, but the most minute inventory of their effects makes no mention of knives or forks. Their, cooking utensils were a Dutch oven and a skillet. Abra ham slept in the loft, to which he as cended by means of pins driven into holes In the wall. "The Milk Sickness." In the summer of 1818 thei Pigeon creek settlements were visited by a fearful disease called in common par lance "the milk sickness." It swept off the cattle which gave the milk, as well as the human beings who drank it. It seems to have prevailed in the neigh borhood from 1818 to 1S29, for It is given as one of the reasons for Thom as Lincoln's removal to Illinois at the latter date. But in the year first men tioned its ravages were especially awful. Its most immediate effects were severe retchings and vomitings and, while the deaths from it were not nec essarily sudden, the proportion of those who finally died was uncommonly large. Among the number who were attack ed by it tmd lingered on for some time in the midst of great sufferings were Thomas and Betsy Sparrow and Mrs. Nancy Lincoln. It was now found ex pedient to remove the Sparrows from the wretched "half faced camp," through which the cold autumn winds could sweep almost unobstructed, to the cabin of the Lincolns, which in truth was then very little better. Many In the neighborhood had already died, and Thomas Lincoln had made all their coffins out of Vgreen lumber cut with a whip saw." In the meantime the Spar rows and Nancy were growing alarm ingly worse. .There was no physician In the county, not even a pretender to the science of medicine, and the near est regular practitioner was located at Yellow Banks, Ky., over thirty miles distant. It is not probable that they ever secured his services. At length, in the first days of October, the Sparrows died, and Thomas Lin coln sawed up his green lumber and made rough boxes to inclose the mortal remains of his wife's two best and old est friends. A day or two after, on the 5th of October, ISIS, Nancy Hanks1 Lincoln restid from her troubles. Thomas Lincoln took to his green wood again and made a box for the mother of the future . president. There were about twenty persons at her funeral. They took her to the summit of a deep ly wooded knoll about half a mile southeast of the cabin and laid her be side the Sparrows. If there were any burial ceremonies they were of the briefest. Bat It happened that a few months later anr Itinerant preacher named Da vid XUckk. srtwin the Lincolns bad kMwn la Xantoeky. wandered 4nto the et&c&et. 4 t tr vatnatssrtdi if which should commemorate u virtues and pass In silence the few frailties of the poor woman who slept in the forest. . .,. :.: -. . . Thirteen months after the burial of Nancy Hanks and nine or ten months after the solemnities conducted by El kin, Thomas Lincoln appeared at Eliza bethtown, Ky., in search of another wife. Sally Bush had married John ston, the jailer, but was now a widow. Both parties being free again. Lincoln came back, very unexpectedly to Mrs. Johnston, and opened his suit in an ex ceedingly abrupt manner. "Well, Miss Johnston," said he. "I have no wife, and you have no hus band. I came a purpose to marry you. I knowed you from a gal, and you knowed me from a boy. I have no time to lose, and, if you are willin. let it be done straight off." To this she replied, "Tommy, I know you well and have no objection to mar rying you, but I cannot do it straight off, as I owe some debts that must first be paid." Thomas Lincoln Marries Again. , "The next morning," says Hon. Sam uel Haycraf t, the clerk of the courts and the gentleman who reports this quaint courtship, "I issued his license, and they were married straight off on that day and left, and I never saw her or Tom Lincoln since." From the death of her husband to that day she had been living- "an hon est, poor widow," "in a round log cab in" which stood in an alley just be low Mr. Haycraf t's house. Dennis Hanks says that it was only "on the earnest solicitation of her friends", that. Mrs. Johnston consented to marry Lincoln. They