THE CORVALLIS GAZETTE, FRIDAY, JAN. 2, 1891.
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EXPLORA TION OF ALASKA .
To the army more than to any
other sinele asent do we owe the
transformation of the ''great Amer
ican desert" into the "great empire
of the west," says the Army and
Navy Register, and it is quite nat
ural, therefore, that the army
should be looked to explore the
only part of our domain which re
mains unknown and unexplored.
During the quarter of a century
that has pa&sed since the purchase
of Alaska the government has done
nothing to ascertain what it had
acquired. The country seems a
bare, snow-covered and inhospit
able Artie province, of value only
because of its fur trade. This im
pression has been proved untrue,
and we are beginning to realize
that unwittingly we had made a
very good bargain and got a val
uable possession. The mineral,
lumber and fishing industries of
Alaska are taking rank as the rich
est in the world; and yet it is' only
with the little strip of coast lying
to the southeast of Mount St. Elias
that we are as yet acquainted.
The territory is nearly as large as
all of the United States lying east
of the Mississippi river and of the
resources and capabilities ot the
territory as a whole we know next
to nothing.
For these reasons the secretary
of war has approved a bill making
an appropriation to send an explor
ing expedition into the interior of
Alaska, and has strongly indorsed
the measure in his annual leport
The amount required is estimated
at $100,000, and if the objects of
the expedition can be accomplished
with this sum or several times as
much, it will be money well in
vested. The work is needed to be
done, and the wonder is that it has
not been done before this.
There is no able thinker who
cannot readily perceive a slight
coloring of inconsistency in the
step the national farmers' alliance
has taken looking towards the
forcing of the public press into har
monious action with its cause.
That organization cannot afford in
this stage of its existence to resort
to such turgid means to accomplish
its desired ends. If as a party it
proves itself as worthy as it pur
ports to be, and if it will not allow
itself to be controlled and man-'
aged by disreputable campaign
sharks and designing politicians,
as have characterized every other
political organization, then it will
find plenty of willing support in
the press without bringing into use
the means it has adopted. But if
on the contrary, it will persist in
wielding or boycotting the press, it
has encountered a cumbersome
and dangerous task, which if it is
not successful in conquering, can
but result in its own final destruc
tion. Oregon City Enterprise.
It will be remembered that just
; before election, some two months
'ago, the New York importers were
sending circulars stating that their
prices would soon be raised from
10 to 25 per cent on account of the
new tariff laws. Now they declare
that if they are compelled to with-1
draw their imports from the bond
ed warehouse in February, accord
ing to law, prices will go down to
ruinously low figures. Either they
lied in their circulars or they are
lying now. There has certainly
been big lying somewhere.
The London Times is discour
aged over the outlook. It remarks
that "it will be difficult to go on
much longer . proclaiming the
world-wide triumph of tree trade,
or the impending ruin of protec
tionist nations, in the face of great
and continued prosperity of the
United States, the most resolute
and impertinent of them all."
How sad.
MONET IN THE COUNTRY.
There are times in the exper
ience of every community when
money appears to be scarce and
hard to set. Business men, as
well as private individuals, pass
through similar experiences. It is
not always the scarcity of money
that forces these conditions upon
the people, though the want of it
is just as keenly felt as if it were
f . V T-m 1. .
m limited supply, it is Known
that the volume of national bank
notes is not so large as formerly,
but few realize that other forms ot
money have come in more than
enough to fill the vacuum caused
by such retirements. A recent
compilation by the Treasury De
partment at Washington shows a
decrease of $21,000,000 in these
notes during the past twelve
months, and yet in the same inter
val the net increase in money in
the country, according to the same
authority, has been nearly $103,
000,000. The gross increase for
the year is about $124,000,000, of
which $35,000,000 has been in
gold and about $89,000,000 in sil
ver. A country that is increasing;
its volume of money at the rate of
$100,000,000 per annum cannot be
said to be in a bad way. We
doubt if there be another country
that can show such an increase for
the past year. Any talk about
contraction of the currency in the
light of these facts is sheer non
sense.
The late reverses in stock and
business circles on the Atlantic
seaboard cannot be charged to any
shrinkage in the volume of money
in the country. If there had been
a net loss of $100,000,000 in the
past year, instead of a net gain of
that amount, the shrinkage of val
ues incident to such loss would
easily account for the embarrass
ments in business circles. But
when these reverses occur in spite
of such a liberal accumulation in
the money supply, we must look
elsewhere for the cause. The pri
mary reason is easily traced to
stock speculation's. These cannot
be kept up for any length of time
without settlements, else every
body who engaged in that line of
business would get rich. The very
prosperity of the country has
drawn many into the whirlpool of
stocks. Some engaged in legiti
mate mercantile pursuits have be
come embarrassed througn tiie
troubles in Wall street because
they have been putting some of their
available assets there, or have
been on the paper of those who
have become thus involved. Mer
chants who confine themselves
strictly to their line of business es
cape these snares, and so maintain
their honor, and, eventually,
achieve success.
