NEARING ITS CLOSE
Only Two More Days Remain in
Which to Secure Balance of
Sum Needed for Work.
FINAL APPEAL FOR FUNDS
WAS SENT OUT LAST WEEK
President Crooks and a Large
Committee Working Hard in
Portland Today.
Continued from Monday, Dec. 30.
The biggest thing before the people
' now is the matter of completion of Al
bany College Endowment campaign.
Strenuous work is being done by
many people and complete success is
nearly assured. It only remains for
everyone to boost during the hours
that remain of 1912.
This article aims to tell the people
of Albany what is being done and
how they can help to win a new and
greater Albany College that shall he
on a firm financial basis with $250,000
of endowment and with every proba
biliiy within a few years of growing
to something like the importance for
Albany of what the State University
now is to Kugene.
During the past week a financial
appeal has been sent out through the
Albany College Bulletin to six thou
sand people in Oregon and in the
last. Kvery mail is bringing sub
scription blanks cut from this Bul
letin filled out. One such blank this
morning was for $200. Large display
advertisements have been appearing
in "The Continent" of Chicago and
other Kastren Presbyterian papers,
each containing a subscription blank.
Over five thousand blank subscrip
tion cards were scut to pastors in
Oregon for use in their congregations
Sunday, A final appeal was sent them
also by telegraph giving the latest
figures of the campaign.
President Crooks returned home
Saturday night for an important rhect
ing of the Board of Trustees and is in
Portland today sending telegrams to
scores, of people, some of whom have
promised help at the Inst. The can
vass is being continued actively in
Portland today and tomorrow by
President Croolis, Dr. Ferguson', and
the Portland committee of business
men in charge of Mr. Fletcher Linn.
A committee of Albany business men
will go to Portland tomorrow to help
in this canvass. Local business men
arc to canvass in Salem, Corvallis,
and Lebanon today and tomorrow.
The final canvass will be made in Al
bany tomorrow.
Saturday a subscription, as yet un
announced, was received by telegraph
from the Knst for $5,1)00. This morn
ing another $5,(XX) subscription was
received from the state of Oregon.
The Salem church subscribed over
$400 yesterday. The amount now
needed is between $22,000 and $23,000,
the raising of which will insure the
coming to Albany in cash of about
$110,000 of Eastern money and about
the same amount from the state of
Oregon, in all something like $220,000
of outside money. It will also insure
the new and great Albany College
which will be worth to Albany far
more than these amounts. Let every
one lift in these closing hours. Do
not compel the committee to call on
you. Kill out and sign the subscrip
tion blank in today's paper and mail
it or hand it in to J. C. Irvine, Wil
liam Kortmillcr, or to the college of
fice. SUFFRAGETTES FOLLOW
ADVICE OF MRS. CATT
Wore Trousered Costume at
District Suffragette Ball in
New York.
New York. Dec. 27. It has come .it
last' Suffragettes are carrying out
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt's sugges
tion that her followers adopt the
trousered costume tf the Chinese suf
fragettes. And what's more they liked them
so much, they kept them on when
they attended the district suffragette
ball, and hridget and Mary Ann got
a night off. They didn't have to wait
up to unhook Miss Suffragette's gown
w hen she returned home from the
ball.
It was a perfectly grand experience,
according to the suffragette, and the
successful experiment of en franchis
ing themselves from paitsian fashion
sl.i vcr was crowned with ttiumph
when they discovered that Mrs, Catt,
as must of honor at the ball, be.uned
approving tv upon them across the
floor.
l'hr floor of Leslie Hall, in West
Kighty thud Micet, was filled with
th tiuiiMii'd women.
I heii b.itl programs were, however,
free from their husband's names. N'ot
omc Ki-dtand of the tr-useied Mitn.i
tfetle was present at the ball Some
i-t tin- women w.re the new costume
earlier in the day while painting tile
outride of the interborough suttta
geite club houe at No. JJ7 West
Kighty -thitd street admitted that they
did not go home to dinner, and they
teallv did not know how their hus
bands felt toward tlie costume.
Uthcts nervously explained the ab
sence of their husbands from the ball
by saying that the men did not dance.
PRETTY ROMANCE RESULTS IN
WEDDING OF ALBANY GIRL
MissAgnesCraftandMr.Thomas
Wright of Moscow Idaho Are
United by Spokane Mayor.
A romance which started when Miss
Agnes Craft of this city was employ-
d m one ul the leading millinery es
tablishments of Moscow, Idaho, as
head milliner, culminated in her mar
riage last Ihursday in bpokane to
Mr. Thomas Wright, a prominent and
prosperous druggist of Moscow.
