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The Kind Tod Have Always "Bought, and which has been in use for over 30 years, nas borne the signature of and has jfcty J7!, sonal supervision since its Infancy. . dCU&S Allow no one to deceive you in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and " Just-as-good' are bub Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children Experience against Experiment What is CAStORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. 16 contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other ' Narcotio substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and "Wind Colic It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend. GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS Bears the The Kind You flaye Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. thk enmum comm. tt aumunr mm, new voint etrv. Esjs-wi'i Lincoln's Longest and Strongest In the meantime Abe bad become not only the longest but the strongest man in the settlement Some of his feats almost surpass belief, and those who beheld them with their own eyes stood literally amazed. Richardson, a neigh bor, declares that he could carry a load to which the strength of three ordina ry men would scarcely be equal. He saw him quietly pick up and walk away with "a chicken house made of poles pinned together and covered that weighed at least (500, if not much more." At another time the Richardsons were building a corncrib. Abe was there, and, seeing three or four men preparing sticks upon which to carry some huge posts, he relieved them of all further trouble by shouldering the posts sin gle handed and walking away with them to the place where they were wanted. "He could strike with a mall," says old Mr. Wood, "a heavier blow than any man. He could sink an ax deeper into wood than any man I ever saw." For hunting purposes the Pigeon Creek region was one of the most in viting on earth. The uplands were all covered with sui original growth of ma jestic forest trees, while on the hill sides and wherever an opening in the woods permitted the access of sunlight there were beds of fragrant and beau tiful wild flowers, presenting, In con trast with the dense green around them, the most brilliant and agreeable effects. Here the game had vast and secluded ranges, which, until very re cently, had heard the report of no white man's gun. In Abe's time the squirrels, rabbits, partridges and other varieties of small er game were so abundant as to be a nuisance. They devastated grainflelds and gardens, and, while they were sel dom shot for the table, th?sset tiers fre quently devised the most cunning means of destroying them in great quantities in order to save the growing crops. "Wild turkeys and deer were the principal reliance for food, but besides these were the bears, the wildcats and the panthers. The scream of the latter, tile most ferocious and bloodthirsty c5 the cat kind, hastened Abe's homeward steps on many a dark night as he came late from Dave Turnham's, "Uncle" Wood's or the Gentryville grocery. That terrific cry appeals not only to the natural fear of tha monster's teeth and claws, but heard in the solitude of night and the forest it awakens a feel ing of 6uperstitIous"horror that chilla the heart of the bravest Everybody about Abe made bunting a part of his business. His father and Dennis Hanks doubtless regaled Abe continually with wonderful stories of their luck and prowess, bat he wtfs no banter himself and did not care to learn. It Is true that when a mere child' he made a fortunate shot at a flock of wild turkeys through a crack in lie waif of toe. itaur.faced cabin" been made tinder his per- Signature of Boyhood WARD HILL LAMON, His Friend, Partner and that when' grown up be went for coons occasionally with Richardson or watched deer licks with Turnham, but a true and hearty sportsman he never was. Abe as a Wrestler. As practiced on this wild border, it was a solitary, unsociable way of spending time which did not suit his nature, and, besides, it required more exertion than be was willing to make without due compensation. It could noi be said that Abe was indolent, for he was alert, brisk, active, about every thing that he made up his mind to do. His step was very quick, and, when he had a sufficient object in view, he strode out on his long, muscular legs, swinging his bony arms as be moved along with an energy that put miles be hind him before a lazy fellow like Den nis Hanks or John Johnston could make up his mind to start. But when he felt that he had time to spare be preferred to give it to reading or tc talk, and of the two he would take the latter, provided he could find a per son who had something new or racy to say. He liked excessively to hear his own voice when it was promoting fun and good fellowship, but he was also a most rare and attentive listener, Hunting was entirely too "still" an oc cupation for him. All manner of rustic sports were in vogue among the Pigeon Creek boys. Abe was especially formidable as a wrestler, and from about 1828 onward there was no man far or near that would give him a match. "Cat," "throw ing the mall," "hopping" and "foui corner bull pen" were likewise athletic games in high honor. All sorts of frolics and all kinds ol popular gatherings, whether for work