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CORVA Vol. XLHI. Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon, Tuesday, February 13. 190G. NO. 1 JLIS GAZETTE Reform. A microbe in this town ; Is ranging np and down. The bng they call reform Has taken as by storm, One cannot getaway From its contagions sway. In curbing vice and crime, "Weoccop oar time; The day of graft is done The Devil's on the run. We've got a zealous mayor Whose one special care Is guarding the yonng and fair From sin polluted air Of icilded den and snare Quite right, we all declare. With strife the council's torn Frona eve to dewy morn They argue and contend About the way to end The reign of vice and sin And kick out sa tan's kin. The pieacher's thund'rous voice Makes sanctity rejoice. The churches so they say Have gone into this fray And there propose to stay For ever and a day. In club, in car, in street Reform is all we meet. Although we hate to blame Ve hang our heads in shame To fee the awful sin Our neighbors wallow in. Reform does not begin - Like charity at home, To locate wrong we roam. Reform doeB not apply Unto the pronoun "I." Borne say that change yon can't With Jaw, or shriek, or rant, The nature God gave man. But sure these persons can Not understand, for they Proceed to jeer and say These insects so unblest That they would like a rest From efforts to reclaim This town from horrid shame. But we the goodly know Where souls of Knockers go. 80 owuward to the fight Hurrah, for us and ri ght. Oregonian. WOODS FOR VEHICLES. Conditions in Manufacture and Trade Vs. Fallacies. The manufacture of vehicles and implements occupies a rather curious position among wood working industries, as is shown by a study ot vehicle and im plement woods lately made by the Forest Service. It appears that in spite of the fact that the more popular woods are becom ing scarce enough to make the use of substitutes in some cases imperative, the trade is largely tied down by unfounded preju dices, in the minds of consumers against the use of substitutes. And these prejudices which man ufacturers would now often be glad enough to overcome, are in some degree due to their own efforts, under the stress of com petition, to create and strengthen a demand for the very woods which the depletion of supplies renders it more and more difficult to obtain. For years the maker of vehicles and implements made a point of the fact that his wares were constructed only of certain kinds of wood, and the consumer has been led to believe that these kinds, and only these, are the best. Now that other kinds must be used, the consume r, who has been an apt scholar, still insists on having the old favor ites. Under these peculiar circum stances mauy manufacturers have chose perhaps the only course open to them that is, they have used substitutes without taking the consumer into their confi dence. And iu so doing they have been justified not only by the pressure of competition and the scarcity of supplies, but also by the excellent results which have been given by the new woods. The consumer, how ever, who feels that he has been tricked when he discovers what has been done, is likely to be in dignant. When he finds, for in stance, that the box of his buggy or wagon, which he took to be poplar, is not poplar at all, but spruce, red fir, cypress, cotton wood, or red gum, he at once complains to the retailer. In this wav he learns for the first time that a large percentage of so-called poplar vehicle bodies are actually made of one or other of these ud familiar species. In the implement trade similar con ditions obtain, though not in the same degree. , To facilitate the introduction of legitimate substitutes it there fore seejis necessary to put the matter to open trial, and, by re moving popular fallacies, to enable manufacturers to offer in good faith a product which will bring a reasonable profit without falling short in utility. Oregon Salmon. The board of fish commission ers held a meeting last week and considered the rerort of Fish Warden VanDusen for the month of January, from which the fol lowing facts are taken: Complaints were filed in the justice court, Astoria precinct, by Walter Bailiff Settem, against the Clatsop Mill Company, As toria; The Tongue Point Lum ber Co , Astoria, and the Astoria Box Company, Astoria, for al lowing saw dust and other lum ber waste to be dumped on the bank of the river in such a man ner as would permit the high waters to take the same into the waters of the Columbia river. In the case against the Clat sop Mill Company the justice of the peace imposed a fine of $50 and costs, which was paid. The cases against the Tongue Point Lumber Co., and the As toria Box Company are pending a ruling of the court upon de murers that were filed ia each case. For fishing for salmon with a net in the waters of the Siuslaw river, above the town of Maple ton, Linn connty, Levi Hollen beck entered a plea of guilty and was fined $50 and costs which he paid. Statesman. Favorable Comment. Dr. James Withycombe, the director of the experiment station of the Oregon Agricultural Col lege, came down from Junction City yesterday morning, where he attended a farmer's meeting and delivered an address on the subject of diversified farming He has a number of meetings to attend during the next few weeks, where subjects in which farmers are intetested are to be the themes for lectures, and he is kept busy with these and those duties devolving upon him as a director of the experiment sta tion. ur. wituvcomoe. wtio is a prominent candidate for the re publican nomination for govern or, has thus far been given little opportunity to look after his poll tical fences, his duties at the college taking up his time, but so well is be known in the state and so popular has he become that his campaign is practically taking care of itself and he is steadily growing in the estima tion of his fellow republicans, while support is coming to him from all classes of citizens with out regard to party affiliations. Albanv Herald. J ingle-Jangle. "I asked her to marry me, 'Go to papa,' she said, Now she knew that I knew That her papa was dead. And she knew that I knew The bad life he had led, And she knew that I knew What she meant when she said, Go to papa.' " When a cyclone struck the place Gentle Jane was whirled through space. "It's