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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-04-22
A Bargain.

For sale cheap-A Groom house. near
ly new, and good out buildings, splendid
deep line of water, on Ole lot. The best
bargain in Corvallis. Inquire of
AT. PETERSON.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-04-22
A Great Saving.

All property owners should know it.
For one Dollar we will sell you our ever.
lasting Fence Post receipt. To be had
at this office.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-04-22
Attention.!

Why will you wear ready-made cleth-
ing when you can get suits made to order
by J. Wrage? Fit guaranteed. Go and
see samples and inspect his stock.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-04-22
For Sale.

Jersey bulls for sale to parties wishing
to improve their dairy herds. Address
NJ. S. WooDCocK,
Corvallis, Ore.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-04-22
Goats Wanted.

Anyone wishing to place few hun
dred head of goats on shares would do
we'll to address this Office.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-04-22
FoIey's Honey and Tar
cures colds, prevents pneumonia.

Get your Job Work done here
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-25

further reason that Mr.. yellxs did not
have time to devote to the business.
II Is only fair to state that 1t was only
natural for Governor Jelks TO want the
good will OF his home paper. But he did
not want Il to cost Mr.. Muir anything.
SO Governor Jeiks wrote a letter 70 Mr..
Muir offering him consideration for his
friendly assistance. Governor Jeiks did
not want his home paper, and especially
one in which he owned such largs
equity, used as a battering ram against
him in the campaign. In the CONVERSE
tiou above referred u, between Governor
jerks and Mr.. Muir, Mr.. III. r; Shorter
being present. in replying to MI Mhir
$1,000 proposition of sale. Governor jerks
replied in substance as follows: II am
to be elect ID Governor of Alabama ny
buying my way in, will never be Gov
ernor."
The foregoing Is true. honest and I'M
partial statement of the facts relative 70
the business transactions above re1erreo
to-. This publication Is not made TO pro-
woke any controversy between the propri-
etor OF The Times and the proprietor OF
The Journal, but 1t Is done In simple JUS
tee to Governor Jelks and to acquaint
the general public with the real facts
as they existed.
((Signed) H. H. shorter.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-25

silk hat. The man who drove the Broad
way omnibus, who took your fares In the
street cars, who cut your steak In the
butchers shops, who drove the truck
along the street-all wore a silk nat
which in those days was affectionately
termed "a stove pipe" IA chimney pot"
"a tile" or "a cady''-why cady?
Was 1t because some halter OF the name
of Cady won renown for his hats and
made them the type OF elegance TO the
deg[ee Of giving his name to the article
as the tailoring firm Of BENJAMIN Of Lon
don did to overcoats? 1t is more likely,
however. that 1t came from "Cadi."
Judge Of the Orient, who wore on the
tribunal as insignia OF his ONCE covering
Of similar shape. The town was fond of
Oriental plays In those days and in them
a Cadi was an inevitable character. How
ever, the stove pipe is so infrequent an
article of dress now that its appearance
before o'clock in the afternoon over a
coat that is not a frock makes the wear
er as conspicuous as If he were clothed
in scarlet. 1t was the little round derby
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-25
SOME QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS


Editor The dvertiser:
Please inform one of your readers what
Is the rate of tarin under the Dingley law
on wire, steel sheets and plates, steel
rails, wire nails and crude petroleum.
What Is the substance Of the Act APP
proved Feb. 18TH. 1895. and amended Feb.
18th, 1899, as mentioned in the new Con-
stitution?
Under the Dlngley tariff Act Of 1897, the
duty on wire is from one and a fourth to
two cents per pound. depending on the
size Of the wire. On steel sheets and
plates the duty is from seventenths to
one and one-tenth cents; on steel rails 1t
Is seven-twentieths Of one cent per pound
and on wire nails it ranges from one-half
to enc cent per pound. Crude petroleum
pays no duty. unless it is exported from
countries which levy tariff duty on
petroleum imported from the United
States. In that case. our Government
collects the same duties as are collected
by such other Government. H..
For the other question Of our CORE
spondent iRquiring about the Act referred
TO in Section 2SS OF the new Constitution,
we must refer him to the Act itself. as 1t
Is rather lengthy. and we could not fairly
give the substance without printing it
entire. It authorizes the Governor to
adjust and compromise the present bond
ed debt OF the State by issuing new bonds
in exchange for those now outstanding.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-25
A PLAIN STATEMENT
OF Facts as to the Change in Posi-
ton Of The Eufaula Times.
Eufaula Journal.

