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Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-02-12
A Geld Day. 10 Be Sars.

II isa cold day when Albany gets
left, sometimes, Now she is to have
an ice factory, capacity Of nearly
three tons per day. f, III. Pfeifier
ia 10 manage the freezer
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-02-12
A SsassaaAI, RInt.

Genuine new buckwheat -four,
aud a fine article of table syrup, at
the Grange storc, l26 State street,
salem. II.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-02-12
Business Property.

Near depot on Commercial street,
forty feet front aud only $1,000; and
whole blocks in West Salem, one
hundred dollars.
THOMAS & PAYNE.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-02-12

James A. Garfield was born in a
log cabin. He worked ON the farm
from the time he was strong enough
to use carpenter tools, when he
learned the trade. He afteTWsrd
worked on the canal.
The Dickinson press., 1889-07-06
A Chance for Men,

Chill %hasinvited proposals, before Nov.
80, for a new submarine cable, which is
to facilitate navigation to and from the
straits of Magellan, There is no deny
ing Tho fact that the countries south of
lis are taking atremcudous LEAP forward.
Not Il month passes that does not chrcn
iclc some important lev work begun or
completed in ono or another of the SIai-
ish republics. New blood seems some
how to have sprung into their veins. 1t
may even be that in tho times to ONE
when the great American republic shall
have turned its zenith. the sceptcr of
civilization will pass from Northern to
Southern America. Who knows:
The extraordinary offers made to i'm
migrants in various South American
countries have already been mentioned.
Nicaragua apparently should be added
to the list Of those lands where brains,
muscle and money are welcomed, and
where there is still room for q mar to
grow to his full stature, Snd where
ambitious young men may realize their
hopes.
The soil is exceptionally fertile. the
climate heallhful. Much of the soil is
an elevated plateau. very different from
the low lying lands of Panama. In soil
and climate part of Nicaragua greatly
resembles California. Tropical and semi.
tropical fruits grow in luxurious alum
dance. 1t is said that facilities for trans
p~ortation are all that are needed to sud-
denly make little Nicaragua become one
of the most prosperous of countries.
Work has already been begun on the
canal. BY the terms of the construction
company's contract with the Nicaraguan
government, ITO Chinese can be brought
into the country to work on the canal.
1t will probably be built by negroes from
II own southern states and jamaica.
Tho only laborcrs available at present
are the peculiar Central American In.
dians, who can neither be coaxed moi
driven to work more thar eight hours
a day.
In Nicaragua there are still millions of
acres Of pasture lands unoccupied.
There are valuable silver mines, known
since the days before the Spanish con,
quest, but neglected and fallen into dis.
use, There are hard woods of untold
value. Foreigners should have no fcal
i'll coming among U.s." said a representa-
tive N%icaraguan, ''for we are q ricl,
country and will treat them Literally.
On the whole. it seems rs though the
little Spanish-American republics had
pulled themselves together for u long,
steady ace onward in the path Of civil
J cation.
The Dickinson press., 1889-07-06
IN Cameron.

y man of invinciblo loyalty rs n friend, who
never forgot IL personal kindness, and who was
always forward in doing acts of kindnessto others.
This is the aspect Of Mr.. Camcron's
character which it is p%leasantcst to dwell
on, and it is the II by which ho will be
best and longest remembered. At one
time he had enemies both in his own
party and out Of it, but he disarmcd
them all as tho years went on, simply by
his warm heartcdness and his helpful
ness to others. When he passed his GOTH
year, three months ago, it is probably
not too much to say that everybody who
knew Inn sent congratulations, mental
ly at least.
His was a life long and stormy and
full Of excitement till 1871. when llo re-
tired from politics to let his son Donald
become senator from Pennsylvania.
Ills son reisned in his stead" Strangely
enough, in his youth ho was very deli
cate. and so weak that ho could not pull
the lever of the old hand presses which
were used when he worked at his trade
of printer. Yet by living temporarily az
to his body, and plunging into the swirl
up to his lips mentally. and moving for
ward with it always, lie lived to his great
age. His recipe for keeping all his powers
SO perfectly has been mentioned before.
1t was. Associate with young people
and keep going"
Ir the field which lie chose lie was
strongest as a political manager. In
business enterprises and in politics alike,
his greatest quality was his unerring
judgment. 1t seemed indeed infallible.
Certainly now every II can say of
him what he said of himself. at a dinner
party in honor of his 72d birthday:
have made 1t q rule OF life to be kind to every
one and considerate of all Yet | have made enc
mics, because | have had opinions aud asserted
them. But this has brought me friends also. !
have lived long and seen much Of life, and when ]
am gone all | ask is that people can say that ! did
the best | could aud was ever true to my obliga
tions and my friends.
The Dickinson press., 1889-07-06
The Private Soldiers Life.