all right," said Jane, "I know, But it was an awful blow !'' Bob fell in with Bill one day, But promptly they fell ont. Yet by the lake they stopped to play, And thua it came about They both fell in, alackaday. And never more fell out I PLAN EXTENSION. Pacific State Telephone Company Planning to Invest. At the annual meeting of the Pacific States Telephone & Tele graph Company, held at the main office on Alder and Park streets Thursday afternoon, of ficers were elected for the ensu ing year. Henry T. Scott, of San Fran cisco, named as president last month to succeed John I. Sabin, who died, was reelected without opposition, with Louis G. GIacs, of San Francisco, as vice-president; Fred W. Eaton, San Fran cisco, secretary and treasurer; J. C. Ainsworth, Portland, assist ant secretary and treasurer. The board of directors was chosen as follows: Henry T. Scott, Percy T. Morgan, E. S. Pillsbury, Timothy Hopkins, Louis Glass, F. W. Eaton, and F. G. Drum, of, San Francisco; J. C. Ainsworth, J. H. Thatcher, R. W, Schmeer. J. P. McNicfa olas, G.B. McLeod, E. H. Mc Craken, H. S. King, C. E. Hick man, C. H. Chambreau and P. Bacon, of Portland. The Pacific . States Telephone & Telegraph Company is a cor poration doing business under the laws of Oregon, hence the annual meetings are conducted in this city. The Sunset Tele phone & Telegraph Companv is a Ua 1 norma corporation, out in no other states are there any I companies of the system, all branches being governed from Portland to San Francisco. Just what improvements will be made on the system in the future has not been decided. "There is only one object, and that is to place the system in first- class shape," said Mr. Scott, Thursday. "Changes contem plated cannot be measured in dol lars and cents, but will be on ex tensive scale. When the plans are ready announcements will be made from the different offices. The telephone business is at pres ent like that of western railroads three years ago patronage , has grown beyond reach of facilities, The railroads had to build more equipment and make cars larger with engines heavier and more powerful. The West has pro gressed more in the last three years, in my opinion, than it did in 10 vears previously." "What do you think of the underground system with refer ence to teleoaone wires." was 4. asked. "The underground system to a certain extent is a benefit, and after that it becomes a detriment. I am speaking from the stand point of a patron. ; We can give better service on aeriel . cables than with the underground, ont side ot crowded districts. It is good for use in business districts, but then it is a system that must be handled with judgment. Visiting officials will leave Portland this evening for Salem, arriving at San Francisco Sun day morning. The above is from the Tele gram. Since the appearance of this article we have interviewed Charles Shenefield, local man ager for the above-mentioned company, to ascertain if any im provements were planned for this city. Mr. Shenefield said that for more than a year plans and specifications for a great improve ment of Corvallis service have been on file at headquarters and all that was necessary for the company to get busy here was an evidence of a desire on the part of the Corvallis public. Should the people give evidence of support great improvements in the local system would be made at once. . Nomadism and Home-Making. It is sometimes difficult to separate the land-speculating ele ment trom the home-making element among settlers in new - I countries, wnen planning legis lation for the home-maker says Maxwell's Talisman. It will remain difficult so long as there are any new lands to occupy be tween the Atlantic and Pacific. Land speculation began with the first discovery, by the Jamestown and Plymouth men, that after occupying and improving land for a while it could be sold for a good price, even though nothing was paid for it in the beginning. This discovery was the origin of the nomadism which has char acterized so large a portion of the settlers whose steady advances have built up the country. But, viewing the matter in its larger aspects, it is not the man who has "moved on" who has done the "building up" as is held in a popular creed, but the man who has stayed. It is he who has created the permanent homes, the fruitful farms, the smiling Villages, the" busy factories, the great cities. It is he who has made the business for the rail roads. It is only as nomadism is elim inated from our population that the highest civilization is at tained. The nomad has learned to grab larger and larger areas for speculation. The big land holdings of the West, which block improvement, are his. He has become in inumerable cases, too, the proxy of rich speculators in the older states, whose hold ings mark unimproved areas scattered all along civilization's line of march across the conti nent. It is mainly to the land speculating settler that we owe whatever is crude and rough, ill- compacted and garish in our national development. Faces Grave Charges. Charges of conspiracy have been made against the United States Minister to Bolivia, Wil liam R. . Sorsby, of Mississippi. It is alledged that' be aided in a plot to destroy a mining company in Ecuador by means ot fradu- lent bonds. Minister Sorsby was placed in the diplomatic service through the influence of Senator Quay. It was said that Sorsby sold letters and papers to the re publican Congressional Commit tee which were of use in the cam paign. Senator Penrose of Pennsylyania had Sorsby named for the Bolivian post. Accompanied by a half-tone cut of Minister Sorsby the above write-up appeared in the Oregon ian of Fiiday. In past years this gentleman has visited friends ia Corvallis. On each visit he add ed to his list of friends and ac quaintances here and it is hoped that there is some mistake regard ing this affable gentleman. Spraying. Messrs. Fullerton, Bubler & Reed are prepared to do city and country spraying at reasonable rates. I,eave orders with J. R. Smith & Co. 15-18 Have your job printing done at the Gazette office. Notice. The Philomath Mills will he prepared to furnish pins and brackets for tele graph and telephone works after Jan uary 25, 1906. Inquire of M. k at mills. 9t Take The Gazette for all the local news. 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