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Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-09-21
Llncoln's opinion of Cowardioe.


While Lincoln was fearless in his
own nature he had the keenest for
bearance for the timidity of others.
He would never consent to shoot a
soldier for cowardice. He called them
''leg cases"
mo one need ever expect me to
sanction the shooting of a man for
running away in battle, " he said to
me once. Il won't do it. A man
can't help being a coward any more
than he could help humpback, if he
were born with one" Then, turning
to me again, he said, "Voorhees,
were you ever scaredp
confessed that had some little
experience that way.
80 have I, said Lincoln, laughing,
land just know what it means.
And in any contest or controversy
which arises between the head and
the heels l never knew the heels to
get anything but the best of it. No,
sir; they needn't send any leg cases
to me at all. I'll never order man
shot for any such offense."
Once when l was up to the White
House to see him about something
he turned to me with pathetic look
of anxious pain and said: Voorhees,,
doesn't it seem strange that'I should
be here-I, a man who couldn't cut a
chickens head off, with blood run
ming all around mer-Senator Voor-
hees in Kansas City Times.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-09-21

Down in Miles River neck, Talbot
county, there is a spot where the
average Chinese would delight to
dwell. Ii is a place where Chinese
cucumbeFs grow to an enormous size.
This vegetable, however, assumes
sometimes a shape which frightens
the natives of the neighborhood, in
spite of the fact that Talbot is local
option county. The cucumber grows
long and slim, and at times twists
itself into coils resembling a snake
A man going from Easton the other
day TO Miles River ferry, in passing
little clearing in the woods, noticed
a green looking object in a patch Of
vegetables, and he got over the fence
TO make closer examination. He
almost tainted.
Another citizen came along soon
afterward. The first man had re-
vived and was leaving the patch at a
Nancy Hanks gait. When accosted,
he said 90 his friend, Been bit by a
snake; woods full of en- Citizen
No. = speIsuaded the frightened man
TO go back, and upon examination
the snake proved 10 be a Chinese Gu
cumher about "a inches long, which
in the course of growth had twisted
itself up in the form of a snake -
Baltimore American.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-09-21
DueIinr by one Rus.Ian Melhoa.

The Russian method of dueling is
a peculiarly sanguinary affair. The
opponents are set 10 PAGES apart, with
liberty TO advance five PAGES each at
a given signal and to fire at will.
Should one fire and miss, the other
may complete his five PAGES before
returning the shot 1t often happens
that one of the two is mortally
wounded before firing and has yet
sufficient strength TO creep forward
to his mark, take steady aim and
shoot with fatal effect. The great
Russian novelist Pushkin was killed
in this manner after wounding his
London Tit. Bits.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-09-21
Hen and Kittens.

1t may interest your readers who
care about this sort of subject to
hear of the singular incident at our
farm two years ago of hen taking
charge of three kittens. The moth
er cat must have taken them herself
an hour or two after their birth and
placed them under the hen, which
had made a nest for herself two or
three yards off under the manger in
a cowshed. / saw the cat and her
progeny lying on the straw directly
after their birth and noticed the hen
on her nest. Returning an hour or
two later, the cowman showed me
the kittens under the hen, wonder
ing how they had got there, as no
body else had been in the shed, and
he had not touched them.
Till the kittens grew too big, the
hen never left them. The cat used
to go away foraging and come down
every now and then, throw herself
down alongside the ben and nurse
her young ones, sometimes lying
with her head under and her paws
almost round the hens neck. AS the
kittens got older it was droll TO see
their foster mother following them
about and trying TO cover them with
her wings. For some six weeks it
was quite the sight of the neighbor-
hood.-Cor London Spectator.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-09-21
Before Going to the Wolld's Fair
Enquire About


Enquire About
The Limited Express trains of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Railway
between st. Paul and Chicago and
Omaha and Chicago.
These trains are vestibuled, electric
lighted and steam heated, with the flu
est Dining and Sleeping Car Service in
the world,
The Electric reading light in each
berth is the successful novelty of this
progressive age, and is highly appreciat-
ed by all regular patrons of this line.
We wish others to know its merits, as
the Chicago Milwaukee & st. Paul Rail-
way is the only line in the west enjoy
ing the exclusive use of this patent.
For further information apply to
nearest coupon ticket agent, or address
9. j. EDDY, General Agent,
]. w. CASEY, Trav. Pass. Agt.
225 Stark St., Portland, Or. If
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-09-21
HOP ITEMS.
CONSIDER THE PIcKERs.

