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The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-07-02
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She-"You wouldn't think Mr.. Hen
peck had been married ten years, would
you?" The Old Bach-"'No, Wonder
fully well preserved, isn't he ."'-Life. !.
Down at the bottom Of a well a
Lies truth; an adage old,
Yet truth, forsooth, is like a bell
That's very seldom tolled.
Philadelphia Record.
Ella-'I suppose my engagement 10
Fred was a complete surprise to YOU"
Stella-"Your engagement to anybody
would have been a complete surprise
to me."-Brooklyn Life.
But 1 don't believe he said, chat
a man profits by his mistakes" You
don't?" mo, l don't. Why, I've made
enough mistakes to be rich IL l could
profit by them."-Chicago Post.
Miss Oldgirl (who writes) 81 am
thinking of writing a love story found
ed on my own experience Miss May
budd-'Oh, dear me! Couldn't you
bring it to a happier ending?"-Judgc. :,
The poet sang of single bliss;
Then met a maid and kissed her
He's married now. and knows a kiss
May turn one S bliss to blister.
philadelphia Record.
Visitor-"How do you get along with
out models for your child studies %
Daubley-"Oh, that's easy. l just have
my wife read me one of her club cs-
says On model children" Chicago
News.
Look at the way baby's working lis
MOUTH" exclaimed Mrs. Newman.
'Now, he proposes to put his foot in
it." "H'm!" replied her husband,
grumpily. Observation-Disclosures
Press.
"The first thing to be DONE" said the
committeeman in an important tone.
'is to organize. Therefore," IL beg
your pardon" said an older member.
1--WE have not been photographed yet"
Judge.
During a sudden thunderstorm a lit.
tie four-year-old came running into the
kindergarten crying. as If her heart
would break. When the kindergarten
asked her the cause of her trouble she
said, 'Oh, Miss E., the Sky barkcd at
me."-Ram's Horn.
why is it," asked the curious guest,
THAT the poor men usually give larger
tips than rich men?' ''YVell, subj" said
the waiter, "de POI mar don want no.
body to fin out he's po', and de rich
man don't want nobody to fin out he's
rich, suh."-Chicago Tribune.
"Oh," sighed Mrs. Younglove, 81 do
wish your Aunt Ophelia would go
home. She's so tiresome, and Pm
really beginning to be afraid that she's
decided to live with us all the rest OF
her life" "Well, dear" he answered.
do you think l had better rent a piano
for youT"-Chicago Record-Herald.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-07-02
81 a Long
Remembered
,Ww Fourth
By z lward Young Clarke, n.

me, it is Il very
painful situation. Thes q
heart troubles come as
a great shock. OF course
you may live eighteen
months, but it would be
wiser II you counted Gu
not more than Il year.
You have my deepest
professional sympathy
but" and the Gootor
hesitatcd a moment be-
fore he continued, my
time is very precious"
John Elliott had hardly
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-07-02
The Fireworks Corps.

"How do you celebrate the Fourth
of JulyT'
swell, we take care of the Jones
children half the day, and the Joneses
half"
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-07-02

"IIenry. you are getting old
Nothing OF the sort"
"Yes-you are; every Fourth of July.
now, you tell me about how your folks
used to have to cool the watermelon In
a tub Of pump water"
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-07-02

of its life.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-02-27
FULL PARTICULARS.
Description Of Property That Lacked
Nothing in Detail or Conn
pleteness.

I'm making a deal last year." said a De
trolt Spectator, according to the Free Press,
4 came into possession of the deed to a
certain piece of land in North Dakota. The
value of the real estate was put at $500, and
| paid taxes on it in January, and in Febru-
airy | wrote to the postmaster of the nearest
town to send me particulars concerning my
holdings. | sent him 81 for his trouble, and
he earned the money. He wrote back:
Went over to see your land.
Cussed poor road all the way.
Cussed poor road back again.
Most of your land is under water.
What amt under water is afflicted
with drought.
You've either got to wet it all up or
dry it all out.
Can't burn up or run away.
Keep your taxes up and pray to the
Lord.
"'Glad you sent me 50 instead of the
deed.
IF you want any further particulars III
ship you a barrel of water"
The Tupelo journal., 1903-02-27
just In Time.