all liked Lin coln, and it was with a member of her family that he had made several voy ages to New Orleans. Mr. Helm, who at that time was do ing business in- his uncle's store at Elizabethtown, says that "life among the Hankses, the Lincolns and the En lows was a long ways below life among the Bushes. Sally was the best and the proudest of the Bushes, but, neverthe less, she appears to have maintained lame intercourse with the Lincolns as long as they remained in Kentucky. She had a particular kindness for little Abe and had him with her on several occasions at Helm's store, where, strange to say, he sat on a nail keg and ate a lump of sugar, "just like any other boy." Mrs. Johnston has been denominated a "poor widow," but she possessed goods, which, in the eyes of Tom Lin coln, were of almost unparalleled mag nificence. Among other things she had a bureau that cost $40, and he inform ed her on their arrival In Indiana that, in his deliberate opinion, it was little less than sinful to be the owner of such a thing. He demanded that she should turn it into cash, which she pos itively refused to do. She had quite a lot of other articles, however, which he thought well enough in their way and some of which were sadly needed In his miserable cabin in the wildi of Indi ana. Dennis Hanks speaks with: great rapture of the "large supply of house hold goods" which she brought out with her. There were "one fine bureau, one table, one set of chairs, one large clothes chest, cooking utensils, knives, forks, bedding and other articles." It was a glorious day for little Abe and Sarah and Dennis when this won drous collection of rich furniture ar rived in the Pigeon Creek settlement. But all this wealth required extraordi nary means of transportation, and Lin coln had recourse to his brother-in-law, Ralph Krume, who came with a four horse team and moved Mrs. Johnston, now Mrs. Lincoln, with her family and effects, to the home of her new hus band In Indiana. When she" got there Mrs. Lincoln was much surprised at the contrast be tween the glowing representations which her husband had made to her be fore leaving Kentucky and the real poverty and meanness of the place; but, though sadly overreached in a bad bargain, her lofty pride and her high sense of Christian duty saved her from hopeless and useless repinintr-.. On the contrary, she set about mending what was amiss with all her strength and energy. Her own goods furnished the cabin with tolerable decency. She made Lincoln put down a floor and hang windows and doors. It was in the depth of winter, and the children, as they nestled in the warm beds she pro vided the.m, enjoying the strange luxu ry of security from the cold winds of December, must have thanked her from the bottoms of their newly comforted hearts. "A Little More Human." She had brought a son and two daughters of her own John, Sarah and Matilda but Abe and his sister Nancy, whose name was speedily changed to Sarah, the ragged and hapless little strangers to her blood, were given an equal place In her affections. They were half naked, and she clad them from the stores of clothing she had laid up for her own. They were dirty," and she washed them; they had been ill used, and she treated them with moth erly .tenderness. In her own modest language, she "made them look a little more human." "In fact," says Dennis Hanks, "in a few weeks all had changed, and where everything was wanting now all was snug and comfortable. She was a wo man of great energy, of remarkable good sense, very industrious and sav ing and also very neat and tidy in her person and manners and knew exactly how to manage children. She took an especial liking to young Abe. Her love for him was warmly returned and con tinned to tike day of his death. Bat few children loved their parents as lie loved Ids stepmother. She soon dressed Mm op to entire new clothes, and from that Msw U ssjsndss U4 anm Uf. Sv.m Mvarafyd.tar. fcty.tnjfttiftf. and any "wish on. ms part was gratmea Wednesday. when it could be done. The two sets . . . . , , " " ' , of