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QUICK IN RETORT. feories of 8oma Masters of the Gantts Art of Repartee. Senator Ingalla was always quick in retort, although he was himself a subject of some sharp shafts. Once he was attacked bv benator iui Saulsbury of Delaware, the second I smallest state in the Union. He 1 disposed of the whole matter by say- j ihZ, "1 thank the senator irom that ' great state which has t!.i-- t counties at low tide and two coui..; .3 at high tide for his advice." John Kandolph of Roanoke was the most sarcastic man ever heard in the halls of congress, unless Da vid A. De Armond of Missouri be an exception. Both Randolph's and De Armond's speeches drip vitriol, but they are not epigrammatic and are hard to quote. Randolph, who flourished in the early days of the republic, when things were all un settled, was furiously attacked by a Republican from Rhode Island who had been a blacksmith. Randolph was a descendant of Pocahontas and of the best blood of aristocratic Vir ginia. He replied to the presump tuous blacksmith: "What creden tials does the gentleman bring? From whence does he spring? And why has he left his leather apron behind?" The reply was hissed back, "I sent it to Pocahontas to make moccasins for his grandchil dren." An illustration of the nimble and caustic wit of Alexander H. Ste phens of Georgia in senatorial de bate occurred on the senate floor during a heated argument with Rob ert Toombs, also of Georgia. Ste phens, although possessed of one of the most powerful brains of his time, was lame and had a wizened little body. Toombs was one of the largest men in the senate and was of a blustering, sputtering type. Ho had argued with Stephens until he was hoarse and became so exasper ated that lie threatened to fight. However, consideration of the size of his opponent deterred him, and, turning, he said, "I won't fight you, but I could swallow you whole." Stephens quickly retorted, "If you did you would have more brains in your stomach than you ever had in your head." Frederic J. Ilaskin in Louisville Courier-Journal. The Widow's Dog. A case was recently tried in a jus tice's court in which a common old fashioned hound was the subject of. contention. This hound was alleged to be the best dog after coons in the neighborhood. Two men claimed the dog, and each employed an at torney to assist in the case. At the trial it developed that the dog be longed to a widow residing in the neighborhood, and the justice gave the custody of the dog to the widow and assessed a fine against each of the litigants in the sum of $10. They paid the fine, and the justice gave it to the widow. She then said that either of the litigants could use the dog when he wished, pro vided that neither of them paid his lawyer. It is reported that the at torneys are still looking for their fee. Columbus Dispatch. Punishment. At one time in a certain peniten tiary there was a renaissance in the moral discipline of the prison, and all were compelled to attend chapel regularly. One of the prisoners came to the warden one day and begged to be allowed to- remain away from the chapel exercises, as he wanted Sundays to write letters to his friends. The warden looked at the beseeching convict in amaze ment. "What," he exclaimed, "al low you to stay away from religious exercises all the time! No, sir. Why, man, don't you know that's part of the penalty ?" And the con vict continued to worship regularly, while the warden led in prayer. Superstition In Calcutta. The grossest superstition exists in Calcutta. Not long ago an In dian gentleman residing in Jaun T?nMr street had a live coat flunff dovvn from his two storied house in accordance with the directions of a 60 called magician, who was called in to cast out a devil with which a eon was supposed to be possessed. The poor brute was first fed with a few bamboo leaves over which the wizard mumbled some mantras, and it was then pushed over the terrace. The animal was killed, and its flesh was distributed to the poor. Fake Antiques. People are buying English i tiques from taste or as investments, and as thev do not part with them anu as iut.v uo uui, y the supply is becoming shorter and ti.Jjt'L V?w 1.1 j siu.iui.uu tiques to be louna in country Biiup are frequently bogus We are flood- ed with copies of antique furniture' and engravings. There axe shop auctions in London of whole tocks of bogus engravings, silver boxes, Battersea enamels, miniatures; and .the like. London Spectator. THE PRIME MINISTER. Ho Is the Real Ruler of the Great