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The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-03-23
PRESIDENT IS REDUCING
FLESH TRAINED BY TWO
WREsTEERS FROM
JAPAN. $500
Jiu,Jiisu Is Said to Bs the Sci.
ence of Anatomy-The Jap
Floors the Heavyweight
Champion of the Paci-
fie Coast and Al.
SO Two Prize
Fighters.

Washington, March 1.-THE
President has again taken up Jiu-
'Jitsu, aud this time it is the real
thing. His instructors are two Jap.
anese who are masters in the art of
doubling man up in agony with a
gentle punch of the thumb or break
ing an arm with the twist of the
wrist.
They sre thin little fellows, with
frail looking bodies, but they are
bundles Of steel. They were
brought over from Japan by Samu-
'el Hill, son-in.law of James J. Hill,
who introduced them to the presi.
dent. They had heard that Mr..
Roosevelt took some lessons in jiu-
|jitsu from Prof. O'Brien two years
ago and they aeked him to let them
show him what they eeuld do.
The president told Captain Loef-
fer, his doorkeeper, to admit no
callers, not even senators or cabinet
mem bers, and turned his Office over
to the Japs. Their exhibition caus.
ed Mr.. Roosevelt to stop winkine
and gasp. They showed him what
iiu-jitsu really is and they were
engaged on the spot. The president
is now spending an exceedingly
strenuous hour with them on two
afternoons week and he always is
promptly on hand, no matter what
business has to be dropped.
There are seven degrees in jiu-
jitsu. The presidents instructors
have it up to the fifth degree, and
ANff Roosevelt intends to have all
five OF them.
Jiu. jitsu is really the science Of
anatomy, wonderfully developed.
1t brings into play unheard of mus
cles and turns them all into steel
while superauous flesh melts under
the exercise like snow in blast
furnace. That is the feature that
Especially appeals to the president
just now, as he weighs more than
two hundred pounds.
When the two Japs reached sar
Frarcisco one of them was match
ed againet the champion heavy
weight wrestler of the Pacific Coast
who stirred up the Japs by public
ly declaring that jiu.jitsu was {
useless fad. and that the strength
it was supposed to develop was the
oretical or imaginary.
/ the strangle hold which is tn,
terror of all wrestlers. was allowed
in the contest. The Jap waited fo
the wrestler to get him into goot
strangle hold. Then the Jap press
ed bis chin into the arms tba
clinched bis neck, grasped his an
tagonist around the chest, tighten
ed his muscles bit and in a min
ute the wrestler rolled over in
faint, with the blood pouring fron
his nose and mouth.
/ Then the Jap took on two BIZ
prize fighters and quickly rendere,
both of them helpless with a fey
lightning twists.
With the two Japs is a Japanes
woman, who is also an expert ii
the art, and she is teaching jiu-jits
to large class Of Washington SO
ciety women, whose husbands ar
in panic.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-03-23
BRIGANDS TERRoRIZE THE
RUSSTANTRoOPS ANDCOM- &
PEI THEM TO RETREAT.
The Flag of France Floats Over
Niu Chwang in Place of the
Rnssian-Latter Is Ac-
cused of Breaking Neu-
trality Lawe-Oth-
er News.

Nlu Chwang, March ia band
| of mounted Manchurian brigands
swooped down upon Russian out
posts near Pa La Caan, town be-
tween Port Arthur and this place,
yesterday, taking the czar's troops
entirely by surprise. A brief but
desperate battle followed. The
brigands fought with the fierceness
of fanatics, There was no limit to
their recklessness. They apparent
| ly had not the slightest regard for
consequences. Their only aim ap-
peared to be to cut the Russians to
pieces.
Manchurian brigands are the ter
ror of the thinly-populated districts
throughout the theatre of war.
Since the opening of hostilities 8 they
have been harassing Russians to
such an extent that they are re-
1 garded as scourge. 1t was these
brigands. it is now claimed, who
blew up the bridges on the railway
near Niu Chwang immediately af.
ter the torpedoing of the Russian
feet at Port Arthur.
For time yesterday the Rus.
SLAMS wishstood the attack of the
Brigauds, but they were finally
forced to retreat, leaving two Max.
i'm guns on the field. It appears
the Russians mistook. the hrigands
for Japanese ard naturally figured
that the attacking force was backed
up, possibly, by unlimited numbers
The Russian flag no longer aoats
ov Niu Chwang. From poles a.
bove public buildings in, the town
the flag Of France flies today. The
czar's banners were hauled dtwn
this morning.
| The streets are full of r,tnors
bil gad upon the coming of the Jap.
aneee. One is to the effect thai
three Japanese gunboat~ and two
1 big cruisers have been s GIFTED from
Sable Point on the Chinese coast
OPP ii 9 Yng Kaw. Another story
is To. The effect that 1000 more jar.
anese have landed at Ia Ku Shan
a seaport Cd the Korean bay, be
tween Dalny and Wiju. This force
is said t, be proceeding toward Nil
Chwang, and the inhabitants of ths
town are tsrror-stricken. Thil
move of the Japanese will enabl,
them to attack Niu Chwang stimuli
taneously from land and eea.
The Russian forces of Mukde1
hsve iesued imperative orders tha
none but Russian military and ma
val uffic-rs and their men ehall b.
permitted to-travel over the Chi
ntse Eastern railway. This rail
road runs from Port Arthur through
Mukden to Hsrhin, here it con
meets with the trans Siberian road
This tsking of the road forSnilitar.
5 purposes elbows thet The Russian
feel their desperate postum. A
. much OF the road lies in Chimes
! terri tsy, the order of Rusisn Com
: uianoeis may be taken by tom
: powers as a breachof neutrsl l:ty.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-03-23

