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Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-08-22

Free Family Sleeping Cars run through
on Express trains 10 omaha, Council
Bluffs and Kansas City without changes
r Connections at Portland for San Francis
co and Puget Sound points.
FOR further particulars address any
agent Of the company, or
A. [. MAXWELL, @. 4. 4 4. A
q. j. SMITH. GeLI Manager, Portland.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-08-22
1t is Easy to Operate and Eco
nOmical i'm Fuel.
Bids for Wood.

DIDS will be received at my office in the
ID opera house block, Court street, Salem,
Oregon, up to September 3, 1889, at 3 p. M,
for six (6) cords of body oak or large grub
oak wood and seven "a cords of body fir, to
be delivered at the North Salem school
house; also six (6) cords of body oak, or
large grub oak wood, and seven (O cords of
large body fir to be delivered at the South
Salem school house; also forty (i0) cords of
large body or grun oak wood, thirty go
cords of body ash and tifty-five (55) cords of
large body fir to be delivered at the East
Salem school house. ALI this wood to be
delivered at the places designated on or be-
fore the lst day of October next.
The board of trustees reserves the right
to reject any and all bids.
DAVID SIMPSON,
Clerk of School District No. a.
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Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-08-22
Our Old Subscribers

Now in urged take advantage of big discount by
Ting old and joining the grand thong dollar subscribers
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-08-22
Notice Of Cancellation of County
Warrants.


~tstc ca Oregon. county OF Marion. ~:
\o..ce is hereby given that in accord
au,C WE "Au Aci 70 rCQute county war
rSnt, tn bC ti.ucCllcd after seven years from
ilc date ui issuance approved February
p iS,4, the following county warrants will
be cancelled ii not presented for payment
within sixty days from this date, July |,
lSSg, and payment thereof will be refused
+ ] BABCOCK, County Clerk,
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-08-22
Read Our Reduced 7ermsl
Now Read Cur Discount for Cash

WEEKLY year------sOo WEEKLY months $3.50
WAS THERE EVER ANYTHING EQUAL TO IT? NOW ROLL
IN THE NAMES AND TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OUR
ONE" THIRD OFF FOR CASH.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-08-22

Call and see us before you let your
work.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-08-22

Ordered that this list be published as by
law required. Done by June term, 1890.
7. &. SHAW.
County Judge.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-07
A CHEEKY View of Life.

Our estimates of '.good" and ''bad"
are largely influenced by our personal
feelings, and by the effect on our indi-
vidual comfort of that on which we
pass Judgment. When the farmers are
longing for the spring winds and rains.
to do their work of preparing for a
fruitful season, persons in the city are
likely to speak of an appropriate
March or April day as very bad
weather." or as 'wretched day." in
a tone that would indicate the thought.
eff lad the weather in charge, there
should be neither wind nor rain from
years end to years end.' An author
is pretty sure to count praise OF his
book as "a good review" and censurt
or criticism of it as "a bad review.
The man who is spoken of as "a very
disagreeable man. is ordinarily a man
who is known not to deem the speaker
as an agreeable man. And so all the
way along in life. 1t rarely occurs to
us that what we dislike may be the
best thing in the world for the world
Yet the truth is, that there is nothing
for which we have more reason to be
grateful than the fact that things are
not just as we would like to have them
S. S. Times.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-07
EGG-SHELl WONDERS.
Where the Hen Gets the Carbonate OF
Lime Essential to Her Duties.