Brit ish Empire. The real ruler of the British em-; pire is not the titular sovereign nor the hereditary nobility. It is tae leader of the political majority, who j derives his power solely from the di-. j rect vote of the people. Lhe prime minister of England is subordinate neither to the king nor the house of peers. Every man who shares with him in the work of the gov ernment is his subord'nate. Following a general election the sovereign sends for a member of the majority party and instructs him to form a government. This is one of those fictions of the constitutional authority of the sovereign to which the English people cling as to the heritage of tradition. The sum mons is delivered, but it is merely a form. The party leader is such not 1 the Bapti... s day, June -24, the pa bv the erace of the sovereign, but i tient must be dragged through the by the choice of the majority; not by election, but because he has the qualities of leadership. The leader, having received the sovereigns instructions to form a government, becomes by that man date the autocrat of the empire. His power is absolute. Like the president, he may appoint whomso ever he pleases a member of his cab inet, but, unlike the president, he is not influenced by geographical considerations, nor does he have to submit his nominations to the sen ate. In both countries the mem bers of the cabinet hold office at the will of the appointing power, but the tenure of office is even more precarious in England than it is in the United States. Here a minister may differ from the president on a matter of policy and not feel it in cumbent upon him to resim. In England there can be no differences. Either a minister agrees with his chief or he resigns. In England the cabinet is an ex tra legal creation. Nominally it is one of the committees of. the privy council, whose functions are to ad vise the sovereign, but this is sim ply a survival of mediaevalism. The cabinet is under the sole control of the premier, unhampered by royal or other interference. But anoth er survival no member of the cab inet may make public any matter discussed by the cabinet without the express sanction of the sovereign, and when the premier issues a sum mons to a cabinet council, which meets, at irregular intervals, accord ing to the exigency of public busi ness, the minister is "requested to attend a meeting of his majesty's servants." A. Maurice Low in Ap pleton's Magazine. Uncomfortable Korean Houses. The "kang," the Korean house furnace, renders the atmosphere of the inns where travelers take their rest almost insufferable. It is pic tured as a primitive though ef fective means of heating the houses throughout the kingdom. A small fire of brushwood is lighted in the small furnace at one side of the house, thence numerous flues under the mud floor conduct the smoke and hot air to an upright chimney or hole in the wall at the opposite end or side, and a little fire suffices to thoroughly heat a large house. A traveler says he is not surprised to find coughs and colds common, for an indoor temperature of 70 de grees or 80 degrees and an outdoor .one of zero form trying extremes. Moreover, the constant warmth seems to keep, alive the numerous flies, fleas, bugs and cockroaches with which most of the houses swarm. Japan's Ancient Civilization. i Arthur M. EjiapD in his 'Teudal and Modern Japan" points out, as other unserving Historians nave , done before him, that the apparent ly miraculous conversion of Japan to modern civilization is not so strange once it is realized that Ja pan was already in a high state of civilization at the opening of the present modern era. Some time be fore America was discovered the Japanese had their banks, clearing house and Europe s supposedly mod-, ern system or nan cnecKs dratts, letters of credit and notes of hand A thorough rural delivery postal rlTofiSf.TV0glltam0B?t.h1 1 .