Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-02-25


"The Story Of Clouds Mills" b
John w. Clampitt, teaches one thin
the youth Of this age need sadly {
learn--that Is they should not expec
10 retain positions az sinecure, but b.
making themselves indispensable {
their employer by the thoroughnes
aud value of Their services. Any suc
person may become not only successful
but be real hero Ia life. Becaus
heroism implies mastery and devotion
beyond mere earning of a salary and
living, the uneventful hand-to-moutl
style Of most people In this world
The fact is that any young man o
woman who does not render himsel
or herself invaluable wherever or q
whatever employed will sooner or late
be dispensed with. That is the lessor
Of the hero Of this readable novel b.,
Donahue, Henneberry & Co., Chicago
The serf, slave or bond servant wore
blue coat which was the customary
garb Of serviDgmen Of that period, and
long before, in the hereditary halls Of
England. .-Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter
Our revolutionary forefatbers took that
blue coat Of serfdom pierced 1t with the
stars Of liberty from heaven and made
1t the badge of freedom wherever
floats the flag Of our country. We have
before US several reviews and works
treating the question Of annexation OF
the Hawaiian islands. None of them
seem imbued with the proper Ameri-
can spirit. All speak of the subject OF
annexation Of territory from the pessi-
mistic standpoint, as though our goy-
ernment were failure, more or less.
II the precedent of annexipg territory
Is ever established the whole North
American continent will surely and
peacefully follow. We are American
enough To believe that the people of
these United States are capable Of CIV
Ing the Sandwich Islands, New Bruins
wick, New Foundland, Canada, Cen.
tral Americas, Mexico, II you please,
better, more economical government,
more freedom and less taxes than they
now enjoy. II II were question of
making the masses Of those countries
happier and more prosperous and If
left to themselves they would all come
into Uncle Sans broad domain of
their own accord. AmerIcans--the
people Of these states-have the gov
ernmental instinct, the economic COM
mon sense, which Guizot defines ~ the
genius OF humanity, TO give the con.
tiguous regions better government than
any foreign power.
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pear ." any person sending. hefnre
March ], 1893, club of three New
yearly subscriber, with three dollars
To pay the same.
The new Peterson for March Is de-
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as they have been. "Our
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Df all the celebrated American women
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The man with n grievance IL the trag. |
. character In most novels now on the |
market. There he Is harmless, Roam
ny abroad or editing newspaper he In
'ositively out Of place. Millionaire
dackay has just been stretched low
nd probably manned for life by the
Individual who goes about nursing an
injury, or supposed injury, and plotting
lis secret revenge. No one Is safe from
hat fire of a fierce lurking spirit Of ven-
eance, but II seems an II no Is a little
helfworn as a type OF fiction.
Demorests Family Magazine for Feb
dary Is especially apropos at this time.
he stories are good, aud every one OF
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