Eufaula Journal.
The many friends of Governor Jelks
who are Thoroughly familiar with the
suspension of The Eufauia Daily
Times, urgently request the proprietor of
The Journal to publish the facts, that
every vestige of censure may be promptly
removed from Governor Jelks, and that
no other course was left for him to collect
an honest debt, except the one adopted
in the premises. That the debt was an
honest debt. is not only evidenced by the
notes themselves, but the subsequent ac-
acknowledgement and payment in full by
Mr.. A. l.. Muir of the notes, together
with attorneys fee and court costs. To
deny Governor Jelks the legal right to
enforce a claim, simply because he is a
candidate for Governor, would be to de-
prive him of the privilege of enforcing
his own rights, and invite hardship and
a loss not expected or required Of any
other citizen.
The facts are these! Governor Jelks
held two purchase money notes against
Mr. A. L. Muir, proprietor of The Daily
Times, which were secured by mort
gage on The Daily Times and Weekly
Times and News. One of these notes was
due June, 1901 the other June, 1902. Gov
ernor Jelks allowed these notes to run
over at Mr.. Muir's repeated solicitation.
The notes only called for Z per cent. in
terest He did not hesitate to accede to
Mr. Muir's request not to push the col
lection of the unpaid notes. Several
months ago the proprietor of The Times
Mr.. A. l.. Muir, wrote to Governor Jelks
the owner of these notes, a letter In
which he used this language, we do not
propose to pay any more on it!' (meaa-
ing The Times)), Later on Mr.. Muir in the
presence of II. r. Shorter and Governor
Jelks stated that he would not pay an
other cent on the debt. Still later Mr..
II. r. Shorter, as agent for Governor
Jelks, in the presence of Mr., s. ID. Fields.
demanded the payment OF the long past
due notes. Mr.. NJ lir refused to pay, then
Mr. Shorter, under the terms of the mort
gage securing the above notes, demanded
possession of the property contained and
described in the mortgage, including The
Daily Times and Eufaula Weekly Times
and News Mr.. Muir refused to give pos
session, while still refusing to pay the
notes. As a last resort, Col A. H. Mer-
riu was employed to enforce the rights
of Governor Jelks and proceeded to col
lect his money, as no otner alternative
was left A short while before the fore
closure of Governor Jelkss mortgage,
MIR, Muir wanted Governor Jelks to pay
him. Mr., Muir, 81 900 for his Mr.. Muir's
interest In the plant which proposition.
if accepted. would have made the paper
cost Governor Jelks Mr.. Muirs two notes
of nearly S. 900 plus a second mortgage
If anproximately 1000, also the addi-
tional 81 900 asked by Mr.. Muir, making
a total of about $4,000. Governor. jerks de-
cIined to buy for the reason that under
the management OF Mr.. Muir the paper
had deprecated in value ana Tor the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-25
THE STOVE PIPE HAT.
A Survival in New York Streets of
Today.


Brooklyn Eagle.
One morning last week a man walked
on one of the crowded ferryboats CROSS
Immediately became conspicuous object.
regarded by everybody. There was moth
ing in the hat to attract such general at
tention. 1t was of modern, modish shape.
well kept and brushed. Nor was there
anything in the mans dress otherwise out
of the common. 1t was simply because
he was the only one on this crowded boat
wearing a silk hat and because silk hat
has become an uncommon variety of
headgear, especially in the morning. 1t
goes with the saying that the man was
elderly A young man with a silk hat be-
fore. 4 o'clock in the afternoon Is an &C.
centric
The round derby hat wrought revo-
luton in the matter Of headgear. The
prevailing hat quarter of a century ago
or was it more years ago-was the silk
hat. Everybody wore one, on all occa-
sions and at all times. The volunteer fire
department was In existence at that time
and peculiar type, straight up and down
and straight scrosS. was almost the in
sigma of the volunteer fremen, as much
so as the soap lock that curled up under
the brim on both temples. Frank Chan
frau immortalized and preserved the type
for all time in ''Mose" in "A Glance at
New York" To the day of his death only
a few years ago Ar Dorlon, the oyster
man of Fulton Market. and an old fire
laddie, well known resident of Brooklyn.
wore that type of hat. But 1t was not
the volunteer fireman alone who wore q
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-25
AMERICAN TIP TAKERS .
Once Sturdy Independence That is
Fast Wearing OF,


