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The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-08-05
CORVALLIS RATES
To Lewis and Clark Fair Over the

NoN v Il<I1S M EO
To Lewis and Clark Fair Over the
Southern Pacific.
Individual Rates.
Rate-Oue and one third fare for the
round trip, $3.50.
Sale Date-Daily from May 2eth to Oct
ober IS, 1903.
Limit-Thirty days but not later than
October 3Ist, 1905.
Parties Of lo or more
Parties of 10 or more from one POINT,
must travel together on one ticket both
ways, party tickets will be sold as fol.
lows;
Rate-One fare for the round trip, $3.50.
Sale Date-Dai1y from May 29th to Oct
ober 18th, 1905.
Limit---Ten days.
Organized Parties,
For organized parties of one hundred or
more moving on one day from one place
individual tickets will be sold as follows:
Rate---One fare for the round trip, So. 60.
Sale Date---Dai1y from May 2oth to Oct
ober 18th, 1905.
Limit---Ten days.
For further information call on
w. E. Conan,
Gen. Pas. Agt.
E. Farmer,
Agt. Corvallis.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-08-05
Wanted.

Wanted.
To co ntract from one to three carloads
e tch seed if price is reasonable.
L. L. Brooks,
Telephone 155 Mt. View.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-08-05

excursion trains on the Corvallis & East
ern will run sharp on the following
schedule:
L cave ALBANY. 7:3o a. m
Corvallis 500
Philomath S:I2
Wren S:31
Blodgett $50
Summit 9:o5
Mas hville e:25
Nortons 9:3o
Eddyvi1le 1000
Chitwood 1913
Morrison 1921
Elk City 1929
Toledo 1855
Arrive Yaquina 1920
Newport 1900 N.
Leave 500 p. IN.
Returning trim arrives at Corvallis
at $40 p. m. !; Albany o-55 p. m.
Fare Corvallis, Phi1omath 10 New
port and return, $I.5o West of Phi
1omath to Chitwood inclusive, 81; all
points west of Chitwood to Storrs inclu
sive rs; all points west of Storrs, so
J.C. MAYO,
Gen. Pass. Agent.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-08-05
Wood Saving.

Wood Saving.
Done promptly. Satisfaction
guaranteed and prices reasonable
Ind phone 349 or 692.
Cummings & Cady.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-08-05

