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Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-02-21
A Last Request.

Uncle Isaac Wha's dat yo'm er sayin,
Becky?
Becky done sayin, Isaac, dat l mos
done shovel off dis yere mo'tal kile. Mer
braff come mighty sca'se an mer eyes
sorter seem like day'en cobwibs in de ar.
Uncle Isaac-Is de doctor sayyo' kyan'
sholy git well, Becky?
Becky-Dat's jes' what he done say,
Isaac. He tell me de vey mos what
kin speck am dat las twell Chuseday.
Uncle Isaac-Umml Dasso? Well now,
look yere, Becky. Dom you tink, jes' to
Tabor yo' berlubbed podner, yo' c'u'd
strain pint an las ober twell friday
Dat'll gimme time ter run down ter
Lynchbu'g an pick out anudder spouse
an fotch her ober yere so yo' kin glib her
some idees erbout runnin de domestic
gob-r'men' fo' yo' step out. JUS yo' try,
Becky. bits de las Tabor dat done az
Courier.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-02-21
Pathetic Fl erOisun.

A pathetic heroism was that shown by
q woman, devoted wife and mother.
whose life, after months of invalidism,
went out in this first month of the new
year. 1t had been the intention of her.
self and husband to redecorate the home
about the time her illness declared itself,
and when last autumn it became evident
that not much more time among the
things of this world would be accorded
to the sufferer she decided that the work
should be carried forward under her su-
pervision Her illness was of nature to
permit her to be up and about few
hours every day, and during these strong
er moments artists and decorators con-
suited with her, carrying out her wishes
in every detail.
From garret to cellar the home was
gone over, and the family spent their last
united Christmas in their beautifully rem
ovated home. "You will be glad by and
BY" said this wise and loving woman,
whose artistic soul must have painfully
appreciated the loveliness she had Great
ed only to leave; "glad that did it all.
and it will be a comfort to live surround
ed by my fancies and my TASTE"
And so it will undoubtedly prove to the
husband and sons and daughters, who
now feel only their deep bereavement
Her Point of View in New York Times.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-02-21
One OF whittier's Letters.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, in paper
on Whittier in The Century, quotes
the following extract among others
from the poets letters to her:
Thus far the summer has not
brought me the release from pain and
weakness which ! expected. / am
only comfortable when body and
mind are idle. Time passes SO swiftly,
there is SO much I want to say and
do, and this enforced leisure is so
barren Of results Ihave been read
ing Samuel Johnson's Oriental Re-
ligions"-the last big volume upon
Chinese ethics and faith, if faith it
can be called. am more and more
astonished that such a man as Con-
fucius could have made his appear
ance amid the dull and heavy COM
monplaceness Of his people. No
wiser soul ever spoke Of right and
duty, but his maxims have no divine
sanctions, and his pictures Of a per-
fectsociety have no perspective open.
ing to eternity. Our DR.. Franklin
was quite of the Confucian order
though much smaller man.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-02-21
Alexander III's Courage.

The czar has been frequently accused
of cowardice-an indictment to which,
1t must be admitted, many undeniable
facts lend strong coloring of probabil-
ity. Thus it has been alleged in support
of the charge that he seldom drives about
the city alone, and when not escorted by
body of Cossacks is invariably accom-
panied by her majesty the empress. His
profound seclusion at CATCHING, where
for considerable period he hid himself
even from the bulk of his own officers.
likewise created most unfavorable i'm
preston, which is by no means yet re-
moved.
Again. the sight Of the armies that
guard the railway lines along which he
happens to be travelling, the elaborate
system Of espionage, and the practice Of
employing agents proyocateurs, who
sometimes organize the crime which they
discover, have contributed to impart con-
sistency to charge which his creditable
career as an officer should have amply
sufficed to refute. Contemporary Re
view
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-02-21
TURF TOPICS.

