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E2E?S Leading Newspf-'-' Bes. Mi-air. Vol. XliV. CoRVAixis, Benton County, Ori xson, Via day. July 26. lOOT. NO. 6ii a!r!sivrrcralcr And! Ctrfrtff Dniester ah sbmrtr- ji ,.. -s, ii i ,c ;. - s 9 . m Price, - Fifty Cents ' Manufactured by The Vegetable Compound Company Corvallis, Oregon 91 We Have fcr Men Cuff Links for the Shirtwaist Tie Clasps for the Four-in-hand Silk Fobs with 'Safety Chains' Tie Pins, all Styles and Prices ! ' SUMMER TIME TTIK TIME FOR JEWELRY. In fact any of the little indispensables that a lady needs to complete her summer costume. PRATT, The Jeweler and Optician. FOR A FULL LINE OE Campers' Supplies, Tents and Hammocks go to O. J. BLACKLEDGE. At This All our goods are guaranteed to comply with the Pur a F ace! Law We have the best and nothing but the Yo Want Your Business JSTr. - T5crappuiiton doggedly) Aw, well, some people think well of me, anyhow I Mrs. Scrappington (meanly) Pshaw! You have not been popu lar since you were three years old! Puck. Ethics. ' "Is it quite safe to tell her a secret?" said one woman. "Yes," answered the other, "if it doesn't concern yourself. She may repeat it, but she will never tell who told her." Washington Star. Even Up. Nbdd I shouldn't think you could allord to play poker if you are 60 unlucky at it. Todd -What I lose at poker my wife makes up at bridge. Xew .York Life. Just For Show. "Are these umbrellas all right, young man ?" asked the customer. "They are if you know enough to Eo in when it rains," replied the onest clerk. Yonkers Statesman. Not Afraid to Try. "I can't understand why you say Walsingham is enterprising. lie has never succeeded at anything." "But he has failed at more than forty things." Houston Post. Abraham Lincoln Was a man who, aeainst all. odds, at taineri the hiehfst honor a man could set n ttao Urited States, Ballard's Horer-oniid Pyrop has attained a plare never equalled by apy other rerredy It is a sure cure for Concha, Olds, Bronchi tis. Influenza and all Pulmonary dis eases. Every mother f-honld keep sup plied with this wonderful cough remedy. Sold by Graham & Wortbam. The Gazette for Job Work. We Have for Ladies Shirtwaist Sets, Collar Pins "Beauty Pins," Brooches Bracelets, Back Combs, Etc. &$os best. Notice for Publication. United Stated Land Office, Boseburg, Oregon, July 15, 1907. Notice iB hereby given that in compliance with the provisions of the act of Congress of June 3. 187S, entitled "An act for the sale of tim ber lauds in the States of California, Oregon, Nevada and W hingtou Territory," as extended to ail the Public Land States by act sf August 4, 1S92, Guy Davis, of Eugene, County of Lane, State of Oregon, filed in this office on January 17, iqo7, his sworn statement No. 8,289 for the pur chase of the Southwest 1-4 of Section No. So in lownsnip ino. 15 soutn, Kuure Po. , est w. . M., and will offer proof to show that the laud nought is more valuable for its timber er stue t tau fo- agricultural put-poses, and to establisn his claim to said land before W. W.'Calkins, TJ. S. 1 eommlssioner, at his om.-e in Eugene. Oregon, on Wednesday, the 9th day of October, 1907. lie names as witnesses: Hal E. Wood, Marvin L. Haniiuitt And Austin E. Wood, all of Hugen e, Oregon, and William I. Cryaler, of Springfield, Oregon. Any and all persons claiming adversely the above-described lands are reauested to file their claims in this office on or before said 9th day of wctooer, 1907. ti BENJAMIN L. EDDY, Register. Your Liver Is out of order. Yon no to bed in k bad humor and fi t up i.h a bad tasti in yo'ir month. You w-rt cair.t" iiii-g u stimulate year liver. Just try Hn bnif the iivvr rmuii t r. A poeiiive t:re fo Constipation, lry$pepj and a'l livei complaints. M:s. F ., Fort Worth. Ttx;is, wi i'.es: "Have used Ht-rbine in my fan-.ilv for years. Worda cau't express bat I think about it. Everybody in my household ie happy add well, and we owe it to Herbine." tioift hv Grohatrt & 'WoHhom. MF.S ELIZABETH STARR. Pioneer of 1852 Passed On Fu neral Service Wednesday. Another pioneer woman has crossed the plains to the great New Country, another chapter in the history of Oregon's early day Ire closed Tuesday in the passing of Mrs. Elizabeth Starr, at the home of her son Clarence in this city. Mrs. Stair had been in ill health for years, but on the fourth of Tuly she contracted a cold that terminated ia pneumonia which, together with heart disease, result ed in her death a 6:40 Tuesday morning. The remains were'con veyed to Bellfountain Wednes day, where brief services at the grave were conducted by Rev. M. M. Wallz. Elizabeth