Notice is hereby given tha the coun-
ty superintendent of Benton comfy will
hold the regular examination of appli-
cants for state and county papers at Cor
wallis, Oregon, as follows:
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tunity for which we had so impatiently
waited seemed finally to arrive. Clouds
and yapors died down to one side and
the great tower, its crown hanging at
a dizzy height above, began to unfold.
Piece by piece was added to it-purple,
brown and gray-until at last it stood
abreast of us, virtually uncovered from
base to summit. 'Looki' 1 shouted to
my companion, and my words failed
me for the magnificence of the view
that presented itself. The spectacle
was one of overwhelming grandeur,
and we stood for some moments awed
and silent in the shadow of this most
Impressive of mountain forms.
Natures monument dedicated to the
10000 dead who lay in the silent city
below, it rose up a huge monolith $50
feet above the newly constructed sum-
NIT of the volcano and 5000 feet above
the Caribbean surface-a unique and
incompatible type in our planets won
derland From whichever side seen it
was an object of sublime magnificence,
and in it's condition of vaDor clouds
blowing out from its base and from the
cone that supported 1t, with blue sui
phur smoke curling its way along with
these, 1t presented spectacle of almost
overwhelming grandeur and one of ter
rorizing effect which could hardly be
matched anywhere"
AS to the composition Of this tower
and the explanation of its sudden ele-
walton from the heart of the volcano
Heilprin takes exception to the findings
Of the French scientific commission
sent to make a study of the phenom-
enon. Instead of believing with M. La
croix OF this commission that Pelee's
tower was constructed of an active
lava whose viscous state within the
crater OF the volcano was such as to
permit of solidifcation within the era
ter chimney and consequent extrusion
through the forces of pent-up gases,
the author holds that this spire of rock
was nothing else than the solid core of
the volcano, forced up and out intact
by volcanic energies. The burnt-out
and shaggy condition of the tower, re-
sembling a furnace product more than
recently cooled lava, confirms Heilprin
in his belief.
All this, however is for scientists to
thresh over: some of the intricacies ex-
pounded we simple laymen cannot even
follow. The main features of the au-
thor's thesis are comprehendable, new
ertheless, and the twenty odd remark
able photographs illustrating the text.
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ness of Christmas books he has just
begun to emerge and the list of books
on his shelves still unreviewed dates
back as far as October. Most of these.
as he congratulates himself, have we'll
borne waiting and their review, even at
this tardy date, will appear as new ma
terial to the majority of readers.
Doctor Tom,' by John Williams
Streeter, for instance, is book whose
first edition will scarcely be exhausted.
believe. This because the character
about whom the story is built is as i'm
probable as anything in recent fiction
and as unconvincing as the hero of the
typical refined melodrama." The
Coroner of Brett County was too good
for this world, and he died a martyr.
Voluntarily this young physician leaves
lucrative practice and metropolitan
life to retire to the mountains OF the
Middle Southwest. carrying with him
great light to tighten the unregen-
crate Gentiles Of the district. Because
the position of Coroner in the county
had been allowed to lapse on account
of the danger in holding Inquiries upon
the sudden deaths of feud victims, Doc
tor Tom Immediately took the post,
and from that precarfous vantage
ground began to set in motion the
forces of love and truth. The unre-
ality of the successful and speedy
fruition of his labors is only one of the
unconvincing features of the book. The
incidents Of a savage vendetta and the
exploits of certain wild girl OF the
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vice, whatever may be the private
gain; it's end is the development of in
dustrial perfection; its methods must
be those that bring no harm to the pub
lie good. Says Shaw: eff the busi-
ness world is not characterized, first, by
public spirit and sense of public duty
in general, and, second, by the special
and technical sense of public obligation
that pertains to particular kinds or de-
partments of business activity, then it
is falling short of its best opportunities
and evading its providential tasks
1t Is incumbent upon the business
man to remember that the State.
though in one sense the master of the
people, is fundamentally the agent Of
the people and by the peoples con-
science it is affected directly for good
or for evil. In promoting the purity
and upholding the integrity of political
life, then, lies the mission of the man
of business, for as the affairs of COM
merce are conducted, so will the affairs
Of state find their governance
A healthy optimism is reflected from
Shaw's address. For him some of the
least credstable manifestations of the
business spirit Of to-day are but pass
ing phases in the strong development
of the tremendous constructive force of
commerce. The power to give this
force strong impetus in the direction Of
right achievement lies with every busi-
ness man.
(Paul Elder & Co., San Francisco;
price SD
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PELEE'S
Volcanic Pinnacle

THOUGH Angelo Heilprin's new
studies of the great volcano of
Martinique, entitled 1.-The Tower
of Pelee," are largely Of a technical
nature and designed for geologists'
reading, there is a great deal of alb
sorbing interest for the layman in his
book. The remarkable phenomenon
therein described, the first of its kind
ever to be produced by nature, pos
sesses features of wide interest. In
August Of 1902 there was suddenly
pushed from the lips of death-dealing
Pelee vertical needle of rock, which
was propelled upward by subterranean
forces of immeasurable energy at the
rate of twenty to thirty feet day un-
til nearly 1000 feet of this craggy core
of the volcano had been elevated above
the vent. There it remained for
time, a sinister monument to the souls
Of the unfortunates who had perished
before the fiery breath of the noun
tain, and then swiftly it was destroyed,
leaving hardly a vestige of its forma-
ton for the enlightenment of the
scientists.
Professor Heilprin of the Sheffield
Scientific School of Yale University,
who had produced as result of visit
to Martinique book, Mount Pelee
and the Tragedy at Martinique re-
visited the volcano to make scientific
Investigations of this remarkable freak
i'll June, 1902. After many ineffectual
attempts to gain view of the prodigy,
which was continuously draped with
heavy clouds of vapor. the scientist
was at last rewarded by a revelation
of natures remarkable handiwork.
Standing one day within a few feet
of the crater's rim, Professor Heilprin
suddenly saw the veil snatched away
from the PeIee tower. Thus he de-
scribes the incident:
Shortly before o'clock the oppor-
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New BooksReceived

WALTER PIETERSE-MULT
TULI: translated from the Dutch by
Hubert Evans; Friderici & Gareis,
New York; price 81 So
A PECULIAR PEOPLE: THE
DOUKHOBORS; Aylmer Maude;
Funk & Wagnalls, New York; Illus
trated; price 81 so.
THE MORMON MENACE-Confes-
sions of John Doyle Lee: The Home
Protection Company. New York; Illus
trated.
THE ART OF RIGHT LIVING
Ellen H. Richards; Whitcomb sS Bar
rows, Boston.
NOTES FOR GUIDANCE OF AU-
THORS-Compiled and published by
the Macmillan Company. New York:
price 20 cents.
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CRITICS
Housecleaning Day

w. HEN the desk of the reviewer
" becomes 80 clogged with vol
umes of the fall and Christmas
season that all surrounding shelves and
the floor beneath are forced into the
service Of accommodation, he must
needs make some discrimination in the
selection Of books for immediate notice,
reserving those less deserving until
later weeks bring some partial respite.
Sometimes his instinct is in error and
a book is put on the waiting list that
soon appears among the list of best
sellers" Then the reviewer can do
naught but feel embarrassed and
recognize that as the busy bee he is
gathering knowledge with the process
sion of days. The writer of these
columns has enjoyed no exception to
the rule. From the wrack and wilder
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-05
CAREER
Of Business Man