CONSIDER. THE PICKERS.
The Puyallup Citizen says the hos
pitable North Yakima has been feed
ing at municipal expense, the horde of
people who prematurely came into that
city In search of labor incident to hop
picking. This has been done al the in
stance Of the city council and their ac-
tion was generally approved by the
growers and business men of the Yicin-
ity. But there has nevertheless been a
minority that strenuously opposed this
humane and we'll advised action. Now
that picking has fairly begun it has
been found that 5000 would not be re-
quired to pick even the 1900 bales
that were 30 wisely estimated, and
that 1t will be difficult to register over
5000 pickers In all the district. Present
industrial depression has greatly ia
vored Yakima with a surfeit of pickers
that were easily and inexpenslyely OBJ
tained, and it would be but flying in
the face Of Providence to give cold
treatment TO a class OF working people,
that under other conditions, would
have been difficult and expensive to
gather. II was but a few years ago
that Indian pickers were given bonus
OF $3.50 each to work for the growers of
White river, while paying the fare of
plckeTs to and from long distances, has
often been done by the growers of the
Sound. 1t could have been easily for
seen that this season there would be a
surfeit Of pickers in every district In
America; and the misguided Indians
who sent communication to the
Growers association Of Yakima, to the
effect that they would charge 81 per
box, have been probably affol ded an
opportunity to regret their little scheme
TO exploit the industrial class from
which they might reasonably expect
to draw annual wage. money for many
years to come. 1t would not be strange
were the hop acreage of the Northwest
increased fifty per cent another season,
and that the acreage Of Yakima county
would be doubled; and that, as years
pass, 1t will be one of tue most
extensive hop districts on earth.
There will be revival Of busi-
ness and enterprise aud the unem-
ployed will be occupied In other ave-
nues OF industry. When these condl.
tions prevail the people Of Yakima will
have no reason TO regret that they have
paved the way for an annual return OF
many pickers who are now at work In
The district, but who under present cir
could he easily replaced. A
arge, but often requisite proportion Of
Diokers are not solely actnated In going
o the hop fields by the money that
nay be made. Many toiles In the
titles who cannot afford TO pay the ex.
onses OF an outing or to lose any time
rom earning bread-money. 90 to the
op fields for the purpose OF making a
ealthy break In their monotonous
YES. In the old days the incentive OF
change was great factor In gather
4 together the Indians Of the North
est for the races, potlaches aud all the
mp and circumstance Of savage glory
,s the star event Of the year among !
: lonely Siwashes. Pickers should
treated with rational amount OF |
I-tlme consideration for the time will !
ne that their services VIII hs needed, {
AROUND PUYALLuP. !,
ne Meeker hop land shls season ag- i
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-09-21

The publicexpenditures are not quite
so much in excess of the receipts this
month as they were last month, but
the showing in that respect is still a
good dead worse than iteyer was under
a Republican administration.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-09-21

The number of business failures is de-
creasing at rate which proves that the
conditions of trade are steadily improv-
ing and that proper action at Washing
ton is the only thing needed to make
the situation as good as it was before
the trouble began.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-09-21
SUGGESTED COMMENT.

The testimony Of the witnesses who
haye appeared before Mr.. Wilson's COM
mittee is practically unanimous to the
effect that a reduction Of the tariff
would necessarily be followed by re
duction Of wages.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-09-21
Baby cried,
Mother sighed,
Doctor prescribed: Castoris
TODAY'S MARKETS.
Prices Current by Telegraph - Local
and Portland Quotations.

