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Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-03-14

and jeers and insults Ito the white people of
our own land
Yes, sir, the Sub-1reasury scheme of the
Farmers Alliance is law today.
Only, its benefits are to be confined to the
black people of our colonies instead of being
extended to the whites and blacks here at
home.
If the principle is sound enough to be adopt
ed in the Philippines, why isn't it sound
enough to be adopted in the United States?
Mr.. De Almond, Mr. Bill Howard, and 9TH
ers who voted for the measure can reply to
this question later.
But in the meantime, don't you forget that
the Democrats and Republicans united to en-
dorse and to put into law the Sub Treasury
plan of the Farmers Alliance.
Lord! How Uncle Sol Beeswax did laugh
when l read him the record of that Congress
sional adoption of the principle of our despised
SubTreasury Plan
Said he:
II shouldn't wonder if I got to be Colonel
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-03-14
Theft No Crime When?

When British K1ng had so twisted the
system of taxation against the American Colo
nies that no colonist could take his own iron
and fashion it into nails, make his own hat,
could not legally shoe his own horse, an Eng
lish author-duly pensoned by the king
wrote pamphlet to prove that taxation, such
as the following, was no tyranny.
DR.. Samuel johnson may have believed that
he had made out a good case for George III.
but the American Colonists did not think So
The victims of that oppressive system of tax
alton arose in their wrath and shot the life out
of it,
Another writer of the Tory breed filled
with the idea that no wrong can be done by
the Powers that be, might try his hand on the
recent decision of the New York Court of Ap-
peals.
By five to four vote, this high and solemn
court has decided that it is no crime to steal,
provided the stolen money be devoted to
good purpose.
Geo. w. Perkins, the pert and dapper little
partner of ]. P. Morgan, stole $4,000 from
the New York Life Insurance Co., and gave
it to the National Republican Campaign Com
mittee.
The eminent judges of the New York Court
of Appeals decided that Perkins motive was
good and that, therefore, while he took money
which did not belong to hin1-taking it pri
vately without the knowledge or consent of
the owners-the larceny was no crime
GLORIOUS DECISION!
And yet these eminent Judges who decide
that theft is not larceny are virtuously aston
ished when communities, outraged by sudden
brutal intoerable violation of law, flame into
resistless action and lynch the criminal.
Trust the Courtsw cry the constituted au
thorities. How we trust the courts, when
we hear them delivering opinions which shock
common sense? How can we trust the courts
when see them stultfy themselves to save
a millionaire from just punishment?
Perkins took money that did not belong to
him. He took it without the knowledge and
consent of the owners He concealed the fact
that he had taken it until the fact was proven
on him. He used the money in a way that the
owners had not authorized and have never
ratified. He had neither express nor implied
authority to use the money as he did. On the
contrary, the money belonged in part to Dem
ocrats, and the conclusive presumption is that
the Democratic owners would have forbidden
the giving of it to the Republican Campaign.
These are the facts-the undisputed facts. If
they do not constitute the crime of Larceny
then no facts could do it.
But Perkins is member of one of the most
powerful financial combinations in the world
and the law fears to touch him
He belongs to the class of immunes.
MEN OF HIS CALIBRE CANNOT BE
REACHED.
They are above the law. Prosecuting at
tomeys fawn and crouch before them.
Grand Jurles accompany their finding of
"True Bills" with humble apologies.
Judges, learned in the law, drive coaches
and six through the mutilated statutes and
triumphantly carry the rich criminal beyond
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-03-14
ATLANTA, GA, THURSDAY, MARCH IA, 1907
Sub Treasury Plan For the Philippines.