1 he marriage was pertormed ty
Rev. Hindlev. mayor of Spokane, at
his residence in that city and was at
tended by a tew intimate menus ot
the young couple.
The bride, who is a daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. M. B. Craft of this city, re
sided in Albany tor many years ana
was at one time the popular and suc
cessful candidate for Goddess of Lib
erty at one of Albany's big fourth of
lulv celebrations. She is a young
lady of many accomplishments and ex
cellent attainments, naving a nosi oi
friends in this, city, her former home.
The first intimation of the wedding
that the parents of the bride had, oc
curred last evening when Mr. and
Mrs. Wright arrived from Spokane
and the bride surprised her parents
and sister with a personal announce
ment of the happy event.
Mr. and Mrs. Wright will spend
several days this week visiting their
friends and relatives in Albany after
which they will return to Moscow
where they will make their future
home. They have the best wishes of
their many friends in this city.
STRAIN OF MODERN LIFE
DECREASES BIRTH RATE
London Medical Officer's Statis
tics Show Changes in
Fifty Years.
London, Dec. 26. The annual re
port of the medical officer to the
Local Government Board, Dr. News
holme, offers some interesting com
ments on the strain of modern life in
the great centers of population.
Leading off with statistics of birth
and death rates, the report points out
that the last 50 years have shown
great changes in this regard, as shown
in the following table:
1861 1871 1881 1891 1901
Percentage 1871. 1881. 1891. 1901. 1911
Increase by
births 37.6 37.9 34.2 31.6 28.6
Decrease by
deaths 24.0 22.8 20.3 19.2 16.2
Natural in
crease 13.6 15.1 13.9 12.4 12.4
The national significance of these
figures is unmistakable, says the re
port. The birth rate may, and unless
a change in social outlooks occurs
probably will, decline to considerably
greater extent, but the decline of the
death rate is necessarily limited.
The improvement in the death rates
has not extended beyond the middle
of life, for the more advanced ages
enter into it scarcely at all. A series
of figures and tables, taken from the
reports of the Gegistrar-Gencral, show
for males between the periods of
1841-45 and 1906-10 respectively a re
duction of mortality which reaches a
maximum of 64 per cent between the
ages of 5 and 10 and gradually de
clines to 3 per cent between 45 and 55,
changing in the next two decades of
life to a rate increased by 9 and 8 per
cent respectively.
For females the figures arc some
what better, the decrease of death rate
between the ages of 45 and 55 being
still equal to 15 per cent and a very
small decrease continunig until 85 is
reached, but the gain being greatly
less than in the earlier decades.
In considering these figures Dr.
Newsholme points out that the in
crease in the death rate among men at
ages 45-40, when the period 1841-45 is
contrasted with that from 1861 to 1895
inclusive, and the failure during the
same period of death rate in women
at the same ages to decline are facts of
great social significance.
Two circumstances, he says, have
doubtless been largely instrumental
in keeping up the death rate to an un
necessarily high one. These are the
rapidly increasing aggregation of pop
ulation in towns and tlie associated
industrial conditions affecting large
masses of the population, both male
ami tcmale.
This conclusion is supported by Dr.
Stevenson, who in the annual report
of the Registrar-General for 19119
draws- attention to the marked de
gree of correspondence between the
ages at which ttte urban is the highest
as compared with rural mortality and
the ages at which the Knglish death
rate is mgrter than that ot other eoun
tries.
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Miss Melissa Martin returned last
night to Tangent where she is teach
ing at the, high school.
Senator Milt A. Miller of Lebanon;
passed through Albany this afternoon 1
! ti Cortland where he will look after
1 ploitical matters.
! V. t Hreckenridge and daughter
i Miss Sue of this city returned home
; this afternoon from Lebanon where
they v'ii.'d at the home of Mr. and
; Mrs. Stanley Stewart.
! Horn To Mr. and Mrs. William
H. Hornibrook. on Monday morning,
December MK 1U, a daughter.
T S. Roberts, a noted organist of
Salem, spent Sunday in Albany visit
ing at the home of Mr, and Mr. Sam
uel C. Worrell.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Noekes and fam
ily of Sheridan spent Christmas in Al
bany visiting at the home of Mrs.
I Hoekes parents, Mr. and Mrs. 1. IV
: Stephens, of 1014 Kast Filth street.
