The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1894-11-30
THIS, rHAr, AND THE orRER.

| The Survival of the fttest'' theory has
no recognition in dogdom. The cur, ugly
and worse than useless, is the only breed of
dog that has good chance to reach old age
| in Corvallis. The cur canine and cur human
seem to have close atfiliatiou, and the latter
makes more room in the world for the for
mer, by warning against the better breed of
! dogs. The cur human naturally uses the
weapon of tho coward-poison. Putting
out poison where children or ANIMALS
domestic-can get at it, shonld be made a
crime. A poisoner il loathsoms thing.
| Business Corvallis had smile last Satur.
| urdsy, over trunk. A firm of brothers
recently had serious disagreement with
| another member of tho family, who left
| their employ. A few days ago the firm
loaned drummer'a trunk to another mer.
chant, who had some repairs made to it, and
| packed it with samples to send hayward.
The firm Learned Saturday morning that
| their offended relative was to be the drum.
mar, and was going away on the train.
Gracious Moses This must be attended to.
They demanded back their trunk. The
borrowing merchant calmly announced his
intention of using the trunk as agreed upon.
The trunk was sent to tho depot, and the
brothers were in a state of desperation.
But, happy thought, the law! the law! A
justice was hunted up; replevin papers hur-
riedly drawn up, ana deputy sheriff rushed
b. y,th 4ha ohar IF
the firm. The latter recognized the trunk
in the baggage car, but the railway official
failed to sympathise with the agitated
Hebrew. The baggage master sent him to
the agent to serve the papers, and while he
was gone the train pulled out. Law is ex-
pensive even If not satisfactory and it prob.
ably cost the firm 81 or IS for the attempt
to get back $40 trunk.
Corvallis has few prohibitioniats, but the
most of her citizens demand more strin-
gent control of the liquor traffic. The right
to sell Intoxicating drinks should not be
given to low -priucipled, lawless fellows who
lack even the common instincts of manhood.
That boys of fifteen to twenty-young fell
lows of good parentage and bright prospects
can be found gambling and drinking openly
in licensed saloon, shames all of us-oti-
GERS, couucilmen and citizens. What a
tiend he ia who aids oomplacently the besot.
ing OF children. The other day the officers
found lad of Is lying on the floor of the
palace saloon, in a filthy state OF drunk
enness. He refused to state where he pur-
chased the liquor, but it is simply doing JUS
tice to the other saloon men to say he would
not be allowed inside their places of business
This "cornsr saloon has sold whisky to
children, whose heads hardly came up to
the bar It has been the scene of more dis
order and fighting than all the other saloons
combined. Its proprietor is big, rough,
course fellow whose countenauca, villainous
looking as it is, is often further dismarked
by black and blue evidences of hstic encoun-
ters. In his saloon have been seen young
boys playing ''stud poker" drinking whisky
at the bar, and sleeping in the chairs, while
courtezans would come i'll and out as boldly
as though there was no law to the contrary.
1t is the resort of vags, tinhorns, pinips and
fiends Decent men are never seen there
except or business Bat its doors are open
to young hoys who might be tempted by
older companions ''to see the world" and
spend their dimes for drinks, or in ''rake
offs" This can be stopped. 1t must be
stopped. WHoIT Is.