- - . Indians still roamed the shores of New England and the Atlantic coast. Two Hats. "Mr. Hankinson" asked innocent little Tommy, who was entertaining the young man m the parlor while j. t nuttinir the . t u PuttmS ,ttie finishing touches on her complex- io dmt you the f Plg tat Mr. Simmons does when he comes here?" What is the matter with ttiv tW Tommy? rei Mr. Haakon' ... . r o eon, with a large, genial smile. "His'n will straighten out again when I sit down on it," answered the innocent little boy, edging his r tnmrA tha Annr "u1 von j vn't" Chicago Tribune. MEDICAL SUPERSTITION. Outlandish Practices Still Prevail In Parts of Germany. All sorts of outlandish medical ,1 J i-'. V tnii-nA ience in the marsh s , f w rth - Bre merhaven, and in the Luneburg heath, a bairen region between the Elbe and Aller, in Germany, In both of these districts the touch of a corpse's hand is still re garded as a curative of many local ills. In the Wesermarsch the prac tice is to steal secretly into the room where the dead person is laid out and with the dead hand stroke the afflicted part. In the Luneburg heath the application is especially used as a cure for warts and for cramps in the stomach. Less gTewsome is the remedy for hernia still applied in the marsh country. On the night of St. John split of a cleft ash tree. Three men bearing the first name of John must perform the operation, and it must be conducted in dead silence. Some of the cures depend, on the contrary, upon verbal formulas. For hiccough' the sufferer must cross a little wooden footbridge over a stream an easy matter in the marsh lands with their manv drain age ditches. As he crosses he must repeat the nursery rhyme : Snip-op un Ik gungen ober dat steg Snik-op fult herin un Ik gung weg. This bit of dialectic German' maj be translated: Hiccough and I went over the bridge; I went on. Hiccough feU In the ditch. For erysipelas a fire is lighted and a pinch of ashes from it is rub bed on the skin to the accompani ment of a saying to the effect that the ashes and the sore went over the Red sea together, the ash came back, but the sore never again. Nu merous other sayings supposed to have the force of charms, usually when uttered simultaneously with some action, are quoted. The Lune burger, for instance, who has warts makes the sign of the cross on the warts while gazing at the crescent moon, saying, "What I see, that I win; what I wash, that disappears." It rhymes in the German dialect. Sometimes the formula is not spoken. The Wesermarsch folk have a saying which they write on a slip of paper when any one has fever. Then they burn the paper. The Luneburgers have no formula, but they write the name, year of birth and birthplace of the sick per son in a lonely place three nights, running. Other remedies for fever consist in swallowing spiders or dust filed from a church bell. When n tooth comes out the loser must throw it backward over his head. Hair combings must not be thrown out of the window, because the birds might get them and fly away with them. In that case the person who was separated from them would speedily become bald. Allgemeine Zeitung. Theophile Gautier. In spite of his exceptional strength and the magnitude of his desires, Gautier was a dreamer, strayed into the midst of a restless, implacable civilization which rush ed past him and over him and trod him under foot, while he, uncon scious of the fact, made no com plaint. "Poor Theo !" he sometimes exclaimed, and we, his friends, knew what depths of unspoken suffering were compressed into that cry. He lived in a world of dreams far away, so far . away indeed' that he was aware the fantastic existence he had imagined was not to be realized imon our earth and therefore made t1ip .s. of h(, indifferent circum- .o, whiVri ho w fnmA to "Literary Recollections," Maxime du Camp. Beauty Everywhere. The remotest corner of the globe is full of wonder and beauty. The laziest bank in the world, away from towns, where no artists do congre gate, upon which no farm laps, j clusters nor flowers spring, nor 's invites the browsing herd, is where no vines hang their cooling "t tted patched with moss f esquisit beauty that the . Jn aU Hg fa e ghould Produce one such thing, would be a master in art, an immortal m fame, and it has the hair of 10,000 reeds combed over its brow, and its shining sand and insect tribes might win the student's lifetime. God's least thought is more prolific than man's greatest abundance. Henry Ward Beecher, Riley's Rye Patch, Whitcomb Riley was looking over a fence on his farm at a field of rye when a neighbor who was driving by stopped his horse and asked: i(Tr n - r Till I XT lieuo, air. xuiey i xiuw jrour I7e doing r j "Fine, fine!" reolied the poet, "Ho' much do you expect to dear to acre?" ! "Oh. about foUT (TSllonB " an gwered Mr. Riley soberly .