My Uncle Solomon Beeswax dropped in to
see me yesterday, and we had good laugh
over a recent Act of Congress-
Uncle Sol is one of the Hayseed cranks
who joined the Farmers Alliance a few years
ago and who supported a platform which ap-
proved of the lending of government money
on land and agricultural products.
This scheme was called the Sub Treasury
Plan, and was the cause of much abuse and
rdicue aimed at my Unce Solomon and his
fellow fanatics.
Speeches, pamphlets, books, sermons, edi-
torials came pouring down upon Uncle Sol
and his fellow fools, until you would have
thought that they were the meanest and most
dangerous gang of criminals on the face of
the earth Uncle Solomon had stood pretty
we'll in his community up to that time.
His name was in the Grand Jury box; the
village merchants courted the good will OF
"Mrs Beeswax" and the county paper never
failed to inform the public when "Col. Solo
mon Beeswax, one of our most substantial
farmers, was in town today, shaking hands
with his hosts of friends"
In short Uncle Sol. was some punkins.
But alas! this world is but feeting show,
and vanity of vanities saith the preacher, and
you must notice where you're going, or the
first thing you know your name will drop out
of the Grand Jury box, and out of the
county paper, and instead of being "Colo-
mel Solomon Beeswax, one of our most
substantial" you'll be that ID old fool,
Sol. Beeswax, who believes that the govern
ment ought to lend him money on land and
cotton -
That's the way it happened to my Uncle
Solomon. He lost caste in way that he new
er could understand. He hadn't stolen any,
thing, nor poisoned anybody's we'll, nor given
a Certificate in favor of Peruna, or Coca-Cola; !;
therefore, it puzzled him to know why he had
SO suddenly become yellow dog.
But yellow dog he was, all right enough
and anybody who chose to throw brick at
him was safe in doing so.
Poor old Uncle Beeswax-I used to feel
mighty sorry for him. I knew that an hon,
ester man didn't live, and that when he stood
for the principles of the Farmers Alliance he
was inspired by the same love of humanity
and of Right that had caused Hampden to
draw his sword against his King.
A nobler band of heroes and patriots never
toiled, struggled and suffered than those who
made the grand fight for our principles in the
years that followed 1880.
But the current against the reformers was
too strong, and they were washed away, borne
out into the great ocean wastes where all is
swallowed up.
But yesterday Uncle Beeswax and had
our laugh, just the same
Because Hearst has become a good Farm
ers' Alliance man?
about. Because Bryan has dressed himself in
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-03-14

Solomon Beeswax again before I died, and
had the honor of serving once more on the
Grand Jury.
"The Lord seems to be coming right square
out on our side!
"Are you sure that Bill Howard voted for
the "Sub- Treasury
"Yes-Bill was along"
"How things do change aroundw unused
Uncle Sol. as he waddled off toward home.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-10-22
The Story of a Caxton.

In the Wesleyan Church Record
is paper by Mr.. William Andrews
of the Hull Royal institution on
"Curiosities of Book Collecting % in
which he tells the story of the un-
earthing of a Caxton at Thorneck
hall, Lincolnshire. The butler was
entrusted with the work of wedding
out the superfuous books. A per-
feet copy Of Dame Juliana Berner's
ssBoke Of St. Albans'' (14S6) was
thrown carelessly aside and a little
later sold to a peddler for nine
pence. He thought he was lucky
man when he disposed of it to a
chemist in Gainsborough for shil-
lings. It was soon sold to a book
seller for 92, who transferred it to
another in the same trade for e7.
1t was subsequently sold to Sir
Thomas Grenville for ESQ. At the
time of this transaction Dibdin val
ued this book at e42O, and in 1882
a perfect copy changed hands for
f63O. 81.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-10-22
A Morgan of
Perfect Type.

The Morgan type of horse originated
In Vermont. and many descendants of
the original Morgan stock are still in
existence. They have changed some
what in appearance from the early
specimens, but include in general their
beauty, intelligence, good temper and
endurance which have made them ia
vorites as general purpose horse.
Blue Mountain Prince was bred and
raised by the late Austin Corbin of
New York city at Newport, n. H. This
horse has been awarded many prizes
at horse shows and exhibitions as a
perfect example of the old original
Morgan. He is of a rich dark chestnut
colo. with Il white strip in face and
diamond on nose. OF perfect Morgan
conformation throughout, he has served
as a model for sculptors in search of
a perfect Morgan type. He is richly
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-10-22
An Elephants Teeth.

Whoever has looked inside an
elephants mouth has seen strange
sight. Elephants have no front
teeth, and they never eat flesh or
any food that requires tearing
apart. Eight teeth are all they
have, two above and below on each
side, huge yellow molars as wide as
a mans hand and about two inches
thick. Over these hay OF fodder is
shifted by the queerest, ugliest
tongue in the whole animal king
dom, tongue that is literally hung
at both ends, having no power or
movement except in the middle,
where it shifts back and forth from
side to side, arching up against the
roof of the big mouth like an i'm
meme wrinkled pink serpent.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-10-22
Verdict for DIR. Pierce
AGAINST THE
Ladies' Home Journal.