Broadland, So. Oak, Feb. 23rd.-Beadle
county has never been so worked up as
during the last few weeks. Every one is
talking of the wonderful case of G. w.
Gray, of Broadland, the particulars of which
are best told in the following statement
which Mr.. Gray has just published:
Il was dying. | had given up all hope: l
was PROSTATE and as helpless as a little babe.
| had been ailing with Kidney Trouble for
many years and it finally turned to Brlghts
disease. All medicine had failed and was
in despair.
81 ordered one box of Dodd's Kidney Pills
and this first box helped me out of bed.
continued the treatment till now | am a
strong, well man. | praise God for the day
when | decided to use Dodd's Kidney Pills"
Everybody expected that Mr., Gray would
die. and his remarkable recovery is regarded
as little short of a miracle by all who know
how very,low he was. Dodd's Kidney Pills
are certainly a wonderful remedy.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-02-27
Business

The NJ. X. & T. Ry. has a well estab-
lished Industrial Department, aiding in
the selection of sites and locations for in
dustries of all kinds along its lines. Write
if you are interested. We will send book,
Business Chances" and any other in
formation wanted. Address James Barker,
Gen1 Pass. Agent, NJ. X. & T. Ry., 204
Wainwright Bldg, St. Louis.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-02-27

Do not believe Piso's Cure for Consump'
ton has an equal for coughs and colds.-J.
f. Boyer, Trinity Springs, Ind, Feb. Is, 1900
The Tupelo journal., 1903-02-27

"A creative economy is the fuel of mag
nifcence,' says Emerson. We merely quote
this as a tip to people who are short any
other kind.zIndianapolis News.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-02-27
StOps thu Cough

Every time the unexpected happens the
I-told-you-so person Is on the spot.-lndl-
ananolis News.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-02-27

We work hard to perfect our bogles and
then frighten ourselves to death over them.
United Presbyterian.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-02-27

Forbearance is always more heroic than
fghting.-Ram's Horn.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-02-27

and works off the cold. Laxative Bromo
Quinine Tablets. Price 25 cents
The Tupelo journal., 1903-02-27
So says Mrs. Josie Irwin, of
325 So. College ST., Nashville,
Tenn, of Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound.

Never in the history of medicine has
the demand for one particular remedy
for female diseases equalled that at
tanned by Lydia e. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, and never
during the lifetime of this wonderful
medicine has the demand for it been
SO great as it is to-day.
From the Atlantic to the Pacific,
and throughout the length and breadth
of this great continent come the glad
tidings of woman's sufferings relieved
by it, and thousands upon thousands
Of letters are pouring in from grateful
women saying that it will and posi-
lively does cure the worst forms of
female complaints.
Mrs. Pinkham invites all wO.
men who r puzzled about
their health to write her at Lynn,
Mass, for advice. Such CORE.
spOndence is seen by women only,
and no charge is made.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-02-27

ANY one can dye with Putnam Fadeless
Dye, no experience required.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-02-27

There is no power sufficient to make a
man out of putty.-Ram's Horn.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-02-27

within Our Capabilities.
1t is better to tr~in a great thought
than to psint great picture.-Unitsj
Presbyterian.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-07-08
TEE MARE WON.
Poem About It-Fourthss Fin Alsea-Rev.
Emery Was Here-Other News

Poem About t-Fourth..in Alsea-Rev.
Emery Was Here-Other News
Following are the subjects to be
discussed at the tent meetings:
Wednesday evening: shall we
Know Each Other in Heaven"
Thursday evening: "Ten Corvallis
Reasons why l shall not be a
Christian. Sunday at 3 o'clock
p. m. meeting for women only.
subject, "The Power of Woman"
Rev. and Mrs Emery visited in
Corvallis from the 3rd to the 9th,
leaving for Portland on Monday.
Mrs Emerywill be with her brother
J. A, Finley. for week, but Mr..
Emery will leave the city in time to
go directly home to fill an appoint
ment on the 8th. Mrs. Emery will
return to Corvallis for a brief time
before going to California.
Accounts agree that the celebra-
ton at Alsea Saturday was sue
cess. 1t was the joint product of
the Modern Woodmen, the Grange
and the schools of the vicinity. A
leading feature was table 100 feet
long loaded with edlbl fit for the
palate of epicureans>, Other faa-
lures were literary and musical
program and addresses by M. A.
Miller of Iebanon, T. T. Vincent
and J. B. Irvine of Corvallis. and
an address of welcome by Marion
Hayden. After the program and
addresses, there were foot races, and
contests of various kinds.
Another race took place Monday
evening between George Browns
horse and Gene Tortora' bay mare.
The previous one was mile race
and the contest was a tie. The
last one was half mile $40 aside
and the mare won easily. Gene
rode his own animal and Ned
Smith rode for Brown. The horse
was hot favorite before the race
and only a small amount of money
changed hands. From the discus
sion and suggestion which followed
the events a poem has been evol-
we'd by the sports from which the
following is an extract.
On Monday eve furious race
Was run in Avery's pastor"
Where Tatora said to Farmer"
Smith,
"come on a little faster"
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-07-08
GOOD NATURED DEAF MUTE.
He Sells Extracts and Writes Stories
Two of his Brief Ones.