Diamond, trotting record 2:154, will
be out with green PAGERS when the bell
rings next season.
The Grand Rapids Driving club of
Grand Rapids has decided to hang up
S25, 900 for the meeting on Aug. to l3.
Nightingale. 2:lSi. by Osgood's Patch
en-, was fOaled natural PAGER and
never trotted u step till converted as a
2-year-old.
The hackney stallion Danegelt has
changed hands ut 5000 guineas. which is
said to be the highest price ever paid for
hackney.
Trainer Geers says that q sluggish
horse makes the best campaigner. as he
never frets and always learns something
in every race.
The old turf queen Flora Temple won
during her career in purses and stakes
alone the sum Of $69.500 and lost In
stakes only $4,000.
William M. Singerly of Philadelphia
is driving Gabrielle. 2:224. and Three
Tips. 2:254. to pole in that city this win
ter. They make great team.
The fastest time for quarter on rec
ord on the running turf Is cit. which
rate of speed, were 1t possible to main
tain it. would give mile in LES.
Old Jim, the mule which General
John A. Logan rode during the war, died
at Newport, Ark. recently. She was
about 40 years old and was as gray as it
is conceivable for an old mule to possibly
be.
Don J. Leathers of Grand Rapids has
created no little excitement among the
drivers located In that city in telling
them Of an aluminium pneumatic sulky
he will show them next season that will
only weigh 25 pounds.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-02-21

Had Long Beard and Despised Doctors.
Matthew Robinson Uord Rokeby),
a prominent but eccentric English.
man of the last century, became fa-
nous for his long beard and his pro-
nounced hatred Of medical practi-
TONERS. In regard to the former it is
said that upon one occasion when
going to an election he stopped at an
inn where the country people, who
had assembled from miles around,
took him for Turk, and through
this mistaken idea almost worried
"me lord" to death.
His dislike for physicians was car
ried to such an extreme that he left
a codicil to his will which was to
the effect that favorite nephew
was to be disinherited should he (the
nephew in the last illness of the lord
let his sympathies cause him to send
for doctor. This having been made
known to the nephew when his IN
Gle the lord, was in good health, it is
needless to add he allowed that per-
sons spirit to take it's fight with
out calling in any of the internal sur
gical fraternity. st. Louis Repub-
liz
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-02-21
THE LATEST NOVELTIES.

Pearls Of different colors are popular
In combinations.
A brooch called the "Sunburst" Is
made Of pearls-black. white, cream,
brown. pink, yellow.
Silver knitting balls. silver knitting
needles and silver knitting needle cases
are for the industrious.
In watches old styles are reproduced.
They are little. fat timepieces with rings
Of pearls and enameled pictures on one
side. The other is open faced.
A new chatelaine pin Is an enameled
sword with jeweled hilt, which passes
through the dress. From the sword a
chain hangs on which swings the watch.
The bonbon spoon in perforated silver
and silver gilt has grown into great
shovel-like ladle for serving nuts and
faisins at dessert. These are wonder
fully decorated.
A new souvenir ladle Is q facsimile Of
that used by Washington and bearing
his crest. The head Of Washington is
on the handle. with dates of his birth
and death. On the reverse side Ia Wash
ington's autograph In fac-simile.
Jeweled and enameled swords and
daggers Of gold representing the weap-
ons Of all nations; flowers In natural col
ors. with or without geInmed centers,
and still later thistle Of white enamel
are designs for hatpins. Jewellers Cir
cular
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-02-21
THE GIRL OF THE PERIOD.
She Has Fortitude Unbounded, Yet Now
Inclines to Pensive Ways.

