The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-24

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Der, thus begin his article, .'The
Madonnas of Raphael have charm
ed unnumbered audiences for
nearly four hundred years
The Puritan tor December has
a sensible editorial comment upon
the anti-football agitation. 1t
saws: THE football rolls merrily
on,but the clamor against it grows
daily more insistent. For every
broken leg or sprained back or
mutilated face there is a fresh
burst of wrath from parents and
guardians and others i'll authority,
and when, now and then, game
closes with Il tragedy, and Il play
er is carried off never to come
back. the protest comes for the
moment almost national. If it is
the waste of lie they deplore.
why. in the name CT logic, dosn't
the whole country rise up against
bicycling, yachting. hunting,
coaching, baseball, lacrosse, polo,
and all :he ether popular means
of mutilation? New York can
show fifty bicycle casualties to a
month, and the record of any
hunt or polo club contains broken
necks as we'll as broken limbs. If
football is to be condemned for its
suuandering OF youth and strength
various other amusements should
share lis doom. This is not an at
tack on sport. 1t is merely sn
appeal for public logic. We thor
oughlv believe in athletic exer
else, looking on its casualties as
an inevitable tax, infinitely sad In
each individual case, yet worth
enduring. Measured by percent
ages, the penalty is exceedingly
small infniteslmal, in
most form. of sport. There is
just risk enough to show that
there is bodily valor among us yet:
that we still know fire of the
blood.' and can fight with muscles
as we'll as tongues. Football is
rough, no doubt brutal, perhaps
but the pluck and power and en-
durance of these holiday warriors
stands for somethina too good te
be suppressed. A nation il likely
to need a hero any minute anc
one is not made in a day"
j Some recent magazine article: by
Engllshmen rather sneeringly re
fsr to the people of the United
States as a people without Il dis
tinetive name. Other nationalltic
are known as Britishers, English
men, Irishmen, Russians, Cana
dians, Cinnamon, Mexicans, etc.
but the only named claimed b,
Or given to the people Of gu
country is "Americans." which
belongs to the,Canadians, Mexican
and Central and South America
as we'll as to us.
a local writer contributes ;
poem on this subject, that will ap
pear next week.
/ The verdict of the Corvalli.
! council In the recent trial of oar
chief OF police, does not necessar
lily imply that the city fathers Ell
dorse fist fighting by the head o
the police department They evi
IDENTIFY considered that in this in
stance the chief only accepted
what was practically a challenge
to ignore which, would reflect up
, on the bravery of our police force
1t should be understood that the
chief is not addicted TO tae habit
of fighting. Finally-the matter
is settled;quarrels are improbable
and unpleasant;and there is virtue
and happiness in harmony. This
Christmas season is a good time t.
quit our petty chickering's and be
come better neighbors, better citi
zens and better men.
stabbed by ALI Old Friend,' i
the title of a pamphlet lately re
ceived. 1t is an attempt to show
by means of New York Sun edi
torials, that the New York Tribun,
has joined"an attempt to split thu
republican party" 1t will take
more than the efforts of a free
lance like the Sun to prove thu
Tribune disloyal to the republican
parry.
The Alaska Miner has inter
viewed truthful gentleman wht
has just escaped from the klon
dixie, and who is authority for tn,
following: GA man who had win
tered up there seven years tole
me that it was so cold in January
that they a9ze the flames of thei
candles and sold them for straw
berries. He knew of one case
where the smoke from chimney
froze after it got a hundred fee
up, and fell back ON the house
driving a hole in the roof bis
enough to drive a yoke Of steer:
through"
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