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About Corvallis gazette. (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 17, 1907)
THE COBMIS GAZETTt Published Tuesdays and Fridays. bj Gazette PcEiiSHiNcCoMpi ny. The Subscription price of the Gazette for several years lias been, and reiuaius $2 ptr annum, or 25 per cent, discount if paid in a.lvauce. This pa.ier will be continued until all arrearages are j.ai i. SPEED IT ALONG. No man rises above his ideals.' Just in harmonious proportion to these, whether they are high or low, noble or ignoble so will be his character and the plane 01 his life. "As ye think so ye are " Man is naturally an idealist. We might go farther and say he is forced to be an idealist because he sees no rational grounds for believing many things real ex cept ideas and their relations. Fortunately, however, though he begin with ideals, ideas and inquire into their relations, it is this inquiry which puts him in possession of things real and ritional. ' It seems to be para doxical that men acquire ration al knowledge of, and belief in things through an agency which denies there is rational ground to believe any thing true except its own intangible, unreal, fanciful, idealistic self. But men do find the real through pursuit of the , ideal. For ages thoughtful, observant men have recognized the in fluence of idealism on human life and have striven to elevate men by imbuing them with high ideals and with a determined purpose to prove' their ideals true. The successful teacher, whether teaching in the school room, from the pulpit or through the press is he who strives to inculcate high ideals. He is a workman who needeth not to be ashamed. Such is the perversity of hu man nature that men will choose to entertain low, debasing ideals. There can be little question that this explains much and by far the greater part, of the social life and the civic corruption which are our reproach and shame. Men and women have turned away from lofty ideals. Right and rational ideals concerning love and marriage never made a record in a divorce court. Right ideals of pariotism, of honor, of justice, of honesty, of fidelty to trust never made a man a bribe giver, a bribe taker, a corruption ist, a perjured thief. Only when men foilow low, maan ' unworthy d sing ideals may these epithets be written after their na;nos. We r quire no more convinc ing evidence of the low ideals held by large numbers of our people than the character of the books they read. This is espec ially shown in the kind -of fic t:Ti nought by the mass of read ers oi fiction. It is the sort ihat nrt only panders to depraved ap petites, but by presenting things in false colors and rela tions it constantly presents false ideals .nd exerts a pernicious and debasing influence, often greater than the reader is aware of or is willing to acknowledge. "American fi :tion, very largely, has long been poisoned with German materialism and French infidelity and realism. It has reveled in filth and nastiness and crime so skilfully glossed over with a cunning, subtle and falsa philosophy of life, and liv ing tliat is persusdes its readers tva; bjack is white, vice is vir ture, relig'.o.: is frenzy and staid morality a shrieking comedy Strangest of all. The most debasing of this stuff is the pro duct of women. It shows that when woman, who is naturally a high idealist, once lowers her standa .! she drops lower than the average man would dare. Te Hmit has been reached. Reform ..efoim on all lines of thought and action is , now the cry. Our people are entertain ing higher ideals. The litera ture of fiction feels the change. That sort which finds its heroes and heroines in the slums and deifies them without first giving them even the semblance of a moral bath , finds a steadily de creasing number of readers. The successful jwrtter of fiction must draw his characters from those who always have pursued high, rational i3eals. , Speed the sadly needed reform! NULLIFICATION. W. S. U'Ren is reported to have prepared a statuie, to be submitted to the initiative vote of the electors next June, whereby it is propossd to make Statement No. 1 mandatory upon members of the legislature. The effect of this is intended to be that, to whatever party a member of the legislature may adhere, he must vote for the man already selected for United States Senator by the electors voting at the last gener al election. He is to have no moire power of choice and elec tion "than you now have for the formal ratification of our selec tion ana choice for our governor of Oregon. " This means and in tends the people shall choose and elect United States , Senators as freely, certainly and directly as they now choose and elect the governor of the state.. It means much more. It means that the people of a state may nullify a plani mandate of the constitution of the United States. The first article of this instru ment provides that the legisla tures of the several states shall elect U. S. senators. It also provides that vacancies occurr ing in the senatoral representa tion of a state shall be filled per manently only by the legislature. Then see the sixth article the federal constitut:on and laws of congress are the supreme law of