1. 1. Herchtold, of Corvallis. was
a Sunday visitor in Albany. He was
, registered at the Van Drau.
Tickets Are Selling Fast and a
Record Crowd Is Expected
to Attend Concert.
CONCERT WILL BE HELD AT
ARMORY TOMORROW NIGHT
Admission Is Fifty Cents and
Tickets Can Be Secured at
Two Local Retail Stores.
Hundreds of Albany peopre will at
tend the concert to be given by the
famous military band of the Oregon
Agricultural College at the Armory in
this city tomorrow evening and from
the way the tickets are selling now,
the auditorium will be taxed to its
capacity.
The band has been touring western
Oregon during the holidays and at
every city in which it has appeared,
the band has been greeted with pack
ed houses.
1 he newspaper reports oi the con
cert given by the aggregation are
verv flattering and the concert has
been entirely satisfactory to the peo
ple ot the uregon towns ana cities
where the band has appeared thus
far.
The program to be rendered by the
band includes some of the best com
positions ever written and which are
found in the repertoire of all profes
sional bands.
The leading feature of the evening's
program and one which the music lov
ers of Albany are awaiting with inter
est is the selections from grand opera
to be rendered by Prof. H. L. Rees,
the well known singer, who will sing
tomorrow evening with full band ac
companiment. "Pinto" Colvig, a prominent young
cartoonist who is a student at hte
college, will also contribute much to
the evening's entertainment with his
exhibition of drawing and caricature
work.
The tickets arc on sale at Ander
son's jewelry store and VVoodworth's
drug store at fifty cents each.
Following is the program to be ren
dered by the band:
1. March, "The O. A. C, Booster"
H. L. Beard. .
2. Overture, " Semi r amide" Ros
sini. 3. "Forest Echoes" Keislcr.
4. Duct for Cornet and Trom
bone Bellini. From Opera Norma,
played by Edward Doodcock, trom
bone, and Everett Moses, cornet.
5. Selection from Grand Opera,
"Tannhauser" Wagner.
Intermission Fifteen minutes of
fast and foolish ideas by "Pinto, the
nightmare of caricature.
6. "Dance of the Serpents" Hoc
calari. 7. Baritone solo, "Toreador's Song"
from Grand Upcra Carmen, Bizet.
Sung bv Mr. H. L. Rees.
8. "Anvil Chorus," from II Trova-
tore Verdi. (By request.)
9. Humoresque, "What's the Mat
ter with Father" Lampc.
10. March, "Sempre Fidclis" Sou
sa.
Star Spangled Banner.
Mrs. Iva Hill and son of Philom
ath spent the holidays at the home of
.Mrs. Hill's mother, Mrs. 1; U. bteph
ens, at 1014 East Fifth street.
William Woods, the well known
drummer at the Empire theatre, has
been confined to his home for several
days with ekness and has been un
able to perform his duties at the thea
tre. Miss Alice Birtchett of this city
spent Sunday with her parents, Mr,
and Mrs. I. W. Birtchett near Dever
Miss Grace Gilbert of this city spent
Min day with her at the tarm.
Mrs. Merill D. Phillips of Oregon
City is in Albany to attend the funeral
of her mother, the late Mrs. Schlosscr
who died last Saturday.
J. A. McFcrron, a former Albany
grocer and ex-sheriff of Linn county,
returned to Portland this morning af
ter spending several days visiting
friends and relatives in Brownsville.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Donaca of
Lebanon spent Sunday in Albany vis
j ting friends and relatives.
News Beginning With This Head Is
From Daily Issue of t
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31.
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FAIRMOUNT GRANGE HOLDS
AN INTERESTING MEETING
Candidates Intitatited and Offi
cers Elected for the Ensuing
Year.
Editor of Democrat:
On last Saturday myself and wife
visited Fairmount Grange which is
located in Benton county one-half
mile north of the steel bridge.
The have a good hall, well finished,
which makes for them a pleasant
home.
The attendance was not what it
should have been, as their roll book
shows a good membership.
One new member was introduced
in the third and fourth degrees.
A nice dinner was spread before us
and a splendid social time was spent
around the table, which all present
seemed to enjoy.
Some good suggestions were offered
by the local talent of which they have
an abundance; this was followed by
extended remarks by the writer who
used his best endeavors to arouse
more enthusiasm and interest in their
work.
This grange is like many others
which 1 visit. In the last few years
they have lost a number of their best
working members by reason of them
changing their location. This always
works a hardship on any kind of an
organization and causes some to be
come discouraged and feet like there is
too much responsibility resting on
them. This should not be; but let
us always look on the bright side,
hoping for something better in the
future than there has been in the
past.