SALEM, September Il, 4 p. m.-Of1ice
DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL. Quota
tions for day and up to hour of going to
press were as follows:
SALEM PRODUCE MARKET.
FRUIT.
Apples-35c to SOC bushel.
Peaches 65c to IS box.
BUTCHER STOCK.
Veals-dressed AZ cts.
Hogs-dressed 6 to 81.
Live cattle-l4 to 2.
Sbeep-alive $3.50 to $500.
Spring lambs-$l. 90 to $500.
MILL PRICES.
Salem Milling Co. quotes: Flour
in wholesale lots 1910. Retail $3.40.
Bran Sl54 bulk, $l64sacked. Shorts $l74
Chop feed SIS and $l9.
WHEAT.
Old wheat on storage 46 cents. New
wheat AS cents.
HAY AND GRAIN.
Oats-old, SO to 40c., new SOC.
Hay-Baled, new IS to Sl2; old $40 to
Sl4. Wild in bulk, $6 to IS.
Barley-Brewing, at Salem, No. l.,
95 to Sl.00 per cwt. No. 2, 20 to IS cts.
FARM PRODUCTS.
Peas and beans-S to 10 cents gallon.
Wool-Best, 10c.
Hops-Small sale, 154 to lie.
Eggs-Cash, 10 cents.
creamery, 80.
Ehaaca 70 TX
Farm smoked meats-Bacon 12l;
hams, l3; shoulders, 10.
PotatOes-new, soc. to 45c.
Onions,-ff to IL cents.
Beeswax -34c. Caraway seed, lSc.
Anise seed, zee. Ginseng, Sl.40.
HIDES AND PELTs.
Green, 2 cts; dry, cts; sheep pelts,
25 cts to 40c. No quotations on furs.
LIVE POULTRY.
Chickens-7 cts; brOilers Z; ducks, s
l0c; turkeys, slow sale, choice, l0c;
geese &c.
PORTLAND QUOTATIONS.
Grain, Feed, etc.
Flour-Standard $3. .25; Walla Walla,
3.25i graham, $2.75; superfine, $3.50
per barrel.
Oats-Old white, ,36c per bu. grey, 3Sc;
rolled, In bags, So 2596.5O; barrels,
IS 50@6 rs; cases, IS rs.
Hay-Best, $l0@l5 per ton.
WOol-valley, 10 10 lie.
Mills.uffs-Bran, Sl7.00; shorts, $40;
ground barley, $22923; chop feed, SIS
per ton; whole feed. barley, S09S5 per
Genital; middling, $23@2S per ton; brew
ing barley, 90@95c per cental; chicken
wheat. 81. lO@l .25 per GENITAL. I
Hops Old, 10 to lee, new Is to ~.
DAIRY PRODUCE.
Butter Oregon fancy creamery, 25@
,7c; fancy dairy, 20(922ac; fair % good,
6Gl7c; common, IA to l5c per 10; Cali
ornia, S5@44c per roll.
Cheese = Oregon, a I2l; Eastern
wins, Ice; Young American, l4lc per |
)eT pound; California flats, l4c.
Eegs-OregOn, Is TO l6c per dozen.
Poultry Chickens. old $3.50; broilers,
arge, 81 S2OO@S.0g ducks, old. S45O@ |
.OOi young, t25O@4O0; geese, $500
turkeys, live, l4lc.
SAN FRANCISCO MARKET.
Wool: Oregon Eastern choice, lO0 /
0ei do inferior, 5000; do valley, 100 /
90.
Hops-l6ic.
Potatoes Early Rose, 5000. Bur
anks, S.4O(a50c.
Onions-75@S5e per GENITAL for red.
nd t.S0@9,ho for silverskius.
Barley Feed, 0S(97O per GENITAL
n good quality ana SStc for choice;
fewing, 3 80 per GENITAL.
Oats-Millings : .9O9L.lO. |
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-09-21
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FIFTIETH YEAR.