or amusement possessed irresistible at tractions for Abe. He loved to see and be seen, to make sport and to enjoy it It was a most important part of his ed ucation that be got at the corn shuck ings, the log rollings, the shooting matches and the gay and jolly wed dings of those early border times. He was the only man or boy within a wide compass who had learning enough to furnish the literature for such occa sions, and those who failed to employ his talents to grace or commemorate the festivities they set on foot were sure to be stung by some coarse but humorous lampoon from his pen. In the social way be would not suffer himself to be slighted with impunity, and If there were any who did not en joy his wit they might content them selves with being the subjects of it Unless he received some very pointed intimation that his presence was not wanted he was among the first and earliest at all the neighborhood routs, and. when bis tall, angular figure was seen towering among the banting shirts It was considered due notice that the fan was about to commence. Crawford's Blue Nose. "Abe Unkern," as be was generally called, made tilings lively wherever be went. arid it Craw ord'a.$tne nose ba pened to have been c"arriedWthe as sembly It quickly subsided on bis ar rival Into some obscure corner, for the Implacable "Linkern" was apt to make It the subject of a jest that would set the company in a roar. But when a party was made up and Abe left out, as sometimes happened through the in fluence of Crawford, he sulked, fumed, got mad, nursed bis anger Into rage and then broke out In songs or chron icles, which were frequently very bit ter, sometimes passably humorous and Invariably vulgar. At an early age he began to attend the preachings roundabout but prin cipally at the Pigeon Creek church, with a view to catching whatever might be ludicrous in the preacher's air or matter and making it the subject of mimicry as soon as he could collect an audience of idle boys and men to hear him. A pious stranger, passing that way on a Sunday morning, was invited to preach for the Pigeon Creek congre gation, but he banged the boards of the old pulpit and bellowed and groaned so wonderfully that Abe could hardly con tain bis mirth. This memorable sermon was a great favorite with him, and he frequently reproduced it with nasal tones, rolling eyes and all manner of droll aggrava tions, to the great delight of Nat Grigs by and the wild fellows whom Nat was able to assemble. None that beard him, not even Nat himself, who was any thing but dull, was ever able to show wherein Abe's absurd version really de parted; from the original. The importance of Gentryville as a center of business soon began to pos sess the imaginations of the dwellers between the two Pigeon creeks. Why might it not be a great place of trade" Mr. Gentry was a most generous pa tron; it was advantageously situated where two roads crossed; it already bad a blacksmith's shop, a grocery and a store. Dennis Hanks, John Johnston Abe and the other boys in the neighbor hood loitered much about the store, the grocery and the blacksmith's shop at Gentryville. Dennis Ingenuously re marks, "Sometimes we spent a little time at grog,, pushing weights, wres tling, telling stories." The time that Abe "spent at grog" was, in truth, a "little time." He never liked ardent spirits at any period of bis life, but he did take his dram as others did. He was a natural politician. Intensely ambitious and anxious to be popular. For this reason and this alone he drank with his friends, although very temper ately. If he could have avoided it with out giving offense he would gladly have done so. But he coveted the applause of his pot companions and, because he could not get it otherwise, made a faint pretense of enjoying his liquor as they did. The "people" drank, and Abe was always for doing whatever the "peo ple" did. All his lif e he held that what soever was popular the habit or the sentiment of the masses could not be essentially wrong. But although a whisky jug was kept in every ordina rily respectable household, Abe never tasted it at home. His stepmother thought he carried his temperance to extremes. t The Great Jones. Jones, the great Jones, without whom it was generally agreed that Gentry ville must have gone into eclipse, but with whom and through whom it was somehow to become a sort of metropol itan crossroads-Jones was Abe's friend and mentor from the moment of their acquaintance. Abe is even said to have clerked for him that is, he packed and unpacked boxes, ranged goods on the shelves, drew the liquids in the cellar or exhibited the stone and earth en ware to purchasers; but in his serv ice he was never promoted to keeping accounts or even to selling the finer goods across the counter. But Mr. Jones was very fond of his clerk enjoyed his company, appre ciated his humor and predicted some thing great for him. As he did not doubt that Abe would one day be a man of considerable influence he took pains to give him correct views of the nature of American institutions. An arclent Jackson man hiimelf, ho.impart ed to Abe the true faith, as delivered by that great democratic apostle, and the traces of this teaching were never wholly effaced from Mr. Lincoln's mind. While be remained at Gentryville his politics accorded with