Dimmick was born in Skvler county, Illinois, March 11, 1838. With her parents she came to Milwankie, Oregon, in 1852, crrssiug the plains by ox team and experiencing all the hardships incident to travel in these days. Ia 1853 the family came from Milwaukie to Benton county, locating oa a donation claim near Bellefouutain, and were deceased was married in 1803 to George M. Starr, who died twelve years ago. Of the children "of this union the survivors are Edwin and Clarence. Starr ot Corvallis; Osear Starr, Portland; Burgess Starr, Walport; Mrs. Georgia Briy. Minnie, Oregon, and Mrs. O. V. Hurt ot Walport, the latter kf whom was too ill to attend the funeral. Like grain ha isipe ..and ready "Tor the harvest the old pioneers are being gathered in, and in their footsteps follow those 01 the next generation who will ever bear in loving and grateful rememberance the name and history of those pioneers who nave gone on. Where Are They? Ninety per cent of the cheese produced in this country comes Irom five states New York, Pennsylvania, Wiscoasin, Ohio and Michigan, says the Journal editorially. In the statistics ot ihe industry, Oregon is scarcely oa the map. Oddly enough, the country as a whole does not sup ply itself. In 1904 we bought, in round numbers, 23,000,000 pounds in foreign countries. We have the capital, the skill, the feed and the cattle as no other country has but signally fail to manutacture 'enough cheese for our own consumption. A humil iating feature is that our rate of importation is increasing. We imported only 14,000,000 pounds in 1900, but soared to 23,000,000 p mnds four years later. The rate of increase during the perod was 60 per cent, while our rate of increased production for the same time was only I2J per cent. . For the privilege of eating the foreign product, we pay a heavy duty, pay freights several thous and miles, and pay profits to both home and foreign dealers. The or-igner operates on costlier I t .d, where he is hampered for room and hedged about with handicaps. He must keep his kine, and grow his feed, in con fines almost tco narrow for an Ore gon garden spot. But, costly as is the process, we go to his market, eat his cheese and pay his price. With five of our states, ' and our best dairy states at that, produc ing 90 per cent of the country's-chee;-e, the explanation is easy. Where are the Oregon dairymen? Raising Kegs For Profit. The reason why more hogs an not raised in Oregon is that dur ing the past ten years the aver age farmer has not known ho Jo make a really good profit it the hog business, says the Agri culturist. At present prices al most any farmer can see a -profit in hogs. His memory goes back to a not distant time when the profit" was bard to figure out. Even " in those days there were some farmers who made money on begs in this state. More geBera knowledge of how tbey did it will encourage others to go into the business- We do not kno,w ;of any other one thicg which would do as much to stimu late hoe-raisine in Orepon as a feeling of assurance in this state that an; Oregon farmer could de pend on getting half a cent a pouna more ror ms nogs than the Nebraska farmer sets. The Ore gon farmer, under existing econ omic conditions is entitled to their margin and if, be becomes convinced that he will certainly get it there will be a boom in the hog-raising business in Oregon. Could Not Find a Man. If there is an idle man in Ben ton countv these -days it is be cause he is either disabled or too worthless to accept honest em ployment at good wages, for there is work for all who will accept it. Iike the invitation in the good book it is a case of "whosoever ) will may come" and the wages; offered are tempting enough to satisfy even the chronic kicker. A man came out from Blodget a few days ago looking for a helper. At home acres upon acres of ripe grain awaited the binder and there wasno one to shock in the field af ter the bundles were ready. The farmer wa desperate. He hunt ed until almost midnight for a man who would go home with him and shock gram, and at last found a 1 ?ar-old boy to wh'i he offered $1.50 per day and board. The boy went. The man was Jim Blodgett, and the story comes from a thoroughly reliable source. It is declared that some Benton county farmers paid helpers in the hay field $2.50 per day and boarded them, this season. . ' Wages on the farm, in years gone by, have been as low as $20 per month. The difference in figures then and now is signifi cant. It shows how the Willa mette Valley is prospering and how every man in this section has work at good wages. There is no better place for the homeseeker to head