In the German army 30 per cent. of
tho deaths of the private soldiers are
from suicide. Last year. in the little
United States army of 5000 men. the
government lost $3.50. COO through dcser-
ton. In Germany there is no escape bv
dcsertion. The country is small, the
frontiers are thoroughly guarded. So the
unhappy private kills himself. In Amer
lea the unhappy private runs away.
One cause is assigned for both. 1t is
simply that they cannot endure the
brutal treatment they receive from their
superior officers. Army discipline at
best does lot foster the gentle Christian
gracrs. AT its worst, according to those
who profess to know, it is n mild form
of Siberian exile. Young sprigs of lieu
tenants leave West Point with very OK
allied notions of their superiority to the
enlisted man. Youth is cvcr more brutal
and violent than mature agc, and it is
the younger under officers who come di-
rectly in contact with the privates. At
Winchester, Va, a boy Of 10 was tied
up by the thumbs by a drunken officer.
The officer went to sleep and left the boy
out in Il thunder storm all night. The
youth was an idiot and q cripple ever
after.
This tying up by the thumbs is still in
vogue i'll Ii army. So is bucking and
gaggging. Cruel and unusual punish
ments have been removed by law from
Il schools. They arc still Il part of
army discipline. Then there are the me-
NAL services the private is often obliged
to perform for the officer. such as the
duties of Il body servant. which would
be gall and wormwood to the soul of
every free born man. Tho regiments of
the United States army are never full.
The enlistment constantly going OH in
the cities serves only to balance the de-
ScrtiOnS
The Dickinson press., 1889-07-06
The DIS.

Here they are with lis again, the an
mIai crop of them, particularly the IL.
DIS and the ID. DIS. Every year they
are created by the dozen. 1t is safe TO
say that now the north has more doctors
of laws and doctors of divinity than the
soul, has colonies and judges. Between
the two llonors are easy, The titles are
becoming SO cheap that anybody can Sc
cure them, except perhaps women. To
their credit be it said that as yet there is
only one female LII. DIR. Amelia 3.
Edwarus-and no female doctor Of divin-
itv at all ....
Charles Dickens refused to be knightcl
by The queen of England. Henry Ward
%liecclcr refused the title of doctor Of
divinity. p. ssibly lio thought l.c was
not good enough for it. Titles cannot
make large men any greater, neither can
they make small men great; and this is
Il reflection to be commended TO our
American nickcl-in-the-slot doctors of
divinity and laws.
The Dickinson press., 1889-07-06
gymnastics for Children.

