Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-08-01
"HoW To Be a Liue Wire" a
Modern "7ale of TUo Cities IS"
BY Prank Harrington, in The Masts,
Printer.

At equal distances, in opposite direC
tions from a good-sized city ON the Cen
trai railroad, there are two towns whicl
lO years ago were each of about 800
population.
These two towns were doing business
under practically identical conditions
Neither had much in the way of loca
manufacturing enterprises. Both de
pended largely on the farming trad,
OF the same class of prosperous farm
ers. The stores in AWHILE resembled
the stores in Beeville as the peas in
q pod resemble one another The mer
chants in one town were the twins OF
the merchants in the other. The inter.
vening city gave them both the same
competition.
IL you had been offered your choice
Of the two towns as gift You would
not have turned over your hand in fa.
ror OF either and you would nave de.
elined them both If yol were a travel.
ing man you would have dubbed them
both dead ones.
But that was ten years ago And
now look at these two tOwns The ten.
year-oid description still fits AWHILE
perfectly. The grass still grows be.
tween the flag-stones in the sidewalk
ana the state road passes by six miles
away. The hotel flag pole has rotted
OH at the base, and there are five more
pIOken panes IN the store fronts along
Main street, otherwise Ayeyille needs
no enange or identification tag.
nut beeviile' well, what has happen.
cu 'here anyway ran out there from
Tue nearby eity the other day, anu
wneh got or IN front Of tne new brick
statioh ana climbed into the waiting
motor Dus that serves as transfer to
each OF the hotels my first impulse was
70 70 Daek and look at the name and
see II had made mistake.
AS we rolled up -dain street over
SoOu ,uaeauanl ROAD ! asked the travel
s man next 10 me what had started
'nS pesvlne pee buzzing.
uon know where they got the
pug, ne answered, but this is sure
some ive httie burg. I've only been
eoninB mere rev months, but it 3 got
AZ G 'om" VI & iIs SIZE backed rignt off
the map. Why, their hotel here il n
ne'.er place 10 spend Sunday than down /
=" mn she eity
Inc whole thing looked like one of
- ny ;,s,na., a..le mysteries, and determined
W ,iIases.lgate. ase,g /
s.o u'9Ppeu INTO the nearest drug store |
: 80, u,n"er ana Dought cigar out or s
iii p"'o"t nunliuor case and lighted it |
"asn ne1e littie electric lighter, and t
.oev,.ou siong with my chance a casn
Tx" ,ss,S'er cneek, on which | read, =" Bee
49, soVu 'owh 10 hVe In On tho n
III In s'uo vi ,ne cneck / read, Bee.
,e, = goou place to do business. / 4
nv t tbis t;mo 'me 'r"'n Oh DOth statements
y a's ws. .'me, me- e.
n. 40 ta ,1. nao iiaue beeVllie such good I
'sIaJ hsc ~ ana do buslnessf' / @
moh 'no 1iugsist. t,
oe,;on W. We M anu got hypodermic in NJ
ocuVn OF ginger mere a few years Il,
II" ~ u me pharmacist, as he wiped tC
,r.; 'oo, ihis town used to be a h,
81 49,, oe".9'oiy' VI
= .a.~. ,ha. ana that 8 why l am Iii
AS'onisneu now. You have as mod
80 urug store as I've sesn in the w
nTho - ~ WI
ooa ihoy I"c,, uo ,. teii me TINS Is pretty 1t
Soo, yoo 'ooNns niue JOINT, he acknOwl. tn
Hs moues'ly. Wen, you III find all
40 s.orcs Ia town are right up to the stj
!. Sioeery rignt next door He's
:. ~, so"pul,hg scales, patent bins wi
wnao. m ",s STOCK, floor show cases,
.aWneer store front, multiple cash M
~" na r1sls'er' eheese cutter; | don I tol
!, ~" '.ros "Ial al ne mas got, and he hasn t Blu
~ 49, n"aoa ooa On the rest OF US at that. Go of