Few realize that the money of
all kinds in this country exceeds
$2,000,000,000. There is an aver
age of $34 per capita, calling the
population of the country 62,500,-
000. Most of this large amount
is monev in the best sense of that
term, consisting of gold and silver
, S t 11 .
com, or certificates oacKed witn
coin. If there be trouble in busi
ness circles anywhere it is not be
cause there is not enough money
in the country. The scarcity in
isolated cases is the result of ex
ceptional causes. If the amount
of money in the country were a3
e again as it is, these condi
tions would occur quite as fre
quently and be just as hard to bear.
Overtrading, like overeating, must
pay the penalty in some way. Of
course, wnen business trouDies are
i
in the air the case is likely to be
aggravated from too much conser
vatism on the part of those who
have money to lend. The true
heroism of the hour is wisely to
liscriminate between the good and
the bad, and to promptly extend
lid when and where it will do the
most good, because in times of a
general want of confidence the
strongest and soundest firms suffer
with the weak and irresponsible.
The indications show that the
troubles at the east are being ad
justed and the new year will prob
ably opsn with brighter financial
skies. San Francisco Bulletin.
, BE A TINO THE LA W.
American ingenuity is of course
most useful when engaged in per
fecting labor saving machines, but
it is brilliant everywhere and
never shines with a gayer or more
electric glitter than when employ
ed in defeating the law. One of
the neatest, and at the same time
the gaudiest, of recent examples
of this employment of this in
genuity comes from Minnesota.
In the lovely village of Sibley, in
that State, the virtuous villagers
determined to indulge themselves
in that compromise between free
whisky and prohibition which is
known as high license.
Accordingly they fixed the license
for selling liquor in this village at
$500 a year. Seven saloons were
opened under this law, and the
thrifty people were felicitating
themselves that taxes might be
lowered and the village run mainly
upon the income from licenses.
The wicked saloon men, however,
got the village council to stand up
to the cleverest racket that was
ever played in American politics.
The council elected every saloon
keeper a policeman at a salary of
$300 a year and assigned each of
them to duty in his own saloon.
This was practically a reduction of
the license to $200 a year. We
are compelled to add that the
grand jury of Green Isle does not
appreciate the intricacies ot Amer
ican politics and the complexity of
olding office. They have indict
ed the council for violating the
law, and the courts will now have
an opportunity of showing how
far the legal fraternity can rival
in ingenious technicalities this un
paralleled feat of keeping the law
and bi'3aking it at the same time.
San Jose Mercury.
131 PORTING EGGS.
What a spectacle ? The Oregon
wheat raiser continues to buy east
ern ham and eggs. Harnessed to
the duty of raising square miles of
wheat, how can he find time to at
tend to such trifling jobs as the
raising- of pork and poultry in
volves? He works hard to make
both end meet, and he gets enough
out of his square miles to afford his
family bread and butter! He can
not vene take time to notice the
financial prosperity of the man
next door, who doesn't work so
hard, cultivates less ground, but
raises considerable pork and
poultry. Pause a moment, Oh
weary wheat raiser! Wipe from
your brow the sweat that half
blinds you, and compare yourself
with the man of pork and poultry.
He is a live man in a healthy mar
ket, while you are a tired man in
a market that is pretty sick.
While you are hardly getting
ahead, and waiting for a "raise in
wheat," he is taking in the coin.
What a sad spectacle is that of a
man raising square miles of wheat
and realizing no more than bread
and butter for his family! And
yet one can see it in every county
or township where the supply of
ham and eggs comes from the store
instead of the farm. It is a sad
spectacle to note the wheat raiser
purchasing vegetables at the store
and hauling them home for family
use. His time is too much occu
pied in raising square miles of
wheat to be bothered with raising
garden truck. Even the butter he
spreads on his bread is bought at
the store, to be paid for when he
disposes of his wheat. Ex.
After the elegant holiday number of
West Shore one would scarcely look for any
thing specially fine soon agaiu, but that
splendid journal seems to have got its hand
in and intends to keep it going, for the last
number for 1S90, just at hand, shows some
beautiful work. It also contains an an
nouncement of the publisher that the paper
during the coming year will maintain this
high standard, which rivals the best work ot
any illustrated paper in the country. It is
the only genuine illustrated weekly iu the
United States published outside pf New
York city. Its subscribers will be given an
opportunity to compete for many valuable
prizes during the year, among which will be
a trip to the National Park of the Yellow
stone, particulars of which will be published
in a few weeks.