Is 1t strange that a majority Of Americans are
flat cheSted. or that We do not sleep enough, do
not breathe deeply enough. do not know how to
eat properly, are inerect of carriage and poor
walkers. and that we have IL hundred thousand
physicians constantly busy keeping lis in repair,
aud ~ Niagara of patent medicine making believe
help? The examiners for admission to West
Point. for instance, not only find a majority of the
applicants unfit physically to pass. but sometimes
not even Il solitary one is so fit
Our schools are developing childrcn'S minds;
what arc they doing for their bodies? Is there
ono boy in ten in our schools deep chested, erect,
well knit and strong all overy Or one girl in
twenty? Are there five boys in an average class
OF sixty III any Of our public schools who can run
half II mile. in even three minutes and @ half,
without being badly blown and looking as If they
had been OVERRIDING thenselves'
These are some of the conundrums
spry Mr.. William Rlaikie asks in Ear-
per's Magazine. His answer to them is
by no means satisfactory to himself. He
believes that the American constitution
is declining. 1t is true he enumeratcs
the athletic games and exercises our
young people are going in for. but lie
does not believe they are going in for
them half enough.
Fifty years ago a large proportion of
the American people earned their living
by active labor. Now all that is changed.
Even the farmers son rides upon an ele-
giant carriage reaper in harvest time and
does not develop muscle any more. This
is not an unmixed evil. The back and
joint stiifcninS toll of the old fashioned
farmer and laborer may well be dis.
missed forever with Il godspccd. But
in place of it Mr.. Blaikie believes there
should be introduced into our schools a
regular system of physical culture which
shall develop all the muscles harmonious
ly and perfectly. according TO the old
Greek ideal. Grown people of sedentary
habits should follow up the same prac-
tice. The physical training can be at
tended to in the hours from a to 6
Teachers themselves should know in
their own persons how it is possible to
keep in %buoyant. bounding health by at
tcntion to thorough exercise. They
should acquaint themselves with the
proper methods Of training and teach
them to the children.
Urge the thin legs, ID to devote much of their
r%o hours to foot wu,k, of which there is s,Ici, II
pleasant variety and the marrow chested to arm,
aud shoulder work.
The Dickinson press., 1889-07-06
The Nationalist Party.

Edward Everett Hale has defined the
platform of the new political party
which was recently born in New Eng
land. He says in the beginning that tho
name Nationalist" badly expresses the
scope of the party, and should not have
been adopted. "Friends of Government"
would have been Il better name, lie
thinks.
lie says that the Nationalist do not
believe that the least government is the
best. They do not think that govern
ment should be let out to contractors or
independent commissions. They would
have every city and town go into the
watcrworks and gas lighting business on
its WI account He says cities can at
tend to these matters more cheaply than
to hire private corporations to do it.
Nh. Hale cites the carly days of New
England, when the ''town" or township
taught all the children and built all the
roads and bridges. They also vaccinated
all the people for smallpox. Where trad
ing and other interests arc in the hands
of private companies, these sometimes
become SO powerful as to defy even the
government itself. AS a case in point,
government" ought never to have let
II telegraph service so into the hands
of a private corporation.
In brief, in the judgment of the Ma
tionalists, government itself should UNI
dertake to conduct all the enterprises
that concern the whole people. Thus they
believe the whole people will be delivered
frs; 14e tyranny and the dishonesty
~fron%%hich IL. ~ the hands of
private orport ! iss" But arc rover,,
'n"nt officials themselves always wise,
honest and canable2:
The Dickinson press., 1889-07-06

The Hayes administration was the
first one to inaugurato tho temperance
rule at the White House, and that was
owing to the strict teetotal principles of
Mrs. Hayes. 1t was not believed that
the rule could be enforced, but the quiet,
gracious tirmness of Mrs. Hayes carried
it through. Even those who laughed at
her respected her firmncss. Not till after
her death was it generally known that
she was one of the founders Of the Sol
diers and Sailors Orphans homo in
Ohio. OF that shetook such active partin
many good works. The soldiers in her
husbands command during the war re-
gardel her with little short of vcnera-
ton, and she was made an honorary
member of tho Society of the Army of
West Virginia. As hostess at the White
House few have been more successful or
more sincerely liked than she was. Her
commanding height, dark hair and eyes
and fresh complexion gave her a hand
some, striking presence, while her gen.
tic, cordial manners won all hearts.
The Dickinson press., 1889-07-06
. Weeks Outing on Three Dollars.