Brooklyn Eagle.
Firmly established as the tip system is
in American cities At still gives the coun-
tryman a distinct shock to go back to his
closing eagerly on gratuities. He does
not mind tipping a French or Italian, or
even an English waiter, but when
pretty schoolma'm, whose people have
has turned herself into a waitress in the
summer hotel, either to help through col
lege or to set up a plano at home. takes
q tip as naturally as II she had been
born to 1t, a good American is likely to
believe that the principles of his coun-
try are being undermined and that there
Is no such ideal as equality left.
The most shocking case, so far as the
perversion of American ideas goes was
recently encountered on the observation
car tnat runs across the Crawford notch.
The writer was passing through for the
first time, conscious that many of the ia
nous points were all Greek to him. He
asked a question or two when fine ath-
letie brakeman stepped forward with in
formation. He attached himself to the
questioner's party, and thereafter not so
much as waterfall was missed. II was
plainly a case of working the travellers
FOR a tip and the work was beautifully
done. The brakeman knew everything
and impaired information worth more to
the recipients than the tip which fol-
lowed. so there was no complaint on that
score' Out mere was DID, husky Amerl-
can, who very likely was entitled to he
long to all the societies of sons of things
which have been invented yet, who had
intelligence enough to speak in town
meetings or to be a select man of his
town. eagerly perverting the gracious
American spirit OF obligingness for a
paltry half dollar. BY the time we have
as many show places as England, we
shall have developed the show place man
ner and the born courier who would
rather "coo" IN quota FlinOer In s'rhe
Runaway Girl" than work. Environ
ment is mightier than principle and con-
slant dropping will wear away the stur-
diest independence.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-25
NO rHrRD rERM.

The Birmingham Ledger verifies from
time to time the adage that great men.
newspapers, in this case, talk to them
selves. II is the habit left over, no doubt
from chestnut hunting amidst the hills
and brooks of dear old Talladega. Be-
low Is a recent soliloQuy of this neighbor
that is suggestive of public affairs Of
high moment just now;
But that a man should not be elected
Governor three times will not do to use,
because 1t would hurt Tho Montgomery
Advertisers feelings to be objecting to a
third term with one intervening. The
Ledger has no intention of making a Bit
ter war on Governor Johnston, like some
papers are. doing, because II he be the
party nominee the papers will have to
support him after all the bitterness. 1t
is bettor not to have any crow to eat.
II a newspaper has no stomach for
''crow." it is not plain how 1t can have
nerve to go into the midst of a political
campaign.
This Is an age Of constitutional reform.
We have made long stride in releasing
ourselves from boss rule here in Ala
bama by limiting the Governor elected to
q single term. We copied. in one end of
the old Capitol last summer, the Act that
wise men from the cotton States In Pro-
visienal Congress enacted in the other
END forty years ago. Jefferson Davis was
provisional President for one year. He
was elected for full single term of six
years, largely because in the. new per-
manent government his provisional expe-
rience was supposed to be valuable to
- ToNT- l.
tinued in the ONCE of Governor beyond
the term TO which he succeeded, under
the old Constitution, by the new Consti-
tuition, and win be elected to a full term
Of four years because OF certain cohdi-
lions of public welfare.
Quite a different matter It is to give
Governor Johnston third term. This
Governor, it will be remembered, has
demonstrated a willingness to remain in
ONCE indefinitely in more ways than one.
was expiring. he vetoed bill which pre-
vented his holding over under certain
emergencies of the time. He evidently
expected to hold over If the opportunity
presented itself. His endeavor now is to
hold over.
The people are not to be caught nap
ping. Governor Johnston conducted his
second term In office on the basis Of his
candidacy for prolonged power. He is
now conducting a campaign for the pro-
motion Of himself over the Constitution
Of the State The term of the Executive.
that is now nearly fun, that followed
him, is 30 abundant in proof that the
state can get along without Governor
Johnston, that there Is absolutely moth
ing TO justify his mad aspirations, and
Of this ne win be duly persuaded.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-25
A WEAK EFFORT.