children got along finely together. Wnirtii.hi.nled rails Ue week and as if they had all been the children" of T BOW roking fce. - -the same parents. Mrs. Lincoln soon S Mr. Owens, who bought the Manning discovered that young Abe was a boy . pice, is now domu-iled in h s new home. of uncommon natural talents and that. If rightly trained, a bright future -was before him, and she did all in her pow er to develop those talents." When In after years Mr. Lincoln spoke of his "saintly" mother" and of his "angel of a mother" he referred to this noble woman who first made him feel "like a human being," whose good ness first touched his childish heart and taught him that blows and taunts and degradation were not to be his only portion In the world. "When I landed in Indiana," says Mrs. Lincoln, "Abe was about nine years old, and the country was wild and desolate." It is certain enough that her presence took away much that was desolate in his lot. She clothed him de cently and had him sent to school as saon as there was a school. But, not withstanding her determination to do the best for him, his advantages in this respect were very limited. He had al ready had a few days' or perhaps a few weeks' experience under the disci pline of Riney and Hazel in Kentucky, and, as he was naturally quick in the acquisition of any sort of knowledge, it is. likely that by this time he could read and write a little. He was now to have the benefit of a few months more of public instruction, but the poverty of the family and the necessity Jlor his being made to work at home in the shop and on the farm or abroad as a hired boy made his attendance at school for any great length of time a thing impossible. Accordingly, all his school days added together would not make a single year in the aggregate. (lot) Continued.) Z . 1 f r early corn Oregon rauei. 35tf .OUNTRY CORRESPONDENCE. OAK GhOVE. Mr. and Mrs. Will Steele, of Suver, -Mfiit Thursday in Albany. Will Adams, ofBuena Vista, was call ing on friends at Oak Grove Thursday. M. K. Lewis came out Thursday and took a birds-eye view of the country, al-o went on to his farm' "near Wells ti iook after his interests there. Mrs. "Diury. Hodges, of Welle, who has ben Bick tor some time is reported as being no better. Dr. Hodges and wife, of Albany, were nailing on relatives at Wells, Thursday. Wm. Bailey has bought the David Bai'ey farm consisting of 20 acres, for which the former paid $800. Ihis shows what a bor -andofw ho works (or wages andfeaves his money. This money has ben made by working' for day's wages and accumulated in the last four yearn. What we need iamore hoys built like William. Mr. aodJMrp. Groves, of Alban' . were g tests of Mr. and Mrs. James Johnson, SiiDttay. Miss'S tella Williamson is the happy owner of a brand-new wheel. She at tends school at Albany and rides to and rom home nights and mornings Lawrence Congill, of Albany, si-ent Sunday with Oak Grove friends. The remains of tbe infant babe of Mr. and Mrs. lrve Cady, was intered in the Palestine cemetery Wednesday. F. W. L tuner, of Albany, conducted tKe funer al. Clyde fandElmer Williamson , OAC students, ume down and spent Sunday with the home folks. The voter who passes a day without meetiog several candidates is to be con gratulated, as there are many men seek ing office who eeem to think the porper thin? to do at this stage of the game is to gee personally acquainted with the dfar peorle".and to learn their wants and . wishes! so that they will be better able to tarry out the desire of their con stituents. We hope that every ' candi dateiwill be aa good alter as before the elect'on. Mr. Editor: I am in favor of spelling reform. I have always insisted that my natural way of spelling is as good as anybody's. The only trouble has been that it is not popular. Irvin Cady, of Albany, spent Sunday with his parents at Palestine. J. B. Williamson returned home Sat urday evening from a week's sojourn in Linn county. He reports grain as looking tine and stock doing nicelv. When y.iu see a man going by headed for the mountain