E. E. Ellsworth is a deaf-m ute
who makes periodical trips to Cor
wallis and sells extracts. Contrary
to the rule in such cases, he is good
natured and has no claim on the
world other than those to which all
men are entitled. He is man Of
few words rarely INDUCES in the
incivility of pressing himself for
ward to listen to private conver-
sation. He bestows upon the lady
who declines to buy his goods, the
same smile which his liberal pa
irons receive, an evidence that his
heart is in the right place.
In his travels Mr.. Ellsworth
makes the best of his remaining
senses. He remembers what he
learns, and gives newspaper men
a pointer now and then. Here are
couple of brief stories with which
he favors The TIMES:
I want to tell you something
about how they do things
in Arkansas. Were you ever
there? But it don't make any
difference to me whether you have
been or not, only this incident may
not be a surprise to you ifyou know
Arkansas. I was travelling through
that state some time ago and stop
ped over night at cabin. Next
morning when I got up, there was
nobody about the house. But later
I located the family and a good
sized assemblage on the bank of
river short distance away. Some
body had found the remains of a
man who had been drowned, and
the gathering was subjecting the
corpse to coroner's inquest. On
the remains were found, among
other things, $63.75 and revolver
The judge found the dead man
guilty of carrying a concealed wea.
pom and fined him $3.50. Half of
the fine went to the judge and half
to the man who found the body.
The sum of rs cents was sent East
to the folks.
This is about a deaf man who got
his hearing in a manner for which
no medicine man can claim the
credit.
"How do you do, Mrs. Nc
Carty?"
"Doing fine, Mrs. o'Too1. How
are you?''
"Never felt better in my life"
"And tell me, how is your deaf
brother getting on?''
"Oh, I think be is some better
now, and he will be all right in the
morning
''You don't say! What is help
ing him so much?"
well you see, he got arrested a
while ago, and the police judge said
he would give him his hearing in
the morning. I suppose there is
some other new invention out that
works miracles"
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-07-08
BIG SHOOTING MATCH ON THE FOURTH OF JULY.
1t the Only Entertainment in Corvallis that Day-Pr1z
Individual Scores, Totals and Averages.

Entertainment Corvallis that Day-Pr1zes Awarded
Individual Scores, Totals and Averages.
shooting arranged local last Satur
ed Quite number visiting shooters and
took The dsagreeabe and windy
and accounted for the low the but every
match and number of special not
decided until the completed
The different evenly divided securing
The Club cleared above
ofa shooting stand for the Gun Club.
Gibson and filed this
sion most efficiently.
Only through of the first nine
eligible special offered for the 2nd 3d
lowest and the percent figured from these matches
the last made after the regular program
finished.
per only three
of the targets
gain which did
the general
and divided the cash
of IS.
Kiger, 2nd the S. platinum photos donated by Emery
nicIed reel donated by K NJ Wade q
Co
average, the shells donated by j. R. Smith
& Co.
The individual of each shooter given
following figures the column the
number targets figures opposite the the number
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-07-08
To the Public,

I have leased my truck for the period
of one year to L. F. Wooster, who will
engage in the truck business. I thank
my eatrons for past favors, and bespeak
for my successor liberal patronage.
1 have taken the Office in the Fisher
brick, over the postoffice. formerly oc-
cupied by F. P. Morgan, and shall en-
gage in the real estate, renting, loan
and insurance business. I shall be glad
to have owners list with me, property
that they have for sale, or houses they
have to rent.
G. A. Robinson,
Corvallis.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-07-08
Administrators Sale.
A. Robinson,
Corvallis.