The speech OF Ex-Governor Johnston last
night in this city was the miidest. weak
est and most vulnerable Of the many he
has delivered here.
The Advertiser has not the opportunity
st the late hour after the speech's deliy-
cry to review 1t at length. but 1t will cite
two instances of the ex-Governor's unfair
dealing with his audience.
He stated. among other figures as to
his administration of the Governors Of
flee, that when he went in, there We're
only $4,000 in the State Treasury. As q
matter of fact, according to the officiaI
report of the State Treasurer at that
time, Dec. /, 1885. there were sl44. 1886 on
hand-a trihing error of over one hum
bred thousand dollars. At the end Of
his first year. however. the amount had
been reduced to s22.2s5.6l--a falling of of
sizz.ooo after one year OF his marvellous
financing.
Again. the candidate for the third term
last night declared that of the four Gov
ernors in the history of the State who
had come into office by succession. as has
Governor Jelks, not one of them was
elected by the people to another term.
He was not fair enough to state the fact
that only one Of the three prior to Gov
ernor Jells's succession sought another
term. Nor did he have the straight for
wardness to state another and still more
important fact, viz, that Of the thirteen
Governors who held two terms before
him, not one had the audacity to seek q
third term as Johnston is now doing. II
he is offering presidents to Democrats.
why should he be violating one OF the
most venerated in the record of the
Party?
The ex-Governor's speech abounded
with vulnerable points, and The Adver-
tiser will take occasion to point out more
of them tomorrow.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-25
FRIDAY, JULY IS, 1904.
poup1n GOLDEN gYMpoL.

The American Newspaper Directory uses GER
tain sigma to denote the relative standing and
merit Of the whole neld Of newspaperdom
which comes under its notice. and one Of these
signs Il the mystic symbol TO denoting
..rolden.p which stands for high quality, and
IL thus explained:
Advertisers value this paper more for the
class and quality Of its circulation than for the
mere number Of copies printed"
Such papers are credited with single SYM
Dol: but there is q higher grade, according to
this standard authority which have BOTH
QUALITY AND QUANTITY, and require the
DOUBLE GOLDEN SYMBOL 100 to describe
adequately their standing.
The Adertiser has been accorded this
double golden symbol L00l and is the only
paper 90 distinguished in this section OF the
South.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-25

Der, and for that 1t seems to be the ae1
sire of the County Committee to allow
all to vote who will pledge themselves to
support the nominee. No change was
made in the rules laid down by the STATE
Committee for the State primary, and no
County Committee has any right to make
any changes.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-25
What It Means,

The Roanoke Leader has clear idea
of what the present campaign means and
succinctly states it in these sentences:
A vote for Captain Johnston means an
endorsement of third-termism and petty
personal politics. 1t means the undoing
of the good work of constitutional re-
formc and would result in throwing the
State back into turmoil and confusion
1t would incite the hordes of ignorant
negroes to again clamor for recognition
and would precipitate trouble ana doubt
less bloodshed.
We are not ready for this condition.
Alabama can take no such step back
ward. Let us renominate Jelks and move
onward and upward.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-25
speaking to the Point.

The fight will decide which is the
strongest, sympathy for an unindorsed
record or satisfaction over a business
like and honorable career standing arm
In arm with the organic law of the State.
These are the respective platforms of
The people generally do not care a
toad's blessing whether the State Con-
vention of 1900 did or did not endorse
Johnston. That seems to be his strong
est argument now and the voters will
treat such baby-whine with contempt.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-25

Rome. July A.-The Pope received the
American pilgrims headed by the Very
Rev. e. N. Porcile of Brooklyn, N. "
and a number Of other American tourists
in Clementine Hall at noon today. The
party aggregated 200 persons. The pill
grims presented the Pope with $1,000 Be
fore leaving the Pope stood In the center
of the hall and bestowed the apostolic
benediction upon the pilgrims.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-25
A Ring of Politicians.

The Bessemer Workman actually states
that Johnston "as Governor. had no ring
of politicians" Come down to Mobile,
Brother Williamson. and see the rem
nants of the Johnston ring 1t was the fin
est imitation ever seen on the market
Mobile Herald.
If there has ever been public man in
Alabama who had a well organized ring
of his own. which did whatever he want
ed done. that man was the Ex-Governor.
Mobile Is not alone in such glory as comes
from that source.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-25
Better Nail Them.

