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Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-12-30
Great Men Are Usually Ugly.

"Isn't it strange that nature made
her great men so unpardonably
ugly2" queried s. T. Leathe as he
turned portrait book of celebrities
in the corridors of the Lhdell.
"Take the whole lot, from Socrates
to Bismarck, from Pisistratus to Pat
rick Henry, and there are not half a
dozen men who rose to real great
ness who could, by the boldest exer-
else of poetic license, be called hand
some. Byron was probably one of
the best looking of the lot, and he
had club foot, was mentally de-
formed and morally depraved. Burns
was fine looking fellow, but he is
one of the minor great-cannot be
classed with the world compellers.
Voltaire was excusable for being in
bad humor with his Creator. He
looks as though one of natures
journeymen' might have made him.
Our own Henry Clay was so homely
that he had to use the horse trough
for mirror, and Lincoln had no use
for an 'amorous looking glass 1t is
strange, too, how few great men
look the part. st. Louis Globe
Democrat.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-12-30
The Hero Was Rewarded.

"a little child kept me from killing
a man once" said c. E. Edwards, a
guest of the Southern. Some years
ago l was conducting a store for
other parties at Winneconne, Wis.
l had a clerk who Systematically
robbed me. finally came up with
him and he made clean breast Of
the matter He said that he had
been hired to plumber the store by
one of the owners, who was my rival
for the hand of young lady in Fond
du Lac. His object was to fix upon
me the crime of embezzlement and
send me to Waupun. was young
and hot headed and at once went
cunning for the heavy villain of my
little drama. found him in a store
at Fond du Lac, and informed him
that his time had come.
The miserable wretch got down on
his knees and begged for his life, but
I was pitiless. AS l brought my pis-
tol down ON him his sister, wee
toddler whom I had not before no.
ticed, threw her arms about his
neck. She thought he had knelt
down to play with her. That was too
much for me. I pitched my revolver
into the river, and threw up my po-
sition. But got the girl. The hero
was rewarded if the villain did go
unpunished. "-St. Louis Globe-Dem-
Ocrat.
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IN ONE aonoolH HooM.

aistuins tenctsnce shown ~ Bcth
Teacher and Scholars.
In the sixth grade the subject Of
the Lesson was California During
this recitation no textbook was used
by the teacher. The teacher opened
the lesson with the question, How
long does II take TO 90 TO Californian
Then correcting herself, she said,
mo, tell me first why you would
like TO 90 TO California. though no
one had expressed any particular de.
sire TO go there
II should like 70 take n drive
around the mountains" answered
one Of the children.
II should like TO see the Golden
gate" said another.
This answer was followed by a cry
of "chestnuts" from one Of the boys
This remark did not, however, at
tract the attention of the teacher. In
fact during the entire lesson there
was complete absence of discipline.
After the children had given their
reasons for desiring to go to Califor.
MIA, the teacher remarked, Now,
tell me how long it takes to go
thereW
In reply to this all sorts of guesses
were made, the lowest being FIVE
days and the highest seven weeks.
At last a little girl said II know.
NV mamma went to California last
winter She started on Thursday
evening"
This manner of solving the prob
lem did not, however, appear to meet
with unanimous approval, as the
child's remarks were cut short by
cry of "Come Off :"
Unfortunately to the teacher her
self the whole subject of California
appeared to be involved in as deep a
mystery as the language of the Hin
docs. Indeed the children appeared
to do more toward the enlighten
ment of the teacher than the latter
did to enlighten them. Nevertheless
she finally put an end to the agoniz-
ing suspense by saying, II think it
would take about week"
Through what cities would you
pass in travelling from Buffalo to
California;" was the next question.
Chicago" said one of the chill
dren.
Let me see," the teacher re-
marked, as she walked to the wall
map to verify the answer When
other cities were mentioned, she did
tie same thing.
What can you tell me about San
Francisco2" she asked later. 1T is
the largest city in California" a pu-
pill replied.
'It is one of the largest, but l don't
know that it is the largest, > said the
teacher.
This ridiculous recitation was
closed with the reading of an extract
from an article on California which
one of the children had found in an
encyclopedia. DR.. j. M. Rice in
Forum.
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why Torchlight Campaigning Pays.

