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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-02-03
IN THE LEGISLATURE.

Salem, Jan. "a. - Of the "a bills
passed by the hosue today only one en-
countered opposition-that for the Gre
alton of a state library commission.
The secretary of this commission is to
receive 81 200 year and travelling ex-
penses. The bill creating the Eighth
(Baker county, and Tenth (Union and
Wallowa) judicial districts were among
those passed.
The senate held only a very short
session today, adjourning at 1 :15 until
tomorrow at 10. Besides disposing of
all the senate business on hand, the
senate received few house bills and
referred from that branch to the vari-
GUS committees. The senators spent
the afternoon on committee work.
Half dozen bills have been intro
duced at this session for the creation OF
a mining bureau, but it is doubtful
whether any of them will become laws
The creation OF Lewis and Clark
county is new proposal before the
legislature. The new county is to be
the northern half of Grant, except a
narrow strip along the eastern side,
and make Long Creek the county seat
The intention is to eventually take. in
a strip Of Baker also.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-02-03

Salem, Jan. 25. A score of bills
dealing with the salaries of state and
county officers have been introduced in
the house. and more are to follow.
The most important of all is the bill
for fiat salaries for state officers.
Speaker Mills was absent today and
Bailey, of Multnomah, was elected
speaker for the day.
Thirteen bills were passed by the
house, of which eight related to charter
amendments or incorporation acts.
Twenty-eight new measures were pro-
posed.
In the senate eighteen bills were
passed, large majority relating to
municipalities. One appropriates
$45, ZOO for Indian war veterans
Eight new bills where introduced.
The house passed a concurrent reso-
luton asking an investigation of the
methods by which the Northern Pacific
railway secured 400, 900 acres of Ore
gon timber lands.
The house will pass bill to grant
each county prosecuting attorney and
do away with district attorneys.
Representative Steiner, of Lake, has
a bill intended to end range wars. Il
forces the county in which the damage
is committed to pay one-half of the
value of the stock injured or destroyed
The senate went on record today
against making trainrobbery punish
able by death. A bill fixing imprison
ment at not less than 10 nor more thar
40 years was favorably reported.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-12-06
Are You Tired, Nervous
and sSleepless :?

Nervousness and sleeplessness are US
ually due to the fact that the nerves are
not fed on properly nourishfng blood;
they are starred nerves. DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery makes pure.
rich blood, and thereby the nerves are
properly nourished and all the organs of
the body are run as smoothly as machin-
cry which runs in OIL In this way you
feel clean, strong and strenuous-you are
toned up and invigorated, and you are
good for whole lot of physical or mental
work. Best of all, the strength and in
crease in vitality and health are lasting.
The trouble with most tonics and med
icines which have large, booming sale
for short time, is that they are largely
composed of alcohol holding the drugs in
solution. This alcohol shrinks up the red
blood corpuscles, and in the long run
greatly Injuries the system. One may feel
exhilarated and better for the time being,
yet in the end weakened and with vitality
decreased. DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery contains no alcohol. Every
Badge Of Honesty, in full list of all it's
several ingredients. For the druggist to
offer you something he claims is "just as
good is to insult your intelligence.
Every ingredient entering into the
world-famed Golden Medical Discovery"
has the unanimous approval and endorse
ment of the leading medical authorities
of all the several schools of practice. No
other medicine sold through druggists for
like purposes has any such endorsement.
The HGolden Medical Discovery" not
only produces all the good effects to be
obtained from the use of Golden Seal
root, in all stomach liver and bowel
troubles, as in dyspepsia, biliousness, con-
stipation, liberation of stomach and
bowels and kindred ailments, but the
Golden Seal root used in it's compound
ing is greatly enhanced in its curative &C
tion by other ingredients such as Stone
root, Black Cherrybark, Bloodroot, Man
drake root and chemically pure triple
refined glycerine.
wThe Common Sense Medical Adviser"
is sent free in paper covers on receipt OF
q one-cent stamps to pay the cost of mail
volume will be sent. Address DR.. R. V.
Pierce Buffalo, n, Y.
DR.. Pierce'S Pleasant Pellets cure con-
stipation. biliousness and headache.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-12-06
DON'T GIVE UP YOUR POLICY.
People Should Use Sane Judgment In
the Insurance Question.

