Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1888-06-13
UABrTg AND CvsTONs.

HABITS AND CUSTOMS.
Here as I'm our eastern states, fe-
male help in hotels and private
houses is the rule, Chinese cooks and
domestic help being unknown. Chi
nesc laundries and vegetable ped
dlcrs are also missing. Little girls
( are on the streets selling newspapers.
At the breakfast table this morning
n ! asked for mush, the young lady
waiter did not "cItch On.N Oat-
meal was next tried on her but still
she was at a loss. When / asked
for porridgc her cOuntcnance lighted
lup, aud the article was readily sup
| piled. What "a grand field this
country would be for Orcgon's fruits,
fresh or dry. But protection bars
them out. While on the street this
morning ] thought TO treat myself
to few cherries, but the price asked
for them, 60 cents, led me 10 the con-
clusion that ! did not want them. !
The old flag looks familiar; no
longer the stars and stripes-but the !
union jack, which will float over us |
till we reach Washington territory, /.
when the starry folds will kiss the |
! breeze again. The few soldiers also |
are British looking. Not "a boy in .
! blue Is 10 be seen, but the red coats
| instead. Those stationed here are
mounted infantry, with jaunty |
little caps, long scarlet jackets, tight
dark trousers with stripes down the
seams, well polished boot reaching
to the knee and heeled with bright
spurs. They are more picturesque
NI,.v, l...gFa l.ttf 20
they were preserved I'm glass cases.
The grand lodge Of good templars
being in session ! look in and dis
cover my old friend Hon. Thomas ,
Nixon, who Is head of the legal !
department for obtaining right of
way. He is r. G.. G. II. and de-
livered ringing report,
ADVOCATING A APROHIBITION PARTY
for the dominion. Took dinner with .
him and wife and two accomplished
who were curious 10 hear
Of the wonderful Pacific coast. &
Spoke at a public meeting of the
grand lodge at night.
a COLLAPSED BOOM.
This city is largely overgrown
through "A big real estate boom
few years since. One ~
gentleman showed me row of Y
houses he built expecting 10 enjoy "A
liCe income from the rents. He is
now paying interest on u $4,000
mortgage, and receives rent from
bout one-tenth of his buildings. q,
lie also had land thrown back on WI
lis hands that he had sold at $50 an M
ere, and he h not sure but he would nil
AXE $40 an acre cash for it now. A
lrge block of stores and offices
rings i'm but dwo per cent on the A,
Investment. Coming to n
lrge area Of massive but II"
Unfinished foundations, asked
they were boom chill
d 10y untimcly frost. NV friend
eplied that sized it up exactly.
AT the national convention l
rcssed some of my old California Ia
'icnds, In the hall as delegates, M la
D the boom I'm the southern cities of
heir state, and they reluctantly g.
Omitted that "A reaction had set In. -
rom what | see in the east as well
: from observation i'm California |
el more confident than ever that
RECON has
A PROSPEROUS FUTURE \
eforc Il, but its advantage lies I'm
Ie likelihood that Il will be a
rady, sure growth and not fever
h rush, furry and boom. Here
IL fruits arc all imported there arr
arccly amy gardens, shade or fruit
res Flowers at this season are
lrtcd I'm green houses and then set
IT, In winter the mercury COM
only falls to 30 below, occasionally
10, and IL has been known 10 20
'wn to 80, aud this inclement sea- Il
II lasts six months. 4 truthful
STATEMENT ABOUT OREGON,
'ec from colorlng and eNaggera- ,,. q
M, would turn many steps In that ''''
cction. The pamphlets | have
Z are cye-openers and disturhers.
nm placing them i'm good hands
Il leaving some In y. NJ. 4. \. and
her public reading rooms.
with so many French Canadians, VI,
course, thcV are large Roman w
tholic institutions. The public post
lools have both Catholic and
otcstaut departments. Here are -
Indians, half-breeds,
II q good sprlukling of irpprcssi-
Yankees The Assiuiboiuc and u II
d River of the North the latter
ming NOM Lake Winnipeg, so
les north of horc, Join ut this city,
i these rivers used to afford naVi-
ion to Winnipeg, hut the Cana
IN Pacific and It's branches now
ord quicker mode of travel.
'hcn' is much grumhling by some
In sve the Canadian Pacific build
/. branches into the United States
ts to connect with our own lines
/ thus mach tide water at less
of time and money, rhcse
mhlcrs aV uf the protection
ool, and will hear to nothing hut
AN Ali CANADA LINN.
,crs want all tho rnads and con-
tious they can get, and arc not
ling Ia pay tur protection moV