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TI!F. GAZKTTF.-TIMES. HEPPXER, ORE.. TUl RSDAY, OCT. 15. KM 1 V t ? t STATEWIDE PROHIBITION MEANS THEY'RE TOO BIG NOW Vote 333 X NO Against Prohibition Register before Thursday, October 15 Voting qualifications: Six months' residence in the state, 30 days in precinct Defeat of the proposed prohibition amendment will have no effect upon the efficient home rule or local option statutes now in force, and each community will continue to determine its individual stand on the matter of granting licenses. Paid Advertisement, Taxpayera and Wage Earnera' League of Oregon, Portland, Oregoo. Cleaning and Pressing of Quality t Y t ? ? f Y f T f ? t t Y Y Y t T v i Ma apm nunw wniimimwi nwrinrtn-nTw nTnaaassMauiamBamimmmmamammmmmaimmmm CLOTHES BROUGHT HERE WILL BE MADE TO LOOK LIKE NEW. 1 DO ONLY CLEANING AND PRESSING. I 2 nm rdj nniT ULU L'Lil UUL. X 'v I no Prize He Won and Wnat He Thought He Would Lose. Your Patronage Respectfully Solicited Mrs. Wilhelmina Friedrich, Main St AA-AaV AA-AA AA JA Afc Aak Aa Aifc AA AA AA Afc j-tk AA AA Afc AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA Ak AA AA Afc AA A-- AA i' i WHY YOU SHOULD VOTE FOR .Mm Republican Candidate FOR United States SENATOR Are you better off now than you wore under a Republican administration? Are you satisfied? If you believe in tbo principles of the Republican Party, if you are convinced that these prin ciples are best for the country, then prove it by voting for your standard bearer, Robert A. Booth, Republican candidate for the United States Senate. You know that under Republican presidents the people of the United States have good times. You know that under Democratic presidents you have Democratic times. Remember the prosperity under McKinley, Roosevelt and Taft. Remember the conditions under Cleveland and Wilson. The issue in this campaign is not one of personality. It is not one of non-partisanship. It is a, question of whether you prefer prosperity under Republican administration. Do you have enough work? Are your wages good? Is your business what you want it to be? If you are satisfied with present conditions, well and good; if you believe that the present situa tion is better than under McKinley, Roosevelt and Taft, you know what to do. The way to bring back prosperity is to help elect a Republican Senate. The Republican candi date in Oregon is K. A. BOOTH. Tills is a Republican year. Vote the ticket straight. (Paid advertisement, Republican State Central Committee, Imperial Hotel, Portland, Or.) I By MYRA NORTHCLIFF. His name wasn't "Old Ben Bolt," but everybody called Uiui that, and stran gers accepted it on the spot as singu larly appropriate, for ' Captain Jim Staybolt's honest, kind bine eyes, his brown face and closely curling hair and bis masterful yet good natured mouth made him indeed seem the em bodiment of the famous "Ben Bolt of the salt sea gale." He wasn't old at all, though he thought himself aged and beyond all the dreams of youth because he had Just turned thirty-live. l'.,it then he had always had an abnormal modesty ! about his own masculine cli.irms. His head, albeit of pepp r and salt, was filled with practical good sense that had brought him up i.'oni fisher man to superintendent and part owner of the Graiitsou company's big fleet of smacks. He had bis office in the cubby of n water stitled shanty ut the end of the pier, and Its window looked directly across at a certain young woman named Kate, dealing out candy, or anges and cheap cigars to the rolling crews of the boats. There was a standing Joke among the boys how the smoking habit took hold of everybody alter he saw Kate. It never pit t' her cars. though, for notwithstanding tin- randy m.d rigars. there was a hie (,.tie line uf letireihe about tin- cii-i : ,m v ;:, ii ir one ever stepped, not : i i.ii.K i.e; nor. t... vainest me! . ; ... ... -i.t fellow that ever ru . . . .i .. uV.k. But her pretty Uii:,i,-s and shining eyes gave the clew to her preference, and Ray uor, who frequently consumed his en tire wait buying a cigar, could not have ben said to discourage the Im pression, t It is true the boys Joked, but the ma jority of them swore as well, for the handsome ICaynor bore no immaculate reputation among them. "Cuss it!" said Dick Pearsall, mate of the Osprey schooner, savagely one night "Why is it a woman can never see an inch from ber nose when she's daffy on a man?" "Marryin takes that out of 'em, though," laughed old Captain Brown, who wag on honorable drydock after fifty years of cod and halibut "Marryin1!" sneered the mate of the dandy, well built smack Luclnda V. "Marryin'I Rayuor looks like a mar ryin' man. don't he? 1 ain't no masher myself, but I tell you that smarty is Just tryin' to show off before us fel lows. Marry her! Even if he wanted to he ain't (it td wipe her old shoes on!" Nobody dissented. There were tongues in the fishing port that did not hesitate to declare that Raynor's skill as a fisherman was far inferior to the art with which he could wreck coast ers for a living when the owners got tired of paying insurance and decided that it was time to collect some in stead. "All the same, he told me it was fixed up between 'em," insisted Cap tain Brown. "That's telliu', 1 s'pose, but he didn't say as there was any thing private about it" Unnoticed by the men, Captain Jim Stnybolt had come up In time to catch the last words. He stopped a moment in the shadow of a column. When he moved on his face looked gray and drawn in the uncertain light. "Get ready to take the Osprey and the Luclnda out next tide," ho said evenly. "We'll have 'em unloaded in three hours more and ready for sea again." He went back, nnd the group broke