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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.
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WHY YOU
SHOULD VOTE FOR
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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,