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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-04-01
NEW PIANOS!!

NEW F1AlSOO :
$4,000 TO $500
cheaper than you can buy them in Portland
or of Portland agents. We claim to sell
struments of the same quality $50 to $75 cheaper
than any other agents within 800 miles. This
may seem like bOiu statement, but we are
prepared to back it mp with incontrovertible
evidence, if given chance.
ARGUMENT.
All large dealers, like the Portland firms,
have enormous expenses that we do not have
IN the way of immense rent, electric light.
clerk hire, freight, drayage and numerous
other bills Especially is this true of their
agents who cart their pianos around from
town to town. creating bills which you have to
share if you buy of them. Large firms save
about SO on piano bv buying in large carload
lots Do you think that makes up for the
above expenses? We'sre in position to sell
cheaper than any large firms and the way our
customer, are i. creasing gives evidence that
people are hnding it out. Beware of spec
iai sales, piano clubs and the like.
No firm can Sell goods at wholesale prices to
the retail trade and no firm does. We
always make profit on our pianos and never
give anyone special price, or sell to you for
less than your neighbor, us we have but one
price the year around There is not another
dealer in the Pacific Northwest, to our kpow!-
edge, which has strictly one price on each
piano from which they ever never deviate.
A least have talk with
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-04-01
Chief of Police.

I hereby announce myself cam
didate for the office of Chief of Po-
lice, at the coming election to be held
May Is, 1904, and if elected will endea-
vor to see that the laws are enforced to
the best of my ability.
LEE HENKLE,
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-04-01
Chief of Police.

I would respectfully announce myself
candidate for the Office of Chief of Po-
lice. subject to the will of the majority of
voters of Corvallis at the annual May
election. w. G.. LANE.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-04-01
Evidence of 1t,

Ejss Point Rr~eze-Mr. Homew ood
rssses tho v~.asd Pc grea; zeal
1z>s- E. s..ay N-1-Ie G-~s: Mr.
=. ~, ,-od y a pre&uz1>>.<& young man.
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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-04-01
A TheOrist.

Aren't you ashamed to lead this
reckless. idle ife?" inquired the elder
9y man.
NO answered the impertinent
spendthrift. 81 am a man of ad-
vanced sociological ideas. I'm one of
these people who believe it's a dis
grace to die. rich. Washington Star.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-04-01

Red Cedar Star Shingles at the saw
mill at $l.6O per M. E. w. STRONG.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-04-01

Nv "rirHas- hcak-1 see by the pa
S>er that women clean the streets of
aaunes-
Nr, Crimsonhea eak-Wear trains out
anere, too, do hey?-Yonkers States
zELIIn.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-04-01
ON the Ua1it. of Hu.band.

On the habits of Husbands.
''1 always telephone John when we
1sSye company. so A~n be prepared"
GoodneSs! if telephoneu William
ned stay Chicago Rec
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-04-01
Well, Wind Mill and Pump Work

am now prepared to do all kinds of
well, wind mill and pump work. See me
before you have your work done. Send
orders to Simpsons Hardware Store.
A. N. HARLAN
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-04-01

E0'ey'c Kidney Cure
4-7seI { F-fsaC : a7E 5Ladder right.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-04-01
Call for Warrants

Notice is hereby given that there is
money in the city treasury to pay all
warrants drawn on the general fund and
endorsed prior to July II, 1902. Interest
will stop on the same from this date.
Dated at Corvallis, Or, March 20, 1904.
VIM. MCLAGAN,
City Treasurer.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-04-01

TO CURE COLD IN ONE DAY
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All drug
gists refund the money if it fails to
W. Groves signature is on each box.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-04-01
Five Big Points!

pUTcHESS TROUSERS
.M are mace with this Warran-
ty on ev y pair. 10 cents a
button; talrip.
DUTcsE SIS TROUSERS
are ma oi the best oths.
- careful eoted from most
s reliable ills.
CUTc:+ IS TROUSERS
< are ma II large sanitary
factory, well paid aid ex-
~ pert cpc ~c.ves,
"a DUTct IS TROUSERS
a8 are maC i~r Durability, one
pair W oHtweaf two OF
any oti-c make.
DUTCH SS TROUSERS
L. SaeS az ke the new wave
motto instantly increas-
For Sale by
NC. "a CALLAHAN.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-04-01
For Police Judge.