up. Pearsall as he turned caught a glimpse of his superior's faco and won dered vaguely if "the boss" were ill. With a fine sense of honor, Captain Jim himself had refrained from a look or word that might compromise Kate, but the memory of a chance touch of ber lingers once when she passed back his change stiil sent n thrill over him. Since that day she had grown under his eyes to be the one desirable thing of his life. He knew enough of Raynor to de spise the man, Time nnd again he had all but prayed ho might get actual cause for interference. Now the shat tering of the dream seemed less bis blunder than a crime. A week afterward Kate's old father was struck by a falling block and laid on his bed, helpless for life. Her mother fell ill of typhoid. The super intendent saw the bloom fade from the girl's cheeks, to return only when Ray nor appeared, and that in' a nervous flush. He grew hot and cold alternate ly nt the olr of careless proprietorship the latter had lately assumed. Then suddenly the man nnuouueed that he was going away. "Hank has got a ship," Captain Jim heard Kate confide to another girl. "It's a schooner running out of South Amboy for Norfolk, and the owners have promised him a raise in a few months, and then, if father and mother are nble to be moved" Captain Jim lost the rest, but a sharp thrust went through him, whether of anguish or relief h6 could not have told. A month inter came news of a shipwreck on the New Jersey coast The dispatches said openly that there irere suspicious circunistances about the wreck, but s the captain. Hank Buynor, was announced as among those drowned it was impossible ta du much investigating. On that very day Kate failed to ap pear at the pier. Day by day for a blank, wretched week Captain Jim fared the empty stand opposite his window. Then be went down to the waterside street and found there destitution, ut once pitiful and reassuring. It isn't your love I am asking for. dear," be said to her gently as at the end of a half hour he fomid himself holding her trembling lingers and smoothing her hair. "I couldn't expect that. But if you will give me what is left, the right to take care of you and jours. God knows it will be a precious trust." Captain Jim had no tine phrases, but months of effort had made him a mar vel of self control. He stood quite still, though every nerve was tense with longing to clasp the slim little figure to his breast In fact, he hardly dared breathe when at last Kate drop ped ber head against his arm for ac quiescence and broke into soft sob bing. A guess at what was in his heart, he told himself, would have frightened her out of his reach forever. The sii weeks that followed were n mixture of paradise and purgatory to him. It was hard, indeed, to play the decorous, fatherly lover when his whole soul cried out fer the touch of her lips on his and every swish of her dress against him set his pulses throbbing. But he did it, and well. His paradise proved a fool's, bow ever. Walking along the main street one evening, with Kate on his arm. Hank Raynor's unmistakable self pass ed the two almost at elbow touch. There was a livid scar along the ap parition's cheK Kate did not see him, but a pang like death went through "Old Ben Bolt" The sight of that handsome, devil-may-care face seemed to soma his doom. During the next four and tweuty Hours ('aptain Jim worked out his hit ler pro'.ileui. Cost what it might to his own self respect, he would tell Kate the truth n he knew it concerning Hank Raynor. He could do that It she had been his young sister, but in honor be must free ber from her prom ise to himself. He had thought of a way out of her financial difficulties, but it was not necessary she should know that yet or, Indeed, the cost to his own heart of these last few months.' "I have come to give you back what I asked that first night Kate, but I must tell you something it will be hard for you to bear," he said to her hoarsely as he stood in the little par lor, whose very plainness had grown dear to him. A flush ran into Kate's cheek, but it died there, leaving a white line around ber lips. "Old Ben Bolt" gripped the back of the chair in front of him. "I suppose you have seen Baynor?" he went on. Kate's color rushed back in a rosy flood. Her eyes drooped for an in stant; then, shy, but brave, they looked straight into Captain Jim's own. "Yes, I have seen him and his wife," she answered with a little laugh. "Ho brought her from Philadelphia. It It was a good thing I had found out be fore that that I didn't care most for him, after all, wasn't It, you dear 'Old Ben Bolt?' " The room reeled round Captain Jim. Out of its chaos Kate's face grew flushed and smiling still, but with sus piciously luminous eyes. Then did tills "Ben Bolt" give a great gasp as the truth burst upon him. He took two long strides with outstretched arms, nnd a second later Kate was quite lost in the big, warm embrace her dark hour had taught her was her heart's true haven. ASK THE .M'KIXM IM.I I'KOI'I.E. Soap From Whale .Oil. Whale oil. for years almost a drug on the market, has recently become far more valuable through the discov ery of a way to use it in making soap, which had hitherto been impossible owing to its evil smell. I PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT. I Neuritis. J Neuritis, which is inflnmma- tlon of a nerve, may be either J acute or chronic, and sometimes an acute attack passes into a ! chronic form. The chief syuip- torn of neuritis is pain -in the 2 affected nerve. Sometimes the patient describes the pain as a "burning," sometimes as "shoot- ing" or "darting" and sometimes as "boring." Movement makes it worse, and it is generally more severe at night Cases J that can be traced to some slight injury ure likely to get well, but J a chronic case may persist for many months. When neuritis J is the result of a direct injury to a nerve surgical treatment J may be necessary. If the nerve has been divided by a wound It must be brought together and sutured. If it Is pinched or eom a, pressed by a tumor or an abscess or a piece of fractured bone it can be relieved only by surgery. In all cases the treatment of neuritis must include great care J for the general health, absolute rest for the affected part and re J lief for the wearing pain. Some- times the sick ucrve cau be kept at rest by a bandage or a sling. If it cannot bo helped in that , way the patient may have to go to bed. Massage is not advisable while the inflammation is high, but is often of service lu the Er.g"ne Itegi.