Lincoln's
Lincoln's Birthplace
I
Best Wrestler In Regiment tlce done. Always after this we were
Lincoln was believed to be the stron-1 treated equally well and jnst as the
geot man in his regiment and no doubt '. regTiiar army was in every particular,
was. lie was certainly the best wres- rpjg brave, just and humane act In be
tter in it, and after they left Beards- J nalf of 6 volunteers at once attached
town nobody ever disputed the fact 0fflcera and rank to him as with hooks
lie is said to have done tne wrestling
for the company, and one man insists
that he always had a handkerchief
tied around his person in readiness foi
the sport. For awhile it was firmly be
lieved that no man in the army could
"IF ANY MAN THINKS I AM A COWAED, LEI
HIM TEST IT."
throw him down. His company confi
dently pitted hirn against the field
and wore willing to bet ail they had on
the result At length one Mr. Thomp
son came forward and accepted the
challenge. He was in fact' the most
famous wrestler in the western coun
try. It is not certain that the report of
his achievements had ever reached the
ears of Mr. Lincoln or his friends, but
at any rate they eagerly made a match
with him as a champion not unworthy
of their own. Thompson's power and
skill, however, were as well known to
eer'.-un persons in the army as Mr.
Lincoln's were to others. Each sidt
was nboOiately certain of the victory
coln's company and their sympathizers
put up all their portable property and
some perhaps not their own, including
knives, blankets, tomahawks and all
the most necessary articles of a sol
dier's outfit.
When the men first met, Lincoln was
convinced that he could throw Thomp
son; but, after tussling with him a brief
space in presence of the anxious as
semblage, he turned to his friends and
said: "This 13 the most powerful man
I ever had hold of. He will throw me,
and you will lose your all unless I act
on the defensive.' He managed, never
theless, to hold him off for some time,
but at last Thompson got the "crotch
hoist" on him and, although Lincoln
'attempted with all his wonderful
strength to break the ho!d bv "iirHmr"
rway, a rew moments decided his fate.
He was fairly thrown. As it required
two out of three falls to decide the
bets, Thompson and he immediately
came together again and with Very
nearly the same result. " Lincoln fell
under, but the other man fell too.
There was just enough of uncertainty
about it to furnish a pretext for a hot
dispute and a general fight According
!; Lincoln's men instantly began the
p:T;ir:- preliminaries
fracas. "We
were taken by surprise," says Mr.
Green, "and, being unwilling to give
up our property and lose our bets, got
up au excuse as to the result We de
clared the fall a kind of dog fall; did
so apparently angrily." The fight was
coming on apace and bade fair to be a
big and bloody one when Lincoln rose
up and said, "Boys, the man actually
threw me once fair, broadly so; and the i
second time, this very fall, he threw
me fairly, though not so apparently
so." lie would countenance no disturb
ance, and his unexpected and some
what astonishing magnanimity ended
all attempts to raise one.
Friend of Common Soldier.
Mr. Lincoln's good friend, Mr. Green,
the principal, though not the sole au
thority for the present account of his
adventure in behalf of the Indian and
his wrestle with Thompson, mentions '
one important incident which is found i
- .uus, aui.iuv.ui, 11 U1VU AO 1VUUU
In no other manuscript and which rives
us a glimpse of Mr. Lincoln in a scene
of another sort "One other word in
reierence to air. Lmcoms care ror tne
Some officers of the United States had
claimed that the regular army had a
preference in the rations and pay. Mr.
Lincoln was ordered to do some act
which he deemed unauthorized. He,
however, obeyed, but went to the offi- t
cer and said to him: 'Sir, yon forget
that we are not under the rules and
regulations of the war department at
Washington; are only volunteers under
the orders and regulations of Illinois.
Keep within your own sphere, and
there will be no difficulty, bat resist
ance will hereafter be, made to yoor
unjust orders; and. further, my men
must be equal tn all particulars. In ra
tions, Anna, camps, eta, to tne regular
Boyhood
WARD
HILL
LAMON,
HUFrietuL
PartMT
&.nd
Bodyguard
of steeL"
(To be Continued.)
Deserving Support.
Of all the candidates on the
county ticket none are more de
serving of the support of all good
citizens than T. T. Vincent, re
publican candidate for county
clerk. He is well known as a
quiet, earnest, persistent and
intelligent worker on all lines
which, in the aggregate, consti
tute what is known as good
American citizenship. There is
no element entering in rightly
developed human character of
which he is not an. exponent.
Da you believe in integrity,
fidelity, unselfishness, truth, firm
ness, courage? So dees he. Do
you hold to all those things which
make for purity of character and
civic righteousness? In no less
measuie does he. Can't, rant,
self-righteousness and hypocrisy
find no expression in him.
Eveiywhere, at all right times,
and places, constantly in his life
his influence is for truth and
righteousness.
He is, from conviction, a re
publican, and firmly holds to re
publican principles, and, being
the party's candidate, he will re
ceive the support 01 all i epublicans
and will be elected. He deserves
the. support of all real, clean,
manly men.
