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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-12-17
A GOOD CITIZEN.

To be accounted a frst-class
citizen of this country, or as Mr..
Roosevelt says "a desirable citi-
zen,' several qualifications enter
into ones make up. He must,
first of all, be loyal to this gov
ernment, in contra-distinction to
all past claims that birth or natu-
raliZation may have had upon
him. He must be thoroughly
American.
A dependable citizen of this
government must eschew all po-
litical relation to any other COM
monwealth of which he may have
been a part. His patriotism must
not be half-hearted. To seek to
correct any fancied or real gov
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-12-17
FINANCIAL CONDITIONS.

The following is a review of
the financial conditions in New
York as viewed by a reliable
party there:
Encouraging evidence of the
sound conditions prevailing
ing throughout the United
States continues. Cheering signs
that the recovery will be compar-
atively quick are also in evidence.
The east is becoming every day
more optimistic. The west is
feeling the force of the wave
which struck here a month ago,
but it will roll on and the rebound
will be equally prompt and reas-
suring. November with teller's
windows barely open, money par
simoniously released in driblets
only, currency at a high premium
and all credit operations ata min
imum and the whole country
quaking with apprehension, has
shown few failures literally less
than one thousand l, l8O failures
in November with estimate of a
million and half business estab-
lishments in operation is really
only l in 1000.
The people who endeavor to ex-
cuse the Real Cause and attrib-
ute this unnatural, unwarranted
panic to unsound conditions and
undue extension of American bu-
siness beyond existing world cap
ital will find events, when calmly
analyzed in history, against their
theory. We should undoubtedly
have had quiet and regular recess
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-12-17
Notice for Publication.
United States Land Office.

Portland, Oregon, October, "a, 1907,
Notice is hereby given that in compliance with
the provisions OF the act of Congress of June 3,
1873 entitled IAN act for the sale of timber lands
In the States OF California, Oregon, Nevada and
Washington Territory" extended to all the
Public Land States by act of August 4, 1892 Ms.
Bertha Joreenson of Portland, county OF Multno-
NAH, State ofOregon. has this day tiled in this
chase of the Northwest quarter OF Section No. 3,
inrownship No. 10 South, Range No West, and
will offer proof to show that the land sought is
more valuable for its timber or stone than for
agricultural purposes, and to establish her claim
to said land before Register and Receiver at Port
land, Oregon on Saturday, the 18th day of Janu
airy, 1913
She names as witnesses: Mrs. Minnie Mack o
Monmouth Oregon; Mr.. Will Mack Of Monmouth,
Oregon Mr.. J. C. Olson OF Corvallis, Oregon; MIS-.
]. c. Olson of Corvallis, Oregon.
Any and all persons claiming adversely tne
above described lands are requested to hle their
claims in this Office on or before said 18th day Of
Januafy ~, 1908.
9sft ALGERNoN S. DRESSER, Register.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-12-17
WHY COMPLAIN?