-Success. Burned Sunday Night. The larm home of J. D Me'w- rer at Harlan, 14 miles from Big Elk, burned to the gronnd about midnight, Sunday night, and a phone message was received by a local physician that two people had been seriously burned and advice was sought as to remedies to fee applied. Inquiry yesterday morning re sulted in the information that the house and contents, valued at about $500, a total loss. How the fire onginrted is not" known, as the family had been asleep tor some hours and the only fire that had been in the house was in the cook stove early in the evening. Mr. Mowrer is postmaster at Harlan, and the fixtures and post office books were lost, although the mail was saved. When the familv awoke the house was already burning and a hasty escape was made by those downstairs. A nephew, El Mowrer, aged about 14, was asleep upstairs, however, and Mr. Mowrer made his way through fire and smoke and res cued the dazed lad, who would otherwise have perished. Both were badly burned about the face and bands, but just how serious the injuries are is not known htre. The family consists of Mr. and Mrs. Mowier, time children, and the nephew mentioned. Important Business Changes. The Strong sawmill has changed hands and the new own ers have taken possession. It will be owned and operated by a stock company of which the stock holders will be L. B. Menefee, Percy Allen and G. M. Standifer, dl of Houston, Texas, but with headquarters now' in Portland. The two latter gentlemen are in his city at present, looking after he plant. Oiganization of the -tock company is not yet perfect ed. Mr. Strong's plans lor the future are cot public,' although ii s rumored that he has already purchased a mill elsewhere. Another important business change is the sale of the Seely-Arnold-Creson creamery plant to the Hazelwood Creamery com pany of Portland. The change occurs today. Mr Arnold is to go to Portland, tomorrow noon, where he will become engineer tor the Hazelwood Company in their plant there; Mr. Creson is to cover the local creamerv routes, as usual, while Mr. Seeley w ll be general superintendent ot the plant in this city. Dairy Wisdom In Erie! Remember that contamination of milk and its byproducts begins most often close to its source viz, the cow stables. Good air and sunlight in the barn, healthy cows kept cla:m, a good cream separator, with a ;:ood tank and p'eniy of ice. ai;d careful 'handling of the milk and cream will rer-ure good results. After the milk is once contaminated no amount of "doctoring" will restore it to its pristine pur.r.T- Ths Fanner's T7ifo f3 very careful about her churn. She scalds it thoroughly ai;er using, and gives it a sun bath to sweeten it. She knows that if her churn is sour it will taint the butter thafr4s made in it. The stomach is a churn. In the stomach and digestive and nutritive tracts are performed pro cesses which are almost exactly like the churning of butter. Is it not apparent then that if this stomach-churn is foul it makes foul all which is put into It? The evil of a foul stomach is not alone the bad taste in the mouth and the foul breath caused by it, but the corruption of the pure current of blood and the dissem ination of disease throughout the body. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery makes the sour and foul stomach sweet. It does for the stomach what the washing and sun bath do for the churn absolutely removes every tainting or corrupting ele ment. In this way it cures blotches, pimples, eruptions, scrofulous swellings, sores, or open eating ulcers and all humors or diseases arising from bad blood. If you have bi tter, nasty, foul taste la your mouth, cGatd tongue, foul breath, are weak and easily tired, feel depressed and despondent, ha ve frequent headaches, dizzy attacks, gnawing or distress in stom ach, constipated or irregular bowels, sour or bitter risings after eating and poor appetite, these symptoms, or any consider able number of thrm, indicate that you are suffering from biliousness, torpid or lazy liver with the usual accompanying indi gestion, or dyspepsia and their attendant derangements. ence ior qre ot ine auuve svm: will be readily proven to your satltf action If you will but mail a postal card request to Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo. N. Y-, for free copy of his booklet of extracts from the standard medical authorities, giving the names of all the ingredients entering into hi world-famed medicine and show ing what the most eminent medical man of tit Mnx 9t U am. p to ins apaconaiLions1as3tipsi.enl9V tne. writ:npa oLleiiig.aiig57ana firae.iiausuLt an the several scnoplsoi medical prarrtpj have been skiilfulitrand" harmoniou comhinftf jn Or. Pifrfp'a fl"Mon vflir"! msenvprg. mat this is absolutely true Captain Rackett. The Philadelphian and Feron ian litery societies of OAC are to give a drama in the opera honse oh the evening of May 3rd, in wnicn mere is great