T. D. Campbell has taken charge of
the Benton County Lumber yard near
the S. P. depot. Will furnish building
material. See Mr.. Campbell before you
buy,
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-03-23

Vienna, March 1S.-From Arad,
Hungary, q report states that a
miner named Klimpian, suspecting
his wife with undue familiarity
with q lodger named Kohout. ex-
ploded a stick of dynamite under
the dinner table today, blowing
himself, wife, lodger and four chill
dren to atoms.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-03-23

Paris, March 20. 0.-Acceraing to
a dispatch to the Rappel from its
Shanghai correspondent, The jap
anese navy is utilizing an instru-
ment invented by British Engin-
eer by means of which the slightest
sound proceeding from an enemy's
vessel is made audible, thus ena-
bling ship to tell of the approach
of an enemy.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-03-23
Wanted.

Girl wants place to do housework.
at TIMES Office,
The Newark journal., 1904-05-20
Pe-ru-na Protects the Entire House
hold Against Catarrhal
Diseases.

One Of the greatest foes with which
every family has to contend is our
changeable climate. To protect the
family from colds and coughs is always
a serious problem, and often impossible.
Sooner or later it is the inevita bic fate
of every one to catch cold. Care in
avoiding exposure and the useof proper
clothing will protect from the frequency
and perhaps the severity of colds, but
with the greatest of precautions they
will come. This is a settled fact of
human experience. Everybody must
expect to be caught somewhere or
somehow.
Perhaps it will be wet feet, or a
draught, or damp clothes, or it may be
one of a thousand other little mishaps,
but no one is shrewd enough to always
avoid the inevitable catching cold.
There is no fact of medical science
better known than that Peruna cures
catarrh wherever located. Thousands
of families in all parts of the United
States are protected from colds and
catarrh by Peruna. Once in the family
Peruna always stays. No home can
spare Peruna after the first trial of it.
The Newark journal., 1904-05-20
PUBLIC WORKS IN JAPAN.
Opportunities for American Trade
Opened Up by the War
with Russia.

If Japan enterprises of all kinds are
necessarily affected by the outbreak OF
war and it is not possible just at present
10 report with certainty on any oppor-
tunities for supplying materials or OBJ
tanning contracts for the construction
OF public or semipubic works. Money
Which has been intended for the extern
sion OF government railway lines has
been diverted to other uses and it is
stated that the government will stop
work on all new lines except those need
ed for transporting military supplies.
The Sanyo Railway company had in con-
temptation the doubling Of its tracks
and other Improvements during this
year, but whether the directors of the
company will proceed with their plans
under present disturbed conditions may
well be doubted.
The increased cost of labor is already
a noticeable factor in industrial eondi-
lions and the probability of a continued
rise, together with the difficulty of Sc
curing workmen, introduces a specula-
tive element into contracts for construc-
tlon which will render them very unde-
slrable during the coming season. In
this regard foreigners are at a great
disadvantage as compared with natives,
because they do not know so we'll where
to look for laborers and the traditions
of the country cause workmen to ex-
pect higher wages when employed by a
foreigner
There may be a considerable demand
for certain kinds of foreign steel and
iron which the Japanese are not yet able
to supply from their own foundries
American firms DESTROYS of competing
in the business of furnishing these sup
plies will find it to their advantage to
place an agency with firm already es-
tablished in this country and operate
through them, instead of attempting to
negotiate with Japanese government or
company officials by mail from their
Offices in the United States.
The Newark journal., 1904-05-20

Frank D. Overbaugh, eattle-buyer and
farmer, Catskill, n Y, says: doctors
told me ten years ago that l had
Brights Disease, and said they could do
nothing to save me. My back ached SO
l could not stand it to even drive about,
and passages of the kidney secretions
were so frequent as to annoy me greatly.
/ was growing worse all the time but
Doans Kidney Pills cured me, and /
have been we'll ever since.
A FREE TRIAL of this great kidney
medicine which cured Mr.. Overbaugh
will be mailed on application to any
part of the United States. Address
Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For
sale by all dealers; price SO cents
per box.
The Newark journal., 1904-05-20
IN AN OLD TRUNK.
Baby Finds a Bottle of Carbolic Acid
and Drinks It.