We feel that there is a bright fu
ture before Fairmount Grange; and
hope when we make our next visit
to find them full of enthusiasm and
a bright smile on their faces ready to
greet us in the usually kind and
friendly manner.
Three visitors were present, which
had a tendency to add interest to the
work. This was their regular elec
tion day, but owing to the distance
and conditions of the roads to our
home we were compelled to take our
leave before the officers were chosen.
We expect to meet a number of
them at Albany on the first Saturday
in January, when the Linn County
Council will hold a regular monthly
meeting in Busard's hall.
J. H. SCOTT.
SCIENTISTS DISCOVER
THE MISSING HI
At Least That Is What They
Say Over a Find in
England.
London, Dec. 30. Darwin is vindi
cated. The missing link has been
found at last. This is the opinion of
scientists who have examined the hu
man skull recently found in a dried
ud oond in Sussex,
The skull, which was laid before the
Geological bociety this week by
Charles Dawson and Dr. A. Smith
Woodward, is pronounced without
doubt a remnant of the oldest type
of man ever discovered. Its age is so
great that scientists refuse to attempt
to calculate it in terms of years. It is
far older than the skulls of the cave
men, which have previously been dis
covered in France, Germany and Bel
gium, and belongs to that "lower
pleiscocene period."
The features of this skull, which
has become known as the "Piltdown
skull," are:
First, it is twice the thickness of the
ordinary human skull.
Second, the forehead is as steep as
the ordinary skull with scarcely any
of the ridge at the brow which charac
terizes the cavemen's skulls.
Third, the back of the head is very
low and broad, indicating that the
neck resembled an ape's more than a
man's neck.
Fourth, the brain capacity is two
thirds that of the average man nad
equal to the lowest average now liv
ing. I'ifth, the most remarkable feature
is that the jawbone, although bearing
human teeth, is shaped like that of a
chimpanzee.
Dr. Woodward says concerning
this:
"The inference is that the man ac
quired a human brain before he ac
quired a human face and jaw and pow
er of articulation. It shows indisput
able connection of man with apes. In
effect this discovery of this rounded
skull seems to indicate that we are
very near the original human being,
more especially when one considers
that this creature, though having a hu
man brain, possessed the jaw of a
rhimpanrec."
WATCH THIS SPACE
Special Sales of
November 18th
No. 1 CEDAR
FENCE POSTS
AT THE
ALBANY LUMBER COMPANY
DYING, SHE URGES THAT
INCURABLES BE KILLED
Clergyman's Wife Pleads for a
Merciful Ending of Suffering
That is Beyond Relief.
Philadelphia, Dec. 30. Mrs. Wil
liam L. Squier, wife of an aged Pres
byterian minister, residing at Atco,
near Camden, N. J., who has been
bedridden fur many months suffering
from a tumor and has become so weak
that death may come at any moment.
gave a remarkable interview today.
"Our- lawst are wrong," she said.
"We have too' many of them. We pile
tnem up iKe tne emidren ot Israel dm,
and then we have to have them in
terpreted to us. . There is one law of
the New Testament that should be the
basis of all our code: 'Do unto others
as you would be done by.'
"1 am sure if this were carried out I
would not be here suffering now.
Nobody could want the thing to hap
pen to them that has happened to
me. 1 am sure I would love to live
if I could get through. But I can't;
I can only stay and stay and stay.
Wouldn't it be much better if I could
just go to sleep? Wouldn't it be kind
and merciful if the law would let the
doctor put me to sleep?
"Science knows a way out of o'ur
troubles; it is kind. It has the key to
the land of' everlasting sleep. But the
law won't let it use it. Every doctor
will tell you that people importune
him to kill them. Every doctor will
tell you of patients whom he would
like to help out of their misery
whom he knows can't live except for
a short, or perhaps a long time in
agony.
"Aren't we evolved'enough, haven't
we faith enough in the hereafter and
in the goodness of God to drop our
old superstitions, and to' be scientifi
cally kind?"
ilrs. Squier applied to the Cooper
Hospital in Camden imploring the
surgeons to operate on her, but fear
ing she would die under the opera
tion they declined.
Last week Airs. Squier appealed to
the chief surgeon of a Philadelphia
hospital, praying that he take the one
chance and operate;, but as yet has
not received an answer.
LL OF THE LATE GHAS.
