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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-03-31
Great Bargain.

A Packard Organ, nearly as good as nc W
for sale at A. J. Langworthy's Cash Store
Corvallis. Price reasonable.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-03-31
Fl 2f JEl c..s3r.

81 about ! o'clock on Thursday morning
OF last week the Eoir;ng mills owned by
Kr:t1, Wasliburl & Howard. caught fire,
al were ,t:,lly- destroyed by 6 o'clo-k.
1t is suppose the FIRE o"i5!nltcl in tie
purifying room near the top of the bailtling.
There were % 0J3 iInsiiels OF wheat Ill the
mill l4001 of winch wer. owned by the mil
company. The lalaEte was cwnel hy
farmers. The mill an machinery is said
to hare hecn worth s25, 800, and insure |
for Sl5, 1000 The wheat WAS also insured
for 5000.
& Primary Keeling efthc E1te-FiEiEG.
The Dcmocr tie precinct convention for
Corvallis prccinrt WAS held at the Count
Iu,<e rn last Saturday. Il WIS ca! e tc
or.ler littie past oae O'Clock P n. by W.
:. NicF .linn. On IN ,tion Of Mr.. Z. Milne,
CO! las Kinney wa; chosen Chairman O
the meeting. On Motion of John W. Mon
which recei Il scc,nd i,y ". S. McFaA-
E ,ten, r. A. M.nner was chosen to at as
Secretary. Mr.. ". s. McFad len mtvc,l
that Lewis Wi's.n act ~ as ,;s!aat Secretary
wlo d. ;iile wI?;el-Dl Mr. Gre, s:Its.n
lao:c til t w. S. NcFuid,-rs at a. asiis-
ut re rc5ar,j whith WIS car; 4. A;r. VI.
> McEt den tneE o::crel rcsJ,.iti 81 to
he eject that all crs' WHO intrn,;os!
t. sGi:fort tie ne!nocratic ticket il t. c
coming campaign AMI c.e.tinn ere inv:e
t Ike part ill tie lsi;nary meeting. which
rtsuluti1n WAS uii:,i.im HSiy a'ioptei. Tho
ch:irnan then ss.-ei TIA. n!,jec5 "f TIL:
neeSiug to he for tie pnrpa;e os electin. :
I3 delegates to attend the Demo ra ic
fonven;ion. 1t WAS movcd ly J. II.
Usbarnc anl carried to the elect that tA'.sr
persons receiving the highest num' 'er Of
votes lie declared eicctcl. After this IA
number Of persons, some of whom were pres
ent and several Of them being alb sent, wer.
placed in nomination to he voted for a
dele ,Gtss. In respoase to an invitation
So derosit their ballots in the rroverbal lla'
number OF gentlemen responded to the
invita- ion after which the vote was counted
and the following named l3 persons Were
declared elected as delegates
Joseph Johnson, II. Graham. G. W.
Spencer, WE. HenkIe, Prior Scott, Geo
Avery, W. G. Crawford, John Huffman, r.
T. Motley, VIM. Go:dson, NJ. jacobs, Q.
V. Motley, John Osborne. After which the
meeting adjourned.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-03-31

The UNIVERSAL Benevolent Insurance c.
Of California for unmarried persons.
T. j. BUFoRD, Agent,
Corvallis, Oregon.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-03-31
New Enterprise.

March 26, 1882.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1882-12-24
DECLINED WITH THANKS.

