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Leading Corvallis Newspaper. Best Advertising Medium. Corvalus, Benton County, Oregon, TijeSday, December Is. 1006. Vol. XL-HI. NO. ioa A DAY IN ROME. Story of Claudius and Virginia. Prof. Horner's Lecture. I The ways of love are explica ble, and the dignified Forum is not without Us romance and con sequent tragedy. Appius Crass us Claudius was a patiician tbat outrivaled Tarquinius Sup pe us in" xnperojs nanaer towsrd tne Plebeians. "Pride goeth be fore a fall and vanity before des tiuction." And Tarquinias Sup erbus went along with " them as fast as his two awkward legs could carry him. The awkward squad preceded Claudius who fol lowed in the procession as many have since done. But Claudius was polite enough to secure election as De cemvir and subsequent re-election to that office. Yet with all his personal pride and polite sagaci ty, Lis heart was humbled one day in the presence of a Plebeian girl, Virginia by name, the daughter of Virginias the Cen turian. In this paper I am say ing much to you about the ladies to make up for what history has failed to say about your mothers. Caprice is from the Latin word Capra, goat. It refers to the un accountable turns and moods of the goat. Just such caprices love was playing on the old Decem vir until he sunered irom an un accountable stroke of aff.ction in the presence ot the beautiful Vir ginia. Nor did the genius of the law and decency offer him any hope, for no Patrician might wed a Plebeian. So it appears that caste is sometimes with the haughty as with the humble. Virginia had a lover, Icilius by name. Where was the Roman maiden who could endure the wooing of the Decemvir after she had already been won by an other? But the gods had been seeking the sacrifice ot some beautiful victim that might rid Rome of a tyrant; and thus it came about One of the Decemvir's benefi ciaries, Marcus Clandius, made oath that Virginia was not the daughter of Virginius, but that she was the daughter of a slave and had been stolen by the child less wife of the Centurian. An attempt on the part of the Decem vir to prevent the father from coming to the trial was foiled; but the father's evidence was of no avail in the presence of per jured testimony; and the judg ment passed was that the father must give up the daughter to be a slave of Claudius the Decemvir. This was more than a father could endure. One way of es cape and only one remained ; but his daughter must be free. He asked the privilege of bidding farewell to his child; and then, placing his arm about her neck as if to kiss her a last "good bye," with the other hand he plunged a dagger into her vitals. When she fell dead, he shouted, This, my child, is the only way to keep you free." The father with the bethroth ed lover and an uncle hurried to arouse the army, 'and under the popular passion the Decemviri were overthrown and Appius Claudius died in p;ison. Where the blood coursed from the lifeless form of the beautiful Virginia, stands the base of a pure white marble column to commemorate a precious Roman sacrifice for a daughter's honor. In America, is a Virginia in the constellation of stars. This star was named in honor of the Virgin Queen of England. The star is in a constellation that dec orates the American eagle; and the American eagle looks like a reproduction of the Roman eagle in the new soil. Hence one star in our flag ;not - unfittingly " com memorates the sacred offering made by a father, a daughter and a lover in the olden days of Rome. Will Make Start. The agitation that has been going on in the state during the past tew months in regaid to the growing of fine apples is arousing more interest than has been taken in this fruit for years heretofore. One of the first men to make an experiment ia this line is J E. Jones of Cottage Grove, and concerning this the Nugget says: Cottage Grove has just as good opportunities for fame as a fruit section as any point, Hood River not excepted, but as yet no orch ard has been started on a large scale, sj J. I. Jones, owning a large tract of land, partially within the city limits, has decid ed to make a test on a big scale. Mr. Jones has now 1250 Spitzenburg and jssewtown Pippin apple trees en route, and has the holes all dug for these trees, and probably 500 more, which will cover 30 acres. Mr. Jones would put in :more trees now, were it not for the difficulty ot digging the holes and the scarcity of la bor, but he expects inside of a year to have 100 acres all set out in apples. With Mr. Jones mak ing such a start it will not be a difficult thing to get many other men who have good orchard room to do likewise. What Ha Will Do. Congressman-Elect Hawley on Open River. Ia an interview Friday Congressman Elect W. H. Hartley had the followit-g to say to a party in Albany. "My first efforts in congress." eaidMr, Hawley, will be directed toward the opening oCtbe Oregon City locks and Coos Bay. , I shall favor the purchrse of the present, locks at a reasonable price, provided government engineers, after through wortb buying. In case they cannot be purcL" aaed 1 shall favor putting in anew sys tem of locks on the opposite Bide of the nver, which can be done in two different places. As to Cms Bay, I shall do what lies in my power to secure an appropri ation for that harbor and to make tha point a trans-continental railroad term inus. The best interests of the state lie in the establishment of another trans continental terminus." His attention being called to the rela tively easy enter rise of making Yaqnina a trans-continental terminus, the coming congressman admitted the feasibilty of the proposition and gave assurance that he wonld strive for recognition of Yaqnina harbor. He believes in dredg ing for Oregon ports and purposes to work for two dredgers to be keDt in commission for