I hereby announce myself as a candi
date for the office of Police Judge at the
city election to be held May 16, 1904.
E. P. GREFFoz.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-04-01
BellfOuntain.
PEEK A Boo

A. T. Peterson and family, of Toledo,
are visiting at the home OF Mrs. Peter
sons father, 4 Il. Hail.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-19
POnuIaritv of Baseball


 The national game was never more popular than it is this year At the Polo grounds in New York an attend ance of 39,000 on Saturday is no longer surprising. This reaches almost to the figures of attendance at the games in Old Rome and it makes the mag mates wish they had put more money into bleacher lumber
 The baseball interest in New York is comparatively speaking equaled elsewhere. The excellent outdoor sport is attracting vast numbers wherever good ball is played The provinces are not one whit behind the chief city, either in the article of ball brought out or in the public interest manifested.
 Rigid rules, we'll maintained, have added to the popularity of baseball A scrappy team is generally good team, but t4e line has been drawn be, tween scrappiness and rowdyism-be- tween legitimate appeals to the um- pire and disgusting wrangles. The umpire now has a chance. He may make mistakes and still live. This has increased public interest in the game, for the spectator prefers base ball to a tiresome wrangle No one is willing to pay to look at a pro- longed quarrel. Short scraps and plenty of fast errorless ball is what the public goes to the ball ground to see, and the keen interest thus aroused is a tome and bracer that does no one any harm. It promotes health by stirring the blood A couple of hours spent on the bleachers, watch ing the best outdoor sport ever de- vised, is money well invested It is twenty-five cents worth of better med ieine than can be bought at drug store.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-19
Amending the Constitution.

The very preamble of the federal constitution announces the name of the country, and the words, ''the United States are freely sprinkled all through the document. In article l alone the words are nineteen times repeated If this does not determine the name of the country what does, or would, or could?
 And yet the administration has or dered the words to be removed from the embassy and consular seals, from the record books, and from all other places in which they have appeared in other countries. The word "Amer- iean" has been substituted for the words named in the constitution, which appear perhaps one hundred times in that once respected instru- ment
 The words of the constitution were tbo plSDldn anu toHihlHS tu oult tHS | esent imperialistic administration and so the constitution has been ig- nored, and so have various other countries in this hemisphere, in order 10 make room for the grandiloquenee of the wora American" What is the constitution between friends anyway !?
 The order has been issued-the ex- scutiye order-and there is nothing to do but to disown the constitution nom enclature and accept that of the ad- ministration, at least while Theodore Roosevelt is president. The good old laws of the repu. lie are outgrown. and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-19

the empire marches on, heralded at every turn by trusts and Dingleyism.
 Shakespeare says there is not much in a name. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but it is at least worth while to stop and ask. If the con stitution can be disregarded in, say, a hundred places by an executive order, why may it not be in ten times that number? If it can be, then we have government by executive order, both in and out of the pension office and the embassies, and that is just what our esteemed friends, the Russians, have long possessed. The constitu- ton has really been abolished beyond the sea, beyond the confines of the country and it seems to be but ques- ton of time when it will be abolished al home Fiye-by-four decisions and executive orders have no limitations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-19
IT MAY BE CAMPBELL.
Birmingham Lawyer for National Com mitteeman-Friends Urging Him.

From the Montgomery Advertiser
 D. K. Campbell of Birmingham, one of the most prominent democrats in Alabama. may be chosen by the Alabama delega- ton to the St. Louis convention as Ala bama member of the national democratic committee to succeed Hon. Henry D.. Clayton of Eufaula, who has held the honor several terms.
 This information was gathered from a leading citizen in Montgomery. He spoke as though the sentiment of the twenty two delegates to St. Louis had been sounded in the interest of MT. Campbell. and intimated that there was Likelihood that Mir. Campbell was the choice of a majority of the delegation.
 When the Alabama delegation meets in St. Louis," continued this public man, it will have some important business before it. Undoubtedly Colonel Russell will be made chairman of the delegation, and hope MT. Mallory will be chosen to represent the democracy of Alabama on the resolutions committee. He under stands the democrats of the state as does no other man on the delegation and he Is wise and conservative. Like many other democrats, also hope that no con- gressman will be selected to represent Alabama on the national committee"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-19
Machine Vs The TennIn

On Tuesday next national conven- ton will meet to name a predeterm- ined candidate In the last fourteen national conventions a selection on the first ballot has occurred in only six. In the other eight, ballottings have extended from two up to thirty six. Predetermined candidates are, therefore, exceptional
 In 1876 Tilden was plainly the fav- orite, but he was not nominated on the first ballot Cleveland in 1884 won the nomination on the second ballot, and was elected. Four years later he was nominated without roll call, and defeat followed Bryan's nomi- nation in 1896 came on the fifth bal lot In 1900 he was renominated with out opposition
 Precedent does not run wholly one way, but as a rule party does not select it's candidate until the delegates have met, exchanged views and con sidered the situation One thousand representative men can learn some thing from each other, and the record shows that predetermined candidates are not as a rule winners. Some wis dom can be brought out in counsel.
 The republicans will this year have a predetermined candidate, and the democrats will not. The republican candidate will be named by patronage and the machine, and the democratic candidate will be a selection from the best available men in the party All things considered the democrats prom ise to get the best start.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-19
sneedlna Trolley Cars.