The ordering of U. S. troops to
Goldfeld, Nevada, has called out
much unfair, and very much mis-
chievous criticism.
Nevada has no organized mill
tia. If Governor Sparks believed,
from the most reliable informa-
tion he could obtain, that life and
property were endangered by the
contentious which had arisen be-
tween the mine owners and the
miners, or, indeed, FROM any
cause, it was his plain and imper-
ative duty to prevent it.
If he controlled no agency or
force enough powerful to pre-
serve the peace and to protect the
lives and property of the citizens
of Nevada, it was his fbounden
duty to call on the Federal gov
ernment for such force.
When a call is lawfully made
on the President by any COVER
nor of a state for a military force
to preserve the peace and support
the state in enforcing the laws
necessary for the protection of
it's citizens engaged in lawful pur-
suits it is the duty of the Presi-
pent to furnish such a force.
1t is therefore a fair PROPOSE
tion that the federal troops are at
Goldfield for lawful purpose in
response to the action of compe-
tent executive authority lawfully
exercised. 1t cannot be other
wise. No President has ever
sent troops into any state in dis
regard of the laws nor for unlaw-
full purposes.
But, it is alleged, there exists
no good reason why the presence
of the troops is necessary. There
as no lawlessness existing and
none contemplated in Goldfeld.
This is asserted by the Miners
union and by sympathizers with
the union, and it may be the
truth. If such is the case the
troops will molest no one; but it.
is difficult to reconcile this asser-
tion with the anathemas evoked
by their presence. The unfortu-
nate fact is organized labor is so
far discredited that its assurance
of abstinence from unlawful acts
and purposes is entitled to small
respect.
This should not be true of or
ganized any more than unorgan-
lied labor. Both bodies are COM
posed, for the greater part, of
honest intelligent and patriotic
citizens who have a stake in the
welfare of the country and have
given hostages to posterity."
In some unaccountable manner
a different sort of men, in the
main, have come into leadership
of the unions, and, as always the
case, the honest man shares the
suspicion and opprobrium which
should justly fall upon a few self
seeking, mischievous charlatans. |
1t cannot be that intelligent labor
will long continue to follow such |
unworthy leadership. 1t will
conduct its appeals on lines of |
reason, right and justice. When
it does this it will receive the
powerful support of public senti-
ment now forced to inactivity
because of vicious labor leader
ship.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-12-17
Notice.

The giving of Premium Dishes will be
discontinued on Saturday, Monday and
and Tuesday, December 2lst, 23rd and
Gath, owing to the extra holiday rush.
1885 J. M. NOLAN & Son.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-12-17

ernmental lmperfection by ballot
or by free press, or by free speech
are legitimate and authorized
means for said correction. Incen-
diary press or incendiary speech
are not legitimate means to cor
rect real or imaginary wrongs in
our legislative, judicial or execu-
tive forms of governmental poll
cies. Obey the Jaw, or repeal it
the authorized or provisional way.
An undesirable citizen" is one
who is continually and persist
emily seeking to evade the plain
letter of the statutes or connives
at it's evasion. One who breaks
the law outright to subserve his
political interests, or for fnan-
cial gain, or for the qualification
Of his appetite is not dependable
as a citizen and his sympathizers
are even worse.
In the second place, to be de-
sirable citizen one must be intel
ligent. He should know consid-
cradle of the laws of the land
which govern him. Heshould be
fairly well acquainted with the
literature and history Of this
country. He should be a reader
of the transpiring events of the
day, in all the departments of
commerce, politics mot partisanl
and all the vital questions which
go to make a splendid civilization.
His moral character should be
above reproach. There is no high
order of citizenship unless its base
is on unquestioned morality. The
men of renown in this country or
in any other country, were, and
are, men of the type suggested
in the foregoing.
Any and all of these qualifica-
tions are attainable to every man
and woman in this Republic. All
the entrance ways which lead to
this higher order of good citizen
ship are wide open in our schools
and religious institutions, and bid
all a hearty welcome.
1t is clearly noticeable that the
drift at this time throughout the
entire country is the betterment
of conditions. The concensus of
public opinion is that "undesira-
hle citizens" are not wanted in
the business affairs of every day
life. A man with all the favora-
BILE opportunities that surround
DIM here in this country for good,
and then when he does bad,
Should not complain when he
feels the hand of the law pressing
hard upon him. A man can be
suppressed in vicious deeds by
the law for the protection of the
general public, but a man cannot
be made a good citizen per force
of law. Hence our foregoing
propositions, if it is not mate or
acquired in a man to do the right
thing voluntarily that man is not
a good citizen, and the sooner he
reforms or departs the country,
the better for the community.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-12-17
Music Loving People:

Can purchase these reliable goods in
their home town. If there is anything
y ou do not understand you will find the
sellers near your home.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-12-17


foolhardy pounding out of conf
dence by a force outside of all
economic conditions force ap-
piled without knowledge of the
delicate structure oe credit, and
needless of the effects on busi-
ness. It's fortunate that the law
of trade ignores, except Temporal
riIy, such outside influences and
begins atonce to mend the super
ficial breaks, as in the case of
some seismatic disaster.
The evidences of mending this
week are the dwindIing of the
currency premium, the reassuring
recovery in the Bank of England
Statement, and the reflection of
coming restoration of prosperity
in the upward tendency of prices
for our splendid industrial and
railroad enterprises as repre-
sented on the stock exchange.
This is not to say that these pri
ces are not aided in their upward
progress by the covering of short
commitments, or are not buoyed
up temporarily by a far look
ahead into the country's future.
But these are always incidents of
barometric representations of
Wall Street. They do not mean
that we shall have perpetual sun
shine showers and dark days
must alternate with bright wealth
er-but the bright weather is in
the way.
The voluminous message this
week from Washington is only
important because 1t evidences an
effort to appreciate conditions,
accompanied, it is true, by much
reiteration of former unwise ut
terances with attempts at de-
fense and appeals for legislation.
There is considerable evidence
that the latter will fall fiat with
Congress, and thinking people
having already made up their
minds have not taken the large
amount of time necessary to read
them.
The Presidents recommenda
ton in regard to currency legis-
ton, really the only important
subject considered, are in the
right vein as far as they urge ac-
ton, but Mr.. Roosevelt's unfa-
with the principles in
volved have led him to the usual
error of asking for bond security
which is uusound, and high emer.
gency taxation, which is unnec-
essary and hampers legitimate
elasticity. Fortunately, the sub
ject will receive in Congress the
most thorough deliberation and
ventilation, and we may expect
that if anything is done at all it
will be done on right lines.
The Secretary of the Treasury !
in his message issued Thursday, |
also takes up the currency ques-
ton, but wisely refraius from any
as to methods to
be adopted.
The currency question is en-
9asiug the attention of our best
people and last week at the Amer
can Academy of Political and So
,ial Science many of the bankers
speaking favored Central Bank.
This solution of the question is
undoubtedly the best for this
and advocacy of it should
De persisted in, even if it takes
,ue or two more panics to bring
t about. - (
1t will be seen from the above
hat it is usual for the New York
nan to object to President Roose-,
'elt's public utterances which is
1t is also the pre-
railing opinion with them to favof
| Central Bank of Issue. To es-
ablish a Central Bank of Issue is
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-12-17

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New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-01-02
How St. Abe
Helped
By INA WRIGHT HANSON
Copyright, 1906, by Mcclure News
Copyright, 1906, by Mcclure News
paper Syndicate

There are whims and whims. Ny
particular one might be discovered in
Mrs. Jerome's house party invitation.
which read, Yourself and ST Abe"
My motor car never for a moment
had replaced my racer, st. Abe. in my
affections. loved him for his swift
ness, his beauty, his gentleness. More
than / loved woman did regard my
horse, but that was before had met
Elsie Hyler at my hostess country
home
l had always believed that I should
recognize my mate as soon as I saw
her or at least when / heard her speak
Miss Hyler's pure Madonna-like face
held my eyes, her voice set my heart
strings atune, and in the evening, when
I waltzed with her, knew her for my
very own. / almost told her so. Aft
erward / was glad had not
1t was month long house party, so
/ should have plenty of time to WOO
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-01-02
The Gentleman1y Leopard.