While the mother was unpacking an
old trunk little Is months old baby
got hold OF a bottle of carbolic acid
while playing on the floor and his stop-
ach was so badly burned it was feared
he would not live for he could not eat
ordinary foods. The mother says in
telling of the case:
1T was all two doctors could do to
save him as it burnt his throat and
stomach SO bad that for two months
after he took the poison nothing would
lay on his stomach. Finally took him
into the country and tried new milk
and that was no better for him. His
Grandma finally suggested GrapeNuts,
and | am thankful / adopted the food
for he commenced to get better right
away and would not eat anything else.
He commenced to get fieshy and his
cheeks like red roses and now he is en-
tirely well.
Il took him to Matamoras ON visit
and every place we went to stay to eat
he called for Grape-Nuts and would
have to explain how he came to call for
1t as it was his main food.
"The names of the physicians who at
tended the baby are DR.. Eddy of this
town and DR.. Geo. Gale of Newport, O.,
and anyone can write to me or to them
and learn what Grape-Nuts food will do
for children and grown-ups too" Name
given by Postum Co., Battle Creek,
Mich.
Look in each pkg. for the famous lit
tie book, ''The Road to MELVILLE"
The Newark journal., 1904-05-20

BEET-SUGAR IN ENGLAND
Experiments in Climate and Soil Show
Better Conditions Than Those
of Germany.

A Liverpool sugar expert has been
making thorough investigation into
the practica bility of attempting to
raise sugar beets in this country and
now announces the conclusion that
100000 acres of land in the United
Kingdom are suitable for the purpose
He has made over 1000 experiments
TO test British soil and climate and
they have satisfied him that these es-
sentials are even better adapted to the
production of sugar than those of
Germany
The first definite project is located
in Yorkshire. The East Riding of that
country is claimed to be peculiarly well
adapted in its soil to the cultivation
of the saccharine beet 4 syndicate is
now forming, under the advice of the
expert referred to, for the purpose of
starting sugar refneries in Yorkshire.
OF the sugar now consumed in this
country-al imported = Germany's
share is over 60 per cent of the whole
If, as claimed, Great B-itain's soil and
climate are better than Germany's for
sugar production and 1000, 900 acres of
the British Isles are adaptable to the
purpose, prodigious new industry
is at once possible to compensate for
the alleged waning in other industrial
directions. Besides, sugar would be
materially cheapened TO the consum-
er. 1t is not high now in this coun-
try (three to six cents per pound at
retaiD, but since 1901 it has been sub
ject 20 an import duty OF one cent per
pound The removal of this and the
cost of freight would reduce the retail
price at least one cent per pound, pro-
v!ded, of course, that the cost of pro-
ducing the British article be not too
great.
EDANLS
The Newark journal., 1904-05-20
The Moonshiner's Grief.

81 don't mind the government fell
lows breaking up the still, after
they've caught me an captured my be-
longin's," said the Georgia moonshiner,
but it breaks my heart TO see EN-
stave-in some O. the whisky barrels an
let the Ticker rum"
when did that happen?"
"Once or twice. An thar wuZ Ticker
enough in one O. them barrels to make
ever poor man in the country feel as
rich as Morgan, an imagine he WIZ in
love with his mother-in Allan
to Constitution.
The Newark journal., 1904-05-20
The Aristocracy of Pork.

