THE CORMLIS GAZETTE Published Tuesdays and Fridays by Gazhtte Publishing Company. The Subscription price of the Gazette for several years baa been, and remains $2 per annum, or 25 per cent discount if pail in advance. Thie paper will be continued nntilalJ arrearatres are pail. SAVED US. Most fortunate for the country our industrial conditions are so sound, healthful and prosperous that a sharp monetary flurry fail ed to disturb them. Of course if the monetary disturbance had been more wide-spread and had continued for a longer time all our industries would have been seriously crippled and many of them utterly paralyzed. That this was not the result may be attributed to two things: First, we are doihe business on the single, gold Ftandard meas-1 ureforall values. This places our values in harmony with those of all other great commercial and manufacturing nations where it would require a world-wide panic to disturb them seriously. It is to the interest of all to avoid, to prevent such a panic, so all Eur ope was ready to aid in staying its spread. Had we not been on a gold basis Europe would have cared little, because the panic wnnlrf have been our own and have wrought disaster chiefly to ourselves. But we are developing our ma terial resources at an amazing pace. For a dozen years our factories and mines indeed all our productive industries have been busy. Our mechanics and laborers and capital have been constantly and remuneratively employed. Their products have found ready and desirable mar kets within our own borders. For his products the farmer has found his best market practically at his door. Transportation com panies have had their facilities over-taxed in distributing our products. Europe calls for our . sumlus with gold not shoddy clothing nor cheap cutlery in her hand to cay for it. These conditions are rightly abscribed to the DrinciDle of protection. These orotection and the gold standard saved the country from disaster. AS USUAL. i deeDlv touched we rush upon our l - immediate objective. Having gained this our emotions cease their play and we relapse to in activity and indifference. Things done under the spur of strong emotion are not durable if we re ly upon emotional action to con serve them. Yet this is just what we most frequently do. Men are eaaily satisfied with I the forms of right and become indifferent to the substance., in truth, having inaugurated the forms of right and righteousness they cheat themselves into be lieving they have the substance and have won a lasting victory. Upon forms they build a false reputation for right, justice, in tegrity, and purity. They delude themselves into believing these guide, shape and control public concerns. At all events cney have selected men whose duty it is to see that immorality, vice and crime are stamped out. Hav ing done this, we, the reformers, fold our arms and he down to sleep. : Just here is our fatal mistake. Though we have the most honest and courageous officials they can not long enforce even the best of laws unless actively supported by a strong public sentiment. This truth we forget or ignore, and cast the whole blame for non-enforcement of the laws up on our officers. The fault is our own. We have lapsed into in difference. We have been satis fied with capturing an out-post of the enemy and have deluded ourselves into believing he must give up his strong citadel with out further effort by us, Is this the condition existing in Corvallis, in Benton county? Let each citizen answer for him self. DRY STOCKS. Government Should Fix . Maxi ' mum Price and Quantity of , . Stock Sold to Public. RESPONSIBILITY. Our old-time friend, "Johnnie' Gellatly, has been elected Mayor ofWenatchee. There seems to have been a contest between the m oral and the indifferent moral forces of that city and the mora forces won out, electing the ma- vor and the councilmen to be chosen. His old Benton county friends know that no mistake has been made in selecting Mr. Gellatly to represent any moral purpose. There, the mayor nominates and the council elects certain of ficers, among whom is a chief of police. Mayor Gellatly nominated a man for this position whom he believed to be in more perfect harmony with the moral purposes of the community than is the present chief. His nominee has not been and may not be confirm ed by the council. It would seem that the reform element which put the mayor into office now fails to give him undivided sup port. This is no new condition. In fact it is characteristic of all our reform movements, great and small. Popular sentiment may be