Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-10-20

turn.
1t is lost forever and never
again in your neighberhood will
it pay another debt, buy another
book or picture, pay for another
periodical, support another pull
pit, lay a bunch of blossoming
flowers on the coffin or grave of
any of your precious dead.
When you buy goods at home
your dollar is not lost. 1t be-
comes a part of the worth of the
entire community. 1t goes into
the school fund, the tax fund,
into the pulpit, stands behind
the scraper on your public roads,
paws the doctor bills, the lawyer
bills, feeds the poor, cloths the
naked, assists the sick, cheers the
friendless, helps the helpless,
comforts the penniless--and by
and by comes back, blessed with
multitude of charities, radiant
with sunshine of enterprise and
push, hallowed by tears of suf-
fering it has dried, and the pangs
of misery it has hushed. falls full
and fair, round and plump and
glorious into your own hands.
Again and again and again it
can be sent on its mission, and
with every glorious circle of re-
volution your home town grows
bigger aud better; your home in
stitutions more prosperous and
beautiful; your family, neighbors
and friends more happy and con-
teuted; every acre and square
foot and square inch of your farm
enhanced in value hundred
fold.
Stand by your home merchant.
He is your truest and best friend.
Every dollar you invest with him
he invests at home, and it goes
to the up-building of your com,
!, munity and the enhancing of the
value of your farm.
He does not always exact the
cash. When times are hard he
takes your note. When ba6
luck comes and the note is no'
properly met, he pats you on the
back and kindly bids you wal
until the steer takes on a little
more fat, or until thes old SOW
has another litter of pigs.
When you find flaw in tn
steel, rotten patch in the
fabric, a knot under the veneer
send in the food-and you DON
, find them often-he takes bac1
= the goods and gives you new, O
reimburses you for every penn
you are out.
! When the tax-gatherer come
! round he chips in literally an
helps tighten the drain on you
own pocket book.
, When the death angel come
. and carries off one of your 1ittl
= lambs, he grasps you warmly b
= the hand and speaks tende
a words Of sympathy in your ears.
fin moment of passion c
i. anger you over-step the bounc
, of rectitude and fall into the har
y grip of the law, he goes yor
> bond and helps you by the stron
influence of his word and wealt
to get justice and equity befol
the law.
. And all through it all tt
mail-order house is silent, in
/ placable and merciless. The ia
of your produce, the loss of yo'
J. tat horse or steer, the death {
t, your wife or babe-none OF the
81 affect him. He must have cas-
K only the hard, ready doll
A. will satisfy his greed.
The little red school house ms
lg rot aud fall, the little whi
We church drop away board by boar
lie the home town grow up in weed
is the death angel carry away yo'
b. wife and all the babes, the sher
&c sell your farm under the hamm
n and turn you adrift in the wor
oy land the mail-order houses W
1g not know or care about 20
k misfortunes. nor will it sell y
ot- one shirt to hide the nakedne
ed Of your back unless you first Sc
=r; the cash.
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>r- Presbyterian Church. M.
M Bush, pastor. Bible school, 10
z, lm.. Worshin IL M. suhie