The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-03-14
dance-houses Il didn't. I took a ma,

dance-houses Il didn't. I took a man
having the entree of the gambling dens, and
saw that strange passion at white heat in the
early morning. 1 had seen gambling hels
in Mexico, where the horrible spell sat like
a nightmare on its victims, and as one gazed
on the rigid lips and glaring eyes he ceased
to wonder at bloody deeds in gambling
houses. We went from the elegant, Will,
ton-carpeted Broadway parior, with free
supper tables and wine hampers, down to
the low dive where black and white, of all
tongues, play poker all night. Nothing was
so surprising as the number of nice-looking
old gentlemen, venerable enough for Sunday
School superintendents, that frequented the
higher" houses. They play coolly, winning
or losing usually losing. One party, ap-
parently young clerks, came in, sat down
with some spruce "whippers in," and in
twenty minutes walked out, every man of
them 'dead broke" Pity the poor. fools.
half knaves, half fools hungry for money,
they had not earned, and too idiotic to see
that those hot suppers and costly wines
must finally come out of their own pockets.
Faro is not a game; it is a contribution
The player contributes eventually to the
bankers, wealth just certainly as the bull
in Spanish bull-fight dies-both are fore-or-
dained. The shortest possible cut to power
ty lies straight across the green cloth, and
any young man choosing to travel that way
had better understand that at the outset.
COMMERCIAL REVOLUTION.
Twenty years ago canned goods were
| found only in a few of the principal stores
in the larger cities now, no cross-rOad gro.
GERS stock is considered complete withot an
assortment of them, This revolution is
mainly due to the great grocery house of
Thurber & Co., of this city, who own many
canning factories, and do business stated
in recent publication to exceed that of any.
four houses of that line in the world. Real
izing that confide1 ace must lie at the base of
a trade in sealed packages, they placed a
guarantee on their goods, and authorized
retailers to refund the price whenever the
purchaser of goods bearing their name had
cause for dissatisfaction. Dealers and con-;
sumers were quick to see their interests just
here, and this doubtless accounts largely for.
the popularity of canned goods hearing
the name of Thurber
We must not overlook the labelling of
these packet goods, which has become great
industry, and employs some of the finest tai
ent in this country. A constant improvement
goes on here, too, and Mary's '' little lamb"
and host of other labels recently designed
by the Forbes Lithographic Company, of
Boston, are positively meritorious chromos.
Theodore Tilton, in Tempest Tossed
let imagination run wild among vast stores
of canned foods, but what was a dream to,
his mariners is a living reality to-day. The.
briny suggestions of . Tempest Tossed re-
call those nautical lines of Hoods:
GA sea horse is a sea horse
When you see him on the sea J.
Bnt when you see him on the bay
A bay horse then is he" ...
But did you ever see the saw manufactured;
by an abandondoned Yankee whose name is
yet unknown to infamy
GA hen hawk is hen hawk
When you know it is she; ...
But when you know it is a male
A Tommy hawk is he !" .r
But neither tempests nor tomahawks shall
prevent us from finishing our cursory say on.
the commercial aspect of this industry. In
1877, we exported 100000 of canned
foods Perishable products are utilized and
saved; fresh fruits and vegetables are,
brought within reach throughout the year
the seven fat kline are literally saved for the
seven lean kline to feed upon, and it is esti-,
mated that these modest little tin cans are
saving $50, 100000 of surplus food
products that otherwise would have been
left to perish. This is commercial revolu-
ton worth having! MORLEY.