for when he "pulls up stakes" in the East, than Benton county. Securing Information. Special Prosecutor .'or the government B. T. Towsend, who has been called to Oregon from Fargo, N. D., to assist in the O. & C. land grant inquiry, was in Albany this . morning- leav ing this noon for Corvallis, says Wednesday's Albany Her ald. Mr. Townsend is making a trip through the counties ot the part of the state wheie the rail road holds giant lands, and has just returned from a visit to Southern Oregon. While de clining to go into details as to the nature of his investigations, Mr. Towsend intimated that be was gathering information relative to the status of the railroad lauds in the different counties. He expressed himself as pleased with the uniformly courteous treat ment that he had received in his trip through the different couu ties, saying that the coUDty officials bad shown biin every aid possible. The information which Mr. Townsend st cures at this time it is believed wii) be used latei 10 a suit to be- brought by the government against the railroad to foice the company to sell it !and ta applicants at $2.50 pet jcre ia accordance with tne terin.- ;f the congressional grant. Heflo Central! Wlfra is N... 9? . Wi.y, call Ind. 251 --office at A lien '9 drug Bioe, which stands for John Lenger, and he will at- te id your wants. " 38t The Other Fellow's Job. ' . It's pretty soft for the motorman He rides the ho'e day long, . . With nothin to do bnt start the car And tap a warning gong. The reet of us have to pay five cents Whenever we want to ride; Lacking the fare we mnst use ' Shank's mare ". When we do onr homeward glide. It's pretty soft for the doctor, Who deals in human ills, Though at 2 a. m. he must leave his bed. Armed with a box of pills, At times he must face the wintry wind That stingeth like a knont, But the rest of us have to take The dope the doctor dishes out. It's pretty soft for the lawyer, Who labors over his brief. And prays to the court that his client Be granted said relief, He must read a thousand volumes, All bound in musty calf. But the rest of us wben we break our legs, Must give the lawyer half. It's pretty soft for the hodcarrier He fills bis bod with brick, And bears it up the IaJder It's easy to learn the trick. He climbs to the top of the building. Where all is mortar and muss, But most of the bricks get looeeaed And fall on the rest of us. Let us gather around the table, While our hearts with envy throb, And drain aflasc to the easiest task The Other Fellow's Job. Ex. PRAISES OAC. Says it is Orange Institution in Every Sense. The Oregon State Agricultnral college is a grange institution ia every sense of the word. It was founded by the grange nd is no.w its greatest aaonmneat. . Faar l members of the order are on the board of regents, and their reports of the al lege at the State Grange sessions are instructive and entertaining. They are what the members expect. The courses given at our college do not guarantee the success of every young person who enters upon or completes them. Their ultimate ability to succeed will depend largely on their inherent ability to grasp every chance which offers an opportunity. The Agricultural courses at Corvallis do three things for the conscientious student: They give him the knowledge of the immense number of well proved facts; thev familiarize him with a still larger number of fundamental principles, npon whick successful practices in the various branches of Agriculture must be based; and they train him in ta'uite, thoughts, concentration study and ob servation. Someone has Baid: "To be educated is to be able to think lonsj, accurately and to a eafe conclusion.'' No man needs this training more than he who wrestles with the problems ol the farm, who would harmonize aad co-ordinate' the forces of plant life, animal life, soils, the pri nciples of buying and selling, the labor and the caprices of weather. Our dairy herds can be made to increse their net profits. The average produc tion of the dairy cows of the state is about 169 pounds of butter per year, while good herds, no better than many another farmer might have are produc- 25O to 350 pounds per cow per year. In our groin crops, in our fruit yields, in the other branches of live stock are simi lar opportunities. While admitting there are no greater in Agriculture than in another line whete the man succeeds and- secures the independence which comes alone to him nho is a proprietor of his own business. No man who reactes independence in his business has more 1 erennal liberty than the successful farmer. Gatekeeper in Gresbam He: aid. Hop Talk. Hop