~ NDER the Barbara Weinstock
| lectureship on the morals of trade,
established at the University of
California by H. Weinstock of Sacra-
mento, Albert Shaw, the editor of Re-
view of Reviews, delivered last year the
first lecture. This address upon THE
Business Career" given weight by the
name of such publicist and student
of present day affairs as Albert Shaw,
we'll merits the publication Paul Elder
has accorded it. The thin, handsomely
bound volume that comes from the
Tomoye press here in San Francisco
embodies a message of optimistic
promise upon the aims and ideals Of
the world Of commerce, which every
business man should have on his Office
desk.
The dominant note urged by the
lecturer upon men of this hurried age
of business is that of responsibility, Of
accountability for all their acts before
the bar of the social organism. Busi-
ness, he would have it, is public ser.,
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Webster's Dictionary.

Laird & Lee, Chicago. have issued
their gold medal edition of Webster's
New Standard Dictionary. which was
awarded the gold medal at the ST. Louis
Exposition The work embraces upwards
of $4,000 words and definitions, with
5000 encyclopedia subjects treated in the
appendix All new words defined There
are $40 illustrations in the TSP pages and
26 full page charts and diagrams. 1t Is In
convenient form for Office use. substan-
TALLY bound and with side indexes
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-05

girl of the roaring West, takes aim
with rifle at the reader from the very
cover of her book and is shooting at
desperadoes, coyotes and things
through four hundred pages of light lit
erature. Frances Parker introduces
her to the public. She is not altogether
an uninteresting person, either, though
one of her genius should obtain high
salary at shooting glass balls with Col
onel Cody's aggregation Of rough rid
ers. The scene of her vivacious doings
is laid on g cattle ranch and an Indian
reservation successfully. In both To-
calities she cuts the wind considerably.
The slang indulged in by both the hero
inc and her compatriots is probably as
unintelligible to the good people of
Montana as that found in the average
story of the woolly West. But then, a
proper dialect is not necessarily COM
ers accept it for the genuine and salts
faction is general. The spirited illus
tratioDs furnished Hope Hathaway
by the pencil of C. M. Russell, add
materially to the books value.
&C. M. Clark Company, Boston; price
81 50.)
The historical novel, which seems to
find favor still with so many readers, is
represented by George Tilman Snead's
Beneath Virginia Skies" a story of
colonial days in the Old Dominion. In
this fanciful tale of love and religious
persecution the heroine asks the hero
to marry her when she is yet 13 years
of age, receives against a New Testa-
ment bound to her breast the Indian
arrow meant for her lover and does the
unstereotyped thing generally The
hero, a dissenting clergyman, quotes
from Scripture overfrequently and
shifts through his nose at the unregen-
crate people of Virginia colony, who
made life such burden for him. There
have been worse books than Beneath
Virginia Skies'-also many better ones.
(Scott-Thaw Company, New York;
illustrated; price 81 50.)
Nanny 'Mongst the Wild Nations
of Europe" by Ruthella Mary Gibbons,
is a remarkably tiresome book It is
written throughout in negro dialect-not
good dialect, either, as the product
goes-and records the supposedly hui
morous reflections of a negro nanny
upon people and things in the Old
World The attempted humor is strained
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-05
NOTES
on the Magazines

cCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE for Feb
ruary contains the first INSTALL
ment Of a new lot of letters by
"A Diplomats Wife"-Mary King
These are Nine. Wad-
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two of which are reproduced on this
page, carry terrible conviction Of the
dreadful power of Pelee.
q. B. Lippincott Company. Philadel-
phia.)
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(The Macmillan Company, New
York; price 81 50.)
Robert Barr's romantic novel, "a
Chicago Princess is another uncon-
vincing story. In this instance it is the
riotous convolutions of plot incident
that make the thing impossible. The
story deals with the invasion of Korea
by Chicago pork packing millionaire
and his high spirited and tremendously
resOurceful daughter. Since 1t is the
desire of this lady to hob-ncb at close
range with royalty, and since the King
of Korea seems to present very acces
ible mark, this strenuous daughter Of
-1illions makes things exceedingly in
eresting for that Oriental potentate.
He replies in kind. Things move dan
gerously near the edge Of the abyss for
both the American girl and her doting
papa, but ingenuity of most remark
able order prevails over the craft and
fanaticism Of the East and everything
is lovely at the end of nearly three
hundred pages of the most ephemeral
reading. This book should have been
published on the very hottest of the
dog days last summer
(Frederick A. Stokes Company, New
York; illustrated; price 81 co.,
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beyond the breaking point, and the
whole book is exceedingly fiat.
(F A. Stokes Company, New York;
illustrated; price 81 25.)
Gelett Burgess has done something
passing clever in his 'Rubaiyat of Omar
Cayenne" though appreciation of his
parody must necessarily be confined
closely to those having intimacy with
the several aspects Of contemporaneous
literature While reading this skit,
clever though it's conceits may be, one
finds himself in a continuous attitude
of protest against the impious desecra-
ton wrought against the treasured
lines of the old Persian. When Burgess
says:
Waste not your ink and don't attempt to use
That subtle touch which editors refuse;
Better be Jocund at two cents a word
Than, starving, court an ill-requited MUSE!
We are constrained to protest against
wreaking even the jocund cents out
Of the wreck of Omar. Parody Is not
an exalted type of literature.
(Frederick A. Stokes Company, New
York;
A special limited edition Of a dainty
little monograph entitled THE Watch
Book" has just been issued by Shreve
& Co. for complimentary distribution.
The story tells of mans effort to d.
vide his hours as he came to realize
the increasing value of his time, and in
so doing how he progressed from the
use of the clepsydra or machine for
measuring time by running water
through a narorw aperture down to
the sun dial, the hour glass. notches
cut in lighted candle and finally the
clock, invented by Pope Sylvester in
500 A. D. Then, alas, came the realiza-
tion that although the "Grandfather's
Clock" could run, it could not walk,
and was too heavy to be carried. At
last, however, old Nuremberg. the IA
nous source of so much of artistic in
spiration, gave also mechanical inspira-
ton in the shape of the Nuremberg
egg in 1920. the first portable time
piece, single handed and made of iron.
And one of those "eggs" is exhibiting
its strength still by running after about
four centuries. Thence on the develop
ment of the watch is traced down to
the present day.
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mountains, isis Thompson" are the
most realistic things in the book
(The Macmillan Company, New
York; price 81 50)
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-05

"Hope Hathaway" an idealized COW
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CMcClure, Phillips & Co., New York;
illustrated, price 81 30.)
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beyond the breaking point, and the
whole book is exceedingly fiat.
Of. A. Stokes Company, New York;
illustrated; price 81 25.)
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-05
INDIAN
Wars and Fighters

ZRUS TOWNSEND BRADY
is one Of the most prolific
and alas, often the most
careless-of American writ
tiers. Three novels a year.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-01-30
I'm A BAD Way"
MANY 4 ROCK ISLAND READER
WILL. FEEL GRATEFUL FOR
THIS INFORMATION.

When your back gives out:
Becomes lame. weak or aching;
When urinary troubles set in,
Your kidneys are Gin bad way"
Doan's Kidney Pills will cure you.
Here is local evidence TO prove il:
r. J. Wivill. of 1911 Seventh avenue,
carpenter. says: Il was so sore and
lame across my back that / could not
stoop over far enough to tie my shoes.
When | was obliged to- pick up any
thing from the floor / had TO get down
on my knees TO avoid the sharp shoot
ing pains through my kidneys. There
was a dull. heavy pain in my back and
alsS weakness of the kidneys, which
was very annoying. ! used many rem
edies. but ] got little or no benefit until
I tried Deans Kidney Pills. obtaining
them AT the Harper House drug store.
They effected complete and perma-
nent cure
For sale by all dealers. Price 80
cents. Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo, "
" sole agents for the United States.
Remember the name-Doan's,-
take no Others
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-01-30
AN hOU nee NJ { NTS
ILLINOIS CENTRAL r. r.

I'll" Illinois Central maintains doubI.
daily service. and operates the best of
trains. with Dining Cars. Buffet Library
cars. Chair Cars and Sleeping Cars.
from Chicago. 81 Louis. Cincinnati and
i.put-Niil south To- New Orleans The
best road for reaching the Winter Tour
i-t Resorts 81 the south. including
NEW ORLEANS. WICK SBI re-.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-01-30
MAIL POUCH STOLEN HERE
Federal Officers Working on Evidence
Discovered at Peoria.