The cheetah has reputation as one
OF the most gentlemanly of beasts. A
story from Ootacamund shows what
line manners the animal has. Three
Calcutta visitors to the hill station
We're out on tramp when they were
overtaken by a thunderstorm, accom-
panied by sheets of rain. They spied
cave in the side of the hill, and into 1t
they rushed. When the rain stopped
they came out and, to their surprise.
found cheetah sitting licking the
heavy wet off his waistcoat and his
paws. 1t was his cave, but rather than
deprive his visitors of their shelter the
polite creature had sat outside in the
driving tempest. With a friendly new
and gracefully wagging his tail, the
cheetah babe adieu to his guests and
walked with dignity into his house.
Asian Magazine.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-01-02
Duluth interests opposed to the wide

Duluth interests opposed to the wide
open tax amendment are confident OF
beating it by a recount, which they are
preparing to start. Their confidence
is likely to be rudely shaken. They
will no doubt succeed in reducing the
majority Of the tax amendment, and
pull the good roads amendment
through, but it is too much to expect
that there will be a complete transpo-
sition of the votes cast for the two
amendments. The tax amendment car
ried by nearly $4,000, while the road
amendment lost by only a little over
300. If every vote counted for the
tax amendment.was really cast for the
road amendment, and vice versa, then
the contest would be successful. There
were precincts, however, where the
change in the order was noted and the
returns made advisedly. 1t is safe to
assume that there were a good many
such. So the vote will not be reversed
entirely.
The contest is a new thing. 1t will
be the first ever brought to recount the
vote of Minnesota as whole. 1t will
establish precedent then, to large
extent The Duluth movers in the
matter already say they will ask the
legislature to refund the expenses Of
the recount to the contestants. That
is precedent that the legislature GER
tainly ought not to make. The oppo-
sition to the amendment comes from
special interests that are afraid OF re-
form legislation permitted by the
amendment. The plain people of St.
Louis county do not need to fear that
by a tonnage tax they will lose any
thing in local taxes from the steel
trust. The contest, if the case is
rightly understood, must be inspired
by the steel trust interests alone. 1t
is absurd to ask the state at large to
pay for the fight made by a speci al
interest to defeat the will of the people,
to beat a measure that received three
votes in its favor to one against it.
The legislature should promptly sit
down on such an impudent PROPOSE
on.-Minneapolis Journal.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-01-02
WAGER or BATTLE.
me First Duels Are Said to Haw
Been Fought In Italy.

49, DAASe O0SAS Are said to HAYy
Been Fought In Italy.
The first duels were fought in Itaiy.
according to Millingen. who speaks of
manuscript discovered at Cassel and
describes duel between a father and
son in the reign of the Emperor The
odoric. When Charlemagne forbade
wager of battle among the Lombards
ne encountered the fiercest opposition
from the mobiles. Early in the ninth
century De Medicis, a knight, defeated
in single combat the bandit Mupel
who devastated the Florentine district
now called after him, Mugello. Ohio
Ii. granted the prayer of the nobility
for the establishment of wager of
battle in 9SS. Women and priests
were not compelled to accept it. The
Normans showed less gallantry. With
them a woman had to accept, nor could
she name champion. Her male op-
ponent, however, was buried to his
waist in the, earth. Armed with a
club, he tried to strike her as she cir
cled around him. his weapon being a.
ball of iron at the end of cord II hes
Idli6u 10 IOucn ueI HI the Lllrd at
tempt he was vanquished, which
meant to him death with dishonor.
Beccarin says that the reason so
many duels We're fought in Italy in
the early days is that where the law
does not afford protection one must
look to single combat to retain the re-,
spect Of ones fellow men. In the mid
die ages the ferocity OF Italian lduels
passes belief. ANY way of putting an
enemy to death cogni MOODY is good
enough says one Of their writer's.
when an Italian spares his vanuuish-
ed adversary" says Brantome, she
mains his arms and legs and gives
him as memento of his kindness and
generosity hideous cash across the
face" Lampagnano practiced on q
painted model Of Galeazzo Sforza be-
fore he stabbed him. Dueling was
called ''la schema cavalleresca Corn
hill Magazine.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-01-02
DRINK MORE, EAT LESS.
Advice For Those With Rheumatism,
Gout, Eczema and Neuralgia.