Sending truth after lie. It IS an old
maxim that "a lie will travel seven
leagues while truth is getting its bouts
on" and no doubt hundreds of thousands
Of good people read the unwarranted and
malicious attack upon DR.. r. v. Pierce
and his TFavorite Prescription published
in the May Q9O4) number of the Ladies.
Home Journal, with its great black dis
play headings, who never saw the hum
BILE, groveling retraction, with its incon-
spicuous heading, published two months
later. 1t was boldly charged in the sland.
erous and liiielous article that DIR. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription, for the cure OF
woman's weaknesses and ailments, con.
tanned alcohol and other harmful ingredi.
ents. DR.. Pierce promptly brought suit
against the publishers Of the Ladies'
home Journal, for 500, 10000 damages.
DR.. Pierce alleged that Mr.. Box, the
editor, maliciously published the article
containing such false and defamatory
matter witt the intent of iniuring his
businesSsf Furthermore, that no alcohol, 81
other Injurious, or habit-forming, drugs
are, or t1Ver were, contained in his ~Fas
vorite Eyespfiption that said medicine
is madS fpoEa native medicinal roots and
contaNSno harmful ingredients what
eveT/afd that Mr.. Bok's malicious sta tes
mefX were wholly and absolutely false,
1.-The retrac ction printed BY said Journal
they were fGrced to ackn0Mledge thai tEsY
bad Obtained analyses Of wwEaYorite pIs:
Seription. :" rom eminent chemists. all QI
whom cert!Hed that Il did moi contain Al.
cohQEQranI d the ALLEGED harmful drngSI
:, These facts were also proven in the trisi OF
business OF D.. Pierce was greatly injured
the publication of the libelouS article
thousands who read the wickedly defamatG'y
article never saw the humble groveling ie.
traction. set in small type and made as incons
spicuous as possible The matter was. ho"~
ever brought before jury in the Supreme
Court OF New York State which promptly
rendered verdict in the Doctors favor.
Thus his traducers came to griet and tneiI
base ISLANDERS we're refuted.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-10-22
BoNApARTE At JAFFA
His Orders Regarding the Poisoning es
Stricken Soldiers.

Stricken Soldiers.
Professor Forgue of Montpelier
in a lecture on the respect that
practitioners should have for hu-
man life told the story of Desge-
nettes, which, though well known,
is worth telling again, as it is told
by Desgenettes himself.
When the French were about to
evacuate Jaffa the question arose
what was to be done with the
plague stricken soldiers in the hos
pital. Desgenettes says: Shortly
before the raising of the siege--that
is to say, on the 27th-General
Bonaparte sent for me very early
in the morning to come to his tent,
where hei was alone with his chief
Of the staff. After a short preamble
as to our sanitary condition he said
to me, IF I were you 1 should end
at once the suferings of those
stricken with plague and should end
the dangers which they threaten US
by giving them opium
81 answered simply, MY duty is
to preserve life.' Then the general
developed his idea with the greatest
GOODNESS, saying that he was adyis-
ing for others what in like circum-
stances he would ask for himself.
"He pointed out to me that he
was, before any one else, charged
with the conservation of the army,
and consequently it was his duty TO
prevent our abandoned sick from
falling alive under the scimiters of
the Turks. Z do not seek, he went
on, Sto overcome your repugnance,
but I believe I shall find some who
will better appreciate my inten-
tions.' Desgenettes goes on to
say that opium was, as a matter Of
fact, given to some thirty patients.
It happened, however, that GER
5 tain number rejected it by vomit-
ing, were relieved, got well and told
what had happened. The story has
been told in various ways, and the
fact of the poisoning of the sick
soldiers has been accepted by the
enemies of Napoleon and denied by
the defenders of his memory. Des-
genettes' narrative bears the stamp
of truth.-British Medical Journal.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-10-22

of the bribery and, meeting some of
the corporation lobbyists in the cor
ridor, shook his fist in their faces
and shouted:
II might have supported this bill,
but you cannot get my vote now!"
E'But the corporations opposing
the bill are paying $4,000 to those
who vote against it," said the lob
byists. you'll get $4,000 either
way"
"Then I'll stay out Of the senate
chamber when the bill comes up for
action" snapped the senator as he
strobe away.
True to his word, Senator Brad
ley left the senate chamber, and
during his absence the bill was beat
en-. Bradley congratulated himself
on his escape from suspicion of hav-
ing accepted a bribe. He went back
to his desk and there found an en-
velope. 1t contained $500.
"What's this for?" he asked of
his neighboring senators.
"That's what the corporations
paid for those who stayed out while
the vote was being taken on that
bil."-New Y York American.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-10-22