She Has Fortitude Unbounded, Yet Now
Inciines to Pensive Ways.
There seems to be mode in maladies
as well as in nantles, styles in suffering
as novelties in dress. Just at the present
time it isn't fashionable to have any phys.
ical ailment unless it is something vague
and peculiar under the general name of
nerves." and the odd thing about it is
only the more robust and vigorous wom-
en-, SO far as looks are an indication of
virility, that have this nervous prostra-
ton perpetually on hand. If woman
looks pale and delicate, she never will ad-
NIT that she is not strong.
The fin de steele girl glories in bearing
physical pain without a complaint She
will seat herself in the dentists or ocu-
lists chair as unconcernedly rs if posing
for the photographer and submit to the
most painful operations without groan
in fact, assuring the operator that it
really was less painful than she expect
ed" A car driver would cry like baby
if subjected to half as much suffering.
But we are returning to the days of
sloping shoulders. of parted pensive
tresses, of fullness and frivolity in dress.
The up to date girl is sweetly submissive,
not smart and self reliant. She wears
flowers in her hair and occasionally even
ventures in what the girl in the old nov
els is always doing, putting rose in her
bosom, your rose that you have given
her. And she does it with such shy
and modest little blush. Now the ques-
ton is, Will the "vapors" and ''swoons"
and 'sobbings" Of that period come in
again2 The Amelias and Delias and Caro-.
lines of that day were always in a dead
faint over something. They tainted for
joy and tainted for sorrow. A girl of
that time swooned off when her lover
proposed, and when she came to she was
always lying in his arms, and of course
it was all over and no use trying to tell
fellow about being sister to him after
that
There was another feature about this
swooning fit of the old time heroine, and
that was that her dearest friend was al
ways within call with the scissors to cut
her corset laces. How is any one in this
time of hidden hooks ever to loosen q
bodice before the heroine passes over the
border line in her faintl 1t will be rather
difficult for the modern girl, who has
trained herself to smile when her heart
breaks, to die rather than reveal her heart,
to conceal her joy and preserve her So
renity alike through death or divorce, to
learn this graceful art of collapsing at
just the proper time to bring a wary
suitor to his knees.
There's something dangerous to
chivalrous mans theories against mar
riage to find himself suddenly with his
arms full of limp, signing, pale faced girl
hood. He is more apt to call her pretty
names than he would be if she stood radi-
ant and defiant before him, apparently
ready to laugh at his endearments.-New
York Sun.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-02-21
Rural Region Near New York.

N AhttAoh NchT Now hOTks
Just west of the Hudson and above
Weehawken is a region as rural and
antique as any $50 miles from New
York. Although this region is almost
within rife shot of Riverside drive it
is sparsely settled and difficult of ac-
cess. Its inhabitants are descended
from Dutch settlers, who found their
way into the region after better and
more accessible lands had been occu-
pied. 1t was part of this district that
was bought up ten or fifteen years
ago by syndicate including William
Walter Phelps and Rutherford B.
Hayes. The expected developments
never followed, and those Of the syn
dicate who were not rich enough to
hold on sold out to those who could
afford to wait. Mr.. Phelps now holds
a great deal of the syndicates orig.
inal purchase.
One of the purchasers has held on
to his land amid all sorts of difficult
ties and at the expense of much self
sacrifice on the part of himself and
his family. The prophecy that a re-
gion SO near New York must in ten
years have a population of many
thousands has fallen ludicrously
short Of fulfllment, as even now the
inhabitants scarcely number more
than they did twenty-five years ago.
New York Sun.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-02-21
Che Injured Her Pride.

"Are you hurtr said a gentleman to a
young woman who had just fallen down
In most ungraceful heap on the side
walk on Chestnut street the other d. J.
mo, thank you; only my PRIDE" and
she brushed off her gown and got out Of
sight as quickly as possible. 1t is wom-
ans nature to really wish II she has TO
fall that she will hurt herself rather than
to have all the ignominy for nothing.
When a man tumbles down. he Is up
again In minute. his clothes intact. and
no one gives more than a passing thought
to the occurrence. But the poor woman
usually drops her purse. knocks her hat
awry. is never certain how much lingerie
she has exposed and Ia helped mp mis-
cradle wreck that viii take several pins
and 10 minutes before the mirror TO
make presentable again. to say nothing
Of the humbling hsr pride undergoes BY
the operation -Philadslphis TimsA
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Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-02-21
WORLDS FAIR NOTES.

The Swiss national council has voted
$1,000 francs subsidy In connection with
the Chicago fair.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Is to be invited
10 furnish an ode for the opening Of the
Worlds fair next May.
The Reading Railroad company Is pre-
pairing the first locomotive used In its
system for exhibition at the Worlds fair.
Miss Ida J. Burgess. a Chicago artist,
receives 5000 for decorating the wom-
ans library and reception room In the
Illinois building at the Worlds fair, re-
ceiving the award over many cornpetitorA
Thomas Pugh. assistant general super-
tntendent Of the New South Wales ex-
hibit at the Worlds fair. has arrived In
Chicago with about ESQ tons of minerals.
woods, wines. wool and other products.
eems soo % COO toas more ere sxpsstsd.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-02-21
An Asronaut.s Terrible Experience.