the Oregon coast line. His first work, Mr. Hawley promises, shall D9 to try to break through at some points the Chinese wall that towers high aroond the Willamette valley cast ing its blighting shadow over a commerce that should have access to the high seas. An OAC Girls Letter. In the Salem Capital Journal last week appeared a letter written by an OAC girl to her parents at Glendale, de- EC ibing the trip to Silem on t ie day OAC played football with Willamette. The writer is Miss Nina Wall, and she writes as follows : "I went to Salem after all," she says, "and I saw more in one day. th tn I had ever seen before in my life. Prof, and Mrs. Horner chaperoned our crowd and they took us to every place of interest in Salem. We arrived at Salem, Thurs day morning, at 9 : 45. There were one hundred in our party and we wen directly to the insane asylum. Before entering we were cautioned to asiti); i o iMib'.4 t) mike the patients nervous. We were then usher ed into neat little parlor anl soon one of the insane persons entered and did some comical stunts. We tken started oat to look over the building. Everthing was snow-white and clean. The building is verv large and there are about 1400 people in it. I shall never forget some, of the faces I saw ; some so pitiful; others mean and savage looking, and some had the most distracted look on their faces. The men are all in one building and the women in another, but th9 buildings are connected." Some of the people were laughing fit to kill a ad others were cry ing. I do believe that if I stayed in there two hours I wouldbave been as bad my self as any of them, such an awful sight it was. Each ward' has a dining room and the food is run from the kitchen in small cars to all the dining rooms! Ia the women's department the rooms were more elaborate than those in the Continued on page SJ COMING TO OREGON. Easterners Headed for Coast. Development League Busy. The Oregon Development League is paying out $50 a week in postage stamps, answering the inquiries from Easterners con cerning Oregon.1 These inquiries are chiefly confined to four languages, and while those using Knglish in their correspondence predomi nate, there are many Germans, Swedes and Poles writing for in formation, and all will be sup plied. The Oregon Development League has been doing some very extensive advertising throughout the Dakota?, Minne sota, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illi nois, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Indian Territory, Okla homa, Indiana and Ohio. Nat urally, the range of inquiries cov ers almost eveiy part of the Uni ted States, but the great majority of them are coming irom what is known as the "Middle West," that region which includes the Mississippi Valley and embraces all the territoiy between the Rockies and the Allegheny Mountains. Every snbject is touched upon in these communications, but those relative to dairying seem to be in the m&jority, and Oregon especially, it seems to be gener ally understood that in this par ticula section the dairyman has green pasture the year around. Cost of living expenses is ask ed in many letters, climatic con ditions form the chief note of others. There are others who want to engage in bee-keeping-, others who want to raise poultry. Angora goats, cattle and sheep all receive their share of atten tion. Fruit growing is, of course, a subject of special prominence in many letter?, but remarkable as it may appear, while a ma jority of the letters come from wheat growing districts, -very few, if any of the writers, ask re garding this important cereal. The Oregon Development League, through its central office at Portland, has placed in the hands of the sixty -two organiza tions forming its membership, an opportunity to get directly in touch with people already enough interested in Oregon ' to have written letters asking about the "Beaver State," and this oppor tunity should be improved by each and every community, for when a farmer's interest in any portion of the country is suffi cient inducement for him to write a letter it shows he is pretty much in earnest. He should not be allowed to forget Oregon and its special advantages until he be comes a resident of this state. It is during the winter months that the farmers of the entire Missis sippi Vallev, and especially the section represented in the states mentioned above, do their great est amount of reading, and they ought to be given a chance to learn all about this state. The foundation of an active campaign by any commercial body is first of all to determine who shall be written to for best results. This question is answered amply by the l.sts furnished by the Oregon Development League. Never was so splendid and economical aa opportunity presented before for every community to advance its interests. Prof. Horner's Rib. .Prof. Horner tells a good story ou himself that is .being widely circulated i When visiting the catacombs during his trip abroad last summer, Prof. Horner long ed to secure a bone to bring home as a souvenir, and watching his chance when a giiard was not looking the OAC man picked up a bane, put it under his coat and managed to get - away with it. Whether it was a rib or a joint of a big toe does qot matter All went well until recantly the professor had a dream, and in that dream he went to heaven. As he walked the pearly streets a strange individual approached., and slapSiug Prof. Horner on the shoulder said, "Hello, Jack Hornet! What have you done with the bane out of my frame which you swiped in the cata combs?" Whether the OAC man had an answer ready or not is not stated, but the dream has haunted him so persistently that he declares his intention of returning to the cata combs next year and replacing the stolen rib. In Columbus Now. Corvallls Man Writes of What He Has Seen.. Henry St me of