Regarding Quartette.
A charge has been made that the Phi
loinath Quartette was turned down by
the republicans. An investigation made
results that Proi. O. V. White, of
Philomath, prohibition candidate for
county judge, who was referred to in
democratic subsiantiation of the charge,
authorizes the following statement:
lbe republican county central com
mittee never engaged the Philcmath
Quartett to go on the joint canvass ; the
republican county central committee
never arranged with nor asked the said
quartette to go on the canvass; the said
quartette say, each and every one of
them, that they were never treated
better in all their lives than when in
Alsea recently. The quartette went to
Alsea at the request of the county school
superintendent to assist at a "parents
meeting." All the expenses of
the trip were to be met by said super
intendent. Prof. White and Prof. Ful-
kerson both went to the cur who is re
sponsible for a weeklv ispue of lies to
the westward of us and asked him to cor
rect the lie, but he elected to father it
rather than walk in a manly path.
POLITICAL POINTERS.
(Continued From First Page.)
o clock tomorrow evening and
get acquainted with the republi
can candidates. They will all
make brief addresses, but the
main speech of the evening wil
bf made by Frank Motter, a well-
kuown speaker of Portland. This
will close the republican canvass,
s be sure and attend.
t fe f
a
inis paper has not in any
manner cast any reflections nor
j .
! made aHy dirtv insinuations re
J garding the chairman of the dem-
oeratic county central committee,
Rob, Johnson, nor any other
prominent democrat. The
mouthpiece of local democracy
has no been so courteous with
; nrominen t rennhliean;
t e
It is being circulated falsely in
this county that if elected to
the office of clerk, as he will be,
T. T. Vincent will deputize
someone to take, charge of said
office. We have personally inter
viewed Mr. Vincent and be .de
clares on his honor that fee will
bs in personal charge pt the office
during the entire term. Wbat
i- the use of circulating such a j
lie?
see
W. D. DeVarney has been in
ruced to write personal letters to
i he farmers of Benton misinform
'ng then) that they are largely ob
ligated to E. E. Wilson for rural
'elephone lines. We hope that
no farmer, or anybody else, will
allow himself to be buncoed
in such fashion. Mr. Wilson
was an attorney for the company
and acted in a legal capacity, re
ceiving his pay from the money
paid into the company by the
farmers and others.
6 s i
From every section of the
county we have encouraging re
ports of the determination of the
republicans to vote their ticket
straight. Let Corvallis republi
cans bestir themselves lest the
country lay it over them when it
comes to rolling - up republican
majorities.
t S
If you desire well for Corvallis,
Benton county and OAC, put a
cross before the name ot A. J.
Johnson, republican candidate
for state senator, when you vote
next Monday.
Vote Straight.
The county democracy well
know that not one of their can
didates can be elected without
republican votes. To secure
these they use every artifice,
and resort to the most con
temptible and disreputable con
duct to cause dissention among
republicans and to induce them
to support democrats.
So far republicans have refused
to side-step for any false issue
that democrats and their allies
have striven to inject into the
campaign. To the plea of non-
partisanship republicans reply
that since there must be parti
sanship they greatly prefer their
own sort.
To the claim that certain dem
ocrats are pre-eminently qualified
for office and therefore should re
ceive republican votes republi
cans point to their own most ex
cellent ticket and refuse to be
lieve a man on it is not fully
qualified and entitled to support.
To the suave invitation, "let
us unite to give them another
term," republicans reply, "tney
have long since exceeded a rea
sonable iimit and should now
stand aside for other equally de
serving men."
Republicans are standing
shoulder to shoulder all through
the county and will vote their
ticket straight. It is their ticket
and they will not desert it.
Woman's Suffrage.
Woman suffrage will be voted
upon by the people of Oregon at
the next election. The great
plea made by the suffragists is
that women are taxed without
representation. This would nat
urally mean that whoever is tax
ed should have a vote, and who
ever is not taxed shonld not vote.
It must be remembered that there
are two kinds of taxes a money
tax and a service tax. The
money tax is levied upon all
property, that of men as weil as
of women. The service tax is
levied upon man alone. It calls
for jury service, police service,
and every man takes his chance
on it Aiethe women prepared
to seive on juries? Be locked up
for nights and days with strange
men, while household matters
are left fo care for tbeinelves?
Suffrage is not a right as so
manv times has been claimed. It
is both a privilege and a burden
and no one has reason for asking
for the privilege without being
willing to assume the burden also.
All women should know that
they cannot purify politics, that
if a good woman can vote so can
a bad woman. If vou ask the
suffragists if the laws of town or
state injure them in any way
there is silence. In what particu
lar would state or towns be bene
fited if the women voted? The
ballet if given to women, will be
used by all sorts of women, just
as it now is by all sorts of men
and as it is just as hard to bring
out and vote the best sort of men
so it would be with the best sort
of women. What would the
onsequence be if the baser
sort of women would dc all the
voting? 46
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Additional Local.