Where the Hen Gets the Carbonate OF
Lime Essential to Her Duties.
The shell proper of an egg is made
up mostly of earthly materials. The
proportions vary according to the food
of the bird, but 80 to 50 per cent is car
Donate of lime The remainder is COM
posed of from to per cent of animal
matter and from l to per cent. OF
phosphate oflime and magnesia. Now,
Mr. 7. l.. Simmonds asks, where does
the hen procure the carbonate of lime
with which to form the shell? If We
cOntine fowls in room and feed them
with any of the cereal grains. exclud-
ing all sand, dust or earthly matter,
they will go on for time and lay eggs,
each one having a perfect sheH, made
up OF the same calcareous elements.
Vanquelin shut up hen for ten days
and fed her exclusively upon oats, OF
which she consumed 7,474 grains in
weight. During this time four eggs
were laid, the shells of which weighed
nearly 400 grains; of this amount PIG
grains were carbonate of lime, II 1-2
grains phosphate of lime, and 10 grains
gluten. But there is only little car
bona of lime in oats, and whence could
this 400 grains of the rocky material
have been derived. The answer to
this question opens up some of the most
curious and wonderful facts connected
with animal chemistry. The body of a
bird, like that of man, is but a piece
OF chemical apparatus, made capable OF
transforming hard and fixed substances
into others of very unlike nature. In
oats there is contained phosphate OF
lime. with an abundance of silica, and
the stomach and assimilating organs OF
the bird are made capable of decompos-
ing the lime salt and forming with the
silica silicate OF lime. The new BODY
is itself made to undergo decomposi.
ton, and the base is combined with
carbonic acid. forming carbonate 81
lime. The carbonic acid is probably
derived from the atmosphere, or more
directly, perhaps. from the blood.
These chemical changes among hard
inorganic bodies are certainly wonder
ful when we reflect that they are
brought about in the de icate organs of
a comparatively feeble bird, under the
influence OF animal heat and vital
forces. They embrace series of de-
composing and recomposing operations,
which it is difficult to initiate in the
laboratory. Popular Science Monthly.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-07
SLIClNG TO DEATH.
Barbaric Method of Torturing Condemned
Murderers in China.

Barbaric Method of Torturing Condemned
Murderers in China.
At the back of this execution ground
stood half a dozen wooden crosses. II
you will take a piece of telegraph pole
eight feet long and set a similar pole
five feet long into it alright angles two
feet from the top. you will have the
Chinese cross. 1t is upon these crosses
that the criminals are bound when
they are to undergo the punishment of
Ling Chi or slicing to death. which is
the sentence for all who murder
brother, a parent, teacher, a husband
or an uncle. The criminal is stripped
and his feet are raised upon brick or
"A stone. His cue is tied up to the cross
and his arms are stretched out upon
it's arms. A British naval officer,
whom met at Hong Kong. described
an execution of this kind which he wit
messed a few weeks ago.
''lt made me feel very green at first
said he, ''but after it was begun could
not keep my eyes it. / have had the
experience over again three times in
my dreams, and | would not want to
see it again. had the best guide il
Canton. and we saw the execution from
the roof of one OF the buildings beside
the execution grounds. There were
two criminals. and it took about thirty
minutes to cut each of them to pieces
The first cuts sliced off the cheeks and
the second the eyebrows. After these
man held fan before the faces of the
prisoners, and all we could see of them
vas the blood running down upon their
bodies. LIE next cut was of the flesh
between the hand and the elbow, and
the arteries were first bound above the
places cut so that the man would not
bleed to death before the ceremony was
completed. Then the shoulders were
cut off. Then the flesh of the thighs,
and after this the calves of the legs.
The seventeenth and eighteenth cuts
removed the hands, and the last cut
took the head from the body.
I'm both cases the men did not faint
away. The pain was too terrible. They
could not cry out, as they were gagged
and their writings were horrible. The
last cut killed them ~. G. Carpen-
ter, in Cleveland Leader.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-07
ABOUT CHAPERONS.