B. MONTAGUE FILED
Widow Is Given a Life Estate
in Property; Estate Valued
at $20,000.
.A petition asking for the probate
of the estate of the late Chas. B.
Montague has been filed at the office
of the county clerk of Linn county by
the widow of the deceased.
In the petition the probable value
of the estate in this county is placed
at $20,000.00 and of this sum $19,000
.00 is invested in real estate and the
balance in personal property. The
petition also refers to o'ther property
owned ill King county, Washington,
and the petitioner alleges that the val
ue of such property is unknown.
In Jhc will of the late Chas. B. Mon
tague, the widow is given a life estate
in all of his property and a deed in
fee simple to the family residence.
After her decease the property is to
be equally divided between Elmer
Montague, a son, Mary M. Gibbons,
a daughter, Chas. D. Montague, a
son, Ida D. McCourtney, a daughter,
Robert B. Montague, a son, and Chas.
Davidson, a grandson and heir of
Clara M. Davidson, a daughter.
J. H. Erskine passed through Al
bany today on his way to Newport
where he wil reside in the future. He
has been living at Brownsville.
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SAWMILL
MILITARY BAND ARRIVED IN
ALBANY THIS M
Will Give New Years Concer
at the Armory Tonight at
8 O'clock Sharp.
Tonight at 8 o'clock, the fa
mous O. A. C. military band of
thirty pieces under the leadership
of Capt. H. L. Beard will ap
pear at the armory under the aus
pices of the Albany Military
Club.
The program which was pub
lished in the local newspapers
last evening includes many fa
mous compositions and will re
quire over two hours to present.
Accompanying the band is Pro'f.
Reese, the eminent singer who
will render several selections
from grand opera, with full band
accompaniment.
The band arrived in Albany
this morning in their special car
from Roseburg where they play
ed last evening to a packed
house. This afternoon the band,
the members of whom were at
tired in the neat olive drab uni
form of the cadet, paraded
through the streets of the busi
ness section, t playing several
stirring selections.
Plenty of comfortable seats
have been arranged at the armo
ry for everybody. The boys are
highly recommended and should
be given a New Year's crowd
that will long be remembered
here. The admission is 50 cents.
Everybody go tonight.
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MISFITS
6) Contributed By F. P.. Nutting.
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Business has been good, the best
of any year, with a wider range.
And' the city voted to remain dry
by a decisive vote.
The outlook for 1913 is very good
indeed, with many fine enterprises in
the air ready for realization. We
must be equal to the occasion.
Albany's splendid reputation along
many lines should be enhanced and
the good work kept gonig.
The biggest national event has been
the election of Woodrow Wilson as
president of the United States, put
ting into power the democratic party
for the first time in many years. It
offers a great responsibility; but the
outlook is excellent for a consumma
tion of the promises. The new pres
ident will have the support and confi
dence of the masses, which is what
counts.
The biggest thing in Albany this
year is probably the success of the
campaign for the endowment of $250,
000 for Albany College, practically as
sured at this writing. It will mean
great things for the future of Albany's
educational interests. With such a
foundation the endowment will in
crease and money for new buildings
will come easy. Those who have giv
en have done well.
But this has been a great year in
the progress of Albany along all lines.
The building record is a splendid one
some of the city's finest structures
going up this year, with others on
the way, including the best hotel in
the state outside of Portland, the
best banking building and the best
filtration ulant. Sixty blocks of pave
ment, the arrival of the great Oregon
Electric, between fifty and a hundred
new residences, a new school build
ing, several bricks and many other
improvements make the year one that
has attracted wide attention, giving
Albany a reputation unsurpassed by
any of the smaller cities of the state.
Judge W. L. Wells of Halsey was
shaking hands with friends in this
city today.
P. Bitzcr of Winthrop, Oregon, ar
rived in the Hub Citv last evening
and will spend a few days here visit
ing friends.
Mr. and Mrs. George W. Wheatley
of Seattle arrived in Albany last night
for a few days' visit with friends and
relatives in this city.
Walter Huston o"f this city is seri
ously ill at his home in this city with
a severe attack of appendicitis.
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Herbert Robinson, age 27, and Lau
ra Newland, age 21, both of Waterloo,
Uregon.
xiC1d! AckIc ase 38- and Josephine
M. Colver age 21. both of Albany,
ci """'Worth, age 22, and
tlsie Morris, age 21, both of Leba
non. ,nYuS' )r"i Re 32' of Lebanon;
and Hazel V. Smith, age 18, of Crab-tree.
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