Visitors to Corvallis and to the
Agricultural College during com
mencement, should not fail to pay
a visit to the museum in the- Agri
cultural hall. The exhioit is the
same as was sent from the colle
to the Lewis & Clark fair, and in
cludes curios of all port., besides a
general display . of things of in
ter6t about the college. This ex
hibit hae been artistically arrang
ed by Prof. Shaw, in the upper
story of Agricultural ball, and any
one will be amply repaid for mak
ing a trip to see it.
The horse show begins in Cor
vallis tod-iy. The procession forms
t Abbott-s feed stable at 10 a.
m. and will march up Main
street to R. M Wades's hardware,
thence west one block, an"d north
to. the feed stable again. It is ex
pect d hat arrangements will be
made for the stablir g of all horses
There is every indication that the
snow will be a big and euccessfu'
evei t, as no effort has been spared
to make it so.
Bellefountain Contribution
We, the undersigned citizens of Ben
ton couBty, btate of Oregon, hereby sub
scribe the sums set opposite oar names
for the defease' of George Mitche'l now
held in Seattle, AVashington, for the kill
ing of one Creffield.
Ed Williams '..$5 00
A M Taylor 1 00
V M Uuderwood 1 DO
A H BuCKingham 2 5o
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James Lamb .Pd
C E Banton Pd
BirdKiekard Pd
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C R Hickson Pd
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W M Hull Pd
A P Starr Pd
Mrs Barnard. Pd
Reader. Pd
Geo W Humphrey Pd
W S Humphrey Pd
J H Graggs Pd
VV R Stanturf Pd
M L Buckingham Pd
A. D Hadley Pd
J R Buckingham Pd
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TRIAL
ON YOUR FARM OF A
U.S. CREAM
SEPARATOR
We know from our
dealings with over
2,700 dairymen In the
Pacific Northwest and
from our own
practical ex
perieuce In 4
dairying that a '
tbe U. S. ; v. '
Cream Jr
Separator Is
th hect and
most practical separator for erery-day farm
use. It is such a well-made piece of machinery
that It will last a lifetime, (tiring- erery day
the quickest, easiest serTlce. It is the best
Talue for the money and we guarantee It our
aelTn, In addition to the a-nsrantce of the
factory. To show our confidence In this
separator we will ship you one on ten days'
free trial. Then lflt don't proTe as represented
the best and most practical for yonr own use,
you may return it at our expense.
Hazel wood today stands with , its guarantee
behind thousands of U. S. Separators, and there
has nerer been a day when we have regretted
having guaranteed this fine separator. We
are thoroughly and practically familiar with
the advantages and disadvantages of every
separator on the market and we are handling
the U. S. Separator because we know it to
be the best there Is. ' V
SKIMS CLEANEST In addition, the U. S--Separator
skims the milk cleaner tban does
any other machine. This has been demon
strated over and over again. The world's record
for clean skimming has been beld by the U.
S. Hand Separator for many years. No other
hand separator has been able to equal the
record made five years ago at the Pan-American
Exposition, and yet this record was lowered
by the U. S. Separator In the official test at
the Lewis and Clark fair last year.
It will outwear any other separator. It Is
more easy and simple to operate, it Is easier
to keep clean and it will keep right on year
after yenr doing it3 daily work, giving perfect
satisfaction.
PAYS FOR ITSELF The 0. S. Separator
will pay for Itself In one year In extra cream
saved over what could be skimmed In the old
fashioned way. If yon don't believe It take
advantage of oar free trial offer and make the
test right on your own farm. Skim in both ways
end figure out the result In your own way.
You will find the separator will pay for Itself
In a year. We sell it on easy terms and will
take creatt In payment, so you need not pay
us on cent for the separator, and at the end
nf the vear the machine will all be paid for.
AVrlte today for catalogue and full particulars.
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df Benton county, I respectfully call at
tention to the fact and urge all members
of the party to support me, assuring them
of my appreciation and that it elected I
shall do my utmost to fulfill the duties of
the office in an honorable manner.
40-46 Very truly, S. H. HORTON.
Kings Valley Wool Pool.
I shall handle yonr wool; sell to the
best advantage. . All who wish to join
please come and sign' contract aad re
port number of fleeces to J.F. Chambers,
Manager. 42-53
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Office up stafra in Zierolf Building.
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bought and told and money transferred
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States, Europe and foreign countries.
HELP WANTED,
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Ore., and assist in caring for three
children. 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 etber 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,
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G. Fonts, Postmaster at River-
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robbed of all comfort, accovding to his--
letter, which says : "For 20 'years I had
chronic liver complaint, which led to
eueh a severe chs of jaundice that even
my finger nails turned yellow; when
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Will see that her baby ia properly
cared for to do this a good purgative is
neccessary. Many babies sutfer from
worms and their mothers don't know it
if your baby is feverish and doesn't
Bleep at nights, it is troubled with worms.
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