a Weeks Outing on Three Dollars.
If the toilers on small wages who dwell
in the great middle basin of the country
could have a little period of sea air and
sea bathing every summer it would put
a new, electric life into them. much of
which would stay with them the rest of
the year. The trouble is it costs so much
to so to the seashore, and so much to
live after one gets there.
The first difficulty the railroad conpa-
MES ought to remove with the gracious
permission of the interstate commerce
commission, by making cheap summer
rates. The second obstacle was sur
mounted by a party of four clever Young
women, in a way told very graphically
by one of them. They spent three months
at the seashore for 50 4 week apiece.
and S25 besides, to start housekeeping
on. AS they managed, others can man
age, school teachers, sewing women.
typewriters and clerks. Young men
could accomplish the same feat if they
could do as the girls did, cook for them
SELVES.
To begin: These plucky, merry girls
rented a large room for $40 a month at
Ocean Grove. Probably Ocean Grove is
the cheapest seashore resort. The room
was unfinished, except with mattin.
and window shades. They sent t%litl,cr'
their own bedding and Il few housckccp-
ing articles that could be packed in Il
largo pine o One large pine box
rervad them as a table. motllcra us a cup
board. They hired from Il village store
two large double folding cot beds. IL
rocking chair apiece, dear to the heart
of oma and four other chairs.
Their room looked on old ocean itself,
and had Il balcony in front. In ono cor
ner OF the balcony they set up IL small
kerosene stove. They veilcd it from the
public gaze 10y artistic. and beautiful
draping. Indeed, the aesthetic quality
of the picture is by no means the least of
its attractions They wore their old
clothes, and went bathing every day.
Their food consisted of sea fish. with the
ocean brine dripping off them, and of
fresh eggs, berries and vegetables sup
piled 10y dealers in abundance. They did
their own cooking and some of their
own washing Oh the kerosene stove.
They had their books and work with
them. The. had Il hammock or two i'm
the balcony. They swung, they walked,
they ate. they read, batl,cd and rested
the summer through, aud We're happy as
birds among the trees. They went back
home as brisk and fresh as birds, too.
The Dickinson press., 1889-07-06
MIR. Phelps Mascot

People have wondered why Hon. Will
lam Walter Phelps wore his hair cut i'll
IL bang Plainly that bang is the genial
Jcrseyman's mascot. First he followed
it to congress, next across the water to
Berlin rs IL Of the Samoan commits
%sioners, and now it has gone before him
to the exalted scat of minister to Ger
many. Plainly there is destiny in that
bang. 1t may be remarked in passing
that Mr.. Phelps and Mr.. lIalstead, the
rejected candidate for minister to Ger
many, are warm friends. Mr.. Phelps
cablcd his friendly interest from Berlin
to America during Mr.. IIalstead's illness,
and the W were together in Germany
before Mr.. Phelps return.
The Dickinson press., 1889-07-06
\. Life Saving Improvement.

An important improvement is chron-
icled in II marine life saving service.
After March, 1890, all steam vessels will
be required to carry q life line rocket.
Heretofore the line rocket appliance has
been confined to lifo saving service on
shore. a rocket, to which 4 line was at
taclcd, was fired from a mortar gun to
the ship in distress. Sometimes the line
became entangled out Of reach and was
of nc use. Sometimes the aim missed
altogether. Now, however, tho rocket
and line will be on board the vessel, and
can be fired thence to the shore. At
Washington a rocket has been tested
which carries a line 1000 yards. With
appliances like this. it does not seem
that a ships crew need very often DO lost
before the eyes Of those on shore, who
are unable to help them.
The Dickinson press., 1889-07-06
Tie French kill swallows bv Il mctl,o,

The French kill swallows by IL method
which might he adopted iii America for
destroying tie prstifcrous little English
sparrow. hundreds of wires. charged
by powerful batteries, arc strung along
the coasts when The birds arrive from
the south. They alight upon the wires
to rest ard fall dead Then they arc
prepared for the milliner and the stuffed
skins sent to Paris by the thousand to
adorn the hats of tender hearted ladies,
who would weep over the indigcstions of
Il pet poodle. But Il strange fact. which
is reason. instinct o something else, has
been noted tho present spring The
swallows have avoided the district of
the deadly wires in their migration
uurthWuru.
The Dickinson press., 1889-07-06