-tiT. The Registr-r liaa no d.-.-ire to take up the cudgel agaim-t the orcu.ers ,f Mr. Booth. None of them are sincore. Mr. Booth is an honest, capable and upright business man, as all Ulr, neigh bors know. His life is a book that those who care to may read. What ho ha3 done stands upon its own merits and compares most favorably with the records of those who are hurling mud at him. He has been a develop er; not a speculator a worker; not a drone. Mr. Booth is being assailed became he has presumed to become a candidate against the choice of the Democratic machine that has long ruled the state. There is no other reason. Merely as an example of the cam paign that is being waged against him the following sentiment, which appeared recently in the columns of a down-state newspaper, is present ed: "Mr. Booth is financing his cam paign with wealth taken from the forests of Oregon and diverted from the homes and workers of the state into the pockets and vaults of him self and associates." The people of Springfield are no doubt better qualified than others to give testimony in this case. It will be recalled that the sawmill built at that place by Mr. Booth and his asso ciates burned down some time ago. If the statement quoted above were true, we must assume that the people of Springfield regarded the fire as a great public benefaction, and gave thanks accordingly. If money were being diverted from the homes of their workers by this wicked institu tion, it would be only reasonable to suppose that they would have been willing to do battle rather than see the mill rebuilt. Strange to say, they did none of these things. They were frank ri their belief that the fire was a great calamity. They even insisted that the mill was a splendid thing for their community, because it put mon ey In the pockets of the workers by providing a payroll, and were fearful of the future because the fire stopped the payroll. They rejoiced when they heard the mill was to be re built.and when it was completed they held a celebration to which people from all over the state were invited. For they knew that money would again be put into the pockets of the workers as it had been before. By a certain element the payment of wages and the development of leg itlmte industry are regarded as a crime. With this ilk Mr. Booth and others like him are highly unpopular. HOW TO SECURE MORE INDUSTRIES. later stages of the trouble. .aMattttM tOtttffttti ft. The Corvallis Gazette-Times in an able article on how to secure more industries hits the nail on the head when it said: "The conditions must be changed if industries are to be se cured, not alone minimizing radical legislation and high taxes, but an affirmative scientific system of co-operation must be adopted to which the given community must bend its en ergies." Show the individual or corporation who has the money to spend in estab lishing an industry that they will be protected from radical legislation and high taxes, and they will be only too glad to start operations in any live community. What better pro gram could the people of Oregon work for. We all want industries in our midst that furnish the payrolls for our people, instead of agitators and freak laws that bankrupt the fac tories. Never have we had such an opportunity to invite capital into the state as we will have November 3rd by showing our disapproval of every measure on the ballot that puts a straw in the way of our future indus trial development. Market conditions for hops, wool and wheat continue favorable. The foreign shipment of wool, particular ly, is heavy, due to the European war, while the hop market is very firm despite the fact that 16 states will vote on prohibition and as a re sult the eastern brewers are hold ing off from buying. Domestic bus iness conditions are slowly adjust ing themselves to the recent distur bances due to the war, each week showing a less perceptible decrease in bank clearings, and the general tone of eastern business men seems to be that gradually America will come back to normal conditions, even though the war continues for some time. The greatest difficulty is to supply certain imported goods from Germany, especially dye stuffs. The Federated Church. Rev. Will N. Ferris will be absent from the Federated pulpit for two Sundays attending the Annual Con vention of Baptists of the State of Oregon, meeting at Grants Pass, Oct. 20-24. It is expected that Rev. Mr. Phlpps will occupy the pulpit on Sunday, Oct. 25th. Mr. Phlpps resides in Portland and fills the position of State S. S. worker and will be in our city In convention with Morrow County S. S. Convention on that date. Rev. N. 0. Williams and wife, of lone, spent Sunday and Monday at the home of Rev. T. S. Handsaker in this city. Mr. Williams has been the pastor of the Christian church at lone during the past year, and hav ing finished his labors there is look ; lug for a new field,