fAsserted to be the purest blooded Nor
gan now living. Awarded numerous
prizes at horse shows and exhibitions as
the perfect type of the old original Nor
gan fanily.l
endowed with a perfect disposition,
style, finish, beauty and speed, says
American Cultivator in giving an illus
fration of this fine animal.
Blue Mountain Prince partakes of
three strains of Morgan blood-viz,
Woodbury., Sherman and Bullrush-
and has pedigree as follows: Sired
by Ethan ALLEN I'd, son of Peters
Morgan, by Peters Vermont, he by
Clifford Morgan, son of Woodbury. Nor
gan, he by Justin Morgan. The dam
of Ethan Allen I'd was raised by Ste
phen Dow of Woburn, Mass, and sired
by old Ethan Allen, out of the famous
Morgan mare Jennie. She was by
Hales Green Mountain Morgan, and
her dam was owned by DR.. J. L.
Woods of Boston and was called Phe-
be. She was by Tom Morgan, he by
True Briton, making him a half BROTH
er to Old Justin Morgan. Phebe's dam
was sired by a horse called Monde
script
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-10-22
PHIL0MATH SNAPSHOTS.
Items of Interest From College
Town-Things Lively.

(Some of the Philomath items were
crowded out of Fridays issue for lack of
space and are given below.)
The county schools in the vicinity are
opening fer the winter one by one. In
the Oak Ridge neiehhorhood, Miss
Madeline Nichols is at the helm and
school opened about two weeks age. In
the Evergreen neighborhood Miss
Evadna Springer opened school last
Monday, with almost forty pupils en-
rolled. In the Independent neighbor-
hood, Miss Rosa Nichols will begin
teaching next Monday. A few other
schools have not bsen reported.
A basket social was conducted at the
Evergreen schoolhouss last Friday eve
Ing by the G. E. society for purpose of
purchasing new organ. A good pro.
gram and good attendance is reported.
The receipts amounted to almost thirty
dollars.
John Bennett and family accompanied
by Miss Myrtle Afford drove to Corvallis
Tuesday. Mr.. Bennett and family are
moving into his mothers property lying
east of the hotel
The Women of Woodcraft are planning
box and witch shadow social and inter-
tainment on All-Halloween October 81
at O'Clock. They are planning this to
be the witchiest, itchcrafty, be-witch-
ing entertainment that the burg will
have had in some time. All young or old
ladies bringing lunch for two, in plain or
decor ated boxes as they choose, will be
admitted free. These ladies' shadows
will be sold in the guise of witch, or
decorated baskets will be sold for some if
SO desired, The boxes from girls will be
sold to young boys only. A complete
program will be furnished later. The
w. o. WIS wish to announce that all
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-10-22
MORSE BREEDING.
Districts Should Specialize In the Pro.
fduetion of Horses.

fduetion of Horses.
In one district of Richland county
we have counted as many as forty one
pure bred Percheron mares owned by
members of a breeding association,
while the same district owns many
high class grade mares of the same
blood. Soon such a district will be-
come famous for its draft horse stock
of this particular breed, and that is the
sort of reputation needed by each
breeding district in the state. So long
as each district produces a hetero-
geneous collection of horses of all
manner of blood combination no sue
cess will be attained in attracting buy
ers ready to pay good prices for the
class of horses they wish to find in
sufficient numbers. There is no out
side demand for the mongrels and mis-
fits.
Centers For Buyers.
Jefferson county has become ia
nous for her dairy cows. Around
Lake Mills one may find finely bred
Holsteins in considerable numbers, and
in the Athens district of Marathon
county the late lamented Hon. Fred
Rfetbrock made Guernsey cattle nu-
merous and profitable among the set
tiers. To such centers go the buyers
ready and willing to purchase at
remunerative prices even more animals
than are ready for their needs. We
should have hundreds of such. centers
celebrated for their horses of some
distinct and valuable type. We want
centers of this sort in which the buyer
can find numbers Of a given kind Of
horse, centers where heavy draft
horses of one or other Of the well
known breeds may be found uniform
in type and excellence Of development,
and other centers where the buyer
may find ready to his hand hundreds
of high class carriage horses.
Shortsiehted Policy.
But not every breed should be found
striving one against the other in each
district in the state. Such is too COM
monty the Objectionable condition ex-
listing at the present time. There is
nothing to be gained by such short
sighted policy. ''In unity there is
strength" By uniting for the produc-
ton of one standard, necessary profit
able product in a given district, the
breeders may confidently count upon
success, and we sincerely trust that
such policy may soon direct the
breeding operations of every horse pro-
ducing district in Wisconsin.-Bulletin,
Department of Agriculture, Wisconsin.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-10-22
Proof Positive.