The editors of serious publication who invite the groan and seom the smile, and who say that humorous publications can not live and that they arc weak and alto gether unnecessary, are constantly ask ing worldly papers to exchange, not @even' but propose to send their grim sheets if the spirited papers will show their good intentions by publishing pufis and long advertisements. The following from the Fall River Advasce is addressed to those pious gentleman:
 Now, as Christmas draweth near, and the year waxeth old. the postman on his daily rounds cumbers our desk with bush els of circulars from enterprising editors of religious, social, temperance and fash ion journals offering that if we will only insert their ads, and send them marked copies of the Advasfe, they will conde- scendingly place us upon their exchange list, and mail us their blooming papers for the coming year. We know how blind we are to our own interests. and how stu pidly neglectful of the glorious opportu- mites offered to us, but we really cannot help it. We feel sad tha, we should be so, hni, in OUT present morose. dyspeptic. turkey-surfeited, election-paralyzed condi- tion, we can no more see the fun of ac- cepting the gorgeous offers, than we can of regretting that we weren't born hand some and rich. Our politely generous and kindly patronizing brethren mus, really uxcuse us. We should have been happy to oblige them in any reasonable way, and, if they had sent their pious and interesting papers along. and if we had found anything worth clipping or quoting in them. we should have done so with honest credit. But when they ask us to give them ten dollars worth of space in exchange for their one dollar paper, we can only say that we are not on the yearn, and don't feel as five should be doing justice to our creditors to accept their of fer. We have already far bigger eN- change list than we ever dared hope for, and on it are the bes, and brightest pa- pers Tn every state. from Maine to Califor- nia, besides all the cream from the Old Country newspaper world. These papers are all pleased to ex- change ni,h the .ddvanee and don't put on any airs as if they were obliging us in doing SO, feeling fully satished with the gMd Sro 9no we offer in return. Is 1t any wonder that we shouldn't care about lot of old musty, smell-fungus journals. which, having gained a class room reputation for pity. and been pro- nounecd moral and inotfensive by men like MT. Beecher, think they are superior and better than more worldly papers, and should respectfully, bu, firmly decline their liberal proposals. even ii the doing so. shuts us out from every chance of rev cling in their intellectual treasures and their journalistic delights.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1882-12-24
HIS LAST DECLARATION.

The Rev Henry Ward Beecher de- clares ,ha, dealing in futures IS not inn moral that all trade IS selfish. Mir Beecher possesses head remarkable for country make it business to deal in futures. It is not this life but the future with them. The average preacher would not give ten minutes conversation in re- gard to the future world for years of ex- perience in the world which we all unfor- tunately inhabit. So, you oanno, help but perceive. dealing in futures Is the main business of the clergy. I, would be better II the ministers of grace" were to pay more attention to the now and less to the future, for it does hungry and ragged boy very little good to tell him tha, if he is good and consents to be drowned rather than go fishing on Sun day, he will, years and years in the fu- ture. have harp and pair of wings bright and dazzling beyond the most pos- sible extreme of earthly conception. It would be better to give that boy a chunk of bread and suit of clothes and tell him that the Allwise Provider is interested in him and that he should work for earthly glorihcation of heavenly kingdom, and that every time he relieves distress, every time he causes. groan to end in laugh a frown to be succeeded by smile, the Great Father is pleased That is the kind of futures in which you should teach boy. to deal.
 Mir. Beecher is correct when he say. that all commerce is selfish. The com mand, Love thy neighbor as thyself,r i. a useless and altogether an unreasonable injunction. The man who loves hi. neighbor as himself cannot provide fo
 his own household and the Divine law l giver says that he who provideth not fol
The Arkansaw traveler., 1882-12-24
CHURCH JUSTICE.

The Rev. Mir. Grattleton, well-known preacher of Arkansaw, was arraigned be- fore a committee of his fellow churchmen to answer the charge of criminal familiar ity with Sister Mickleson. After an ex- haustive examination the following report was submitted by the committee:
 ~We, the committee, appointed to in vestigate the charges preferred against Brother Crattle,on, are pained to say that we find him guilty. The brother is very penitent and makes a humiliating confession, but declaring that as God has forgiven him, VIC should be equally lenient. Therefore the committee re- commends that the church forgive the brother and reinstate him, But as to Sister Mickleson, the committee is satis- fed, notwithstanding she makes a cen- fession and asks our forgiveness, that she should be expelled from the church.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1882-12-24
A POINTER.
you please

The use of slang not only tends to low CT the English language. but sometimes attended with disaster. The other day while an Arkansaw editor was busily en- gagged in writing an article entitled Cor ruption in Office," man entered and said:
 l like your paper very much, and"
 '' That's all right exclaimed the editor, without looking up.
 Fl say that have come to give you a pointer"
 "Get out of here.' yelled the editor. "l don't want any of your devilish sug- gestions."
 That settles it" replied the man. Don't want the dog I'll take him home You advertised that you wanted to buy a fine pointer and had concluded to give you this one. the finest in the land"
 My friend,' said the editor persua- sively, excuse me. In the rush of fur nishing copy hardly knew wha, you were saying. That is indeed fine dog. Won't you be seated~
 "I don't want any of your devilish sug- gestions.' replied the man and he led the dog from the room.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1882-12-24
OF ANALYTIC POWER