Something About .he Persons Who Are
Best Qualified to Act as such.
Perhaps one OF the best chaperons,
and one under whose wing a girl has q
good chance of thoroughly enjoying q
ball is married sister. young enough
to dance herself, to have many friends
to whom she can introduce her sister.
Smart and well dressed, she attracts
notice. and going out with her makes
ball-going pleasure and a success A
mother can not always keep pace with
the times. and does not always know
the best men, as they are termed. But
young married lady has the support
OF her husband, many of his friends. and
is able to make a strong party in ball
room.
1t is almost needless to say that an
aunt is almost as good chaperon as
mother. and perhaps even more indul-
gent to favOrite niece, as regards to
remaining for yet another dance, while
as to securing partners for her. she is
in better position for doing so than
the most anxious of mothers. When
relations are not available for the Office
of chaperon, friends are pressed into
the service, and this request is met
in different ways by different people.
If lady has neither daughter
or sister of her own to chap
eron. she is plea ed to have the care OF
pretty, well-dressed girl, or even two
sisters;not only does she wish to be good
natured, but she knows that this ad-
dition to her party will increase its i'm
portance, and lady so situated is a
general chapeson among her friends.
Even when lady has daughter OF
daughters of her own, she is often
asked to take yet another girl to some
ball to which she is going. and a pleas
ant, amiable girl is considered an &C
QUESTION to the party, as she takes care
to introduce young men she may hap
pen to know to her young girl friends.
But some girls are too selfish and in
considerable TO do this, and rather act
the part of pirates and pOachers toward
their cOnfiding young friends by ex-
clusively endeavoring to monopolize
the attention of the young men of the
party. These ball room tactics once
indu ged in render the fair tactician
one to be avoided on future occasions
by mothers with girls 10 chaperon.
Girls should take the opportunity oil
speaking a few words to their chap
erOns as often as possible. and should
sit or stand by them a few minutes from
time to time during the evening. Lon
don ()laau
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-07

Nineteen years ago the wife of
prominent Kingston. N. T., man acct
IDENTITY ran a needle into her breast.
AS 1t occasioned but little pain and
could not be extracted, she paid but
little attention to the matter, hoping
'or the best. One night recently she
"as awakened out of a sound sleep by
a peculiar pricking sensation in the
throat Rising in bed she began to
cough. The pricking became more
.eVere. but the substance appeared to
oe rising in her throat Thrusting her
nneers down as far as possible, she
caught hold of an object and drew it
out 1t was the needle that had been
'ourneying about under the surface for
nineteen years.
1t appears that the British arnv Il
not only the dearest in Europe, but the
worst fed. SO far as the rank and fla
are concerned.
"A curious feature of the theaters
Al Melbourne. remarks q newspapers
"ri!er' is that they are mostly. ali
equipped with billiard rooms.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-07
PHoTOGRAPHlNG STARS.
A Plausible Scheme tn Secure a Picture Of
the Entire Heavens.

A Plausible Scheme tn Secure n Picture al
the Entire Heavens.
A combined effort is now beiugjmade
to secure representation of the entire
surface of the heavens by photography.
A congress met in Paris. under the
presidency OF Admiral Mouchez, con-
sisting of astronomers from all parts
OF the world, and the conditions under
which this stupendous survey of the
universe was to be undertaken were
then decided on. The operations are
divided among a number of observa.
tories situated over the world, and
each of them Undertakes to photograph
on plates of uniform size a certain
region of the heavens.
The work has been entered upon
with the heartiest enthusiasm, and ere
many years have elapsed we may an.
ticpate being in possession of what
will practically be a photograph oil
tn entire heavens. This great piece
of work will provide us with the
means of making reasonably com
plete inventory of the entire contents
OF that small portion of the universe
which lies within the reach of our in
s,ruments. That all the stars which
can be exhibited on long exposed plates
shall ever be completely catalogued is
task rs much beyond our power to
obtain as it would be to obtain a de-
scriptive list of the several pebbles on
ii sea beach or of the several leaves in
an ample forest.
The more modest scheme has, how
ever, been suggested of taking the two
million brightest stars and forming q
complete catalogue of them, in which
their brightness and their absolute DO
sitions in the Heavens shall be given
WITH all attainable precision. Even
this is sufficiently magnificent under
taking. but it is within the practical
limits of scientific enterprise, and
il ought to be done--it must
be done. Not alone is it our mani-
fest duty to obtain a comprehensive
survey Of that universe around us. bu!
thcre are many other special aStro-
nomical problems that will be largely
forwarded by its accomplishment.
There are some problems indeed which
must remain unsolved SO long as this
task remains.
TO mention only a single one of the
questions for which the great survey is
imperatively demanded, may refer to
the interstellar motion of our solar
system. 1t is well known that our sun.
accompanied by the whole system OF
planets, is at present bound on vov.
age through space. Astronomy pre-.
sents no grander problem than the dis
covery of the circumstances of this
voyage. Whence has our system come,
whittier is it bound, ami with what
speed? We can never learn such par
ticulars us these without the informa-
ton that the great survey would give
us. -Sir Robert Hall. in Macmillan's
Magazine.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-07
THE SEAS MOVEMENTS.
The Causes of the Shifting To and Fro q
the Tides.