R. A. BenselL collector of customs at
Newport, passed through Corvallis this
week on his way to Salem and Portland.
i
The danger attending a sudden
departure from life-long habit is
signalized in the recent death
while in the bathtub in an Eastern
Oregon town of an immigrant
lately from Missouri. The man,
who had lost his wife and was
without means, had solaced him
self in the despondency incident
upon such a condition by chewing
up and swallowing a plug of to
bacco with a relish that showed
that he was not unaccustomed to
' such diet. The county had him in
charge, and all would doubtless
j have gone well with him had he
not rashly determined to try a
' bath, with the result above noted.
i The incident conveys its own
warning. A man can eat tobacco
with impunity, but he should ap-
' proach the bathtub with caution.
There is everything in being "used
to it." Oregonian.
Carpets and rugs of the best makes
and prettiest designs at Weber's furni
ture store.
A BAD SKIN DISEASE
On Limb 5 Years. Bedridden 3
Years. Doctors and Medicines
Useless. Feared Amputation.
Cursd by Cuticura at Cost of $3.50
Now Does Her Own Work.
A Wonderful Cure.
I must write and tell you of the success I
have had iu usiug the Cuticura Remedies.
I had been troubled for nearly live years
with skin disease in the right limb, and all
the doctors in this city could do nothing for
it. I tried everything, until at last I
thought I should have to have the limb am
putated at the knee. It was swelled to
twice its natural size, and I could barely
hobble around on crutches. I was in the
house, part of the time bedridden, for three
years, aud could not get out. I happened
to look in the newspaper and saw the Cuti
cura advertisement, and as a last resort
tried that. I used two buttles of the Re
solvent aud three boxes of the Cuticura. I
am now able ts do all my work, both in
house and out. of doors, and my limb is as
natural as could possibly be under any cir
cumstances. It is a most wonderful cure.
I had given up hopes of ever being well
again. If this will benefit you, you are
welcome to use it to the best advantage.
Any oue not crediting this can find me by
addressing me at the above named city.
Mrs. Harriet Stickler, Iowa City, la .
i ,
Cuticura Remedies
Are the greatest skin cures, blood purifiers,
and hninor remedies of Modern times. CU
TICURA Resolvent, the new Blood and
Skin Puntir, internally (to cleanse the
blood of all impurities and poisonxus ele
ments), and Cuticura, the great Skin Cure,
aud Cuticura Soap, an exquisite Skin Beau
tirier, externally (to clear the skin and scalp
and restore the hair), instantly relieves and
' speedily cures every species of itching,
burning, scaly, crusted, pimply, scrofulous,
and hereditary dieeaees aud humors of the
skin, scalp and blood, with loss of hair from
j infancy to age, from pimples to scrofula.
i Sold everywhere. Prictj, Cuticura, 50c. ;
Soap,25c; i.ESoLVENT 1. Prepared by Jthe
Potter Drug and Chemical, Corporation,
Boston.
S".Send for "How to Cure Skin Diseases,"
64 pages, 50 illustrations, aud 100 testi
monials. PLES, black-heads, red, rough, chapp.
ed, and oily skiu cured by Cuticura
Soap.
ACHIN3 SIDES AND BMt
Hit. Kiilnpv. and Uterine Pains
and Weaknesses relieved in one
mikcte hv the Cuticura Anti-
Pain Plaster. The first and only pain
killing plaster.
AT T II K
Ladies' Bazar
Can Always be Found
LOW PRICES and GOOD VALUES
In Children's And
Ladies' x Furnishings,
Hosiery, Gloyes, Fancy Goods,
Material for Fancy Work,
Stamped Linens, Etc.
SPECIALTY OF INFANTS' WEAR
Agency for Jenness Miller and Equipoise
Waists, aud for McCall's Glove-Fitting Pa
per Patterns.
Stamping done to order. i
J. C. YOUNG,
PROPRIETOR OFTHB
VINCENT : HOTEL,
Main Street, Corvallis, Oregon.
The best $1 a day house in the city.
Boarders by the week solicited. No Chi
nese cooks employed. We shall strive to
cater to the wants of the public and hope
to merit a share ot the patronage. Meals
25 cents. Next door to the Palace Meat
Market,
JOHN M. S0MERS,-
ATTORNEY,
Corvallis, Oregon.
Office two doors north of J. A. Knight's
furniture store.
F. M. JOHNSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CORVALLIS, OR.
43TPoes a general practice in all the courts. Also
rent for all the first-class insurance companies. t JH
PIM
Furniture Store,
This is the great Emporium for Modern Furniture at reasonable pri
ces. His slock is large, and selected with special care with an eye to
Comfort, Beauty, Style and Durability. A glance at his elegant wick
er, plush and fancy chairs, convenient folding wardrobe beds, stylish
center tables ot antique, oak and walnut, will convince those in quest
of Furniture that his store is the place for bargains in anything of the
hsusehold furniture line.