this city, who has been in Ohio visiting relatives for the past two months, writes the Gazette from Colum bus, Ohio, and for the benefit of his friends the letter is here given in full. Mr. Stone says: "I thought a line from here might in terest some of your readers, Columbus is a manufacturing tity with' a popula tion of 203,000, and a? you know it is the capital of the state. There are many negroes and Italians here. "I must tell you of a visit I made to a rock crusher that crushes lime rock. They work 450 mpn and ciush thousands of tons a day. This rock is shiped all over the United States and is used for railroad and other purposes. It would take tco much space to give all the details of this work. "I visited the asylum. There are 1830 inmates, and the iniatititution is con ducted about the same as the Oregon asylum and the Oregon building is equal to the one hare. Every thing is kept in fine shape, I also went to the penitentiary, and attended church there. There were 15C0 of the convicts attended services, among them the noto r m Mrs. Cassie Chidwick,. who swin- led so many bankers. The Ohio pent tentiary has ls-51 inmates, 46 of whom are females. Many articles in general use among Oregoniansare manufactured at the Ohio penitentiary. ' Now I must tell the Oregonians that I haven't seen any cold weather here yet; so far it has been about the same as we have in Oregon, with the regular old Oregon mist. "I haven't missed a meal since I have been here as my health is all that I could a9k. I expect to go to Iowa the 2d of January, and there I exoect to meet some cold weather. I must say tbat Oregon prunes are out of the market here, as there are plenty of Cali fornia prunes for 10 cents per pound, 50 to 60's. We have a better variety of apples. I notice apples in market here that we wuold hardly use in Oregon for cider. Prices are about the same as in Oregon. Corn is the main thing here, and begs. The letter are 6J; corn 40 to 45 cents per bushel; potatoes 80 cents a sack; eggs 30 to 35 cents a dozen; batter 25 to 33 cents a pound ; timothy hay is $15 a ton and that is about the only kind growr. I must close now, wishing you all a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year." Big Graft In It. There's oceaxs of graft ia the sys tematic, secret attempt being made to unload the old, antiquated, undersized west side locks on the government for the gigantic sum of $1, 000,000. This, at least, ia the opinion of many leading citizens of Oregon City expressed at the board of trade, says the Oregon City Enterprise. Senators and congressman will be re quired to show their hands, and no deal like that will be allowed to go through without an accounting. One million for locks eo small and antiquated that boats have to be built exjrassiy eo they can get through, when for half that sum can be built on the East 3ide new locks of the latest approved pattern, according to plans and recom mendations of U. S. Government en gineers, an J large enough to accom modate all river crafts, free and iade pandent of all corporate control. It was the sense of tha meeting that the best interest of the eatire valley will be subserved-by building dew" looks, 'and the board is unalterably opposed to the purchase of the old ones. LETTER LIST. - Tiie following letters remain uncalled for in the Cor vail is postofSce, for the week ending Dec. 15, 1906: - - - C E Cox, Chas Harding, Dr Whito- msn, care 01 M M Cjoey. B. W. JohhsoPM, The Christmas Supplies that's wanted at Xmas time is almost endless. Handsome gifts have to be carefully selected. For instance. Cut Class Christmas Presents are not only highly prized on account of their beauty, but on account of their intrinsic value as well. We tave a splendid display of cut glass ware and you'll do well to inspect and buy from it. Albert J. Metzger WATCHMAKER Occidental Building, - - - Corvallie Have your watch cleaned for $1 mainspring for $1 ; all work guar anteed at Matthews', optician and jeweler. 84tf Sofhe Roosevelt Bears. 0. J. BLACKLEDGE'S Furniture Store Corvallis - - - Oregon IN SELECTING . . . Your Chriitmas gifts come in and see what we have to offer, you. Presents suitable for Papa, Mama and the rest of the family. Yours for a merry Christmas, , .... G UN HODES The Delineator - - $1.00 McClure's Magazine $1.00 World's Work - - $3.00 C.A.Gerhard j&storg SEEING IS BELIEVING Then come in and see my line of Sporting Goods and be con vinced that it is the best and most complete line ever brought to your city, consisting of Guns and Ammunition, Fishing Tackle, Base-ball Goods, Bicycles and Sundries, Pocket Knives, Razors, Sewing Machine Supplies, etc Gasoline and Dry Cells for sale. Agent for the Olds Gasoline Engines, and Automobiles G'.T.s and Bicycles Far Rent. First-class Repair Shop. M. M. LONG, Ind. Phona 126 Residence 324 CORVALLIS, - OREGON. For. the correct thing in the jewelry line. We .have a fine of jewelry and silverware that is astonishing in its grace and beauty and magnificent in its size and completeness. Engra ving nicely done in the latest ribbon script.styles: Repairing that is guaranteed and prices that are in keeping with the class of work done. - -'- E. W. S. PRATT, Jewels and Optician SPENCER'S air Invigorator And Dandruff Eredfcatsr .1?'. f,-tkh.-.y- 2 E d . m is o s si 3 E A da. Price, - Fifty Cents Manufactured by) The Vegetable Compound Company Corvallls, Oregon 9tf Early to Bed And early to rise, ropke one healthy hapDV and wise-especially if vou take Herbine before retiring. A positive cure, for Constipation, Dyspepsia and all liver complaints. Mrs S , Columbia, Tenn. writes: I always keep a supply of von r Herbine on hand. Am so pleased with the relief it gives in constipation and all liver complaints, that words can't ex press my appreciation. Sold by Graham & Wortham. H-uy swwS-Sia. &S&k& $3:22 j !