me causes OF the shifting To and Fro of
the Tides.
No movement of the sea is more i'm
pOrtant than the regular rise and fall,
once in about twenty-four hours, which
we know as the tide. The movement
is due to the difference between the at
fractions exerted by the moon and sun
upon the solid earth and those exerted
upon the oceanic envelope. Attrac-
ton, as shown by Newton. varies not
only directly as the mass. but also "a
versely as the square of the distance:
thus, at an equal distance. one body
will exert double the attraction of an
other of half the mass; but if the dis
lance of one body be twice that of the
other, and their masses equal, the at
traction of the more distant will be but
quarter OF that of the nearer. So
the immense mass of the sun exerts, in
spite of its greater distance, a far
greater attraction upon the earth as a
whole than the moon.
The difference, however, between
the suns attraction upon the solid
earth and its attraction upon the
ocean is. on account of its distance,
but a small fraction of its total at
traction; whilst that between the
moons attraction upon the solid earth
and its attraction upon the ocean. ow-
ing to its comparatively small distance
OF two hundred and forty thousand
miles, is Il very considerable fraction
OF its total action. So that whilst the
earth's attraction causes the moon to
travel round itonce month, the re-
clprocal attraction of the moon is
mainly etfectual in causing the tides,
the suns action being only about one
third as great The waters of the
open ocean have tendency to rise up
in heap on the side nearest the moon,
because they are pulled more strongly
than is the solid globe, and, being
liquid. yield to the attraction. Stimuli
taneously similar heaping up occurs
a. the antipodes of this point-on the
side. that is, farthest from the moon
because TIE solid is, as it were, pulled
lway from the water there.
Two great tidal waves are thus orig
mated: and, as the earth's movement
In lis orbit, coupled with its daily ro-
tation. makes the moon occupy the
same relative position every twenty
I'VE hours-or, more exactly, every
twenty-four hours and fifty minutes
nigh tide at any place occurs twice in
every such period of time. -Cassells
Educator
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-07
DRUGS AND MINERALS.
The Scientific and Common Names of hos
in Everyday Use.

The Scientific and Common Names of hose
in Everyday Use.
Aqua FORTS is nitric acid.
Aqua regia is nitro uriatic acid.
Blue vitriol is sulphate of copper.
Cream of tartar is bjtartrate of potas-
SUM.
Calomel is chloride of mercury.
Chalk is carbonate of calcium.
Salt of tartar is carbonate of potassa.
ChlorofOrm is chloride of formyle.
Common salt is chloride of sodium.
Copperas, or green vitriol, is sui
plate of iron.
Corrosive sublimate is bichloride of
mercury.
Dry alum is sulphate of aluminium
and potassium.
Epson salts is sulphate of magnesia.
Ethiops mineral is black sulphate of
mercury.
Fire damp is light carburetted n.y.
drOgen.
Galena is sulphide of lead
Glauber's salts is sulphate of So
dunn.
Glucose is grape sugar.
GOulard water is basic acetate of
lead.
Iron pyrites is bisulphide of iron.
jewelers. putty is oxide of tin.
Kings yellow is sulphide of arsenic.
, Laughing gas is protoxide of nitro
gen.
Lime ia Oxido Of calcium
Lunar caustic is nitrate of silver.
Mosaic gold is bisulphate of tin
Muriate of lime is chloride of cal
cium.
Niter of saltpeter is nitrate of pot
ASH.
Oil of vitrol is sulphuric acid.
Potash is oxide of potassium.
Realgar is sulphide of arsenic.
Red lead is oxide of lead.
Rust of iron is oxide of iron.
Salammoniac is muriate of ammonia.
Stacked lime is hydrate calcium
Soda is oxide of sodium.
Spirits of hartshorn is ammonia.
Spirit of salt is hydrochloride of
muriatic acid.
Stucco, or plaster of paris, is sui
phate of lime.
Sugar of lead is acetate of lead.
Verdigris is basic acetate OF copper.
Vermilion is sulphfde of mercury.
Vinegar is acetic acid diluted.
Volatile alkali is ammonia
Water is oxide of hydrogen.
White precipitate is ammoniat.d
mercury.
White vitriol is sulphate of zinc.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-07
-'Tis pitiful the things by which