We are amazed to learn upon good
authority that there have developed two
phases of the insurance situation which
seriously reflect upon the hard sense of
q good many presumably intelligent
Americans. o. Hundreds, even thou
sands are permitting their policies to
lapse This is so stupid as to be, from
the standpoint of pure self-interest, al
most criminal. There is no question and
has been and can be no question of the
solvency OF the companies. Enough has
developed to prove beyond the shadow
OF doubt that the total of monies wasted
and not earned that might have been
earned is a bagatelle in proportion to the
enormous assets. Every dollar of insur-
ance outstanding is good whether a new
policy ever be written Or not 1t is the
uttermost folly, therefore, for any one to
sacrifice the slightest portion of what he
has paid in. To continue the payment
of premiums and demand restitution and
reform is the only sane policy. GU Thou
sands of policy holders are sending their
proxies to Thomas w. Lawson. They
would better send them to the devil him
self. If the wit of man were exercised
to find way to wreck, if possible, a sol
vent concern, one more effective than this
could not be devised. No right thinking
person can condone proven otfenses, but
such a jump as this would be from the
frying pan not into the hre, but into the
bottomless pit. That sane beings to any
number likely to prove adequate to his
purpose should intrust their property and
the future sustenance of their benetici-
aries to a professionally INSCRIPTIONS
speculatOr seems incredible. And yet the
danger is said to be real and imminent.
We hope and believe it is magnifed by
unwaranted boastfulness on the one hand
and by distorted Imagination on the 9TH
er. But the interests involved are so
vast and so widespread that no patriotic
to save credulous thousands from the
inevitable consequences of their own rash
action. If il be possibly true that insur-
ance officials have become so discredited
as to be impotent in withstanding the
force of wave Of insanity, it is high
time for the formation of a national
vigilance committee in the interest of the
whole people.-Harper's Weekly.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-12-06
Swiss Change Nationa. Hymn.

1t is not often that nation changes
it's national hymn. The Swiss have.
however, formally announced their in
tention of so doing and of adopting the
less well known Swiss psalm, or "Can-
tique Suisse" instead of the hitherto
universally sung 20 Monts indie
The reason of this change is that the
latter has always been rendered to
Carey's melody of God Save the King"
which is identical also with the German
Hell Dir i'm Siegerkranz," and the
Switzers are beginning to find this same
ness too confusing. Henceforward,
therefore, they will change their tune to
one which shall be theirs only, and, in
deed, the melody accompanying the
words, Sur nos montss quand lie ssoleil,"
ETC., of the ''Cantique Suisse" is, if any
thing, more inspiring than the old one.
1t is also by a true son of the Alps,
one Zwyssig, to whom a monument was
erected on the Lake of the -Four Can
tons" a few years ago. That the ''late'
national anthem can have had but a
small hold on the peoples affections is
proved by the way the new" one is
readily accepted on all sides.-Reynolds'
New Spaper.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-12-06
HENRY'S FAULT.

Your Henrys fractured, mother dears
Upon the gridirOn sporty;
His feet betwiXt the goal posts near,
AT fourteen yards he left an ear,
A collarbone at forty.
"A doctor now, with loving care.
His cartilage is lacking;
They say he will not miss his hair
And nearly all his ribs are there.
Though several bones are lacking
He holds his thorax with a groan
And says it hurts a little;
His coaches say, in awe struck tone,
They'd not have done it had they Known
That Henry was SO brittle.
''They say that Henry didn't lack
The talent and the training;
At half he was q crackajack-
you couldn't make quarter back
OF what there is remaining)
Alas. he had the proper stuff,
Though rather tall and slender:
And though his fate is somewhat rouSh
IT'S not because the games too tough
But Henry is too tender
Montreal Star.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-12-06
500 Reward. 500.