aroused and turned toward destroying some evil condition, righting some palpable wrong. It s weens forward and onward like a mighty resistless wave and like a wave it spends its force and rppedes. It has destroyed, but has failed to erect anything enduring in place of those things it has swept away. Why is this? Why do we carry reform to a certain point then cease our work? There can be but two sufficient reasons for this. We are an emotional peo ple. When our emotions are Individual responsibility is a truth men learn slowly and ac cept reluctantly.. From the be ginning man has sought to evade his responsibility and deny the consequences of his own .acts. The woman - thou gavest, me didst, temnt me." whined the first man and the ages have not greatly improved the race of mankind in this respect. let nofchirir is clearer than that every normal man is responsible for the conseouences of his own acts. He is responsible to himself, to his fellowmen individually and oollectivelv and to his Creator. He is responsible not only for the conseouences of what he does but for the conseouences of what he fails or refuses to do. His responsibility cannot be di vided with another. There can he no such thing as a divided re sponsibility. A common respon sibility must not be mistaken for a divided one. To illustrate: Men holding like political opinions and pur poses form a party which they name the republican party. Every man in the party owes it to himself and to his party as sociates collectively and individ ually to put. forth his utmost efforts to advance the opinions, principles and purposes of the republican party. He may not refuse to do his duty unless some other member does his duty like wise. He must for himself meet his own responsibility. In no other way may the common pur poses of the party be achieved. The recognition of this undi vided responsibility brings har mony, organization, unity of ac tion and victory. Of course re publicans of Benton county de sire victory and will work as one man to gain it. At least it is reasonable to expect they will do so; but, well, we shall see, presently. How to account for the depre ciation in stocks' the past six months has puzzled many minds trained in s ock negotiations.! The essential factor in a mar ket tor aav stock, is confidence. There must be an unfaltering b&- f - .i i i . net in ine vaiuc ui auj siutu, uu the part of its holders, to sustain its market. When they lose confidence they try to sell out. As a general . low of . confidence in speculative stocks Tesults in a sreneral desire to sell.' the' market is soon flooded with all kinds of stock and prices fall. "Falling market values inspire distrust oenerallv and consequently all stocks begin to weaken, whether i speculative or -. 'industrial; not 'withstanding there may be no diminished earnings, nor dimin ished values irorn tne properties upon which the stock are issued. The 'rising value of stocks in spires conbdence. ine tailing market produces distrust. . . . ... Now the investing public are themselves partlv to - blame tor this condition. There must be cmo nripp at mriinh rnok rp nrp. sents the value of ; the property I 1 upon which it is issued. If the I . investing pnblic would recognize this intrinsic value, when the market is rising, and stop at the intrinsic value, there would never be much of a decline, and con fidence would not be so easily shaken. No one in business , likes to have some one else "butt in" with suggestions how to run the business. Nor tor employes to pomhine and insist unon. their own ideas of the value of their services and the time they should toil, and even less is the interter ference of the government appre ciated; but notwithstanding this feeling among those who conduct business enterprises. ' whether railroads, manufactories or mines there ought to be a governmen tal inspection and appraisement of every business concern in the United States' which offers its stock for .sale to the public, and a maximum value fixed npon such stock to exceed WBich should become a crime. Under the maximum let them sell for what ever they please, but ovei the price at which the Government appraises the value of the proper ty upon which the stocs is issued, let no one otter his stock tor sale. Misleading the public in regard to stock values has become a regular business among stock manipulators. The sudden collapse of mining stocks hailing from Nevada, last Aupust. is easily accounted for, Speculation in mining stocks had run wiid. Promoters had adver tised impossible results, promised dividends in three