When Theodore Parker first Wis
tied Cincinnati, at that time the
recognized leader among west
ern cities, he said that he had
made a great OVERWHELMINGLY,
that while the aristocracy of Gin
cinnati was unquestionably found
ed on pork, it made a great differ
ence whether man killed pigs for
himself or whether his father had
killed them. The one was held pie
beian, the other patrician. 1t was
the difference, Parker said, be-
tween the stick ems and the stuck
'ems; and his own sympathies, he
confessed, were with the present
tense.-Atlantic.
The Newark journal., 1904-05-20
CANAL Is $500 YEARS OLD.
AT Least the Corinthian Was Under
Contemplation as Long
Ago as That.

speaking of canals" said the
engineer who had been talking
about Panama, "a very interest
ing canal, and one not much heard
of, is that connected with the gulf
of Corinth and the gulf of Aegina
in Greece.
Its some older than any we
have in the western hemisphere,
also, for Periander, tyrant of
Corinth, proposed to cut through
the isthmus as long ago as 600
years before Christ. Superstition
stopped him, however.
Julius Caesar and Caligula
took it up again when Rome had
hold of Greece, but it was too
much for them. Then came Nero,
and he went at it with yigor, but
the work stopped when he died.
"Others kept pounding away
at it for the next several hundred
years, but it was not until 1881
that real work of the Nero en-
ergy was put upon it. Then Gen.
Turr, aide-de-camp to Victor EN-.
manuel of Italy, organized com
pany and worked on till the mon
ey gave out in 1890, the chief OBJ
stacle being some kind of flint
which dynamite couldn't break.
about $10,000,000 was spent
up to 1890, and then Mr.. Syngros
took hold, organized a new com
pany, with $685. 900 working cap,
ital, and finished the job in 1893.
1t is only about four miles long.
but it is 90 feet wide at the bot
tom, about so feet wide at water
line, 26 feet and three inches
deep in water, and it is cut nearly
all the way through solid rock,
rising at some points for 269 feet
above the canal.
ut is like a canyon, and ships do
not take kindly to it, the entrance
being bad, a strong wind blowing
through it as through a great air
shaft, and there is at times
strong reverse current.
1T is an interesting trip
through the canal, and it saves f223
miles of very rough water and % /
hours of time; but so far shippers
prefer to 60 through the peninsula
rather than through the canal, /
though with some changes which
will be made it is believed the
canal will become of general use
as soon as few ships begin to use
it and remove the prejudice now
existing against it."
The Newark journal., 1904-05-20
Kite-Flying Animals.

Animal locomotion sometimes
shows itself in forms not unlike
kite-fying and parachuting. The
"parachuting animals" are mann.
mals-fying squirrels of various
kinds-birds the pigeon, rep
tiles, flying fishes. Among the
"kite-fyers' are spiders and flies.
Natural History of Animals.
The Newark journal., 1904-05-20

'If in need of work, don't come to
the Worlds fair looking for it, say
the fair officials Every berth is taken.
The Newark journal., 1904-05-20

Mrs. A. Hobson, 225 Washington
ST., Lansing, Mich, writes:
"Peruna has been such a blessing
10 my only child, as wen as myself,
that feel Induced 10 give my fesfi-
! moniaL. He has always suffered
! from cafarrh of the headand throat,
. and had 10 use extra precautions
! so as nor TO have him exposed to
! damp or cold weather. Last year
he was taken with Ia grippe, and
as 1t was severe case, caused me
. much anxiety. No medicine helped
. him til he took Peruna. Noticed
an improvement at once and In
three weeks he was a different
: child; the grippe had been COM
! piefeIy cured and noticed that the
cafarrh was made better. He kept
taking IL two weeks longer. when
he was entirely WELL now use IL
. 0nand on for colds, cramps, indi-
gesfion or general indisposifion, and
find IL superior 10 any doctors or
medicine 1 ever tried. 1t keeps me,
as well as my child, In perfect
health, and I gladly recommend 1t
. TO mothers. Mrs. A. HobsoH.
The Newark journal., 1904-05-20
Aftermath.

"Why are you SO quiet this even
ing, dear?" she asked. Are you
thinking about how we became Ell,
gagged last night?o
yes" he answered, with a deer
sigh. "You see, I'm perfectly SO.
Der tonight" = Chicago Daily
News.
The Newark journal., 1904-05-20
The Value of the Japanese Yen.

When the public reads that 100000
600 yen has Professionally been set
apart by Japan for war purposes it may
perhaps put an exaggerated estimate
on that amount. Although Japan has
gold standard, the yen is of silver
currency, and fuctuates with the price
of silver, SO that the moment 00,000,-
600 of them means scarcely more than
10000, 600. But even this is an i'm
mense amount in a country in which
the wages of a skillful artisan are
often not more than yen a week. The
japanese currency system is decimal.
Thus the yen, or dollar is divided into
100 sen or cents, the sen into 10 rim,
the rim into 10 mo, the mo into 10
shu, the shu, finally, into 10 kotsu.
Government accounts do not take ac-
counts of any value smaller than rim,
but estimates by private tradesmen
often descend TO mo and shu, which
are incredibly minute fractions of q
farthing No coin exists, however, to
these lilliputian sums.-Lon-
don Chronicle
The Newark journal., 1904-05-20