pitkers will be scaice, according to an old Oak Grovd correspondent who writes lobe Herald as follows in regard to h op conditions in Benton : Hop men have taken time by the fore lock securing hands to do the picking as tbe general belief is at present that pickers will be starce. Prune men are out backward in securing all the help that they can as most people would rather go to the hop fieids than pick prunes. T-je report from the hop-growing district of the valley is not very flat, terini. Inqnin yn regard to the con di Hons of hops in this immediate vicinity .hos that most of the growers are in clined to believe that a good , average crop will be harvested if present condi tions continue. Moet of the yards in this part of Benton" county have been well cul tivated and cared for, and consist ot several hundred ares owned as fol : John and Beo Harris of Wells, 25 -; Lee. Brown, 30 acres; Neis & Co., 50 , -; Biruey Cad, 13 acres; Antone Hi t, 15 acres; Mr Wehber, 15 acres; Mrs. a 30 Meres; all within a radius o' e miles, whirh goes to show that ti . t- dustry in this locality is of some ni - tude, and the most of them are gati d and handled by home labor. . N Alter The Persimmon. The Portland Chamber of Com in - -e sends out the following letter fo e benefit of the Oregon public : If the people of Oregon fail to ke advantage of the colonist rates begin ng September let and continuing until October 31st, it will not do the fawn of the newspapers, for both in news, ei ial and local columns the press o 1 Lie Stats has kept the facts before its reftilem. Remember this is the one-way rate, a tickets are only to Oregon and notrmmd trip, and good for any point in the Siat e, but the ticket must read to vour star ion when it is purchased of the agent t-.u k in the other states. Mr. Julius Kruttschnitt, Director of Maintenance and Operation of the en tire Harriman System, General Mannjer J. P. O'Brien and Chief Engineer Boechke, of the O. E. & N. Co., and the officials of the Corvallis & Eastern, left the latter part of the week for an automo bile trip through Ceutral Oregon, let us hope they have with them apolel jug enough to get the persimmon, -it's been hanging a long time. The Order Made. The Oregon railroad commis sion has issued the following recommendations ih regard to the new depot and other improv ments at the Albany depot grounds: ..Two additional incandesent lights to be installed on the present depot plaltormr under the porcn, and an arc light over the tracks north' and westerly from the main line of track. These lights are to be kept burning for 30 minutes previous to the arrival of every train. The company is also ordered to erect a suitable passenger depot on the north ind west side of its tracus before January first, 1907. The depot is to cost approximately $0000. The railroad will be allowed by the commission to move for an extension ot time to build the de pot upon showing its good faith in attempting to comply with the order. " FOR THE LITTLE ONES. Wonderful Skill Showrt by Birds. Their House Building. It is only within recent years that men have learned how to make houses and other structures of ce ment. This art is probably yet in a crude stage, and by and by man kind may learn to use the material in vastly more skillful and efficient ways. . ' But many of the lower animals have for ages been making their houses of mud or of similar plat-tic and hardening substances. The cliff swallow's skillfully built home is indeed a wonderful structure, es pecially when we take into consid eration the simple way in which the bird does the work. Imagine a boy or a girl trying to make such a--structure of mud and handling the material only by the aid of pointed pliers. Yet the bird does it and v dees it well with her pointed bill. In some cement structures, especial ly in railroad embankments, you have probably noticed that the workmen first put in several iron rods to increase the strength of the wall. This is practically what the phoebe, the robin and other birds do when they mix a liberal supply of grasses and other plant fibers, and even strings, through "their con cretions of mud. From "Xature and Science" in St. Xicholas. Ships Sink to the Bottom. Professor Davis of Harvard uni versity, author of a noted physical geography, sa)'s, "Anything which is heavy enough to sink at the top will sink all the way to the bottom." Water is almost incompressible, and for this reason its density, even at the greatest depths, varies very slightly from that at the surface; hence steel will be of greater dens ity than water at any depth and will consequently sink to the bottom.