months, and sometimes less, and by August the time bad come in which to make good, and promoters failed to do so. Consequently, many nersons bepan to realize they had been deceived, or had deceived themselves, and down came the fictitious market. Every share of mining stock issued upon a legitimate mining orosoect is intrinsically as valu able as the day it was purchased. It the government had appraised th nronertv and limited the quantity of stock to be sold, and the mice at which it could be of fered, and made the quantity sold not to exceed .he immediate neces sities of the mine, in its legiti mate improvement, then there would have been no collapse last August and every dollar which had been invested would have been actually represented in tun nels, shafts and machinery. In cidentally, the production of gold and silver would nave mucn in rreased. and a floating armv of adventurers, the kind who "do" people, instead of things, would A. & - have been eliminated. J. H. Wilson, WfttLPAPEE Through the month of January, we are making a 25 PER CENT DISCOUNT on Figured Wall Papers ; Onr spring stock is due to arriye in February and we must make room for it by moYirig a lot of the patterns now on hand. Ingrains, Moires and Special Borders not included in this sale. January '08 is to be a Big Bargain Month at onr store. Sweeping reductions are in effect in the foil )wing lines : Combination Cases, Writing Desks, China Closets, Reed Rockers and Art Squares. All yard wide carpets reduced to a margin that will make them go. January 31st is positively th last day of this reduction sale. Do not wait for your neighbor to tell you about the bargains we are offer ing, but come and see for yourself. HOLLENBERG & SON, The House Furnishers. Real Estate Transfers. Wm. Leadbetter to G. B. Whitney, lots 9 and 10, block 1, Chase's 2nd Add. to Corvallis; $450. J. P. McConnsll and wife to E. B Follett, part ol lot 98, block 30, Philo- math; (10. Trustees Philomath College to Charles E. Allen, Lots 141 and 132 in Block 34, Brown's Addition to Philomath; $123. G. A. Whiting to Frances F. Wilcox, lot 12, block 2, Avery & Wells Add. to Corvallis; $10. O. & C. K. B. Co. to W. O Covel, 40 acres near Bellefountain ; $120. George E. Cooper and wife to Samael Whiteside, lots 3 and 10, Mock 33, Avery's 3rd Add. to Corvallis; $1. R M. Tiavidaon and wife to N. Wil kinson, lot 4, block 4, Rayburn's Add. to Corvallis; $250. Bertha Woldt et al to Hermann Stahl- basch, 409.63 acres south ol Corvallis; $1850.00. A FIELD AND A GARDEN. to Own YourHomc Graham & Wells Confirm Guar antee on Hyomei, Cure for Catarrh. Farmers. Head the "'Weekly Oregonian" of Port land id the "Co. Vallis Guzene" for the general news of the world, also for in -formation about how .to obtain the best results in cultivating the soil, stock rais in, fruit raiding, etc. You can secure both of these exoellen i(8 for one vear by paying o tht Corvallis Gazette" the sum or two dol ars and ftfty peats, in advaooa. Kerni , n n., in- hv rwu.t.-fif n r t l-f nr hank draft and these mnpt vnabB papers will , i . ea,t oe prompiiv uiauou iu )w, NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT. SAYS IT IS FACT. The Question having been raised as to whether or tot Graham & Wells will re fund the money if a Hyomei outfit does not do all that is claimed for it in curing catarrh, they want to state positively that this guarantee is an absolute fact. A guarantee like this is the best proof that can be offered as to the curative rowers of Hyomei in a.l catarrhal troub les. You do not risk a cent in testing its healing virtues, Graham & Wells take all the risk. If you have catarrh, try this wonderful medicated air of Hyomei. It does not drug or derange the stomach, but is breathed through a neat pocket inhaler that comes with every outfit, so that its medication reaches the most remote air cells in the nose, throat and lungs, where anv catarrhal germr may be lurking. It quickly destroys them, heals and soothes the irritated mucous membrane and vital izes the tissues so that catarrh is no long er possible. You can lose nothing by giving Hyomei a trial, nothing but the catarrh and that is good riddance. The price of the complete outfit is but $1.00; note ine if it fails to cure. Get an outfii from Graham & Wells today and begin its use at once. Wide Difference In the Emotions Which They Give Birth. Nobody ever became suddenly fond of a field. It is the great dif ference between a field and a gar den that no one could do so. Al most anybody may take up garden ing and become fond of a garden quickly, but