Mr. Jones', and, even after he bad turned Whig in Illi nois, John Hanks tells us that he wanted to whip a man for traducing Jackson. He was an eager reader of newspapers whenever he could get them, and Mr. Jones carefully put into his hands the kind he thought a raw youth should have. But Abe's appetite was not to be satisfied by what Mr. Jones supplied, and he frequently bor rowed others from Uncle Wood, who lived about a mile from the Lincoln cabin and for whom he sometimes worked. What manner of man kept the Gen tryville grocery we are not informed. Abe was often at his place, however, and would stay so long at nights, tell big stories and cracking jokes, that Dennis Hanks, who was ambitious iu the same line and probably jealous of Abe's overshadowing success, got mad at him and cussed him. When Dennis found himself thrown in the shade, be immediately became virtuous and wished to retire early. John Baldwin, the blacksmith, was one of Abe's special friends from bis boyhood onward. Baldwin was a story teller and a joker of rare accomplish ments, and Abe, when a very little fel low, would slip off! to bis shop and sit and listen to him by the hoar. As he grew up the practice continued as of old. except that Abe soon began to ex change anecdotes with bis clever friend at the anvil. Dennis Hanks says Baldwin was bis particular friend ant that "Abe spent a great deal of hla .Wrn-e tlmjB wlthblaa Statesmen, plenipotentiaries,' famous commanders, have many times made . the White House at Washington ring with their laughter over the quaint tales of John Baldwin, the blacksmith, delivered sec ond hand by his inimitable friend Lin coln. Lincoln as Good Samaritan. Abe and Dave Turnham bad one day been thrashing wheat probably for Turnham's father and concluded . to spend the evening at Gentryville. They lingered there until late in the night, when, wending their way along the ' road toward Lincoln's cabin, they espied something resembling a man ABE TOOK THK BIO MAN XN HIS ASMS. lying dead or insensible by the side of a mud puddle. They rolled the sleeper over and found in him an old and quite respectable acquaintance hopelessly drunk. All efforts failed to wwise him to any exertion on his own behalf. Abe's companions were disposed to let him lie in the bed he had made for himself; bat, as the night was cold and dreary, he must have frozen to death had this inhuman proposition been equally agreeable to everybody pres ent To Abe it seemed utterly mon strous, and, seeing be was to have no help, be bent his mighty frame and, taking the big man in his long arms, carried him a great distance to Dennis Hanks' cabin. There he built a fire, warmed, rubbed and nursed him through the entire night bis compan ions of the road having left him alone in his merciful task. The man often told John Hanks that it was mighty "clever in Abe to tote him to a warm fire that cold night' and was very sure that Abe's strength and ' benevolence had saved his life. Abe was fond of music, but was himself wholly unable to produce three harmonious notes together. He made various vain attempts to sing a few lines of "Poor Old Ned," but they were all equally ludicrous and ineffectual. "Religious songs did not appear to suit him at all," says Dennis Hanks, but of profane ballads and amorous ditties he knew the words of a vast number. When Dennis got happy at the grocery or passed the bounds of propriety at a frolic he was in the habit of raising a charming carol in praise of the joys which enter Into the Mussulman's es tate on earth, of which he has vouch safed us only three lines The turbaned Turk that scorns the world And strutj about with his whiskers curled For no other man but himself to see. It was a prime favorite of Abe's, and Dennis sang it with such appropriate zest and feeling that Abe never forgot a single word of it while he lived. Another was: Hail Columbia, happy land! If you ain't drunk, I'll be d d a song which Dennis thinks should be warbled only in the fields and tells us that they knew and enjoyed all such songs as this. Mrs. Crawford says that Abe did not attempt to sing much about the house. He was proba bly afraid to indulge in such offensive gayeties in the very habitation of the morose Crawford. According to Den nis Hanks, his melody was not of the sort that hath power to charm the sav age, and he was naturally timid about trying it upon Crawford. But when be was freed from those chilling re straints he put forth his best endeavors to render "one that was called 'Wil liam Riley and one that was calleu 'John Anderson's Lamentations' and one that was made about General Jackson and John Quincy Adams at the time they were nominated for the presidency." The Jackson song indicated clearly enough. Abe's steadiness in the political views inculcated by Jones. Mrs. Craw ford could recollect but a single stanza of it: Let auld acquaintance be forgot And never brought to mind. And Jackson be our president And Adams left behind. In the text of "John Anderson's Lam entations," a most distressful lyric to begin with, Abe was popularly sup posed to have interpolated some lines of his own, which conclusively attested his genius for poetic composition. (To be Continued.) Subscribe' for the Gazette. mMm COUNTRY CORRESPOKCZKCL OAK GhOVE The primaries have come and but atili