The readers Of this paper will be pleased
to learn that there is at least one dreaded
disease that science has ben able to cure In
all it's stages, and that is Catarrh. Halls
Catarrh Cure Is the only positive cure now
known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh
being a constitutional disease. requires
constitutional trea tment. Halls Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces or the
system, thereby destroying the foundation
OF the disease, and giving the patient
strength by building up the constitution and
assisting nature in doing its work. The
proprietors have so much faith in Its cura-
tive powers that they offer One Hundred
Dollars for any case that it fails to cure.
Send for list of testimonials.
Address f. J. CHENEY &. CO, Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists. 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-12-06
A BRIEF SKETCH OF HER LIFE
How the Vegetable Compound Had It's Birth and
How the "Panic of 1872 Caused it to be Offered
for Public Sale in Drug Stores.
THE STORY READS LIKE A ROMANCE

had so often made from roots and
herbs for such of her women neigh
bOrs and friends who were sick and
ai1ing. It's success in those cases had
been wonderful-its fame had spread,
and calls were coming from miles
around for this ef1cacious vegetable
compound.
They had no money, and little
credit Their first laboratory was the
kitchen, where roots and herbs were
stepped on the stove, gradually filling
a gross Of bottles. Then came the
question Of selling it, for always be-
fore they had given it away free.
They hired a job printer to run off
some pamphlets setting forth the mer-
it's of the medicine, now called Lydia
e. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound.
and these pamphlets were distributed
by the Pinkham sons in Boston, New
York and Brooklyn.
The wonderful curative properties or
the medicine were, to a great extent,
self-advertising, for. whoever used it
recommended it to others, and the de-
mand gradually increased.
In 1877, by combined efforts, the
family had saved enough money to
commence newspaper advertising on
small scale, and from that time the
growth and success Of the enterprise
was assured, until to-day Lydia e.
Pinkham and her Vegetable Compound
have become household words every
where, and thousands Of pounds OF
roots and herbs are used annually in
making this great remedy for woman's
ills.
Although Lydia E. Pinkham passed
to her reward some years ago, the per-
petuatiOn Of her great work was
guarded by her foresight
During her long and eventful expert
ence she was ever methOdical in her
work and was careful to preserve a
record OF every case that came to her
attention.. The case of every sick
| woman who applied to her for advice
and there were thousands-receiyed
careful study, and the details, includ-
| ing symptoms, treatment and results,
were recorded for future reference,
and to-day these records together with
thousands made since, are available to
sick women the world over, and repre-
sent a vast collaborat ton Of infcrma-
ton regarding the treatment of wom-
|
accuracy, can hardly be equaled in any
| library in the world.
Another act Of foresight on the part
of Lydia E. Pinkham was to see that
some one of her family was trained to
carry on her work, and with that END
| in view, for years before her death,
had as her chief assistant her daugh-
ter-in-law, the present Mrs. Pinkhaln.
| Therefore, under the guidance and
careful training Of Lydia E. Pinkham,
and a vast experience Of her own,
covering twenty-five years, the present
Mrs. Pinkham is exceptionally wen
equipped to advise sick women, which
she is always glad to do free of
charge.
The record of Lydia E. Pinkham's
| Vegetable Compound, made of simple
herbs and roots, is a proud and peer
less one. 1t is record Of constant
conquest over the obstinate ills Of
| women, greater than that of any other
| one medicine Of its kind in the world,
| and will ever stand as a monument to
| that noble woman whose name it
| hears
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-12-06

This remarkable woman, whose
maiden name was Estes, was born in
Lynn, Mass, February 9, 1919, com
ing from a good old Quaker family.
For many years she taught school, and
during her career as teacher she be-
came known as woman of an alert
and Investigating mind, an earnest
seeker after knowledge, and above all,
she was possessed with wonderfully
sympathetic nature.
In 1S43 she married Isaac Pinkham,
builder and real estate operator, and
their early married life was marked by
prosperity and happiness. They had
four children, three sons and a daugh-
ter.
In those good old fashioned days few
drugs were used in medicines; people
relied upon natures remedies, roots
and herbs, which are to-day recognized
as more potent and efficacious in con-
trolling diseases than any combination
Of drugs.
Mrs. Pinkham from her youth took a
deep interest in medicine, in botany
the study of roots and herbs, their
characteristics, and power over dis
ease; she believed that as nature
SO beautifully provides food for the
body SO she also provides medicine for
the ills and weaknesses of the body,
in the roots and herbs Of the field,
and as q wife, mother and sympathetic
friend, she often made use Of her
knowledge Of roots and herbs in pre-
pairing medicines for her family and
friends.
Knowing of so much suffering
among her sex, after much study and
research, Mrs. Pinkham believed that
the diseases of women have a COM
mon cause, and she set to work to
FAD common remedy-nOt at that
time as source Of profit, but simply
that she might aid the suffering.
How her efforts have been rewarded
the women OF the world know to-day.
In 1878 the financial crisis struck
Lynn. Its length and severity was too
much for the large real estate inter
ests of the Pinkham family, as this
class Of business suffered most from
this fearful depression, SO when the
Centennial year dawned it found their
property swept away.
At this point the history of Lydia e.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound COM
mences:
The three sons and daughter, with
their mother, combined forces to re-
store the family fortune. They re-
solved to give to the world the vege-
table compound that Mrs. Pinkham
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-12-06
A PRIVATE MINT.
Prior to Civil War the Coins Passed
Current