IT'S pitiful the things by which we
are rich or poOr-a matter of coins.
coats and carpets. a little more or less
stone, or wood, or paint, the fashion
of a cloak or hat; like the luck OF
naked Indians. of whom one is proud
in the possession of glass bead or q
red feather, and the rest miserable in
the want of it--Emerson-
lin the last six years the member
ship OF the Chicago Presbyterian
churches has increased from less than
10. 600 to nearly Is, 600 and of the Sab.
bath-schools from u. 900 to nearly l8,-
O0Q
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-07

We are all dissatisfied The diff.
ference is that some of us sit down in
the squalor of our dissatisfaction,
while others make ladder of it,
Once Week.
The result of self-examination on
the part OF some people.is abundant
satisfaction; with others, it is so de-
pressing as to almost bring despair.
Both are wholly wrong United Pres.
byterian.
Alas! it is not till time. with reck.
less hand, has torn out half the leaves
from the book of human life to light
The fires OF passion, from day to day,
that man begins to see that thu leaves
which remain are few in number.
t.ongfellow.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-07
The Position Was Open.

One cold day during the war fugi.
tive slave was standing before a
fire in Washington, warming himself
Where did you come from, Uncle?"
asked pro-slavery bystander. From
Culpepper. sah." Leave your mas
.erf" 'Yes, sah.'' 'Was he bad
to you?" mo. sab; very good.
kind master, sah." Give you all
you wanted to eat and wear did hep"
Yes, sab; never wanted for much of
any thing, sah." ..Well, don't you
think you'd be much better off with
him as slave than grubbiug around
Washington for yourself?' well, sab.
de job up dab is open for any one dat
wants it. responded the negro, calmly,
and in the laugh that went up the adj
mirer of slavery disappeared. Chicago
Mail.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-07

"A man who persists in imagining
that he can sing when everybody else
knows that he can't, lifted up his voice
the other day in strain of harassing
discord that compelled his wife to COM
mand him to stop. ''Wife." said he,
s.you are too critical. When a man is
doing the best he can that is all that
should be asked of him" Every well,
my dear, but the best thing you can do
IL to abstain from singing and / GER
tainly don't. ask any thinG moro. -
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-07

Conductor me, madam, but
I shall have to ask you for ticket for
that boy. l think he's over five years
old.
General Atom with dignity Sir.
can't you tell man when you see MIN?
Here are the tickets for myself and
wife. sir.
Conductor totters feebly on into the
,axl car Chicago Tribune.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-07
WICKED Boarder (on Sunday

Wicked Boarder Con Sunday
You do not read Sunday papers. be-
Iieye, Mrs DeGoode?' Mrs DeGoode
Severely -"No, | do not. and ! am
grieved to find that you do Il was
only going to say that this copy OF
Sunday Scandal has two-column ac-
count of that minister who was arrest
ed for improper" "Oh. II there is
any thing in the paper about minis
tiers, that different Thank you. =
Philadelphia Record
Rev. Norman La Marsh, an elo-
ouent preacher in charge of the Meth
odist church at Searsport. Me-. is to-
tally blind A feature of the services
at this church il the singing OF the
oastor