there's more to follow. gon ... G. Anthony, of Linn county, spent a lev itsys at the old home the past -ek B. U. Wyatt has moved his bouse from the elevated around which it oc- -u, ied to low er land. Pete Rentner, as the man who did the of Albany, work. George Beam is. while playing around tht stock, was kicked by one of the horse on the tide of his head, inflict ing a painful though not serious wound. P Johnston, justice of the peace of Fairuiouni precinct, was called to Cor vallis Saturday by "lerk Moses as one fthe board to make the official court of the election returns. ; Mairy a rich maa is to be miserable; man y a poor one and get a heap of 'un out ol jibis old world of gumboils and sorrows. Do you run a store bill? Well keep poultry and quit The old hen is a hole grocery store herself. If on give you boy a pig or a calf and later sen them and pocket the money, don t join the church until you have squared things op with the boy. If you o it will be a bard matter for you to keep bim from playing with the cat's tail while you conduct family worship. The man with the bayonet makes the other fellow do bis bidding whether he antstoor not pile brick or any old hing. The writer lived in a state , for three years under martial rale and he knows what martial law means. It means the bayonet; nothing more, nothing less. Tet there are conditions that arise which cannot be met by civil, hence military authority takes tbe reins and the conditions at San FranciBco is an instance. William Bailey is quite sick. He has been laid up for several days with onsolitis. . Dr. Trembil, of Albany, was called Sunday morning and went out to the Bailey home. Mr. Bailey is subject to throat troubles which has bothered him for several years. There will be a basket Bocial given at the Oak Grove school house next Sat urday, May 5th. The receipts will go toward paying the preacher in charge at this point. Everybody has a cordial iuvitation'to be present,! as tbe yonug ladies will have many fine, well-filled baskets for sale. Come and be one of the number and help a good cause along. The Man From Iowa. We have a man from Iowa Who came out west to stay ; He bought a farm f 25 But yet he's nix fustay. So fa' a d ht ppy is this man He sings the livelong day; W hile others take the dollars in, - His go the other way. But what for dollars does he care ? tie likes the glorious West; For here he aims to live and stay, And do his very best. Aiitl when he sells bin Eastern farm, He'll bring the money o'er; And buy a farm in Oregon, And live here evermore. His troubles then will all be o'er, With this good Eastern man There never was a man before, Who did thingejust like Sam. T. B. Williamson. The city election will bejheld this year on tbe eame2-planas it always has been. Under the new law - there is t o provision made lor independent candi dates for municipalities - under 25,000 people. Therefore,twe shall follow the 8am e old style. Real Estate Transfers. Abstract of Benton (county fil ings for week ending April 28, 1906: Cnrtis S'imsou aud wile to Amy A Muiniston, J and near OAC; $1,056. K. J:"Watts and wife to A P Johnso-vr; 2 lots -.in Corvallis; 650. State of' Oregon to Ed Cannon, 40 acres of land west of Monroe; $5-94- R C Wills and wife to Ells worth Erwin, small tract ol laud near C & E depot; $250. R C Wills and wile to City oi Corvallis. deed, dedication of part of Jefferson street; $1. W S Mulkey toMJ Nortoo, 80 acres of land near Blodgett; $1. , J W Berreman and wife to W F Caldwell, lot in Philomath; $625. MP.Rycraftto Chas A Ry craft, interest in 359 acres of land in Alsea; $u Call on Zierolf for corn Oregon railed. early Dent 35tf CLASSIFIED ADVtRIISLMENTS CLASSIFIED AnVBTI9XMKKTS: Fifteen words or less, 25 cts for three successive insertions. nr an nt month; for all up to and including ten additional words. K cent a word for each insertion. ' For all advertisements over 25 words, I ct per word for the first insertion, and K ct per word for each additional inser tion. Nothing inserted for less than 25 cents. ; - Lodge, society and church notices, other than strictly news matter, will bet chanted for. 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She can arrange if she de sires to assist in caring for chickens and other duties in farm work com monly done by ladies. If the lady has a husband, son, or ether male relative, who is a good worker in farm work, he can have work at least part of the time. In answering send refer ences. Address: P. O. Box 344, 37tf Corvallis. Oregon. ATTORNEYS J. F. YATES, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Office up stafrs in Zierolf Building. Only set of abstracts in Benton County S. R. BRYSON ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office in Post Office Building, Corval lis, Oregon. WANTED WAITED 600 SUBSCRIBERS TO THE GazettB and Weekly Oregonian at $2.56per year. BANKING. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF Corvallis, Oregon, transacts a general conservative banking business. Loans money on approved security. Drafts bought and fold and money transferred to tbe principal cities of the United States. Europe and foreign countries. Veterinary Surgeon DR. E. E. JACKSON, V. WINEGAR & Snow livery barn. Give him a call. Phones. 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