To lie in the commission business is
Tin: OHE AT
considered an honorable calling, but it
has come to pass that there are a class
of commission men who are not only a
nuisance to their employer*. but thi*y
arc mi ulcer on the nose of honest deal
I
ing. quite offensive.
••It hapjans almost every week,” said
a well-known butcher, “that I am ap
proached by stewards either of private
families, hotels, or steamboats, who
1 QUICKEST!
give me to understand that for a quiet
•tip’ once in a while they will turn their
M^*M*******************°*******************)«»«„a
employer’s trade to my market.”
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITHE dining car line / hmîwww /
“What do you do?”
and Money
“If I think the trade is worth having
THE DIRECT ROUTE!
NO DEE AYS!
FASTEST TKAINy
I give the fee. Why not? Other» do
It. and the only way I can tight ’em io
T
a . P.I a « T o CHICAGO and all points E ast
at
with their own weapons. Why, only
LÛWÊS l XLZL w CS T lcket 8 801,1 to a 11 phorinent Ponk
the other day I had the meat cook in
MV VY
Throughout the East and Southean.
one of the largest and most fashion
TO BAST BOUND-PASSENGERS!
able boarding-houses in the city tell me F
that if 1 would give her five per cent
rr BE CAREFUL AND DO NOT MAKE A MISTAKE—BUT BE O
commission she u bring me the trade
------ TO TAKE THE------
of the house, which probably amounts
to
<» •
week
THE
“Anti you didn't take the bid?”
“No; because 1 have reason to know
that »he couldn’t till the contract.”
are
oil’
The reporter’s next visit was to one
And see that your ticket reads via Portland and
of the leading grocery »tores in the city,
and when the object of his visit was LIKE
HOT
made known the proprietor remarked:
“Yes, I hear of such things once in
To avoid changes and serious delays occasioned by other routes. Throuk
awhile.
In fact, I kicked a great
Emigrant Sleeping Cars are run on Regular Express Trains Full
mealy-mouthed man out of my store
Length of the Line. Berths Free.
one uay last winter who had informed
RATES!
Al---------QUICKEST T1M11
And
Time
LOWEST
me that unless 1 did the square thing
-------- o----- -—
GENERAL OFFICE OF THE COMPANY,
with him he would take his employer s
trade to another store. I asked him for Bargains is
No. 2
St., Portland, Oregon.
what he thought would be square, and
A. D. CHARI.TON, General Western Pavaenger Agent.
ha replied that I ought to furnish him
with what groceries and canned good»
would be used by his family.”
ailroad,
naciflc
OVERLAND TO CALIFORNIA
OnT0
“That was modest enough.”
( ALL TO-DAY,
popular
oute.
anges.
icturesque
VIA
“Yea, jhat whs cheap, but I didn’t
ver
like the cheek of the fellow. Those
The
Oregon
and
California R. R.
cases are rare, but I'll tell you a system For no man knoweth rast Time, Sure Coanection, New Equipment
And Connections.
not so rare. Cooks and stewards often
TIME, 2| DAYS.
225 Miles Shortest
make bargains with butchers and gro
cer» through the drivers of the delivery
Fare from Portland to San Franoisoo
20 Hours Less Time.
to Sacramento, |30.
carta and wagons.
That’» common,
Close connections made at Ashland wi
Aocommooations unsurpassed for oomfort
and I've even heard where the driver»
and safety.
Fares and Freights MUCH stager of the California, Oregon and Iddi
make quite a little commission in thia
LESS than by any other route between all stage oompany.
wav.”
in Willamette valley and San Franoisoo.
(DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAYS.)
Next a visit was made to a prosper
W.
REDMOND
Earn slide Division.
ous carriage lyiilder and repairer, who
BETWEEN POKTl.ODA ASHLAM
didn’t hesitate to say that coachmen
Rail Train.
and hostlers tapped him for tips. ••Only
LEAVE.
A KBIT!.
Portland....8:00 a . m . Ashland... .W ai
thia afternoon a hostler came in and
Ashland.... 8:45 p . m . Portland.. M6r.l
asked me for fifty cents. I know that
DAILY PAN9EHUER TWAINS,
Albany Express Train, !•
he wanted it to get a drink, but I gave
A KBTV B.
LEAVE.
it to hun without a question, because I
(Except Sundays.)
Portland....4:00 p. m . Lebanon....9:20 r l
know ho has the placing of the horse
Cleansing
Lebanon.... 4:45 a . m . Portland... 1004 11
Leave Corvallis at 2 p. m. Leave Ya
shoeing of a man who owns three
Pullman Palace Sleeping Can
horses ' ’
quina at 7:10 a. m.
daily between Portland and Ashland.
“How about coachmenP”
Oregon and California, West side, trains
The O. <t 0. R. R. Ferry makes conneetioi
“Well, a little over a year ago I sold
oonnect at CorvalliB.
with all the regular trains on the east aids
a carriage to a gentleman and got >425 11. C. NIANEE, Vlanufarturer and
division from foot of F street.
The Oregon Development Company's
fur it. True, 1 made the sale somewhat
Male Proprietor.
West Side Division.
through the influence of the coachman,
FINE Al
BET. PORTLAND AND CORVALUl
McMinnville
...
Oregon.
and 1 would have been willing to pay
Mail Train.
This preparation is unequalled for oleans-
him a alight commission.”
ABBIVI.
LEAVE.