Men banded together are much
more subject to a common impulse
than individuals taken separately,
and there is some practical political
sense in getting the party men to-
gether, and rubbing them up against
one another in the promotion of a
common end. The contagion of en-
deavor reaches the listless ones, their
interest is stirred, and they not only
take hold themselves, but go out and
bring other waverers in. There is
no easier way Of binding a man to a
cause or party than to get HIM to
do little work for it. All men can
not be orators or editors or ward
bosses or even patient listeners, but
any man with arms and legs can car
ry a kerosene torch around the
streets, and come reasonably near
keeping step with a band.
The theory is that the fidelity of
the voter who undertakes such SIM
pie political labor is clinched, and
that his example has an effect be-
SIDES on the unorganized multitude.
Of course the SINNER his helmet is
and the more elaborate his costume,
the farther his example will reach ;
so that very considerable sums of
money are spent every four years in
tricking him out and paying the mu-
sicians whom he follows. Harper's
Weekly.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-12-30

The industrious nocturnal house
breaker hn1 visited unbidlon some
of the nurses bedrooms ~ Tho ~
pancraa inflrmnry, Dartmouth park,
and was quietly walking of With HI
booty, which wns fortunately only
Ave shilliugs In cash, when on passing
out Of the grounds by the outer gate
he found himself face 10 face with
n policeman II was not time for
dallying, and direct bolt was
not In the circumstances practicable,
The ready wit Of the impcrilcd thief,
however, At once suggested n likely
ruse. Quick said he 10 the consta
Bile, you're wanted inside. They've
got violent lunatic there, and I've
got TO go for further assistance"
Suiting the action 90 the word he
hustled OH. The unHispecting Off.
Ger In bluc, on reaching the hall OF
the infirmary, discovered that the
"violent lunatic" was figure OF
speech that n robbery had just been
committed, and that IL the escaped
stranger wanted assistance ut oil II
was certainly not Of the kind he
could hope to get from him. Lon.
don Letter.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-12-30

"Show me a mans hat and will
tell you his nationality" said a well
known halter to reporter the other
day. "You see almost every nation
has some particular shape of head or
style of hair.
IAN Americans head is generally
long and narrow. Most Americans
have pretty big heads. They wear a
7 or u sized hat.
"A German, on the contrary, has
a broad head, flat in the forehead
and high in the crown. The Ger
mans wear very large hats, but this
is more because they wear them
pulled down low than from the ac-
tual size of the head. A French
mans head is much the shape of an
Americans, but the back part of his
head is much broader than his fore
head. And the head is small. Irish
heads are large and almost perfectly
round, as are those of Englishmen.
But the worst head of all is the
japanese, and fortunately there are
not many of them here. You see
their hair is very thick and harsh,
and it is almost impossible to get
hat that will fit the back part of
their heads and not stick out in
front. And they always want a
stiff hat too.
But" he concluded, mo matter
what the shape of the head may be,
I generally find about as much brain
in big as little head. Washing
ton Herald.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-12-30

vefbai rfo,h erd spsf sult fheis
Taste iBettet fhsn Il icric.
In the pnst quarter u century
only three men have ev said any
, thing In q national polH,l eonven.
tion which the generi bubble re.
membered. These were fcoe t'onk.
ling when he nominal Grant,
Robert Ingcrsoll when dominated
Blaine and General BrV when he
seconded the norninatiobf Cleve.
land eight years ago. Et Depew,
graceful table talker M he In,
wearied the Minneapolis Invention
by n speech which had Vhing re-
marltable about IL excepts inordi.
nate length. He was vi disap.
pointment. Much was prdised for
Mr.. De Witt, of Brooklynthen he
came TO nominate Covert Hill at
Chicago, but the report OF his
speech indicate that II wi turgid,
dry as summer dust" h alto.
gether dreary. He endetSred to
rise 20 an OCCASION" butte occa-
sion eluded him, and his ebrt did
him no credit.
The trouble with the aveke ora
tor is that he fails to catch , spirit
of those whom he addresses It sell
dom occurs to him that an irtatient
crowd can only be reasonedtith in
the lightest lines of speech that
crisp, bright sententious declAtions
are accepted with shouts where
argument would fall upon urSlling
ears, and that oratorical grtness
can only be achieved by strikE out
from the beaten paths. But fire.
quently happens that in the eft to
depart from the old lines Of tHlght
the orator only betrays his leak
ness and meets with failure whse he
had expected'success.
The truth is, men will not lish to
the reading of presidents meage;
neither will they hear nor heethe
announcement of comparativesta-
tistics. These things they cant BAD
with profit and pleasure in ieir
own homes, at their own times ind
in their own way. When they get
together in public assemblagehe
resultant contact develops the hi-
NAL in them. They are exhilarad,
nervous, full of magnetism, restss
and in anticipation of somethlg
that will give them an opportury
to ''uncork themselves The mn
who can supply this want is the s{-
cessful convention orator He my
accomplish it in various ways al
by interesting methods, but he nut
adhere to the one principle of dired
ness and clearness.
He must be brief and bright, stron
in lung power and distinct in enunci3
ton. These qualities bring relief Z
the overstrained nerves and sensibil
tiles of vast audience, and the rd
flected magnetism thereafter carrie
forward together the orator and th'
listener. Louis Republic.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-12-30