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Institution of Learning in the Pacific
Northwest.
Sixteen courses of Instruction, from
Grammar, through Academic and Col
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Splendid Courses for Training in
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and Music. Several Post Graduate
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It's Woman's College affords an ideal
home for young ladies with unsurpassed
facilities for their care aud training.
The school year opens Sept. 4, 1898.
For Year Book aud all information
relating TO school management and
course of study, address,
Acting Pres, W. c. HAwLEY, LII. IAN.
For financial information, address,
Rev. ]. H. RooRK, Agent,
S-22-d&w Salem, Oregon.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-09-16
What Did IT

In The Review of Reviews Dr. Albert Shaw tells Us what in his judgment caused the money stringency of the summer of 1898. In brief, he thinks the banks started the scare. He writes:
 The bankers were the first alarmists. They threw many reputable and perfectly sound business houses into bankruptcy by refusing the ordinary credits needed to turn over" ,. stock. But the banks were paid hack very sharply for their selhsh timidity. Their re fuSal 10 perform their functions in the business world naturally led the business community to suppose that the hanks themselves were in a questionable condition, and almost every one proceeded 10 withdraw deposits. Then began that frightened struggle for existence which led the banks to cling at any hazard to their reserves and to ErudSe every dollar loaned to regular customers or drawn out open ac- counts. And this conduct still more efTectu- ally frightened the dcpositors. who saw no safe course except to draw their money and hoard 1t soTnew hcre.
 If our hanks had hecn equal to the Cmer- GenCy, their whole policy would have been diff fcrent from the outset tn the end. They would have charged brisk rates, but they would have loaned with he utmost freedom on good scCur- ity. IT necessary they would have paid a hiG h premium abroad for gold. and they would ha rt deposited more bonds and issued more cur renCy under the national banking laws. This well established European plan of meeting a strinSepcy by the most liheral extension Cf credit is one that our American banks should | through some form cr Crher Nt co-opArstio- learn 70 adopt.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-09-16
ATTEND THE PRIMARIES.

It is the duty of every democratic voter in Waterbury to cast a ballot at the primaries on Monday. Voters who take no part in the primary election have only themselves to blame if the tickets, when made up, carry the names of men for whom they do not feel like voting. The DEMOCRAT does not believe in waiting until the nominations are made and then using the knife. That is not politics; it is crookedness.
 The fact that there will be two or more tickets in each ward, indicates that a large vote will be cast and an in telligent expression of the party secured for the nominating conventions. When the tickets have been arranged for cleo tion day there should be no rivalry ex- cept such as aims at swelling the vote and increasing the party majority.
 Democrats who remain away from the primaries have no right to complain of the result. They forfeit the right as good party men to complain of nom- nations when they have deliberately remained away from the primaries.
 We believe that there will be no cause fo- complaint at the manner in which the primaries are conducted. Chairman Morris of the democratic town com
 mittee will2doI what he believes to be
 right, rest assured of-that. Represents
 tives of every ticket will be treated
 fairly. or that we are assured. =
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-09-16
The Wonder of the Worlds Fair.

There are hundreds of thousands of Americans who to this day do not know what the greatest thing at the Worlds fair is. What is the one particular ob- ject which is to our exposition what the Eiffel tower was to the Paris exposition? In brief, it is the Ferris wheel. In many respects it is the greatest mechanical achievement of modern times.
 Its architect is modest. Few persons know even that his name is George Washington Gale Ferris, and that he is civil engineer, only 30 years old, a native of Illinois and graduate of the Troy Polytechnic school. The Ferris wheel is greater than the Eiffel tower because it will move. IL was not merely scheme to get money out of the pock- cts of Worlds fair visitors. It was the reply of an American engineer to the l taunt of Worlds fair director that our mechanicians had been able to give us nothing that as wonder and novelty corresponded to the Eiffel tower.
 This mighty wheel weighs 2,200 tons. The axle on which it swings weighs 70 | tons. It is turned by sprocket wheels and an endless link chain. IL was built in Detroit piece by piece by machinery 1 invented by Americans-not by hand work, like the Eiffel tower. What per lection American iron and steel casting i machinery has attained may be learned from one fact-Ferris felt so sure every | part of his wheel, 250 feet in diameter, would fit into its adjoining part that he did not even take the trouble to put it | together at the iron works in Detroit be fore he shipped it to Chicago. There after the 55 foot foundation had been dug, walled and braced and the eight cement and steel towers sent up to the height of 140 feet in the air. the axle the mighty wheel was set up piece by piece. There were thousands of thcs, pieces. As its ingenious deviser had cal
 culated, every piece dropped into plac,
 as intended
 When all was done. June 21, ther,
 was nothing but 10 swing the wonde
 of, and it has been swinging ever sine
 gently and unerrinSly as the solar sys
 tenn itself. The reason the wheel wa not ready sooner was that the director | would not consent to let MT. Ferris con
 struct it till the 10th of December. 1899 r In II months from that time it wa : ready. The Eifel tower required thre 3 years to build. The especial mechanics 2 idea emphasized in the Ferris machin is that of the tension wheel-that is, wheel with jointed spokes instead ( g | stiff ones
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-09-16
Stoves WIthou. i'Iurs.