Peoria Journal: Car sweepers at
the Iowa elevator found a mutilated
mail pouch in a grain car belonging TO
the l.. f. & w. railroad yesterday af-
ternoon. and gave the postoffice Off
Gals the first intimation that a robbery
had been committed. The matter was
taken up this morning and it has been
discovered that the robbery was COM
mitted somewhere near Rock Island
on Jan %. The pouch was stolen
probably by tramps. who after rifling
it and open all of the letters. threw
it into an empty car. The matter is
being taken up by the government Off
Gals.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-01-30

Birthday Anniversary Of President
Observed n Rocs
Isl nd.
100 YOUNG MEN At MEETING
Which is Addressed by Hon, G, W..
! MeCaskrin Yesterday At ...,..,
ternoon. tr = 80 a-.

The largest meeting of the season
was held yesterday afternoon at the
Y. NJ. c. A. building. when a memor-
ial service was held in memory of
William Mckinley. whose birthday an
niversary it was
There were over 100 young men
present, and very interesting meet
ing was held. The address was made
by Hon. George w. McCaskrin 4
male quartet composed of Gilbert
Graves. G. C. Wenger. John Hazard
and a. Anderson rendered several of
the favorite songs of the martyre,l
president. Mr.. McCaskrin said:
Brilliant soldier and Statesman.
Il speak of Mckinley today as a
brilliant soldier, an honored statesman.
whose principles of greatness are just
coming to light. At time when the
out for the proclamation of war
against, Spain. when the press urged
immediate action for the oppressed
CubanS, il was then that the cool
calm, quiet judgment of statesman
appeared. He quickly amassed our
forces on land and sea and in three
months was in readiness to strike the
blow for liberty and freedom that was
the marvel of the age
Then with great soldiers acting for
him under his guidance he directed
Admiral Dewey in the far away Phil
ippines to the same purpose Iii
China. where the Russian. the Jap. the
German and the Italian along with the
American soldier united for the fray
another blow for liberty was struck,
these all under the guidance of great
good man whose name we revere and
whose principles we adopt because
they are just and right.
Acts Known to Us All.
'Imbued with hSnesty and sympathy
and love, his acts and deeds were r an
open book. and when his time came on
that awful day in September, 1901, when
anarchy seized the heart of the as
sassin, another martyr was added to
the list that gave their lives for us.
We shall ever remember in that aw-
full hour he had the same dignity of
command when the armed Guards We're
crushing the life out of the rabid
CzOlgosz, he said, Don't let them hurt
him.
when the curtain of death was
shutting out from him those he loved
SO well, these beautiful words came
from his lips: It's Gods way; His
will be done These words. his life
and his deeds. cam never be forgotten
by Americans"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-01-30
hot SPRINGS. ARK. FLORIDA.

Daily Sleeping Car without change.
Chicago to Hot Springs. with coHnsc-
ttons az Memphis from Cincinnati and
Louisville
Through -DixI. FLYER Sleeping Car
line ~ Louis To- Jacksonville via Nash
=
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-01-30
MEXICO. CALIFORNIA.

Tour OF all Mexico. via Illinois Cen
trail r n. under escort OF Eeaa- Camp
bell general manager thc-Amerfc.in
Tourist association. quincy bHildiu y.
111 Adams street. Chica gn. le1.NsS CHI
csEo Jan. 81 Select clientele Limit. q
All exclusive privilege independ. nt
train. drawing rooms. compartments. IL
dining ear in the world and the IA
NOUS op-n-top observation car. Chilli
iitii Special baggage car. Tickets in
cluds all expenses everywhere
SPECIAL tours 81 Mexico and Califor-
MA via ia. Illinois Central and New
orleans under the auspices 81 RAYMOND
- whitcomb. will leave Chicago Fri
day. Jan. % and Feb 10. for Mexico and
California and Friday. March 7. for
thts last To- include stop
over At New Orleans for the Mardi
GraS Entire trips made In special pri-
waite Ve-tibui. trains 90 nnest PullmauS.
with dining car service Fascinating
trims complies. in every detail
Illinois Central Weekly Excursions
- California Excursion cars through
To Los Angeles and san Francisco. as
follows. Via New Orleans and the
Southern Route every Friday from Chi
~aEo. every TUESDAY from Cincinnati
Ma Ons IA and the Scenic Route every
"wednesday from Chicago.
For Information In detail sleeping
car reservations etc address
c. A. SMITH, Cor,1 Agent,
1xS Main street. PEORIA. ILL