q saw q little negro boy run over and killed by a trolley car at the corner or Second avenue and Eighteenth street yes- terday" said a citizen,' and l am sure that the ear was running at the time much faster than should be permitted in- side the city limits. l have noticed that Birmingham motormen are sometimes careless in this respect. They run their cars at high rate of speed until they get into the very heart of the business district and on some of the residence streets there is frequent danger of ac- cidents. The accident yesterday took place down town and before ine boy was struck I noticed that the car was run ming very fast"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-19
DoWie is Coming Home.

Sound the hewgag, beat the drum, for Elijah Dowie is coming home! He has been mobbed around the world, and he is coming home to rest his pudgy self and commune with his al- legged soul. The stinkpot, issue will be revived, and billingsgate will fill the air
 His stay in London was cut short by mobs, and London mobs are not pleas. ant things to encounter. They are not a bit humane or sympathetic, and au dacity of the Dowie sort obtains nc hearing. In the world around no one has listened to his nonsense outside of Zion City in this country. This fact is reflection upon American intelli- gence, no matter how we look at it. The world declines to consider the lit. tie fat luxurious pudgy Englishman as Elijah himself, especially when he discusses stinkpots. which is one oi his favorite subjects.
 But he is coming to his adopted home in Zion City The cable is silent as to Oyerseer John Dowie. and that remarkable son, who is presumably Elijah III Jane was reputed to be the bearer of much gold, but the amount she took away has never heen
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-19
Day of Plcnics.

Friday was a day of picnics," said lawyer last night. "I dare say that there were no less than fifteen such outings in the Birmingham district and all of them great successes. I know that there was a panic at East Lake, two at North Bir- mingham, two at Hawkins Springs, one on the Gate City car line, one at Avon dale. trolley ride to North Birming- ham and several other Excursions to vari- ous parts of the district
 Since the warm weather began these outings have been very popular with Bir- mingham people, as well as those resid- Ing in other parts of the district The lodges are having them, and the churches. Sunday schools, schools. societies. fire men and practically everybody else who has the time.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-19
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs
A Dog Story.

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 'The story told at the Morris a night or two ago by the gentleman who killed a mad dog with stone. reminds me of an experience I had withsa dog when I was boy said a newspaper reader last night
 At the time I was a lad of 12 years and my mother had sent me to neigh bors house on an errand. The man owned several vicious dogs They were known to be very dangerous and every body in the vicinity had a wholesome fear of thems They were kept tied during the day, so I not afraid to go there alone But for some reason one ot the dogs had been allowed the fFeedom of the yard this particular afternoon pre- sumed the dogs, as was eustomary were confined and did not call at the gate but entered the yard and started directly to the house
 T was half way to the front veranda when, without even a warning park one of the most ferocious of the dogs dashed from under the porch and for me l was so thoroughly frightened l could not call for assistance, too late though It would iiaNt Dt6H. ulu HOl uaNi e atte-- @ there were no stones at hand. My only weapon was a small catapult l had been making war on the sparrows with ana that was rather frail for such large game. 1 had some rough slugs cut from bar lead about the size of a minnie ball, and one of these was in my catapult Just be- kfore the dog got to me he opened his mouth, [ supDose to bark but at the time I thought has was making place for me drew back the rubbers as far as they would stretch and sent one of my slugs directly down his throat. It must have caused intense pain, for he stopped short and rolled his head on the ground.
 q did not tarry moment, but made for the fence before the dog recovered from the momentary shock. By this time my voice had returned and l cried out vociferously until assistance arrived and was rescued from my precarious perch on the fence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-19
NOTABLE INCIDENT.
.le American.

From the Nashville American.
 When the head of the North Carolina column reached point in front Of the gate of Col. Jomes l.. Gaines of 119 North Spruce street there was an incl dent which was a high tribute to Col Gaines. At the time Col and Mrs. Gaines were standing at the gate watching the parade. Col. Paul B. Means, chief of the staff, requested General Carr to halt the column and the order was given.
 Col. Means stated that he wanted the North Carolina column to give three cheers for one of the bravest soldiers of the army of Northern Virginia, refer ring to Col. Gaines, and speaking of him as having been the commander of the Second North Carolina cavalry, who lost his arm while leading his regiment at Chamberlain Run, March 31 1865.
 The speaker called for, three cheers for Col Gaines, and they were given in a manner that made the welkin ring.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-19
White Chefs Scarce.