a field is different. The beauty of a garden, or at least some of the beauty, is so easily seen; the pageant of colors and scents is so varied and so soon past; the flower borders are always so near at hand and within limits so obedient that a garden may be come the most sudden and the most commanding of hobbies. But a field is not to be known so quickly. Its friendship cannot be had in a year nor even in a few years. But it is a friendship which once given ends only with the life of the friend. An hour in a flower garden is like a conversation with a happy and a charming companion. But a morn ing in a field is;like a walk with one of those . friends who are so com pletely understanding and under stood that conversation is needless. Thf bpo-innin? of knowledge of a field is the feel of the actual earth tVio Rnlid soil of it under foot. "Vnn rarniot come to real teiiiia v'i!.li earth in a flower garden, though you may find out something with a spade, and perhaps you cannot reach the best of all Knowledge oi a field without plowing it. But you can begin an acquaintance on a field newly plowed or, better still, being plowed, and the first and best knowledge is the touch of the crum bling lurrow, an extraordinary sense of bounty. In a garden you cannot rid yourself of a certain uneasiness, almost a fear of trespass, if you step on a flower border or even if you walk over a vegetable bed in the kitchen garden. The gravel path ownita von. clean and yellow, and the only possible scraper is the box i0-mr not a neia is a neia, to oe crossed with confidence and stamp ed about with heavy boots. Shoes are no use. You must have great boots, with nails in them, tough and secure over slippery furrows. Every season, almost every month, changes the surface of that solid, restful floor. London Spectator. THB First - National Bank of Corvallis has some TO WN LOTS, Near the State Agncultauml Collage which you can buy on the INSTALle MENT PLAN or for oaah. Save Ton of Twwty Dollar per month and pay the same en a lomo lot. Thereafter BUILD YOUR HUMH n the lot and continue t make these small monthly payments o ti betwe and yea will seen have jit ipeia fer and have no moca rent to pay. Per inforoMriien address IV. JT. SAVAO OofvaflUs Or. SUMMONS. Ready With the Text. The Maid What are you doing vrith the Bible, Freddy ? Freddy ricking out a text ior today's sermon. When I come home from church I always have to tell pa what the text was. The Alaid 15ut how can you know the text until you hear it? Freddy Any text will do. Pa won't know the difference. f The Maid But your grandmoth er is going with you. Freddy Btit grandma will be fast asleep long before they get to the text. Boston Transcript. "Notice is herebv given that the undersigned i . ii. tl,. fmnttv (Viiirt nf Riit.in Mtlintv. OreiroD her ffnal account as administratrix of the estate of C. H. Lee, deceased, and that Monday, the 24th dav of February, 1908, at the hour of U o'clock iu the forenoon of said day has been fixed and appointed by said Court as the tin e and the County Judge'3 office in the county courthouse in Corvallis m said countv and state as the place for hearing objections, if any, to said account and the settlement thereof. All persons inter ested and desiring to object thereto are notified to file their objections thereto in writing with the Clerk of said Court and appear at said time and place. ETTA F. LEE, A administratrix of the Estate of C. U. Lee, deceased. Not True Love. Grace (to her bosom friend, who j caressing a blear eyed poodle) I hear your engagement with Fred has been broken off. Bertha (with a sigh) Yes, I found that his love for me was not the deep, true love which nothing on earth can change, so I was com pelled to let go. Qrace Why, Iiow. did you find it out? Bertha Easily enough. He got so angry every time poor Flossie bit him. London Mail. Carbonic Acid Springs. In the Auvergne region of France a large amount of carbonic acid gas comes from the soil and is one of the last traces of the former vol canic activity of this region. The springs that yield the gas are found generally in the fissures of the ground which allow the water to rise. One of the Montpensier springs has become known as the "poisoned spring." Animals which descend to the cavity to drink are soon,asphyx- iated by the gas wmcn is given ou. by the water and accumulates here. Bodies of birds, rabbits, dogs, sheep and other animals are found, and even persons have narrowly escaped. Vegetation is also affected by an overdose of the gas. Spots ean be seen running in a line across the