The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1894-11-09
THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER
A Few Simple Things You
Mayn't Have Been Told,

want to organize crusade against the
slavery in which certain departed spirits are
held. The medium" who visited Corvallis
recently had several selected ghosts
dancing attendance upon him. 1t must be
torture and -iortifcation 80 these denizens
of spiritland, to be thus compelled to follow
big fat mortal from pillar to post, and do
simple tricks for the edifcation of two.bit
audience.
The o. A. c. football team can win the
pennant if they have good coach. They
cannot without. All the Portland football
players leg for the Portland University
team. 1t is big advantage. Saturdays
victory was due more to individual playing
than to concerted action. 1t revealed the
fact that we have a stronger team, individ.
ually, than last year, but playing looser
game. Goodwin, assuredly,; with moro
practice, will make hurrah man.
H. G. Noel is suing B. F. Hyland for
defamation of character, and claims his said
character was SO rent and torn by Defen.
fendant Hyland that S., 900 will be needed
to repair the damages. know nothing
about this man or his case, but would
like to put prospective defendants In such
cases onto thing or two. If you feel
called upon to talk disagreeably about
some one, select . man with a hard-times
character. I know mon with very good
characters, indeed, who will let you sling
mud at them as long as you like for 500,
hit or miss. 1t is simply extravagant to 90
after q man with SIS 900 character. The
price of characters has fallen with that of
other commodities and for purposes of
breaking and damaging, good, common,
every day 500 character is as good as
$1,000 gilt-edge character, bound in calf.
Besides such characters should be held sa-
cred. We need 'em for seed.
I used to tell my wife-before she was
my wife-that no matter how she dressed,
she looked like an angel. I repeat the
phrase now when she wants new dress.
1t has lost, however, its satisfying virtue.
finally compromise by giving her o. P.
time checks. All, my wife will have Pa
risian dresses galore-when the o. P. pays
up. Hundreds and hundreds of
people have pleasant plans to carry out
when the o. P. pays up. Many family is
struggling along In poverty, but will liye
comfortably-when the o. P. pays up. The
Oregon Pacific litigation has been legal
devil fish. 1t has been like that chancery
case in Bleak House. 1 hope the road sells
in Decamber We won't oct our mOney
but we can burn our time checks, and be no
more "wards in chancery."
There is man, ali agent selling wrought
iron stoves to farmers and taking their
| notes. Don't trust anything these fellows
tell you. DON'T give your notes until all
agreements have been carried out. At the
best, they usually sell you something you
can do without You had better patronize
your merchant. You can make him do as
he represents. Agents promise everything
and are not responsible. Their employers
you can't reach. One gentleman bought
stove from the agent, who promised to take
an old stove for $l5 and board out SIS. The
farmer gave his note for $75-ths price Of the
stove-and the agent promised TO credit $50
thereon when he had boarded the SIS out,
but he didn't board. The farmer will have
to pay S75 note, instead of $45. as he ex-
pected. mo peddlars-we keep a dog"
should be the motto of every farm house,
and tFI sign nothing" the watch.word OF
every farmer.
WHoIp Is.