Yaqtdna
Qity
mg garments of all soiled spots. Paint, Tar,
Portland... 7:80 a . m . MoM’nville. 10:12 a . I
“What did he demand?"
etc . eradicated instantly Give it a
MoM’nville 10:13 a . m . Corvallis.. . 12--25P.»
SAILS
“He called around and said he want- Grease,
trial. J-vf It may l«e had of your druggist,
Corvallis.
.. 1:30 p. m . MoM’nville. 3.-43 ». I
From Yaqnina,
ad 825 1 ottered him 810, and he ap looal agent, or by addressing the nudersign-
From San Francisco,
MoM
’
nville
3:44 p. m . Portland... 6:15 Lt
Sunday .... .Oct. 101 Monday
.
------- ' ....
Got. 4
peared insulted.
Then I got mad, «•d. Agents Wanted.
IL C. MANEE,
44
44
Friday ....
At
Corvallis
oonnect with trains of th»
22
Saturday.
••••••
16
words followed, and the meeting ended
McMinnville, Oregon Wednesday Nov.
Oregon Pacifio for
3 Thursday
28
by my saving I would smash his nose.”
44
Monday...,
15 Wednesdi lay... Noy. 10
V\iyuiaa Bay.
44
••Served him right.”
44
Saturday...
27 Monday ..
22
ST
CHARLES
HOTEL,
Express Train.
"But that didn’t end it.
Alxiut a
LEAVE.
I
ABBTVE.
The Company reserves the right to change
month later the man who bought the
sailing days. Fares, between Corvallis and Portland....4:50 p. m . MoM’nville..a*
r
MULTNER.
Prop..
carriage came around and hinted that
San Francisco. Rail and Cabin, *14: Rail MoM’nville .5:45 a . m . Portland ...9X>'Ai.
1 had cheated him, that the wheels
Local tickets for sale and baggage cheekal
and Steerage, |».88.
Corner
Third
and
B
streets.
wouldn't ‘track.’ and that it pulled a
For information apply to
at the company’s up-town office, oorner «
Ereat deal harder than when he first »•< ’IINNV1I.I.E
• < HAS. C. HOGUE,
Pine and Seoond streets. Tickets for pn®"
.
.
OREGON
HOGUE.
Aoting Gen. F. and Pass. Agent.
oipal points in California oan only be p-
ought it. i a*ked him to bring the
New house! New furniture! Unsurpassed
Corvallis, Oregon cured at company’s offioe. Corner r “
buggy around to the shop, and when he in the country, Rates—«1 to $2 per day ao
Front streets Portland, Or.
.
did so I took the wheels ofl ami found cording to room. Mingle meals 25 oents.
Frieght will not be received for ship®
that the axletroe had liven wrenched, Lodging. 25 t > .50 cents according to room.
after five o'clock p. m. on either the east
and by main force, so that tie wheel Hoard and Lodging. |4 to $6. per week. Two
E. P ROGERS.
west .......................
side divisions.
rine Sample Rooms for commercial men.
G. F.A P. Mt*»1
did not sei squarely on it. In i; s way , Give
R.
KOEHLER.
me a call and see for yourself.
friction had ground the axletree just
Manager.
where the box hits the shoulder.”
Thr Hl YKHM' Gl'IDK to
“How do you know that it was done
tuned Kept, »nd March,
HENDERSON
SAMUEL COÏT
•>
by mam force?”
each year. Sd 314 pa«e«,
Inrhn,with over
“Kecatw. siuqieeting that. I told the
Late of Independence, having purob»*^ t'1’
3,600 illn*trntlon» - a
employe) of the demand the coachman
whole Pie tn re Gallery
had made on me. Ind he taxes! the fel
GIN KM M hulraale Prt,
low with it, at th«- same time charging ,
TEAMS AND TRtTK»
•Greet to eeM«M»trr« on all good» fv r
him with having bent the axle, fheu prrvnnal or family «•«. Tells how to
the man oonftMtaal.
That's how 1 ' order, aud gtwea riset cost of every
Of Logan Bros A Henderson, offers hn
thin« yon use, eat. drink, wear, or
know.
Iklrwl f'rtt /Vrss.
services in that line to the public, and
TIME IS MONEY!
fORTHEO1 ftACIFICf JAILHOAi
. ............... .... r........... f Ç.................
BEST! £
SHORES'!'! i I
SAVE
by
Time
calling'
REDMONDS.
W.
Goods
going
St. PAUL or MINNEAPOLIS,=-
CAKES
short
Washington
R
WHAT
Conies to-morrow.
F.
Only Route via Yaquina Bay
To
San Franoisoo.
Japanese
CREAM
Steamship
City Stables.
BROS
O
Il coats 88UO.COO.OQO a year to main
tain the standing armies ol Europa.
There will be an attraction for the
children, in the shape of a fish pond
at the Episcopal church fair.
hare ftn> With
Three ISVALIABI.1
BOOK« contain Information «lean«
from th
marh-ts of the world. XX
will mail a «•»;«> VRI l' to any ad-
dreas wpon m ij < of IU eta. to dr fra j
• ■pensr of m .llu,. Ix-t us hear Trvi
yoa.
Reapu (fully,
(¿uarantef
MONT GOMERY WARD 4 CC
**T A t '»I* abash Aveaae, Chicana, I IL
ii
Livery
ny where in
» ¿•'•»ville.
iMHiablc Bair».
i
To all who favor him with their
He will keep a wagon specially adapt
delivery of parols, trunks
the aocomouation of the pnblio. 6™,
at the stable will be promptly attend*1
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