1t is said that Senator Fairbanks has
agents In the South In his presidential
interests. II that agent gets into Ala
bama he will find the Republicans hesi-
tafing between Roosevelt and Hanna. II
there are any Fairbanks Republicans
down here the agent will have to create
them.-Birmingham Ledger.
If Fairbanks wants to secure any dele
gates In Alabama his agent should be the
last man to come. A majority of Ala
bama delegates to Republican Conven-
tons support the last man who fixes
them.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-25
A Hard Question.

II Jeiks is. not entitled to the endorse
ment of the Democracy OF Alabama when
there has never been a faint or breath
of scandal attached to his name as Gov
ernor. then In Heavens name what right
or title has Joe Johnston to claim this
honor alabama Courier.
The Courier shouldn't ask conundrums
till the hot weather is over. Nobody can
answer the question it winds up the above
paragraph with. because there is no an
swer.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-25
Is a Sumner.

It seems to The Siftings that the old
sound custom of giving a State officer
two terms but no more, is a sumner to
Governor Johnston and II will be to many
fair-minded of his former supporters
Dothan Siftings.
Probably Johnston thinks himself above
custom and precedent and believes that
his name alone will elect him. He'll be
wiser after the votes are counted.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-25
Frost-bitten Whiskers.

For the next few weeks the people OF
Alabama will hear great deal OF what
I did when was Governor" It's an soid
song with frost bitten Enthusiastically
Sentinel.
Like many other old songs It Is entire
ly out Of date. Some things he did would
set him back worse than the ghosts did
Macbeth. II they were to line up before
him
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-25
win Help Him Along.

Ex-Governor Johnston says he has had
no desire to be Governor again; we sup
pose, then, he has a desire not to be Gov
ernor. If this Is right, The Journal viii
do its best. for once. to give the ex-Gov-
ernor what he desires, "-Luverne Jour
nal. h.t, ...l
Let us admit that he was in earnest
when he said he didn't want to be Gov
ernor and crafty him by electing him to
keep out of the Office. Let us treat him
with the consideration he desires.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-25
rha Matter of circulation.

TIE appended detailed statement OF =, rune
yertiserss circulation for the month rsrowth'
1902. shows continued and neAg endorse
This steady increase Is q hatterinb go the
msnt OF The Advertisers efforts 70 sas clean
people Of Alabama q thoroughly i've, III ana
Newspaper, and IL will continue 70 mas s,s,,r-
prcvements in each department, tnus esent
Ing not only q maintenance o. ne ciaimed
circulation. which is greater tnan III news
papers combined, but will make new Hie"e-
and Subscribers each day.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-25

When Sir Michael Hicks Beach spoke
of corn as a grain Of the horse-feed class.
he showed the narrow prejudice of a
typical Briton or the ignorance of ty-
pical nobleman about that grain. The
men whose energy, intellect and enter
prise are pushing Engiishmen aside
wherever they come in contact are large
ly corn-fed Americans. Sir Mike should
post himself somewhat.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-25
THE sHTPPING COMBINE.
]. P. Morgan, Jr., Says There is No
Change in the Situation.

London. July A.-Asked by represent
tative of the Associated Press today
about the situation Of the shipping COM
bine and the statements published in the
United States that its contamination was
considered doubtful. J. Pierpont Morgan,
Jr.. said:
III people would only take pains to
read the terms of the agreement which
was published on both sides of the At
Iahtic, they would not be misled by such
reports"
When shown the circular of the North
Atlantic Company. giving as the result
of the payments. of its usual semi annual
dividend, the fact that the completion
OF the purchase of the shares of the
company by Mr.. Morgan, ST., was ''unex-
pectedly delayed" J. p. Morgan. Jr.,
replied:
''What they call delay may have been
unexpected to them, though why it should
be / am unable to say. / can. however,
say this-the situation is absolutely I'M
changed. There is nothing new about
It, The agreement stands precisely as
when 1t was signed"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-25

Some of the Johnston organs are quite
jubilant over the fact that a news
paper in Governor Jelks's own town is
against him, but never once do they al
lude to the fact that two leading dailies
In birmingham are fighting Johnston,
earnestly, openly and etfeetually, and
not one of them is advocating his cleo
ton
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-25

Short Talk with Those Who Make
Alabama Newspapers.
stand Behind Him.

The Democrats of Dale County will
stand behind the splendid administration
Of Governor Jelks with their votes and
influence.--Ozark Star.
That seems to be a general feeling all
over the State They stand behind him
and his administration and will boost
him over the heads of the grievance can,
didates