In the Matter of the Estate of L. M. Mattoon,
deceased.
Notice is hereby given that under and in pur-
suance to an order of sale made by the County
Court of the state of oregon, for Benton County
on the 18th day of June, A. D. 1908; in the above
entitled matter the undersigned as admins
tratrix of the Estate of L. NJ, Nation, de.
ceased, will from and after the 18th day OF
July A. D. 1903, proceed to sell at private sale to
the highest bidder for cash in hand all the es-
tate right, title and interest which the said de-
ceased had at the time of his death in and to
the following described real property, towit.
The East half of the Northeast Quarter, the
North half of the Southeast quarter and the
Northeast quarter Of the Southwest quarter of
Section Seven; and the Northwest quarter OF the
Southwest quarter of Section Eight; and all
that portion OF the Northwest quarter of Sec. s,
T, II, S. R. ". lying West of the middle of the
County road from Corvallis to Yaquina Bay
running through said Section all in Township
IL south Range z West VIII Mer. in Benton
County Oregon, and containing about 259
acres,
Also Lots numbered one(1) and twot2l in
Block No. two(2) in the town of Summitville,
Benton County, Oregon.
Dated this June 10th, 1908,
EMMA A, MATToooN,
Administratrix of the Estate of L. NJ, Mattoon,
deceased,
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-07-08
REWARDS OFFERED.
For Little Garnet McCready Who is
Still Missing The River Theory.

The search for little Garnet Nc
Cready, who disappeared nearly a
week ago, is still unrewarded. In
the minds of about all people there
is now settled conviction that the
child is in the river. The
father is an unwilling convert to
this theory. He said Saturday
every other theory. after being in
vestigated, seems impossible. 1t
has been definitely learned that
none of the strange people in town
on the day of the disappearance,
were gypsies. All, indeed who left
the vicinity on that day were hea-
ded off by the authorities, and salts
factory explanation of their move
ment secured.
With this information at hand,
and after various and oft-repeated
examinat; on of every spot in the
vicinity of the disappearance, the
one and only theory that affords
rational explanation for the contin-
ued absence of the little girl, is the
Willamette with its ever present
willingness to swallow up the help.
less in its waters. In consequent
ce, the search in other directions
has been abandoned, and attention
now confined exclusively
to the river. A constant pa
troll is maintained below the point
where the child was last seen. An
especially. sharp lookout is now kept
for bodies are supposed under ordi-
nary conditions to rise in about
nine days after death by drowning.
If the water is warm they come to
the surface sometimes sooner; if
cold, even a longer period is requir-
ed.
A circumstance favorable to an
early rising of the body, if little
Garnet is really in the water, is the
low stage of the river. Ifthe water
were high currents would be
stronger and more or less sand
would be washed into the clothing
with the effect that the body would
be held longer under the surface
This, with the apparent advent of
warmer weather suggests that with
in the next few days the river may
give up its dead, if dead it has.
For the body a reward of 500 is
offered, from funds contributed for
the purpose by citizens. An addi-
tional reward of 5000 has been pos
ted for the recovery of'the child, if
alive. The latter is offered by the
father with a view of stimulating
watchfu1ness for little Garnet, in
case she has been stolen.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-07-08
THEIR FIND.
Said to be Worth a Hundred How
Came it There.

A party of three, consisting of o.
w. Beckwith, Charles Beckwith
and Rol1ie Hart were returning
from a biackberrying expedition up
the Willamette few days ago, dis
coveredAa one inch wire cable, the
loop of which extended above the
water. The scene was at the site
of the old Blumhart ferry which
operated between the Corvallis
Flouring mills and the RAIDER farm
many years ago. They began an
investigation and in time the loop
proved to be part of wire cable
600 feet long. The cable was pulled
out on the bank, and turned out to
be what is known as half flexible
steel cable in a good state of preser-
vation. There is nothing but con-
lecture as to how the cable got there
1t is supposed at some time or an
other to have been used as a1ogging
cable. The people at the Corvallis
foundry say the value of the find is
about S1oo.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-07-08
WHERE THEY WENT.
Corval1isites on the Fourth - Rain
Mud and High Dive at Albany.