Crenn building IN America before
the Revolution was almost entirely
N the bandsof Germans aud Swedes.
tIcsselins. Klein, Tanneberger aud
, Hnrttafel were prominent among the
early American makers, and their
names tell the story Of their nation.
atty Klein and his comrades are
almost forgotten, but Some OF their
organs are still In use In old churches.
The early organ builders here had no
thance to compete with the European
makers, for our forefathers we're at
best rather doubtful about the pro
pfiety of church music.
The old story of the deacon who
fought against the purchase of me
lodeon rs long ~ he could, and who
after IL was bought was asked to
pray in the prayer meeting, and re-
piled, "Call on the machine; IL It kin
sing IL kin pray" is almost too an
cient to repeat, but IL illustrates the
feeling that organ builders had to
overcome before and for some time
after the Revolution.
Even as recently, comparatively,
as the time of building the old organ
for Grace church, there was no hope
Of having as fine an instrument made
in this country as could be bought in
Europe, and some of the church peo-
pie were in favor of importing one,
but the American feeling prevailed,
and the contract was given to Adam
Geib, who came to New York in 1850.
He built the organ in New York, SO
1t needed no naturalization New
York Times.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-12-30
The Monkey and the Book,

A story is told of an eminent nat
uralist q forget his name) who was
hoping to develop the intelligence
of a monkey to whose education he
was devoting himself. One day he
saw with delight that the monkey
was sitting at the other end of the
room turning over the leaves of a
valuable book on entomology and
looking at the plates with apparent
interest. But on going nearer he
saw, with dismay, that the monkey
was turning over the plates in order
that, when he came to a particularly
large beetle or butterfly, he might
pick it out and eat it. AS the paper
could not have had a nice taste,
think he may have been actuated
rather by the fun of the thing than
by mere depraved appetite. Per
haps he was verifying the like meth
od of learning among the philoso-
pliers of Laputa. London Spectator.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-12-30
By and By and By the Bye.

Johnson's definition of "by ani
by" now generally written "by and
bye," is 'in a short time" CORE
spending to the French tout g
l'heure, and Shakespeare uses it to
express the immediate as distin
guished from the more remote fu
ture:
Now sensible man, by and by fool, and
presently beast.-Othello.
If we knew how "by" came to be
indicative of the present, the second
"by" might be assumed to signify
beyond.
by the bye was in Johnson's time
used in different, almost opposite,
sense to that in which we now en-
ploy it, as an equivalent to the French
a propos, not as expressive of some
thing opposite, but, on the contrary,
as, according to Johnson, ''some-
thing not the direct and immediate
object of regard" In neither case
is the employment of ''by" in these
two familiar expressions accounted
for.-Notes and Queries.
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The Koran, sura lxxxi, has this
TO say concerning the general "judg-
ment day." which nearly all religions
teach in common: when the sun
shall be folded up and when the
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tain shall be made to pass away; and
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Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-12-30

Passing down one of London's
slums, Mr. Montagu Williams, @. c.,
was struck by the distressed appear
ance of a young girl of about seven
teen, whose eyes were seriously black
ened. In reply to question of sym
pathizing companion as to who did
that for youa" the girl responded
why, my young man of course. He
couldn't have done much more if he'd
been my 'usband, could hes"-London
Bits.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-12-30
The Hidden Hand.

An eccentric New Yorker, much
given to hospitality, has concealed
among the flowers ON his dinner
table an artificial mocking bird, which
at the pressure of an electric wire by
his foot fiutters and gives musical
chirp. Strangers are amused by the
ingenious toy, but his family and
friends understand that the bird
only flies and sings when a subject
IS broached which is likely to prove
offensive or painful to one of the
quests. Exchange.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-12-30
An Even Thing.

Plaintiffs Attorney-rve an ex-
pert who will swear he is insane.
Defendants Attorney have an
expert who will swear he is of sound
mind.
Plaintiff Attorney-Then let's pair
off on experts and save that much
money. .-Harper's Bazar.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-12-30

More than 1000 vessels, aggregat-
ing $50, 900 tons, are lost annually,
this being between 8 and A per cent.
of the worlds total shipping. OF
the total tonnage lost only IL per
cent. is in steel vessels, against Al
per cent. in iron and AZ in wood
Ohio State Journal
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What Mutton Chops Did for One Man.

A doctor, who had attended pa
tient and who was peculiarly gruff
and i'll tempered man, was congratu-
lating himself upon the skill he had
used in pulling the sufferer through
his illness.
mo, DOCTOR" said the old fellow,
"twan't you, and 'twan't your pills
or your potions as have cured me
twas Doctor Mutton Chop as ! have
to thank for that. Exchange.
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A crooked smile shows that there
is something wrong behind it, just
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shows a warp in the nature of the
person who wears it. But when the
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