Mrs. X. Kane, 172 Sebor Street, ]
Chicago, ILL.,, writes:
"Peruna has been used so long In
our family that do NOT know how
Icouid get aIung wifhoufit. Ihaye
given ii to all of my children at
different times when they suffered
with Group, colds and the many all
menfs that children are subject 10, :!
and am pleased TO say that ii has
kept them In splendid health. /!
have also used 1t for a catarrhal
difficulty of long standing and IL
cured me in a short time, SO have
every reason 10 praise Peruna. -
Mrs. K. Kane.
The Newark journal., 1904-05-20
BE WARNED.
Heed natures warningsl Pain tells

=
Backaehe is kidney
palma warning of
kidney ills. Urinary
troubles, too, come
to tell you the kid
neys are sick. Con-
slant WEAKNESS,
hea la c h e S, dizzy
spells, days of pain,
nights of unrest are
d ng ger sig ais
warning you to cure
the kidneys. Use
Doan's Kidney Pills,
which have made
thousands of perma-
nent cures.
The Newark journal., 1904-05-20

We have on file many thousand testi-
monials like the ones given above. We
can only give our readers a slight
glimpse of the vast array of unsolicited
endorsements we are receiving every
month. No other physician in the
world has received such a volume of
enthusiastic and grateful letters of
thanks as DR.. Hartman for Peruna.
The Newark journal., 1904-05-20
Can't Deny Herself.

az thought your wife was going to
Eu1ope?''
She does intend to, but has decided
to put it off for month or two. If
she went now she wouldn't have any
chance to look through the houses that
are to be for rent this spring. Chi
cago Record Herald.
The Newark journal., 1904-05-20
Mexico's Silver.

For 300 years Mexico has pro.
duced third of all the silver
mined.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-04-22
FIELD Is LIMITED.
Rural Carriers May Do Favors Only
For People on Their Routes.

Washington, April l5.-All doubt as to
whether the rural free delivery carriers
will be permitted to solicit business for
any person or corporation, carry merchan-
disc for hire, and act as agents for news
papers and business houses was remov
ed when the senate adopted the post
office appropriation bill, which contains
a provision forbidding the carriers to
act as agents for business houses.
1t is provided, however, in senate
amendment that these carriers may car
ry merchandise for hire, receive subscrip-
lions for and deliver newspapers, maya
zines, and other periodicals for and upon
request of patrons residing upon their
routes, when such service does not inter-
fere with the proper discharge of their
official duties, and under regulations pre-
scribed by the postmaster general.
The carriers not only are permitted
to receive orders upon their routes, but
are required to take orders of subscrip-
lions for merchandise, newspapers and
periodicals when requested to do so by
their patrons. The effect to this law
would be to prevent carriers from acting
as agents for commercial houses in cities,
but they may act in the capacity for
patrons on their routes.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-04-22
HENDERSON FOUND GUILTY.
Tried On Charge of Assault on Old
Man at South Bend.

FROM rTludy Dt1liy'
G. M. Henderson was speedily tried in
the municipal court before Judge Ply
mat this morning on the charge of as
sault in the third degree. There was
no jury The Judge without hesitation
found the man guilty and sentenced him
to pay a fine of $40 and costs, amounting
in all to $22.sl. Henderson was convict
ed of assaulting Swan Anderson, an old
man of sixty, in South Bend on April
lst. Henderson is a stout man in the
prime of life. Anderson, besides being
an old man, is cripple. Henderson de-
MED that he ever struck Anderson at
all. w. X. Young testified to what he
could see from a distance of 500 feet.
d. T. Bowen and j. A. Stevens testified
to the condition Anderson was in after
the alleged assault took place, and stat
ed that the victim was battered and
bleeding at the mouth, and had one tooth
gone. The affair is said to have been the
result of a dispute over business al
fair between Henderson and Anderson.
Henderson paid his fine and was released
from custody.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-04-22
RAILWAY NOTES.
From Fridays Daily.

From Fridays Daily.
d. G. Chandler has been appointed gen
eral storekeeper of the Chicago Great
Western, /, to succeed w. B. Causey, re-
signed. Mr.. Causey has been appointed
engineer of maintenance of way for the
Alton lines.
1t is understood that L. L. Jamme, as
sistant general freight agent OF the Chl-
cago, st. Paul, Minneapolis q Omaha In
charge of the flour traffic OF the com
pany originating at Minneapolis VIII re-
sign and leave railroad service to become
secretary of one of the largest ass'c a
lions of millers in the country. Mr. jam
mes thorough knowledge of traffic mat
tiers well qualities him for the work : e
has made an excellent record with the
Omaha company.