fields, where the plants have suf fered from gas coming up through trif fissures of the ground at differ- onr nnint.s Soundinsrs show the presence of a great quantity of gas, andit is usually m a very pure state Care of Pits. Where vegetables are stored in pits care should be taken to have the cover ing of earth or litter sufficiently deep when the coldest weather comes. In the Circuit Court for the State of Oregon lor Benton County. Delila Kead, Applicant and Plamtlff Hannah Rowland, Polly Mitchell, heirs-aHaw of i,ucretia Mallock, deceased, Saia H. Strahan, Claude Strahan, Fayne Lewis, heirs-at-law ol It. H. strahan, deceased, and Henry Lewis, and "AH whom it may concern," Defendants. ... .1 ...... ni'tlu ai.nlinMiiiin fil lHlila Kaui 111 ,UC uwmi ri " T to register the title to the lollwing described real property: The original 1. L. O. of Hamuli i. Hallock ana iuercua hid whc, v Claim No 59, being parta ol beca. 4 aud 2, in Town ship 11. South,, Jiaiige ti West ot the Willamette Meridian Benton county, Oregon, described aa follows, towit: Beginning at tne S. &. corner of said Secti.n 4, and running theuce north 38 min., east 45 chains, theuce west 27 chains aud U) links, thence south 44 chains aud 00 links, thence north 8 dee and ii mm West i!3 chains and 7 links, thence south JO chains and 2 links, thence eaet 60 cbs. and -la liuks, auu thence north 25 chains to the place of beginning iu tne district of lands subject Xo sale at oregou City, or, aid containing M acres and 26-10. of an aere. To Hannah Kowland, VoWy Mitchell. Sara H. Strahan, Fayne ' Lewis, Henry Lewis, and "All whom it may concern" Defendants. in the name of the State of Oregon you and each of you are hereby summoned and required to appear and answer the complaint and applica tion hied against ou in the above eiuillou court and cause on er before the 2iat day of February, 18 said date being six weeks rroiu and alter the date of the first publication of this Summons. The tret i.uhlication ot this summons being on the luth day ol January. 1U0S, aou the last publi cation thereof beine ou the 21st day of February, . .r... unuUrP tt.w want thereof. the ulaiiituf aud applicant will apply to the Court tor the relief demanded and prayed lor in s-uu comotaiut and application, to-wii, for a deatee .letermmiiiir and adjudging that tha delendauts ana each ol theui. ana "All whom i ma concern" nave no eevave, ri8n, v.o terast m aud to the following dessnued real pri ;. ertv Oowit: She original D I, C of Homau u h.i,.,! and Lucretia Halloele, hie wile. it being Claim He. 59, being parts of Sees. 4 and Kin lownsip i., scum, rvejige u lot Willameise Meikaau, Beuton county, Oregon, de scribed as follows, towit: Beguimiitf at tne t. r.. corner of saiu bee 4 and rumuH,' tiience north ia minutes east 45 chains, thence west 7 ahains and to links, tlicnce south 44 aliaiitf ana Co uuu, thence north 9 de and 24 minutes west 28 chains aud 57 links, thence south jH clusuis and 2o lu.as therme east ot) cnaina aim A3 mmo ...... north 25 chains to the place of ueiriuulng :n district of lands subject to eale at Oregon Cit1, Lie gou. and containing 3u acres aud zd-100 ol an acre, at law or iu equity ki pussestaoo, eirpee mncy reversion or remiunder and that you ana eich of you be forevor coneluded, enjoined ana de barred trom asserting anv claim whatsoever or as all uior to said real properiry uw . 1 ..-,.- ti.m tlwi :ourt t such decree LlM 11.1 U,'UU.mh. - . - nud and declare the title or interest of the appli cant in the said real proyexi suiu uro - is the sole aud only owner and imi who has au interest in said land as in the explication piayed tor and farther by such ueoree older tae rtegis trar of titles ui and tar the county of Benton and State of Oregon to n.ller tbe title sai prop erty as found by the .decree of said Ooart and lor sail other and farther relief as lk lieart may deem uieufc and equitable, in the premises. This buiwnons 1 eerreu jou ju "j p- .. thereof by order of Heuowbie lv Wioeuward, Judge 'Fthe County Court of the State of ortti. lor D?on eountVmade on the h day f January. Ia0 directing publication thereof ce a six consecutive and successive weeles in th vallis Gaaette, said (Jervallis tlaaette being a paper oi geneial circulation aud publishes weekly at Corvallis, Benton eeuoty, State ol Oregon. First pablieadou January It), 1908 yTES Attorney for Plaintiff, and Applicant. IliHiSIOH! ARE YOU GOING EAST? We can save you money on freierhtine household eoods. Write os for rates and other particulars. URtGON AUTO-UtSr-Ailin UU. 27 FIRST STREET PORTLAND 0REQ0H