Advice For Those With Rheumatism,
Gout, Eczema and Neuralgia.
If people would take less nutrition
and drink more water, there would be
less rheumatism, govt, eczema and
neuralgia in the world The most fire.
quent cause of these arrangements is
an excess Of nutritiye materials. The
blood is surcharged with salts that
are not needed in the system
The doctors are trying to remedy
these diseases by giving something to
eliminate the salts. such as purgatives,
diuretics and solvents of various
kinds. The rational way, however, to
cure such affections is to stop the
cause. Drink more water; eat less
meat and concentrated foods. This
shuts off the supply of urates in the
blood
Those who take active exercise in
the open air every day require great
er amount of nutrition. Not only do
they use up the nutritive materials in
muscular exercise, but the amount of
oxygen inhaled because Of their activ-
tiles thoroughly oxidizes the urates ane
changes them in urea. If the blood is
loaded with urates they are very like
~ to crystalline, especially in those
portions of the body where the circula-
ton is the least and the temperature
is the lowest, such as the elbows, an
kles, the toes and fingers.
Drink more water; eat less food.
This is prescription that is worth
more to such people than all the drugs
In the world, Shut off the source of
urate poisoning and the effects Of
urate poisoning will disappear.-Ex-
change
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-01-02
Function of the House Of Lord.

FUNCTION Oh the House OF Lords.
The antiquated constitution Of the
house Of lords and its comparative
neglect of it's duties irritate modern
reformers both theoretical and practi-
cal and have led them often to call for
its overthrow But at the bottom of
this charge of obsoleteness and ineffi-
cheney is the fear that the peers may
take it into their heads to be energetic
and industrious, constant in attend
ance and active in operation. If they
were Soft the lords chose to be as
vigorous as they were in 1859 or 1882
or even in 1907 and 1S32-the deme-
cratic element in the United Kingdom
would have had hard work to complete
the change which it has carried so far
and longs to carry farther. What the
=lords can do now was shown by Glad
stones home rule bill. Els immense
personal Influence and the fear OF an
Irish revolt, added to no small amount
of serious conviction. forced the bill
lhrough the commons. The lords met
IN numbers scarcely known for life
Time. The case was put on both sides
with great force and with that serious.
lofty, high bred eloquence that has new
er become extinct in the upper house
during many centuries. The bill was
rejected by an immense majority, and
the friends of the measure had the sat
1sfaction of knowing that the verdict
OF England was against them and with
the peers, and not few voices raised
the cry which is heard at steadily re-
| curing intervals, THANK God we have
house OF lordss- William Everett in
i Atlantic.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-01-02
Of all the silly fads OF the Smart

OF all the silly fads OF the Smart
Set the supremely silly one is the
Teddy bear" fad.
The Teddy bearn is a bundle OF fur
skins shaped like a young bear and
filled with excelsior or saWdust. And
women cnddle these bundles on the
=streetsor fondle them at theaters.
Thelthing is more childish than the
lap dog habit. The pug is at least a
fellow creature and gives some return
for affection bestowed.
If the woman, who presses the bundle
of saWdust to her bosom and bestows
endearing terms, were in her second
childhood she might be pardoned for
playing with wild babyhood dolls.
Otherwise not.
It makes a healthy-hearted man or
woman sick at the stomach to watch
one of these grown women petting a
thing of sawdust and hair like some
South Sea islander.
Empty arms OF women were made
for flesh and blood babies. "Meat
babies" fit such arms and fill them.
There are plenty of real babies who
need the cuddling and protecting
arms. If woman may have no babe
of her own she readily can find one
who needs her mothering.
No woman is born into the world
whose motherhood is not born with
her. And blessed is she whose hands
though rough with toil-may minis
ter to the babe at her breast. She
has filed the purpose of her making.
But the woman who rejects her
mission, who regards a child as an
'.incumbrance, and who tries to fill
her arms and her heart with a rag
and hank of hair is doomed and
justly doomed to bitterness Of mind
and soul.
The 'sTeddy bearo fad is more than
silly.
1t is a pathetic spectacle of per-
verified motherhood. Paul News.