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About The daily gazette-times. (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1909-1921 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 29, 1909)
THE DAILY GAZETTE-TIMES Published every evening except day. Office: 232 Second street, Vtulis, Oregon. PHONE, 4184 . Sun-Cor- S Entered is second-class matter July 2. 190 'at tha postoffice'at Corvallis, Oregon, under act of taroa S, 1879. ' SUBSCRIPTION RATES DAILY Delivered by earner, per week f .15 Delivered by carrier, per month...- .50 By mail, one year, in advance 5.00 By mail, six months, in advance...- 2.50 By mail, one month, in advance...- . .50 THE WEEKLY GEETTE-TIMES Published Every Friday stantially since the saloons were abolished than it ever did be- ore. It is not claimed that the removal of the saloon has caused this growth, but it is denied that the saloon ever added any thing but distress to this or any other community. ' The saloon builds up its owners and robs men, homes and cities, of every thing that is werth while it adds nothing. The argument of the hotel men is the rankest sophistry, a fallacy in which there is no truth, . an argument that will convince no one that is not anx ious to be convinced. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Ob year, in advance...., $2.00 Bix moths, in advance- 1.00 Entered as second-class matter Augusts, 1909, kt the postoffice at Corvallia, Oregon, tinder act of March t, 1879. In ordering changes of address, sub scribers should always give old as well as w address. N. R. MOORE . . CHAS. L SPRINGER, . . . Editor Business Mgr. . Salem enrolled 1700 school children the first day. and claims 17,000 population. Corvallis en rolled practically 700 the first day, and at Salem's ratio may reasonably claim 7000 population but in truth Corvallis has less than 6,000 population. It is easy to make claims based on fljrures for this, that or the other. HOTEL MEN AND LIQUOR According to the Portland press, the hotel men of Oregon, as represented by the State As sociation, predict that if Oregon is made dry in 1910, the travel from the East will stop, tourists will avoid Oregon and home- Seekers will seek elsewhere to establish themselves. All ... of which is the veriest buncombe,- & lot of rot so palnaply rotten that it scarcely needs , refuta tion. It is folly to declare that any traveller from the East visits, or would fail to visit. Portland or Oregon because he can or can not secure liquor. The traveller travels for some other purpose than getting a drink in Portland, and the wetness or dryness of Oregon will neither invite him nor interfere with his plans. Of the tourist, it may be said that no one sufficiently sane to travel alone will make up his itineary from a liquor dealer's map showing location of sa loons. ' :, ; As for homeseekers, it is im possible that many would more readily seek a town having sa loons than one without. The saloons add nothing to the home , and Oregon can well spare tha Sort of homeseeker who , labors Under the delusion that the saloon is a help to any state or. commu nity.; -f v-; V;: ; ' - Many recent newcomers to Benton county have said to the writer of this that the absence of saloons in the city and county had much to do with their deci sion to locate here. , s - . And solid businessmen here who once held the view enter tained by the hotel'men are con vinced that they were sadly mis taken. The convincing argu ment has come to them in the shape of bills paid by drinkers, and cash paid by drinkers' wives and the purchase of larger bills of clothing and household ; goods Dy the drinkers who once spent their all in the infernal hell-holes that once made this city a hiss ing and by-word. And to clinch, the argument, tnese business men, convinced that 'the removal of the saloon would kill this city,5 have seen it grow, more Irapidly and sub AU T HAN'S MISSION THE NEW STUDENT With the arrival of the O. A. C. student body,manyfine,manly, young fellows are to be seen on Corvallis streets. Their faces show clean, well-ordered lives, and no sign of dissipation is there. The eye is bright and keen, lips are not discolored with nicotine nor distorted in shape by the use of a heavy pipe at the corner of the mouth, the skin is fair and not blotched; neither have they yet fallen victims to the extremes of fash ion, the vicious slang, and more vile utterances indulged in by some who have been here longer. It would be a great thing if these magnificent young fellows could find it within themselves to so order their lives during the coming school year that they will take back to their, parents the same open countenances unscarred by the viciousness that is ever at hand for the young fellow weak enough to indulge. No one would deny these young men all the legitimate pleasures in existence, but every man who has hit the trail wishes that they might be granted the wisdom to find a happy medium and follow that through to the end. . Late hours never added ought but regret to any man's life. iNo one would have the boys go to bed "with the chickens," but it may be said that no boy making it a point to be at home and in bed at 10;30 ever lived to regret it. No young lady , who makes it a point to be always in bed at 10:30, will ever have to marry in order to save her good name. Nor will her health be damaged by her rectitude in this respect. Smoking can add nothing to a life that knows ' hot the joy smoking is said to bring to some, so why have knowledge of that, which is also declared to be detri mental in many instances? It is an expensive and filthy , habit, offensive to most people and does not add to any young man's popularity. A pipe or cigarette is not a certificate of intelligence or respectability, though it is not necessarily the opposite. A love , for the extreme of fashion is not a crime, but it does proclaim a mind too- little occupied with "something better, and it indicates a tendency to extreme in thought and disposi tion. This is never a recommen dation. The young man in mod est apparel, hat set on his head properly, with a bright eye, clear completion, lips and fingers not discolored with nicotine, has his start in life half won. The Gazette-Times would