The modern American school of novclists are m error in supposing, as they evidently do suppose, that II is solely 10 their analytic power that the great masters of moral anal ysis--that Balzac, that Thackeray, that Flaw thornc owe their immortality. It Is by the imaginative use of this power that they have won thcir cro~ns.-PaH Nal Gd-e'te.
 It is only by the imaginative use that d writer can become a novelist. The analytic power may make him literary anatomist, and he may direct, with won- derful exactness, but he cannot create. lFhe novelist should be creator. Dick ems analysis was keen, and he used thls power with effect. but his creations made his fame. He might have devoted ten chapters to the analysis of Micawber' s character. and yet not convey half so correct an idea of the man as he could in chance expression of the character him self. In life we can learn more of a man by hearing him talk five minutes than we could by reading of him for five hours. The true novelist. after appropriate in troduotion, allows a character to illus trate his own peculiarities. W. D. How els, who seems 10 be a teacher in the new school of American fiction, is ana ly,ical. but he evidently holds in severe check we'll cultivated imagination Sometimes, with most painful effort, he avoids thrill, and occasionally when one of his characters seems to be on the verge of making humorous remark, strikingly illustrative of human nature, the author makes himself manifest" in the book and delivers for the character common place observation. Intensity of imagin- ation has always been regarded as po- etic power. and in verse all educated and refined people admire its power. Then why should novel. among whose sen- tences fanciful fires can gleam, be stripped of this vivifying feature? A novel must have power of imagination or the bub- bling truth of humor. Goldsmith's Vi- car of Wakefield is not intense in imag- ination, but it is nppling in humor and almost divine in purity. The Last Days of Pompeii, one of the finest works, as some writer remarked, in all language, does not glow in humor but glares in heightened imagination.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1882-12-24

TIE people of Western Arkansaw are very anxious to see what the present con- gre:s is going to do with the Indian Ter ritory question. These people all agree that the territory should be opened for settlement and confidently hope that the nations legislature will take significant steps in the matter. 1, is not likely tha; congress will take the matter conclu- sively in hand during the present session. The question is a very old one and has from time to time been ably agitatcd but no definite steps have ever been con,em- plated by the government. IL is true that the Indian Territory is a remarkably fine country, and that its opening up to settlement would institute grand rush. but somehow the national law makers prefer to let it remain as i, is. There is a great deal of fine land in Arkansaw and it might not be bad idea for anx- ious immigrants to settle here and wal, for the enactment authorizing them to rush into the rcd mans country.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1882-12-24
CRITICISM.

Would you object to a piece of criti- oism:' said planter to an Arkansaw state official.
 "Oh, no,r replied the official. "lt is the privilege of every one of my constit- uents to deliver criticism. An officer is only public servant, you know
 Wont object, then, ifl criticize you p
 Certainly not.''
 Wont get mad if tell you what l think.-
 'sNo, sir."
 Well, then, what wanted to say Is that you are d-d fool-
 Afterwards, while at doctors office, he referred to the official by saying, @He told me that he wouldn't get mad at crit icisrn, but he Is liar"
The Arkansaw traveler., 1882-12-24

SAeAH SrokE>. on trial al Littc Rock for 4 homicide, is protrsstonal h-auty She toi': reporter who viewed her m her cell tha; she ~as not looking her best. as trouble had injured her complexion and ''cxprcs sion of gtrlish sweetness, 7" but yet she impte scd him as almost perfect, and he has no doubt iha, she IS, as she claims, the most beautiful woman in Arkansaw -.Ncaa l1rk ,Snr
 Miss Stokes. so far as anyone knows, was never tR Little Rock -She-was tried at Philadelphia, and her crime. killing a young woman. was committed in Howard county. She is poor. uneducated girl, and IS better acquainted with the cotton held than with the drawing-room where beauties are wont to assemble. She IS not beautiful. nor does she claim 10 be an Arkansaw Mrs. Langtry.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1882-12-24

TIE dispatches annouee that our old friend ]. H. Mclean has secured a seat in congress. For years Dr. Mclean has been struggling with liver pills and it is nothing more than just that he should be rewarded with an office. The liver pills which the doctor has been manufacturing and which compound made his reputa- ton, should not be ignored by the Amer ican people. From the first the congress of the United States has made mistake in not regarding pills as vital issue of the country. Just think how many men would have gone to Australia it it had not been for liver pills. Dr. Mclean is the only patent medicine man who has ever secured a seat in congress. This is not the result of . patent medicine scarci- v, but because the people of the United States have not sooner awakened to our national bilious condition. We conera,- ulase the Doc and hope that he will long retain his hold The bulge which he has acquired over all ether paaent medicines should encourage him beyond any succes, which hitherto he has achieved.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1882-12-24
A;. ovn household i, worse than an inf;del.