streams with a ten-foot fis'ting pole sticking out behind there is no indication that tbe good wife who is spending the day at home will have fish for supper. BEAVER CHEEK. Mr. Daniel and family visited laet Sun day with Doc McBee and family. Elder Goode of tbe Evangelical church preached a very able sermon at the sbhool house last Sunday. Mrs. G. A. Peterson is reported to be in a very critical condition. Ed Hawkins now has his logging har ness and is now ready to begin logging. -1 Cbas. Davis and M. Burnap, of Phil omath, wer Bald Moontai visitors one day .this week.: " . " ; J. 8. Inland bought a new horse last Mr. "Winters has just i ompleted a ne rait tenee along the bunk of the creek. Accepted the Call. A dipatch from Helena, Mon-ta-. a, dattd At til 17, conveys th t iMfurmation hnt Rev. Frank Powell, who formerlv occupied te pulpit 11. tiie Christia church in this city Jias accepted t ail to fill the vacant pulpit ot i 'it- First Unitarian church ot Htltria. S nce leaving Corval s Rev. Powell changed creed nd went over to the Unitarian fVtith. Of late he has beer -idtioned at Salem. The dis tich in question reads: The trustee of the First Urn atian Society ot Helena, tht ioueer and largest Unitaria? -ocitty in Montana, today tender ed a call to Rev. Frank Powell, of Salem, Or. The call has been ccepted. Rev. Mr. Powtl reached here Easter and th pievious Sundav, making sue favorable impression that his - igagement followed todav to fill the vacancy caused by tht esionation of Rev. E. S Hodgia, who has been called to vfinneapolis. Mr. Powell lef oday for Salem, preparatory t Hssuming his new pastorate the first Sundav in June. MeTOoa that should De usea rOr xur nishing energy for making milk is used up in keeping the shivering cows from freezing to death. It does not pay to treat the old cow that way. Turn her out during the best part of the day long enough to walk around a bit and get a chew from the straw pile and a drink of water with the chill off it. It takes more .money out of your cream ery dividends in a year to let her heat up her water after she drinks it than it would to buy directly a good com mon sense tank heater. Don't let her out In damp, snowy weather either or expose her to that sharp, biting wind that comes in our cold spells. Notice of Assessment. . By virtue f authority vested in me a" Police Judge of the city of Co'vallis and by Ordinance No . 185, which passed the common council on the 20th day of November, 1905, and approved " by the Mayor on the day of November pro viding for the improvement of certain streets in said city at, the cost of the property abutting upon the same ; I hereby give notice that there is assessed and levied upon each lot or parcel ol land herein described the amount set forth as follows: Lot 1 in block 12 Dixon's 2d addition to epid city of Oorvallis, owned by Geo. B. Wills and Miles Hendricks. $2-2.60. Lot 7 in block 12 Dixon's 2d, addition to said city of Corvallis, owned by Geo. B. Wills and Miles Hendricks, the sum of $22.60. Lot 5 in block 5 original towu of Maryeville now city of Corvallis, (owner unknown) tlO. Lot 6 in block 6 original town of Mary8vi!le now said city of Corvallis, (owner unknown) $11.20. Lot 6 block 1 original town of Marys ville now said city of Corvallis, (owner unknown) SZ'J.60. . . Lot 7 block 13 old town of Marysville new Corvallis owned by i. H. Taylor, $22.60 Lot 1 block 14 coonty addition to said city of Corvallis (owner unknown) $32 60. Lot 2 in Block 14 Couoty addition to paid City of Corvallis, owner unknown, $10.00 Lot 3 in block 14 county addition to said city of Corvallis (owner unknown) $W. Z Dated April l7tb, 1906. J. F. Yates, Polite Judge. 