Prof. W. E. Hidden Of Newark, n. j.,
spent last week in Rutherfordton as the
guest Of NJ o. DickersOn. clerk of the
superior court of Rutherford county.
Prof. Hidden is an eminent geologist and
mining engineer and his name will be
recognized as the origin Of the name of
the beautiful stone called hiddenite, a
valuable emerald green gem found in
western North Carolina. 1t was so
named because Of it's discovery by Prof.
Hidden about 1881, while exploring
Alexander county, North Carolina.
The interesting announcement is made
concerning the visit of the eminent gen
tleman to North Carolina that he is here
seeking data concerning the late Chris
TOPPER Bechtler, who was resident of
Rutherfordton many years prior to the
Civil war and there coined the gold
mined in the mountain region round
about. The Bechtler one dollar and five
dollar pieces were ONCE extensively circu-
lated in North and South Carolina and
passed at their face value everywhere.
The fact is they contained a greater
ratio of gold than those of the United
States mintage, but under the coinage
laws of the government the Bechtler
mint had to close shop. Thousands Of
dollars meanwhile had gone into circula-
ton, but many Of the coins drifted to
the United States mint at Charlotte,
where they were reminted while others
fell into the hands of parties who pre-
served them as curios. We have seen
quite a number of them in upper South
Carolina, but those who possess them
cannot be induced to part with them.
These North Carolina coins bring all
kinds of prices and he is lucky man
who has one or more of them.
Prof. Hidden during his visits to
North Carolina learned of Mr. Bechtler
and his mint and became greatly inter-
ested. He is gathering data to write a
biography of Bechtler and history Of
his coinage operations. 1t is stated,
however, that he will get out an edition
Of only $50 copies of his book. Prof
Hidden has a fine collection of Bechtler
coins and wants more of them, offering
handsome prices for this historic North
Carolina gold money.-Syracuse Tele-
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-12-06
Hunter Used Cow to Decoy Geese.

Those who attended the Cheney sale
Tuesday witnessed singular hunting
performance, probably never put into ex-
ecution by anyone else than the stranger
who managed the affair.
He was seen walking in a crouching
position by the side of a cow that kept
going about in circle that constantly
narrowed. Suddenly the animal stopped,
apparently at a word of command, and
the man quickly pulled a gun to his
shoulder and fired at lot of wild geese
that had permitted his approach to with
in shooting distance, deceived by the
apparently innocent COW, which protected
her master from their view. AT least
thirty birds were killed.-Calusa Cor.
Sacramento Bee.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-12-06
Mixed.

few days ago said: Il went to a con-
cert in Victoria given by the band of the
Royal Irish Guards, household troops,
just from London, and heard them play
Sousa march under the name of 1.-The
Blue Jackets PATROL; Columbia, the
Gem of the Ocean, in an alleged Irish
medley, and 'Hiawatha' in still another
people think the British don't fake!
When the band lit into that Columbia
a funny thing happened. All the Amer
leans in the house, and there were a
lot of them. got up and cheered like mad,
and the British are still wondering
why Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-12-06

set in, and I was obliged to use the
catheter. took to my bed, and the
doctors failing to help, began using
Doans Kidney Pills. The urine soon
came freely again, and the pain grad
ually disappeared. L have been cured
eight years, and though over &c, am
as active as a boy"
Sold by all dealers, so cents a box.
Foster Milburn Co.. Buffalo. n. Y.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-12-06
Longest Wireless Message.