C0rVall1S1teS On the Fourth - KAN
Mud and High Dive at Albany.
Corva1lisites went towards all
points of the compass to spend the
Fourth. A considerable number
went to A1sea. and a few travelled
to Sodavil1e, where there was a
grange picnic. The main contingent,
however, went to Independence and
Albany. ! A motor special left Cor
wallis for independence at eight,
and carried all the passengers it
could accommodate. Oilers went
to the same town on the noon
train, and all returned in the even
ing. The celebration at Indepen-
dence was highly successful and all
who attended it report a pleasant
time. Two trains took people who
wanted to go to Albany. The first
left at 1890 and carried three
coaches well filled with passengers.
1t was the regular Yaquina train
an hour ahead of time. 1t retur-
ned later, and left Corvallis at,1I. 80
carrying another large contingent
of passengers. In addition, many
people from various parts Of the
county journeyed to Albany by
private conveyance. Many Of
them on account of rain, returned
home early in the afternoon.
At Albany there was not the
usual Fourth of July ceremony :.
Instead, the Carnival shows that
had been in the town through out
the week were in full blast at each
crossing of the main thoroughfare.
The streets and pavements were
muddy and sloppy during the after
noonon account of occasional driving
showers. The crowd was immense
and the exploson of fre-crackers
and bombs incesssant p"
AS early as three O'Clock inJ the
afternoon visitors fortunate enough
tobe provided with private convyance
turned their faces homeward. Com
missionar Jolly and Jerry Henkle
OF Ph1lomath were among these,
and they rolled out of the noise
and rain and mud while the
demonstration was at its full
height.
A real wonder of the attractions
on the street was the high dive in
which a man in pink tights climbed
a ladder to the height of eight feet,
jumped off backwards, turned two
somersaults, and alighted feet fore
most in tank of water. He did
the stunt three times on Saturday,
each time appearing on the edge of
his tank within few seconds after
his perilous leap. The feat is haz-
ardous in the extreme, and those
who saw it are all glad that they
did not see the performer in that
ultimate and inevitable leap
when something will go wrong,
and he makes his last high dive.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-07-08
NO INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM,

NO INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM,
Apparently, the initiative and
referendum is not, as was univer-
sally supposed, part of the Ore
gon state constitution. A decision
by four circuit judges in Multno-
NAH county last week declares that
the proceedings by the legislature
were irregular. and that the meas
ure is not in effect.
The state constitution in pro-
viding method by which it may
be amended says, 'Whi1e an
amendment or amendments shall
have been agreed upon by one leg
islative assembly shall be waiting
the action of legislative assembly
or of the electors, no additional
amendment or amendments shall
be proposed" 1t appears that
when the initiative and referendum
amendment was proposed February
E, 1899, that an equal-sufrage
amendment, proposed in 1895 was
pending and awaiting action by a
legislative assembly. The latter
fact barred, accordingly to the de-
cision, legal and regular submis-
sion of the initiative and referen-
DUN amendment. ..-...
In addition, four amendments.
proposed by the legislature of 1898,
were also pending when the init
iative and referendumwas proposed.
They were the repeating amend
ment, the municipal indebtedness,
the increase in number, of judges,
and the irrigation amendments.
They were agreed to in the 1egis-
1ature in 1895, but were not order
ed submitted to the electors until
1899. and were not actually SUBJ
mitted until the June election in
1900, several months after the pro-
posa1 of the initiative and referen-
dun. The pendency of these, and
the equal rights-amendment are
held by the Multnomah judges to
inva1idate the initiative and refer
-endum. 49,.
The matter came into the courts
in case involving the validity of
the Portland charter on pleadings
which held the charter to be valid
by reason of the fact that the init
iative and referendum is invalid
1t is probable that the matter will
go through the supreme court. and
the decision will be affirmed. Ov
er 81, 900 people voted for the in
itiative and referendum measure,
and only about 5000 votes were re-
corded against it. The measure
gave the people a veto over 1egis-
lative enactments, and acted as a
deterrent inf uence against bad leg
islation. It was step nearer an
ideal popular government, aud its
failure to stand, the test ofthe courts
is unfortunate. As was the case
recently in Missouri, as well as in
many similar instances in the older
states, time has shown how whole
sale corruption is possible in a re-
preventative government, and ul-
timately as people become more
and more educated. they will. ev-
erywhere demand the personal
legislative power that The initiative
and referendum confers. Irs de-
feat in Oregon is probably but
temporary.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-07-08

For lazy liver try Chamber
lain's Stomach and Liver Tablets.
They invigorats the liver, aid the
digestion and regulate the bowels
and prevent bilious attacks. For
sale by Allen & Woodward.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-07-08
Chase s $amborf1
BieE, Grade goffeeS.
p. n1. &ierolf.
A Bargain.

A Bargain.
If taken soon, 2 4 acres; one acres
in choice bearing fruit. A nice house,
barn and other buildings about one mile
from college grounds, and one half mile
from school house. Terms easy. CALI
on or write
B, R. Thompson,
Corvallis, Ore,
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-07-08
For Sale.

Pure bred Jersey COW, years old, also
complete set encyclopedia Britannica.
Enquire at residence on Jefferson street
corner of Sixth.
Cal Thompson.