loca. inter- j est. The play to be produced is j Chas. Towusend's comedy drama ! "Captain Racket." It is a live- ly comedy portraying a funny j mix-up, or nigh socty hit. From the rise to the t.t" of t te cuitain there is 1 stries 01 laugh able, exciting climaxes. The play is well chosen and its select ion greatly credits those concern ed. The best talent of the two soci.ties has been chosen and all the "clever" thoroughly re--hearsed. The music will be a special feature ot the ev.ning as a full len-piece orchestra will play. Those who have witness ed a rehearsal predict a great success. The proceeds are to be used in furnishing a new society room. The members of both socie ties have tickets on sale and a large advance sale has already been made. The seats may be reset ved at Graham & Worth am's on and after May 1st. Come out and help the young folks. A good time is assured to all, as these college plays are among the most entertaing events given in Corvallis. BASEBALL SATURDAY. Chemawa Vs. OAC in this City Tomorrow. This game promises to be one of the most spectacular games ever played in Corvallis. Since Chemawa met defeat at the hands of OAC they have been gather ing in their old standbys, and are coming here with great expecta tions Saturday. The OAC boys have rounded into splendid shape aud will be in t he finest of condition for Sat urday's game, and certainly should have the support of the whole student body, instead of only 23 such as last Sturday. It's almost enough to disc ur age a team to have or 100 ''muckers" hanging around the gates and peeping through the fence. That's certainly fine sup port. The student body should be proud of its "muckers." For Chief of Police. I herewith announce myself as a can didate for the office of Chief of Police, subject to the will of the voters. 37u J. W. Ing'e. Coming Next Week. Murray & Mack who are Irish comedians on the stage and Hibernian millionaires off the stage, opened at Seottle yester day afternoon in the musical comedy, "Around the Town." People fought for admission at both the afternoon and night shows, and it will be the same story all week. All of the bald headed men will offer premiums for seats within winkshot of the stage, and all of the hosts of other playgoers who like to see a good dollar musical show will try for seats at the box office. Charles Murray and Ollie Mack are excellent comedians and their team work results in a peerless concoction of comedy. They are supported by a good cast of chorus principals, and their entertainment is one of the best in its line that Seattle patrons will see in many months; those fortunate enough to secure a seat during the engagement, will join in the praise of this very excellent company." (Se attle Times, April 22, '07. Notice to Creditors. Notice is hereby given to all whom it way con cern that the unaerdigned has been duly appointed administrator with the wiU annexed of the estate of Isaac Porter, deceased, by the County Court of Ben ton County, Oregon. All persons having claims against the estate of Isaac Porter, deceased, are hereby required to present same, with proper vouchers therefor, auly verified as by law required, within six months from the date hereof, to the un dersigned at his residence in Benton County, Ore gon, or at the office of McFadden & Brvson, attor nevs, Corvallis. Oregon. Dated Uarch 15th, 107. JOHN F. PORTER, Administrator with the will annexed of the estate of Isaac Porter, deceased. Notice to Creditors. In the matter of the Estate of Nancy J. Slagle, Kntira is herebv riven to all persons fwncerred that the undersigned has been duly a;) .- nted ad ministrator of the estate of Nancy 1. Slagle, de ceased, by the county court of the State of Oregon for Benton County. All persons having claims agaisnt said estate of said Nancy J. Slagle, deceas ed, are hereby . equi-txi to present the same, with the proper vouchers, duly verified as by law re quire ' within six months from the date hemof, to the or dersigned at his law office io Corvallis, io Benton County, Oregon. Dated this April a, i07. . Administrator of the estate of Nancy J. Stagle, ric- Additional Local. Misa Lillia Smith arrived Sunday from Oregon City and will peu,l the summer in this city. Tonight at the Albany rink at nine o'clock one of the most novel aa well aa -uare-aevii teats ever pc'lormed Oo roller skates will take tla.. The man agement has secured one of the beet ssarern on the coast to Jo the famous act -o' ''Lean the Gan." i'aranhernnlin fr.. tin'- .laria Uat arrived an-i will ba in iva'liness iy