In the irrcvcrcnt slang OF Young
America, John Adams is called old
Fireworks" He it was who is rcspon-
sihlr fol all the powder and fireworks
of the Fourth of July. OF the day,
which he thought would be the I'd of
July instead of the 18th, he wrote to his
wif" Abigail: "lt ought to be solemnizcd
with pomp and parade, with shows,
games, sports, guns. bells, bonfires and
~illuminations from one end of this coun-
Try TO the other, from this time forward
forcvcImorc."
The Dickinson press., 1889-07-06

The price of sugar is going up. 1t is
because the sugar rctiners in the Union
last year made nineteen million dollars
profit on this staple. and they are isccp-
ing it up, and more so. this. Of the sum
named, fourteen million dollars was the
shareof the Sugar Trust syndicate. The
five millions the outside r%eliners made.
The trust, however. fixed the price for
all. This year the trust advanced the
basis of profit between raw and refined
sugar half n cent to the pound. This is
nearly double what it was last year. The
new schedule vent into operation April l
The Dickinson press., 1889-07-06
A drummers' camp meeting has just

A drummers' camp meeting has just
been held in Nebraska. 1t is not re-
corded, however, that many religious
conversions took place. 1t was merely
a weeks picnic and outing for 1000 COM
mercial travellers. Many of them had
their wives and families with them in
the woods. 1t is said the stories that
were told thereI%-c never been equaled
since ths-- stem %tllauooron Munchau-
Jdisaster, and wipe idea, that of
every rule and mepation taking
that have caused IT. cam - n
TeasOable and unneCTssMnoaE ~
the operations of the Gene
OMcc. Ill., Reporter.
The Dickinson press., 1889-07-06

An underground insulation for electric
wires has at last been found which seems
to be exactly the right thing. The wires
are laid within glass tubes. Around the
tubes is a thick layer of cement. All
this wire, glass tube and cemcn are
finally incloscd i'll m iron pipe. The
tubes arc thus water tight, and come
nearer atfordiny perfect insulation than
isdone by any other method yet hit upon.
The Dickinson press., 1889-07-06
The last Methodist general coufcrer

The last Methodist general conference
established an order OF deaconcsses. 1t
is a religious sistcrhood who live in
homes something on the plan of Il con-
vent. and spend their time in works of
charity and mercy. Two years proba-
ton and training are required before the
candidate is received into the full fcl,
lowsliip of d~eaconcsScs. No candidate
is accepted who is less than 50 wears cid
1t is rather taken for granted that one
entering the sistc~liood will spend her
life in the appointed work. though no
VOWS of c~clilsacy are taken. \. home has
been established in New York. where
the women receive the necessary pre-.
liminary instruction There are already
d~eaconesses' homes in most of the larger
cities of the Union.
The Dickinson press., 1889-07-06

Scientific botanists have been cxamin-
ing the plant life of Greenland. with a
view to asccrtaining whether that coun-
try belonged mor naturally to Europe
or to America. They have decided that.
from the standpoint of botanical gros-
raphy. Greenland is nearly related TO
America Perhaps it was Il part of our
continent once.
The Dickinson press., 1889-07-06

a Boston company is making rattan
burial baskets. Sanitary reasons are
strongly urged in its favor. In the
heavy. tightly closed hard wood coffin a
corpse remains u fostering danger in the
soil sometimes for years. In the open
wicker work coffin it decays and returrs
to its original elements rapidly
The Dickinson press., 1889-07-06

The largest single mortgage ever re-
corded is that cX'"n'ri by the Chicago.
Milwaukee and 81 al railroad to the
United States Tri1.i COMPANY 1t is for
Sl5O.00O. 900. 1t WAS ,'ven to collect and
consolidate intoon the outstanding debts
of the company.
The Dickinson press., 1889-07-06

Tw" american heroes blushingly share
between them the honors of Paris this
umn,rr One is Tom Edison, inside the
exposition. the other is Col. w. +. Cody.
""isiivm i, Science and society alike
bow their heads to Brother Jonathan.
The Dickinson press., 1889-07-06

y Philadelphia magistrate. Justice
Robert Smith. has decided that in law a
wife has the right to "sass" her husband.
Thus the dearest privilege of M
kind las been duly %intrenched behind
the majesty OF the law. Exalted be the
name of Smith among w%omankind