his own household is worse than an infidei. The international understanding of fair for one as it is for the other, is the basis of nearly all gambling.
 If a man deals in cotton speculations he knows that it is as fair for one as for the other, and that if there should hap pen to be an error in the rule, the odds are agains, him. He feels this and goes with both eyes open into speculation. If he is of very religious turn of mind, and especially if he is trying to win mon. ey to replace embezziement and fails, of course dealing in cotton futures or trying to get corner on grain is unholy and altogether beyond the sanctihed consid- eration of the church. But if the scheme be successful and the erring brother wins, the practice of risking money is not quite so bad as some people would represent it and those who indulge should not incur the frowns of the quiet though less enter prising members of the church.
 Gambling in any form, whether or not il receives theological sanction, is perni- cious. The fac, that Mir. Beecher says it is right to deal in chance speeulations, does not relieve such transactions of the gambling phase.
 It is true that some men may gamble with impunity, bu, this does not justify universal gambling. Some men can pay for fine wine supper and not in the least feel financially depressed, while oth CT men would be ruined. A mans first duty is to provide for his family. In this he can take no chances. If man has only twenty-five cents and goes out to buy beefsteak you would consider him a fool to risk the amount in game of chance: but if a man has twenty-five thousand dollars and risks small amount where he Sees chance to double his in- vestment, without in the least endanger- ing his family. you would not regard him as an improviden, character.
 Mir. Beecher is very liberal man and the religious world should be thankful for the adherence of so able a champion. While many other able preachers are in- turing the cause by fanatical declarations, MT. Beecher is aiding it by consistency of human freedom. He has done more for the church and less for the perpetua- ton of morbid dogmas than any man whom this country has ever produced.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1882-12-24

The ARkANsAw TRAVELLER credit dozen of the paragraphs from this column 10 the Harrisburg .Sag.fsr Capital As the Gapttai Is evidently a religious paper ~e feel faticred -Aesf iJyk Eommsyeiai .1d1tytaer.
 It IS with pleasure that we correct such a mistake The ARKANsAW TRAyEIER neNerZfails to give credit. Some,imes. during preoipl,ous rush, we may credit an item from the Chrtstian Obsc,9'sy to the Rtse Ball Ne'0s, but such performan- ees are uninten,ional The .Ida,e,Hsey viii please accept our thanks for calling attention 10 the matter, as we very highly estimate its ability and the gleam of is paragraphs.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1882-12-24

A HANGING was to have taken place in Little Rock last week. but as friend ef the doomed man made him present of d turkey. the governor decided that it would be wrong to cheat poor sinner and consequently decided to let him live until after the holidays.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1882-12-24