During the year 1894 Gay-Lussac
made a balloon ascension alone in
which he reached a height Of $4,000
feet. This ascension was made from
one of the many pleasure resorts of
Paris in the heat of summer. When
he quilted the earth the Fahrenheit
thermometer registered SO degs. in
the shade; within an hour he was in
an atmosphere that only showed a
pressure of thirteen inches on his
barometer, while the thermometer
marked IS degs below zerol The
lack of atmospheric pressure caused
the blood to flow from his eyes, nose,
mouth and ears, and the extreme cold
gave him rigor from which he never
fully recovered. st. Louis Republic
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-02-21
Az Ideal Place for . vacation.

Enjoy yourself during your holi-
day. Smythl'
Tremendously Came upon q
place where there was no band bang
ing away three times day; no serv-
ants after tips; no complaints when
the children yelled and no extra
charge for anything"
Where was this ideal spotf"
"At home. Exchange.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-02-21
MEN AND WOMEN.

Mr.. Labouchere got $450.0O0 for his
share in the London Daily News.
Robert CARROTS Baltimore residence
has noble hallway, 80 by 40 feet, and
with a ceiling 40 feet high.
Miss Ray Frank, highly educated
young wom~n of Oakland. CAL. is about
to study for the Jewish pulpit.
Mrs. William Seward Webb's eldest
daughter is named Frederika, after Mrs
Webb's favorite brother, Frederick Van
derbilt.
In the house Of representatives the man
with the largest name is Archibald Hen
derson Arlington Williams of North
Carolina.
Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge suffers the
usual penalty of being famous. She re-
ceives about eight letters daily request
ing autographs or sketches of her life.
Aunt Rachel Hawkins, who was
slave in the Surrat family, lives in
Washington. No one knows how old
she is. Asked when she was born she
replied. why, bress yo' heart, honey,
de Lawd only knows w'en."
Three great brewers have been raised
to the peerage by Queen Victoria. ALL
sopp Of Trent is now Lord
Hindlipp; Bass, the pale ale man, is
Baron Burton, and Guinness Of Dublin
stout fame Is Lord Ardilaun.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett be-
heves in the benefits Of walking as an
exercise and takes long constitution
al" before breakfast every morning. Ia
the summer time she is frequently out
Of doors before 6, returning to break
fast at 8. By 0 she is at work with her
pdh.
General Trochu. the defender Of Paris
In the closing days Of the Franco-Prus-
sian war, is a descendant of Racine. He
was invited to attend recent histrionic
ceremony in honor Of the eminent dra-
matist, but SO busy is the old soldier
with his memoirs that he could not spare
the time to accept
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-02-21
Soldier. and Pocket HandLsrehi.f..

Some years ago pocket handker-
chiefs were not considered a neces-
sary part of a soldiers kit. myself
knew a sergeant major who, when
drilling a squad or battalion, would
not permit any man to use one, al
though one day he did order a re-
criit to fall back and blow his nose,
scolding him at the same time for
not having ''blowed it,"
Please, sir, did blow it," an
swered the man. but 1t wouldn't
keep blowed. Leeds Mercury.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-02-21
The ousan,s ysrsss,

1t may not be generally known that
Queen Victoria once had poetic aspir-
atoms and carried them so far as to
write book Of verses. She sent this
to a publisher under nom de plume
and had the pleasure well known TO
some humber folk Of having 1t
promptly returned with thanka. -
Chicago HsrsA-
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-02-21
- t. r. ~

A new aud complete treatment. consisting
OF suppositories, ointment in capsules, also
y box and pills; a positive cure for external,
internal, blind or bleeding, itching, chronic,
recent or hertdita piles, and many other
diseases and female weaknesses, IL is always
a great benefit to the gener / health. The
first discovery OF medical cure .endering an
operation with the knife unnecessary here
alter. This remedy has never been known to
fail 81 per box, 8 for So; seat by mail. Why
suffer from this terrible disease when a writ.
ten guarantee is Civ en- with b 'xes, to refu I'D
the money II not cured. send stamp for I ee
sample. Guarantee issued by WOODWARD,
CLARK p q Co. wholesale and retail drug
Leg agents for salem, l66 State street, Patton's
block. 5-2ly-dW
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-02-21