''To the best of my knowledge there are only two white chefs in Birmingham" said a restauranteur last night. "One of these is at a leading hotel and the other manipulates the pans at well known restaurant In fact white chefs are at a premium In a great many southern towns. Southern people do not appear to be able to get along as well with white servants as they do with negroes They are ac- customed to colored servants ana perhaps that is the main reason why there are not more white chefs. In the east, of course, the white chef is paramount and Is of- ten most important parsonage whose salary is munificent."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-19
I am one, my lieee,
Iapan's Terms of Peace.

cable dispatch from Tokio brings the substance of an expression of the war situation from the lips of Baron koaama, chief of the army headquar ters staff. lie said among other things:
 T am unable to anticipate the cam pagn or indicate the possible stopping point of the general advance but when our army is so situated as to be able to block Russia's monopoly of products des- tined for Manchuria and to guarantee the maintenance of the open door, Japan's aims will have been accomplished and the chief causes of the war done away with Remember that Japan has al- ready achieved her first eontention-that Is. the independence of Korea"
 Success in war has not, if Baron lxodama speak public sentiment, swelled Japan's head particle. She started out to free Korea and there fore herself from Russian domination, and to secure an open door in Man churia The objects to be attained are moderate, reasonable and wholly within Japans just ambition.
 They are not only reasonable, but they are satisfactory to all nations that do not desire to see Russia hog ~Manchuria, and through Manchuria the rest of China. Japan is fighting the battle of the Open Door, or tht battle of equal trade for all the anti Russian world.
 More than that, she has nearly at tained her objects The fall of Port Arthur and Mukden, both being probable events in the near future will complete her campaign, and or it let us hope she will stand pat. The holding of Mukden and Port Arthur will render useless Russias Manchu rian railway, and this in turn will ren der Russia's conquest policy in the Far East impossible. It is all there is to fight for at a reasonable expense Japan could not well ask more unless it be the dsmantling of the works about Vladivostok, which are a men ace to Japan and nothing beyond. If Japan will stand by the practical pos session of Korea, the absolute Open Door in Manchuria. and the dismant- ling of the forts at Vladivostok, she will gain new grip upon the nations not engaged in the present war. She will therby serve both herself and civilization. She is acute and alert, and she may be trusted to do the wisest and best thing, and if she does that she will not go beyond Mlikden
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-19
From the New York Commercial.


 XNN NE of the leading industries in tVJ the neighborhood of Pauen, > Germany, though not of great importance within it's confines. is that Of manufacturing toys, including such as are made of metal wood, papier-mache and porcelain. As the United States has now entered this field successfully, 1t Is im- portant to know that the German toy industry has shown a steadily rising ten dency for some time past. Reliable sta tistics of exports were not kept prior to 1896, but since that date exports have arisen from s9.2S2,OOo to s1s56e,ooo per an mum. There Is no record of domestic consumption, but it is safe to say that the total annual product is about s16,66o, \ 900 in value. As a whole, the toy indus try. by reason of it's foreign outlets, es- capped that setback which industrial Ger many in general suffered toward the close of the last century. In the current year also this industry appears satisfactorily. prosperous.
 For upward of thirty years the export to England and the United States has been indicative of prevailing conditions in the toy trade. Almost 75 per cent of the entire exports enters the markets of these two countries. In England the after eff fects of the South African war and the crisis in the cotton industries made them selves unpleasantly felt during 1902, and those conditions even now continue. For tunately for Germany, there were no &C., cumulations of stock when the orders from England became disappointing. While Australia has for some time sui fered severe losses through droughts, that colony has now begun to recuperate and its former purchasing power will soon De restored.- The United States, despite duty of 35 per cent ad valorem, imported in 1903 about s3,S0S,00O worth of German toys. It must not be overlooked, how ever, that the United States has lately begun the manufacture of toys on large scale, especially such as admit of productionl by the use of machinery; and this is a competition that must be reckon ed with by Germany in all calculations for the future.
 France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Aus tria and Switzerland will purchase nor nal quantities If present indications hold good To this industry, also, it will be of the utmost importance that the new Ger man tariff conventions should be so framed as to prepare gradual transi- ton from the present status to that of the future, so as to permit trade conditions to adopt themselves naturally to the new basis.
 All told normal year of business in the toy industry is looked for. although in some quarters a depressed feeling has supervened. owing to the continued lag ging Of English orders. The tendency in the Sonneberg doll and papier-mache works as we'll as in the metallic toy works of Nuremberg, and in the wooden l toy industry of the Erzgebirge to ele- vate the quality of their product is ] hailed with great satisfaction. This ten-