o-Su6uBcf, can y0a pay tnc uoooi
 T.-Yes, little sometimes.
 S.-You don't look like fiddlur, but ef you think you can play any more onto that thar tune, you kin just try it.
 (The traveller takes the fiddle and plays the whole ofit.)
 S.-Stranger, tuck half duzen cheers and sot down. Sal, stir yourself round like a six-horse team in a mud hole. Go round in the holler where killed that buck this mornin', cut of some of the best pieces, and fotch 1t and cook it for me and this gentleman, directly. Raise up the board under the head of the bed, and get the old black jug hid from Dick, and gin us some whisky; know ,har's some left yit. Til, drive ole Bose out'n the bread-tray, then climb up in the loft and git the rag that's got the sugar tied in it. Dick, carry the gentleman's hoss round under the shed, and give him some fod- der and ccm as much as he kin eat.
 Til.-Dad, they aint knives enuff for to sot the table.
 S.-Whars big butch, little butch, ole case, cob-handle. granny's knife, and the one handled yesterday: That's huff to sot any gentleman's table, out'n you've lost um. Durn me, stranger, ef you can't stay as long as you please, and I'll give you plenty to eat and drink. Will you have eoffey for supper
 T.-Yes, sir.
 S.-l'll be hanged if you do, tho, we don't have nothin' that way here, bu, Grub Hyson, and reckon its mighty good with sweetnin'. Play away, stran- ger, you kin sleep on the dry spot to- night.
 T.-(Ader about two hours 6ddling. ) My friend, can't you tell me about the road I'm to travel tomorrow
 S.-To-morrow Stranger, you won, git out'n these diggings for six weeks. But when It gifts so you kin start, you see that big sloo over thar: Well, you have to git crost that, then you take the road up the bank, and in about a mile you'll come to atwo-acre-and-a-half-cornpatch. The corn's mitily in the weeds, bu, you needn't mind that jist ride on. About mile and halt or two miles from thar you'll cum to the damdest swamp you ever struck in all your travels; its boggy enuff to mire saddle blanket Thar's a fust-rate road about six feet under thar.
 T.-How am to get at it?
 S.-You can't git at it nary time till the weather stiffens down sum. We'll. about a mile beyant, you come to place whar thar's no roads. You kin take the right hand ef you want to; you'll foller it a mile or so. and you'll find it's run out you'll then have to come back and try the left; when you git about two miles on that, you may know you are wrong. fur they ain't any road thar. You'll then think you're mity lucky ef you kin find the way back to my house. whar you kin cum and play on that air tune as long as you please.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1882-12-24
\ MISTAKE.

'l understand, Mike," said an Arkan- saw man to an lrishman, that you are now working on salaD.'
 "Twas mistake ye heard, yer honor. Pm living on the salary, and its the rail- road I'm woriin' on
The Arkansaw traveler., 1882-12-24

DURING the mex; session of the Ar kansaw legislature vigorous effort will be made to repeal the three-mile whisky law. as it has, in many instances, proved to be failure.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1882-12-24

.I understand that you said that my mother used to wash for you said an enraged Arkansaw gentleman approach ing an acquaintance and drawing pis- tol. .' 1 didn', say 1t. sir "That'll sor- ter do know that she did wash for you but blamed if you shall acknowledge
The Arkansaw traveler., 1882-12-24

"S-N. NP.. 4tc<~h Has iCdCHCu its fourth year. The brightness of its columns commands success
 The Cftp Xem is the name of new evening paper just started in Little Rock Dan O'Sullivan. who IS well known. and whose abilities as journalist have met with general recognition. is the editor.
 The Detroit Free Press now has a Lor- don edition of over 6o.ooo. England cannot produce paper that can compare with the kyee Press. and the only curious thing about the matter is that so many Englishmen with actual appreciation have been found.
 Thomas Grasty, who for long time was connected with the Courier /onynai. and subsequently with the Kansas City Modern ArgO. has become associate ed itor of Pkanters' Journal MT. Grasty. aside from being writer of great polish, Is man of broad and liberal common sense views. an infusion of which into any journal will naturally increase its circula- ton.
 The New York Book Keeper comes to us, this week. rich as usual in humorous and sensational literature. The first. second and third pages are devoted to rib-tickling editorial Debit and Credit. which we find to be only humorous in- troduetion to a tragedy entitled Double Entry" In this drama the sanguinary scene of which should be laid in slaughter house instead of counting house, it seems that stock" one ot the principal and least blood,hirs,y of the dransafis persona, is an unfortunate cred itor of several villains known as "Cash." Merchandise and William Receiva- ble." It seems that these villains are newspaper men, for when .'Stock" de- mands his money. payment is refused. A desperate and bloody struggle ensues in which all the combatants are killed. and Balance as heir-at-law assumes control of Stocks" estate. Profit and Loss" two gentlemen who have not yet figured in the play. now come forward and as- sert their claim to the spells of which Balance has possession. Another des- perate encounter is the result. sProht and Loss" however. being two 10 one, vanquish "Mr. Balance.- and here the curtain drops leaving them in peaoeable possession of the financial bone of con tention. The tragedy is well written. has forcible and well conceived plot, and though too dime-nevelish in death and gore to suit the aesthetic taste will doub.- less be accepted with enthusiasm. This first tragical effort of the editor of the Beok Keetey has been well received, and if he will continue to exercise his dra- matic talent we have no doubt he will in time achieve Shaksperian celebrity.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1882-12-24

Ir is said that President Arthur is de- termined to be . candidate for re-elec- ton. He may be . candidate for nomi- nation but it is not likely that he will be- come candidate for reelection.