not make a girl of theboy.nor wouldiit fashion him after a Sunday School if he chooses . otherwise, but it would have the new boy not led astray by foolish older student who would by word and deed cause him to indulge in habits that can bring him little tempo rarly pleasure andjeonsider- able regret later. M. 8. BOVEE. IUNERAL DIRECT or ' and Licensed ' Fmbalmer. ' Suc cessor, lo Bovce & Baner Corvallis, Oregon. Iod. Phone 45. . Bell Phone 241, Lady attendant when desired. . By M. QUAD.. Copyrighted, 1909, by Associated Literary . --" Press.! , i . Being she had never married, and be ing she had reached the age of forty five, most of the people Of the village of Mlllville spoke of Miss Spooner as Aunt Kan, and she raised no objec tion. She had an Income, and she lived alone." It was said of her that she was a disappointed woman. : She was, but not in the sense that she had loved and .lost. So , far as any one knew she had never loved at all. . though several widowers had cleaned their muddy feet on her doormat and tried to Interest her, in affairs matri monial. Just what was the matter with Miss Spooner was that she was woman with a' mission, and did not know exactly what that mission was. Up to the age of thirty she had thought it was to convert the heathen of China and Africa, but the returns were so uncertain that she bad finally decided that she was on the wrong track. Then it dawned on her to take up the temperance question, but here she was handicapped. Old Sol Pritch ard was the only one In the village that got drunk, and his wife said that she wonld rather have him eome home drunk than sober, as he broke fewer dishes. ' There is. nothing more ' discouraging than feeling that you have a mission and having that mission dodging you and keeping you in suspense. The only thing that can be done, however. is to wait. Miss Spooner waited, and at length her mission hove into view, It was in the form of a tramp. It called at her house for something to eat. She sat it down at the table and bade it fill up. While it was doing so she ran into a neighbor's to see If that neighbor couldn't spare an old coat. and when she returned the tramp had departed: also her watch and chain and other things. ,. Miss Spooner was justly indignant. She gave the alarm, the fellow was overhauled, and before night be was In jail at the county seat, six miles away, on a three months' sentence. The justice of the peace, the constable and others applauded her action, and for. two or three days she felt that she had done her duty. Then the still small voice began to whisper to her. She had tempted the wayfarer. He had probably been driven to trampism by misfortune. . He might have been an honest man up to this time. ' In fact, she made a dozen other excuses for him. and all at once it dawned on her that here was her- long .sought mission. There would be more joy over saving one tramp than in sending a million tracts to the heathen. She re called that the man looked lonely and downcast, as if he realized that the world was against him. add she wasn't quite sure that he didn't have tears' In his eyes as he sat down to the" spread. " . . ' - r ' '. . '; ' You probably know how conscience works when It gets out of leading strings, and it is useless to relate that within a week Aunt Nan was asking admission to the county jail. She had a friend in town and had driven over to tell her all about it and to stop for a few days. She began with the tramp by begging his pardon. , He would have been no tramp at all if he hadnt taken his cue from this. He pleaded sudden impulse and stoutly asserted that he had turned abont to restore the property when arrested. It was the only theft he had ever committed. He had been poor, but honest. : . ' There was a second'rislt and a third. The tramp grew more mellow at every visit. He was ready to and did prom ise everything asked of him. including truth, sobriety, industry, economy, am bition and excelsior. Then Aunt Nan went home and enlisted the aid of her minister in the mission. They worked for a pardon, but failed to get it No one else seemed to have a spark of sympathy for a downtrodden man who wanted to climb up. ' Then came a aJmental struggle in which the minister did not participate. It was all Miss Spooner's - secret. She wanted that tramp out of jail that he ight lose no time beginning a new life. , When Miss Spooner Visited the Jail again she carried a couple .of files with her, and they were left there. She had convinced herself that her mission was greater than the law. It took the tramp . two nights to file through the bars, but on the third night, as the spinster sat alone In her house with swelling heart, he entered by the back door. ,. She was expecting him. She was to give him' $10 to go far away and make a new start He was to keep her in his thoughts as he climbed up and write her once a fortnight . The money was ready for him, as well as a package of pro visions. , She was giving him sisterly advice as to his future conduct when all of a sudden she was thrown to the floor. Before she could scream a sec ond time there was . a gag . In her mouth.-and then her hands and feet were tied, and she was helpless. Then the tramp hummed a cheerful tune as he began a search of the bouse. He got her Jewelry again; he got $90 from a bureau drawer; he got her Sunday dress and her silver spoons and forks. - She' bad some currant wine down cellar, and he drank three bottles and sat down beside her and delivered a brief lecture on missions and ended ' by ' calling her an idiot Then he walked out" and went over and stole the minister's horse and buggy and drove away, Three days 1 ater Aunt Nan" called "on",' the good man to ask: . -. "Parson, do you really believe I had a.' mission?" ; ' .;. ' ':' "V . ' ""If you did you made a fool of it!" was his blunt reply as he thought of his lost horse and buggy. .Prepare to K eep Dry BY BUYING YOUR Wet Weather Goods AT HARRIS' When you see the rainy season coming on then make your preparations for keeping dry. You can't do better or be wiser than to visit our store, which is now crowded with a complete assortment in all preven tatives against getting wet. 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