About this time uf Nytr The fool killer is whetting his ax. He is making it very sharp. He is preparing to follow in the wake of the agent who offers for sale what he calls stoves without fues. But the fool killer Is not going to kill the fel- low who sells the stoves. Oh. no! He is lying in wait for the man who buys them and believes the story of the sweet ly buzzing agent that there can be such thing as q stove. fireplace or lamp that needs no vent in the outside air.
 Fire is union of oxygen with the combustible substance of the fuel. what ever that may be, wood. gas, oil or coal. The supply of oxygen Is drawn from the air of the room about the fire. When the oxygen unitcs with the fuel, it forms carhonic acid gas vapor and smoke. Gas and certain other forms of fuel make very little smoke when burned. But they do throw off into the atmosphere a deadly amount If poi>onouS GaSrS. In. less these go up the chimney into the fluc and outdoors. whore dn they gr: In 10 the room. If course, that lS hcatri hy the so called fluclt>S stovc.
 IL is easy to kill ones svlt with car bonic acid gas vr common illuminating gas. When the x. r. (. A. wishes [, put stray dogs r.tinle>sly urt If tn, way 1t simply shuts thr carinrS gently iuro ; close room and turns ;I.' SIS nn. Th' dogs co to >l.r'r. ard they re>"r walk up any mcr", fvru want t' lo'r your
 self gently and palnl.>s!v into your las
 sleep in hurry. ren.aln ln rooms heat ed by flueless s1avtS. If you want th process to extend ovyr several month
 or years and be quite as effective, hav
 your living rooms lighted by big lamp
 or gas burners and keep inc window shut u--hI
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-09-16
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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-09-16

tons nave erected ! N-N' '-N'r' '''' '' 'N''-N''' very handsome and expensive clubhOu~cs. The visit of Lord Hawkes. team of crack English CrickCtrrS in lSgl gave great i'm petus to the sport in America, and more than ever made the game A society fad on this side At present cricket players are much interested in the coming of the Aus traliau Cricketrr~, who have just finished battling with the best clevens in England, and who will arrive in America about the close of September. The autipodrans have been putting up a StrruE game in Great
 Britain, and it is expected that they will make II very interesting forthr best eleven on this side of the Atlantic, The first
 games the visitors are scheduled la play in
 America will he seen at Philadelphia Sept
 29 and ;iO and Uct. ,
 From Philadelphia the visitors Goto New
 York where they will meet a >truuG eleven
 picked from the best players of the Metro
 pulitau Cricket league Vu tn" grounds Ut
 the staten Island Cricket club, Oct. %, | and ,. The Australians will then visit the Worlds lair and play the best crIcArlors in Chicago.
 The team k called the Eighth Australian eleven, and it's captain, Jack Blackham
 has visited England with eight different teams from the autlpodes. While his work | this Year Is not quite up 10 his old time form he still plays a remarkable game, and | his fame Us d level headed captain is huOwr | to crichrtcrs the world over. Among tn, | other strong players with the eleven art | George (iifIru. the south Australian cham piou; w. Brurc. famous left handed vN pert: Jack Lyons, the slant of the team | Alcck BHuurrmau. who recently put lhrr, | figure score lo his credit, Harry Graham, th,