Mrs. Perry thoughtfully regarded
the package the maid had just
brought in and then remarked tc
her husband that she had meant tt
buy a mauve broche.
ssWhat did you get?" he asked.
'Pink louisine."
Her husband could not quite con,
ceal significant smile, and Mrs
Perry went on hurriedly: 81 know
what you are thinking, Joe-that
don't know my own mind. But ]
can prove that I do.
sDid you ever know me to go to a
grocery and bring away a can OF
peaches instead Of a bar of soapi
Certainly notp she concluded til
umphantly.-Youth's Companion.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-10-22
CONDENSED STORIES.
Story of the New York Lobby and an
Honest Legislator.

Story of the New York Lobby and an
Honest Legislator.
Gene Wood, chief of the Albany
lobbyists, told the other day what
he regarded as a good joke on
"Honest Dan" Bradley, a former
Brooklyn senator. Senator Bradley
abhorred lobbyists and side stepped
every bill that had any semblance
of graft connected with it; hence
his sobriquet. A corporation meas
uTe was up for vote in the senate,
and rumor had it that $4,000 per
vote was being paid to place it on
the statute books. Bradley heard
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-10-22
the witch.. from witchville win be


the witches from Witchville will be
present.
Mrs. @. 81. Newth and little son Car.
rol visited with her sister at Junction
City last week, returning home Mohday.
The pupils of the higher grades in Prof.
y. V, Whites room organized literary
society last Friday night. The officers
elected are: Pres, Bessie Pugsiey; vice
pres, Hazel Caldwell; sec., Nellie
Moses; censor, Prof. o. v. White; critic,
Ruth Pimm; chaplin, Florence Boyle;
and sergent- at arms, Roy Scott. This
is a commendable work for the school
and should have the endorsement of all
the patrons.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-10-22
Calves In Stanchions.

The accompanying cut shows the
best and cheapest method of keeping
and feeding calves, according to the
Southern Cultivator, which says: Any
farmer who is handy with tools can
make the trough and construct the
stanchions. By adopting this method
you save room and each calf gets the
food allotted to it. The calves cannot
be fighting one another off, and you
can save the manure better, also keep
them cleaner. Every farmer who has
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-10-22
A Most Worthy Article.

When an article has been OF the mar.
ket for years and gains friends every
year, it is safe to call this medicine
WORTHY one. Such Is Ballard's Hore.
hound Syrup. 1t positively cures coughs
and all Pulmonary diseases. One of the
known merchants in Mobile, Ala, says:
"For five years my family has not been
troubled with the winter coughs. We
owe this to Ballard's Horehound Syrup.
1 know it has saved my children from
many sick SPELLS" Sold by Graham Il
Wortham.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-10-22
Care of the Boar.

Many excellent boars are put in a
dirty pen and confined the year round
without any pasture or yard for them
to exercise in, and by the time they are
old enough to be in their prime they
are ruined by excessive service and
lack Of exercise, proper nourishment,
etc. Give him a yard, an acre in ex-
tent IL possible, with a good strong
fence around it and away from the
rest of the herd, provide him a warm
sleeping place during the cold and
damp weather and treat him in a
manner that will make him think he is
Of some Importance and not salute
him with kick or q club every time
you go around him. His disposition
toward you will be to a great extent
what you make it, and you can rest
assured that he will appreciate and
enjoy any kindness and rubbing that
you do for him and will not forget all
Of the injuries and await his chance
to get even with you.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-10-22
Notice to Creditors.

In the County Court of the State of Oregon for
Benton County: In the after of the estate OF
Jesse NJ, Gilstrap, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that J. P. Hummer has
been appointed Administrator of the estate OF
Jesse M. Gilstrap, deceased. All persons having
claims against said estate hereby required to
present the same duly veri f ed by law required
Oregon, at the office of ]. F. Yates at Corvallis
Benton County, Oregon, within six months from
this date.
Dated September, 90, 1907
1888 P HUMMER,