toninht. This will be the la--t nitrhi the rin i' open this season, and one ot the largest crowds that has ever-turned outie expected. Kline's Kandv Kids plaved a game of baseball Sundav with the team at Bruce on the field ot the latter. The ecore was IS to 4 in favor of the Kids. WANTED 10 hop trainers, men, wo men, or boys. Camp and stoves furnish- ed, or private board may be secured on gronnd at 50i; per day. Also loO pickers wanted to register lor fall rop picking. Sloper Bros., Independence, Ore. 37-S& The Portland Business Men's Excur sion, which will be most thoroughly representative of the best business inter ests ot the metropolis, will make stops at 33 Oregon and 5 Idaho cities and towns, and consume six days. They leave Mon day, day 6th, at 8:30 a. m., and return the following Sunday morning. Don Woodward, of bevond Philomath. was one of the busy people in Corvallis, Saturday. Mrs. Hays and Mrs. Burnett, who have b"en visiting friends here, left yes terday for Albany, where the latter re sides. Mrs. Hays goes for a visit. - Her home is in Independence. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Jackson have re turned from a three weeks' visit at Wrenn. Miss Minnette Phillips, who is teach ing school at Peoria, spent Sunday with her parents in this city. A cpnviiBS has been made the past tew days among business men to ascertain whether or not there is a general desire to have Saturday concerts by the college band this spring. Last year these con certs were quite popular and were usual ly enjoyed by alargi crowd. Dr. J. A. Harper Uav?s Thursday for Portland, to attend the meetings of the Dental Association. He will be absent until Saturday. The Stephen Merrick farm of 100 acres at Granger, was Bold by Ambler & Wat tern, Satn-dv. The purchaser is W. C. Williams, recently from South Dsikota. It is announced that a cew $12,000 passenger depot will be erected and a total sum of $20,000 expended in depot improvements at Eugene. In cluded in the improvements will be the building of about 6500 feet of additional Bidetracks ard the removal of the ware houses on the grounds all to the north side of the yards, the south side, which is next to the business and residence portions of the city, being use- for de pot purposes. The company will build a street in the rear of the warehouses for a distance of five blocks, so that teams hauling goods to and from the ware houses will not be compelled te go through the yards where the trains are switching a greater part of the day, and where thev are in almost constant dan ger. Telegram. Judge L. T. Harris was in Corvallis for a few hours Fridav, attending to le gal business. He took the evening train for bis home in Eugene. R.F.Baker and family expect to lo cate in Corvallis and Mr. Baker will lie associated with his son, Charlie, in the management of the Hotel Corvallis, which he has leased and refurnished throughout. Both gentlemen are good hotel men and we are sure tLey will keep an up-to-date hostelry. We wish them success. Junction City Times. Corvaliis is to lose another of h'jr most estimable families. Prof. S. W. Hoimes, the well known principal of the Corval public schools, h is accepted a position as book-Keeper for a oig sawmill company at Ostrander, Waah., and ltaves with hi8 family about the middle of June to begin his new duties. He returned Saturday evening from a trip to Portland and Ostrander, where he had beenrto investi gate for himself the proposition offered. Corvallis will regret very much the lots of Prof. Holmes and family. "Too Much Soda in the Biscuit" at the opera house, Friday, May 10th. "Too Much Soda in the Biscuit" at the opera hous?, Friday, May 10th. Saturday morning Col. J. K. Phillips his son, E. vV. Phillips, and the latter 'g wife arrived in Corvallis from Southern Oregon. 7 be former left Corvallis last August for the southern part of the state, where he joined his Bon in a mining venture. Ed baa made quite a name for himoAinn Rntithorn OrAnn mininir cir. cles, ;but has abandoned operations in that section . He has accepted a situa tion with the Argyle Silver Mining Co., operating in Ontario, Canada. This is in the Cobalt regions and he receives a splendid salary. His brother, James, ia superintendent of the "company. Sun day be departed by way of Seattle, thence oyer the Canadian Pacific R. R. to hia destination. He was ai-compenied as tar as Seattle by his father, who will vitit a daughter in the northern mrtropoli for a week or so and then return to C r vallis. Mrs. E, W. Phillips accompanied her Lotlsnd.