the land regardless of state con stitutions and state laws. No one will argue for a mo ment, that such an enactment as as this is not unconstitutional. Eah member of the legislature swears to support the constitu tion of the United States. Does this oath mean anything? If it does it means the legislator must observe it rather than a pre-election pledge. It i3 improbable any conscientious man will violate his folemri oath. . The framers of the constitu tion, for good and sufficient rea sons, placed the choice of U. S. senators in the state legislatures. It does not appear these reasons are less cogent now than when the Constitution was framed. But even if they have no present or possible future existence the constitution yet remains the su Dreme law. If it is desirable to change it so the people may elect U. S. senators by direct vote as they now elect their governor the change should be made, must be made, indetd, as provided for by the constitution itself. Any other method is essentially revolu tionary and a menace to all con stitutional government. It is probable if a proposition to amend the federal constitution ware before the people it would meet little or no opposition, but we are loth to believe that Ore- gonians can be persuaded to defy and set at naught any of its pro visions. Statement No. 1, if accepted at all, sh -uld not be construed so as to pledge any candidate for legislator to support any other than the nominee of his own party for election to the U. S. Senate. To require men of any political party to aid in electing a man of wholly differing and opposing political principles to the U. S. Senate where ' for six years he may oppose all things political they hold most dear is to require what few honest, sincere and intelligent men of any party can concede.. If the people cannot elect good, true, honest men to their legisla ture they certainly cannot elect such men to the U. S. Senate. If they can elect such men to the legislature and they can if they will they can safely entrust them with the election of sena tors. - ' . " ' : 'Yv ' Statement No. 1-might better be ignored until our.people of all parties gore sure there , are no honest men in their party avail able for the state legislature. Additional Local. It is said that A. Helms of tha Vied ford fruit district will harvest twenty thous and dollars' worth of Newtown Pippin apples from his eevn a-re orcharcLIbie is estimated on a $2 50 per box basie, and it is belifved that he will receive a still higher price. Thin sou no e like a pretty good sized story but in the factions peach country of Colorado-land is sold readily at $2500 to $3o00 per acre. Ore gon lands are fully as productive. New filing cases have been placed in Prof. Oawtord's room and in Dr. Ken ' office atOAC the past fes days. Other cases for Prof. Horner's room ae being constructed by R. C. Wills. The college postoffiee is to be removed from its old position in the library to the clerk's office, this year. A horse beloaging to John Jacobs, re - siding on route No. 6, east of town, swal lowed a live hank the other day while eating hav from a straw stark in tl e .pasture. The bird was not a large one and entered the animal's stomach alive. The strangest part of the affair is that the bird did not die immediately out managed to peck its way through the lining of the horde's stomach and through the hide. The horse died and wa9 found , a few hours later by W F Cary, a neigh bor, with the dead body of the hawk pro- trading from the horse's stomach. Af ter pecking its way outsi te the touvh bide, the bird seemed to have- become canght and was unable to emerge. Tte, peculiar an 1 almost incredi-!eincident is substantiated by' several witnesses who were called to see the strange freak. I is supposed the hawk had burrowed in the hay and the horse in eating from the pile of hay accident illy swallowed the bird Saturday's Albany Heraly. Nexi I Notice to Creditors. Notice is herebv (riven to all whom it roar concern that the undersigned has been appointed Adminis trator of the estate of Margery ii. liavisson, deceas ed, by Ute Couuty Court of Benton Cuuuty, stale ol urejron. Ail persons naving claims against said estate of Margery B. Davisson, deceased, are here by required to present the same, with the proper vouchers theretor, duly verified as by law required, within six months from the date btrenfto the undersigned at the law office of McFaduen & Bo son in Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon. bated at Oorvalus, Oregon, this 2oth day of Au gust lau7. Ralph M. Davissok, As Administrator of the estate of Hargerv B. Davisson, deceased. ' Summons. In the Circuit Court of the Btate of Oregon fo dentin County: W. H. Savagt, Plaintiff vs. N. A. Fisher, Defendant, To N. A. t isher, the above named defendant. In the Na'jie of the 4tate of Oregon, you, are hereby summoned uud required to appear and auswer the complaint of the plaintiff in tlie above enLitled suit now on ntewith the clerk oi the abui eiititiea court on or b'lore the last day of the time prescribed in the Older for publication ofthissuui ulons hereinafter referred to, to-wit: On or beloie October 4, 1907, and you are hereby notint-d that il yuu fail so to