The battleship Kentucky holds the rec
ord for an American warshlp for having
wireless telegraph, according to the re-
ports received at the bureau of equip
ment of the navy department. The Ken
lucky, while lying in Hampton Roads,
sent a communication TO the wireless
station at Beaufort S. c., distance of
500 miles
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-12-06
EPIGRAMS ON THE Jews.

Israel Zangwill, on visit to the
United States some years ago. made sew
eral addresses, in the course of which he
coined the following epigrams:
The Jews had no country of their own.
They could not possess the land of their
fathers in reality. They carried it wher-
ever they went. This was a spiritual
country. 1t could not be assailed by
their OppreSSOrS.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-12-06
IN CONSTANT AGONY.
A West Vfrgfnfnn's Awful Distress
Through Kidney Troubles.
W. l.. Jackson. merchant of Park

ersburg, w. Va,
says: Driving about
in b ad weather
b L o u s b t kidney
troubles on me, and
l suffered twenty
years with sharp,
cramping pains in
the back and urinary
disorders. l often
had to get up a dozen
times at night to
urinate. Retention
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-12-06
The Cook-Lady's Friend.

Miss Chumley-I hear you found the
hcusework too much for you. Got a
servant now, haven't you?
Mrs. Newbride-Yes, and it's rather a
drain on our purse We got along nicely
when there were only two of US, but now
that we have four to feed
Miss Chumley-Four? Why, there's
only George and yourself and the servant
girl
Mrs: Northumberland the policeman
Philadelphia Press.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-12-06
The Appropriate Place.

Modern Composer = Children, don
make such an internal noise. 1t you
music roOm.-Translated for Tales from
Fliegende Blaetter.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-12-06
Confidential Evidence.

Pickpocket Ito lawyer who has got him
free)-Even you believed me guilty
Lawyer-Oh, no, not in the least
Then why did you leave your watch
and pocketbook at home ?'-Translated
for Tales from 'Meggendorfer Blaetter "
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-12-06
Cautious.

Yeast-I understand he always writes
his poety when he is alone.
Crimsonbeak-Tha right He hates
to have people see him make a fool of
himself-Yonke Statesman.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-12-06
Lest She Forget.

Hubby-NOw, remember. while you are
at the seaside you mustn't fiirt.
Pet-Of course not, you old goose.
See, [ have tied knot in my handker-
chief so | won't forget I'm married.
for Tales from lie Rire.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-12-06
MERCILESS ITCHING.
Another Speedy Cure of an Itching
HumOr with Loss of Hair by the
Cuticura Remedies.

Cuticura Remedies.
For two years my neck was COW
cred with sores, the humor spreading
to my hair, which fell out, leaving an
unsightly bald spot and the soreness,
inflammation, and merciless itching
made me wild. Friends advised Cuti-
cura Soap and Cuticura Ointment, and
after a few applications the torment
subsidized, to my great joy. The sores
soon disappeared, and my hair grew
again, as thick and healthy as ever 1
shall always recommend the Cuticura
Remedies. (Signe0 Harry J. Spald-
ing, 1O4 West 1O4th street, New York
City''
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-12-06
Professional Rivalry.

First Reporter-What the deuce are
you got up in a dress suit for?
Second Ditto-I am going to big ban
quet.
80? Where did you learn to wait at
e?"-Translated for Tales from Die
LuStige RIaetter''
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-12-06
* Tea Salad. II
Not Imperative

Tom-What smoking? l thought you
were ordered to stop?
Dick-Yes, by the doctor-not by my
for Tales from Fami-
lie Journal.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-12-06

The black plague swept over Europe.
The Jews escaped by reason of their
different hygienic laws. The Christians
charged them with poisoning the wells
and thousands Of Jews were put to
death for not dying of the plague.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-12-06
No Wav of Escape

Little Freddy (after listening to the
usual matutinal quarrel between his ia
Their and mother)-Mama, if little boy
is very, very good all the time when he
is little, does he have to get married
when he's grown ?-Translated for
Tales from Familie-J Journal