GEO
Corvallis,
Charter : Oak : Ranges !
"With. Wire-GTauze Doors.
SUPERIOR STOVES "RANKS
Fire-Backs Warranted for 15 Years.
Argfand Stoves and Ranges,
Ventilated Ovens,
PLUMBING R00FJNG, REPAIRING,
iF. ID. CLARK,
-Dealer
Stoves and
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, IRON,
Nails, Ste el, Iron and Lead Pipe and Fittings,
lUiTGranite Ware and House Furnishing Goods. Manufacturer of Tin
ware, Roofing, Gutter, mid Galvanized lion Cornice.
rininbinjr and All Kinds of ?ol Work done to Order.
COEVALIJS, - OREGON.
MAY'S NORTHERN GROWN SEEDS. ggf HS
THIS ENTIRE COLLECTION OF SEEDS ONLY IO CTS.
nrrCD III O SURE HEAD CABBAGE The surest heading variety, largo size, firm and lino
UrrCn NUi Li texture. W. Kluncof KuUumo Ind. sar: Sure head exceeds anything 1 ever saw in tUecuu
bageline. Out of some 490 plants not one failed to makeft.rinc.RoHd head. CHRISTMAS WATERMELON.
The finest keeping1 variety combine.! with the richest flavor of any melon kiowh. C. Weaver of Kundvillc, Ohio,
says: Christinas Melon is the finest nntductii? melon 1 ever prew, I had 2i lar;?e melons from four vine, and bad
them after Christmas. LENTX ST. A s;i!end:rt sort, daric red color, will products a crop In tlx weeks,aliiw
keeper. H. Miller ot ioi,iJtii ina., savs; L-eiuz i.ecz tai:e ute teau in ourmsrsm. xuvj
hell like hot cakes and are fine cropper. Test Northern Crown Seeds wl
our i-ecds, we wiil send one
the above cabbage, mr '.oii
be convinced tnev are suix-rior
auurcss on receipt or iucis. ami oar unci? mu--tratnl
eaialogne which is indispensab'e lo any
one inlereated in Plant, fired or Ku'.ii. boinjj
the most complete manual ever I'lUotislivu.
i r?rmfnin:t rtve-r i-Ai flhisf ra.1 infix finil a colored?
pliiteofthe faraoii Diuflem
; person sen-imf? Mivcranu
' Daoer will e cive extra a
famous Kslra Early fannlne
kifce Seedsmen 2nd Flnrisls. St.
Slay's Catalogue acknowledged the
P ISO'S REMEDY VOil CATARRH. Best. Easiest
to use. Cheapest. Relief is immediate. A cure is
certain. For Cold in the Head it has no equal.
It is an Ointment, of which a small particle is applied
to the nostrils. Price, 50c. Sold by druggists or 6ent
bv mail. Address. E. T. Hazkt.ttni!. Wnw. P
P. L. POSSON & SON.
We carry a lull stock of the Very
Bes'SEEDS, TREES, BULBS,
FERTILIZERS, ETC., BEE
KEEPERS' SUPPLIES. Give ns a
trial order.
P. L. POSSOIT & SON, 209
SUCCESSORS TO MILLER BROS.
a.RGEST
Stock,
A.TEST
Styles,
QWEST
iPrices.
GJARPETS,
OIL CLOTH
And Linoleum,
"Window Shades,
Lace Curtains, at
CARPETS SEWED AND LAID.
R. L. Taylor,
. PROPRIETOR OF THE
Little Band Box Barber Shop,
Corvallis, Oregon.
ggirShaving, hair cutting, dressing,
dying, and shampooing. .
er s
. FISH,
Oregon.
in-
Tinware.-
lo i a oiiicrs. luiuuouucu
patK3?e each off
and l,eot to any
Rosea. f-very
mentioning m;t
n ickn.re of tho
Kndi Mention
Paul. Minn.
finest and most completo ever puMLshed
2nd Street, Portland, Oregon.
CATALOGUE FREE.
A. HODES,
PROPRIETOR OF THE
onvAins Bakery
And Dealer in Choice
Staple and Fancy Groceries.
PURE WINES AND LIQUORS.
Fresh Bread, Cakes, Pies, Crackers, Etc.,
kept constantly on hand.
Corvallis, - - Oregon.
oils Richard.
John Smith.
P.Avbrt.
Allen Wiusok.
Benton County
Flouring Mills
Company, Manufacturers of the
BENTON FLOUR,
Best brand of Roller Flour in the valley.
Having thoroughly eqni ped onr mill
with all the latest and most improved ma
chinery we now are making superior arti
ticle of flour equal to any in e Willamette
valley. Give us a trial and ) convinced.
Every sack warranted
Bran, Shorts and Chop
constantly on hand. Correspondence solic
ted. BENTON CO. FLOURING MILLS CO.
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