33-5 Good Judgement. Is the f Fssntial characteristic of men and vonau Invnluaole 10 nood nuei. ess men and necessary to housewives. A woman shows good judgement when she buys White's Oreaiu Vermifuge for her baby. The beet worm medicine ever offered to mothers. . Many indeed are the sensible mothers, who write their gratitude for the good helth of their children, which they owe to the use of White's Cream Vermifuge. Sold by Graham & Worthar. Human Blood Kark. A taie of l.o-ror was told by marks of human Mood in the home of J W, Wil liams, a well known .merchant of Bac. Ky. He writes: "Twenty years ago I bad severe hemorrhages of the lungs and was near dath whan I began taking Dr. King's New Discovery. It complete ly cmed me and I have remained well ever since. "It cures hemorrhages, Chronic Coughs, Settled colds and Bron chitis, and is the only known cure for weak longs. Every bottle guaranteed by Allen & Woodward druggists. 50e ana $1.0o. Trial bottle free. ClASSIfltU AOVtRIISLMENTS CLASSIFIED ADVIBTISXXESTS : Fifteen words or less, 25 cts for three successive insertions,' or 50 cts per month; for all np to and including ten additional words. rent a word for each insertion. For all advertisements over 25 words, 1 ct per word for the first insertion, and M ct per word for each additional inser tion. Notb'ng inserted for less than 25 ents. Lodge, society and church notices, other than strictly newa matter, will be charsred for. FOR SALE WHITE SIDE OATS. INQUIRE OF Wm. Crees, Corvallis, Or. 34-6 ONE BUGGY POLE. INCLUDING neck-voke. drull and sing'e-trpea : also one lawn mower. Inquire of W T. Norton. 35.5 NO. 1 FRESH JERSEY COW. WRITE D. G. Hill or inquire at Hnrning'a grocery 33-5 DISPARENK SPRAY FOR FRUIT trees and sbrnbberv. See Montgorvf rv & Newton. For fale by Thatcher Ik . Johnson. 31 .8t BALED HAY FOR SALE INQUIRE P. O. box S44 or Irtd. 'pbone 429. Corva'lis. Oregon. 23 tf. HOMES FOR SALE. HOMES NOW COMPLETED, "OR will build them to order in Corvallis." Or., and sell fame for cash or install ments. Address First National Bonk, Corvallis, Or. Sitf WILL FURNISH LOTS AND BUILD houses ta order in N iwport. Lincoln Co., Oregon, and sell same lor cash or installments Address M. S. Wood cock, Corvallis, Or. 34tf ATTORNEYS J F. YATES, ATTORNE Y-AT-IiA W. Omce up stafrs in Zierolf Building. uniy set 01 abstracts in Hen 1 01, County . R. BRYSON 'ATTORNEY ATLAW Office in Post Oflice Building, Corval- JB, Uregon. WANTED FOUR JERSEY HEIFER CALVES. Leave word at Vidito's harn or phone Ashby Rickard, Alsea, Oreron. 33-5t" WAiSTE O 500 SUBSCRIBERS TO THE BANKING. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF , Corvallis, Oregon, transacts a general' conservative banking business. Loans money on approved security. Drafts' bought and sold ani money transferred to -the principal cities of the United 8ttftp. Europe and foreign countries. ' Veterinary Surgeon DR. E. E. JACKSON, V. S., WINEGAR & Snow livery barn. Give him a call. Phones, Iod., 328; Residence, 389 or Bell phone. 12tf PHYSICIANS 8. A. OATHEY, M. D., PHYSICIAN and Surgeon. Rooms 14, Bank Build ing. Omce Hours : 10 to 12 a. m , 2 to 1 p. m . Residence : cor. 5th and Ad ams Sta. Telephone at office and res idence. Corvallis, Oregon. MARBLE SHOP. MARBLE AND GRANITE MONU ments ; curbing made to order ; clean ing and reparing done neatly: save agent's commission. Shop North Main St., Frank Vanhooeen, Prop, oStfr House Decorating. FOR PAINTING AND PAPERING SEE W. E. Paul, Ind. 488 I4tf A Lucky Postmistress. Is Mrs- Alexander, of Cary, Me., who has found Dr. Ki -gs New Life Piles to be tbe best remedy she ever tried for keeping the stomach, L:ver and Bowels in perfrct order. You'll agree with her if you try these painless purifiers that in fuse new life. Guaranteed by Allen & Woodward druggists. Price 25c. Notice to Creditors. Koxice ia hereby given that the undersigned' has been auly appointed by the County Court of the i'tate of Oregon, for Benton County, administrator of the estate of Henry Holroyd, deceased. All persons having claims against said ewtue are hereby required to present the same tt the oflice of J. F. Yittbs, properly verified is by law required, at Cor vallis, oreyon, within six mouths from the date hereof. Dated this 13th day of February, 1906. W. S. McFadden, Administrator Jof the Estate of Henry Hol royd, deceased. Is the Moon Inhabited. 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