appear and auswer the said complaint as herein required, -for want thereof tne plaintllf wilt apply to the above entitled court lor the re itf deaauued in his said cumplaiut to-wit: For decree that' plaintiff have judgment agairst defer dant Uf on the promissory note described .n said cumplaiut for $iuu with m teres t thereon a i rate of 111 per cent per annum from fcsveuiber mth, lyoti;-at-toi ney 's fees and $19 paid for caring for the follow iog persoual property, viz: one black mare about 0 years olo, one topaiugle buggy and one set of har ness belonging to defendant but now iu possession of plaintiff, and directing that plaintiff's lien upun said property by way of a pledge be foreclosed and theabove described personal property sold in the manner proviued by law for the sale of personal property uuder execution in actions at law, and the proceeds applied, by the party making suchN8aie, to the satisfaction of such judgment and the bal ance to the defendant. This summous is published in the Qorvallto Gaz ette newspaper once a week: for six consecutive and suc?essive weeks beginning with the issue of Au gust 23, I9v7, and ending with the issue of October 4, 1U0Y, under and in pursuance of4he direction contained iu an order made by the -Hm E. Wood wai Judge of the County Court of Benton County, btate of Oreirou, dated-August 15, 19o7. Date of first publication hereof is August 23, 19o7. E. E. Wilson, 70-82 Attorney for Plaintiff. CUSSIF1ED : AUVtBTISEMENTS CLASSIFIED -ADVERTISEMENTS ; Fifteen words or less, 25 eta for three successive insertions, ' or 50 cts per month; for all op to and including ten additional words, cent a word for eack insertion. For all advertisements oves 25 words, 1 ct per word for the first insertion, anc H ct per word for each additional inser tion. Nothing inserted for less than 2f cents. - Lodge, society and church notices, other than strictly news matter, will -bt unarged for. , . HOMES FOR SALE 7h- Sale: Nine acres good and, all in cultivation , six roojn honee, two lots and barn. $1,200, cash. Located fine farming sectioi," within stone's throw graded school, churches, store, postoffiee. Good reasons for se'.liug. fall or address, Gazette Office. 63if For Sale : Registered, unregistered and grade Cote w old bucks, of serviceable age. Inquire of T. A. ' Loasdon, Phone 2u0s, Granger Line, Corvallis, Ore.S 63tf WILL SELL LOTS IN CORVALLIS, Oregon, on instalment plan and as sist parchasers to build homes on there if desired. Address First National Bank, Corvallis, Or. WILL SELL MY LOTS IN NEWPORT, Or., for spot cash, balance instal ments, and help parties to build homes tbereou, if desired. Address M. S. Woodcock, Cc-vailie, C PHYSICIANS B. A. CATIxEY, M. D., PHYSICIAN uiu surgeon. Koome 14, Bank Build iog. Office Hours: 10 to 12 a. m , 2 to 4 p. m. Kesidence: cor. 6th and Ad uaiB 6ts. Telephone at office and res idence. Oorvaiiis, Oregon. ATTORN EYS" S. F. YATES, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Office up stairs in Zierolf Building, Only set of abstracts in Benton County E. R. BRYSON ATTORNEY AT LAW, Uice in Post Othce Building, Corval da, Oregon. WANTED WANTED A FRESH MILCH COW, Jersey or high grade. Must give 85 or 40 lbs. of aiilk per dav. Phoue 422 or call on Henry Cyrus, corner Third and Washington streets. 72-79 TO LET WITH BOARD THREE choice furnished rooms. Good beds and stoves. Inquire or phone 422, Mary C. Cyrus, corner of Third and . Washington streets. 72-79 WAiSTE D 600 SUBSCRIBERS TO THE Gazettb and W eekly Oregonian at $2.55per year. BANKING. Veterinary Sura eon DR. E. E. JACKSON, VETERINARY Burgeon and dentist. Residence Third Street, between Madison and Monroe, Corvallis. Phone (681, or call Snow & Wiley's livery stable. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OP Corvallis, Oregon, transacts a general conservative banking business. Loans money on approved security. Drafts bought and told and money transferred to the principal cities of the United States, Europe and foreign countries. House Decorating. FOR PAINTING AND PAPERING SEE W. E. Paul, Ind. 488, I4tf new Fall ready for you store and we are a special opening Glothes are now in our oing to hold reception to -4tML S$ ' Iff 4"'nfVvt Copyright 1907 by Hart Schaffner 5? Marx introduce you to them. You're invited; and when you come you'll meet a lot of the finest clothes you ever saw. We feel that our good friends and our good clothes ought to know each other better. These are Hart Schaffner & Marx clothes; and you can put it down as a fact that better clothes, more stylish -more perfectly tailored, never came from the hand of a tailor. The new suits are in a number of smart models, and the patterns are va ried enough to suit every taste grays5 browns tans, in stripes, plaids and checks. "" The new Fall overcoats are certain ly very snappy; you'll find your kind here. It is hardly necessary to say that Hart Schaffner k Marx clothes are al ways all-wool; you get no cotton mixture stuT under that name. Other departments are full also of fine seasonable goods; hats on the latest blocks; shirts and neckwear like a regular flower garden of color and rich design S. L. KLINE Established 1864 , The People's Store Corvallis, Oregon i