"castoriaiss 20 well adapted to children that
Irecommend itas superior to any prescription
known to me-" H. A. ARCHER, NJ. D.,
III So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, NY.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-02-13
NE SHADOW oE Tnn PLAGUE


Has Fallen Across Europe-Tho Cholera
Breaks out in Three Countries.
New YoRK, Feb. l2.-The London cor
respondent of the World cables the fol-
lowing:
A tiny shadow, forotelling the great
plague that is to be, has fallen across
the land. Just now it is no bigger than
mans hand, but it is sure to grow
daily, steadily, inevitably, until it has
shrouded all the continent in its deadly
black. Not in one place alone has the
attack been made, but as If Mt a given
signal in three widely different coun-
tries tho onslaught OF tho cholera has
begun.
From far away st. Petersburg comes
the news, wholly unexpected, OF course,
that ten persons have died OF cholera
with tho cessation OF the frost. From
Marseilles, under the warm sun OF the
Riviera, the plague has all the added
horror Of nowness. All the people are
trying hard TO cover up the dead and TO
quiet the fears OF the living, for no hint
Of this must come to spoil the season OF
pleasure that this month brings there.
But worst Of all, as directly affecting
America, is the news from Hamburg.
In tho suburb OF Altoona, prisoner in
Jail has Just died, and five other cases
are being closely watched. The port OF
Hamburg itself has not been allowed to
escape. On board tho steamers Echo
and Australia four sailors were stricken
with the disease.
The weather ia nloderating all over
the continent, and tho warm sunshine
is kissing back to liio the cholera
germs. So next week promises 10 show
y wider spread OF the great plague.
Meanwhile Vienna is sending invita-
lions TO all nations to an international
health congress to formulate some plan
Of fighting the common foe, and in Eng
land Southampton is,begging parliament
TO vote money 10 keep up rigid quar-
antine.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-02-13
AloBRED ny MosLESls.
American Mission College Is Attacked a
uurnpd-A FnnntIu,.l Outbreak,

American Mission College IS Attacked and
purnod-A Fanatloal Outbreak.
New YoaK, Feb. l2.-Word has been
received here through tho United
States legation at Conalantinople that u
Moslom mob burned the American
girls college in Alarsovan because tho
director, Dr. Herrick, was believed TO
be the instigator OF IN offensive poliIi'
cal agitation. Political pIacards had
been posted on the walls OF the college,
but Dir. Herrick had explained to the
governor that this was done without his
consent. The governor WAS either un'
able or unwilling TO protect tho college,
for he made no effort 10 defend II against
tho mob, Hon. $. llirsch, American
minister, has requested the German
consul Mt Seevas, Asiatic Turkey, to IN
quire into the burning,
At tho New York Office OF tho Bible
house it was said that the Marsovan
station is tho most important in West
ern Turkey. DIR. Herrick has succeeded
Mr.. Tracy as director or president OF
the college, and the werk OF instruction
has been in the hands OF able and earn
est men. There have been 1913 pupils
enrolled for the year, 81 OF whom were
Armenians, % Greeks, 8 Germans aud
Turks. A class OF seven, four Ar
menians and three Greeks, were gradu'
ated in July, making the present num-
Der of graduates 46. The religious life
OF tho college has not been marked by
such evidence OF conversion and desire
for church membership as could be
wished. The girls boarding school has
enrolled los pupils, OF whom IS were
Armenians, Is Greeks, 3 Germans and
2 Turks. The religious interest has
been encouraging and the Circle of
Kings Daughters has maintained Il
day aud Sunday school in u Gregorlan
neighborhood.
1t is probable that tho increased Ell
forts OF the missionaries and their con-
tinuing success have aroused the IA
natics among the Mohammedm na-
tions, and that they only waited for an
excuse to attack the buildings and in
mates.