Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1896-05-19

Y Mexico. We fought England wnei
we had only four million people. W.
II fought England when we bad onll
r eight million people. Now we have
Y over sixty million and what country
e can dictate to Uncle Sam? Not
Spain. We have only 25,0O0 regular
army soldiers. But we have over q
100000 militia. The newspapers in
Spain admit this and Cuba will he
free.
WILL BEAT A TRAIN
A six-man bicycle, that is expected
to reach a speed of 100 miles an hour
is to race with the fastest train in
the world. The wheel weighs 1874.
If the men turn the pedals once q
second they will travel a mile in 0S
seconds. If they turn twice a second
they will make Il mile in 10 seconds.
This would beat the train the empire
state express on the New York Cen
trail railway. The six riders will
weigh li5 pounds each. They have
not beat the train yet, and If they do
the sextette bicycle is so dangerous
that If they get fall when under full
speed 1t would kill every one of them
L. S. GRANT.
General Grant was born in Ohio
April y, 1922. His father was a far
mer of Scotch descent. His grand
father was soldier and fought the
British at Bunker Hill. Young
Grant learned the trade OF his father
and was more of man at II than
most boys are at twenty. He was
educated at West Point military
academy, was in the regular army |
eleven years and engaged in every
battle Of the Mexican war. In 1860 |
he went into the leather business at |
Galena then into the Union army and |
became general and president. His
father had only been TO school six
months in his life. When he was a
boy books were very scarce in Ohio,
but when people got hold of book
they read it until they knew it by
heart. In his life General Grant says
there was never any scoldlng or pun
ishing by his parents. They let him
have a good deal of sport such as fish
ing, swimming, skating, and visiting
on horseback in the next county 1s
miles away, His folks had fifty acres
Of timber and each year his father
would have enough wood cut TO last,
and when he was so small he could
not put the sticks on the load he
would drive the horses to and from
he timber.
THE BRAVE LITTLE TREE. 1
1t grew close toa dingy little house
n the corner of big lumber yard, e
With piles of lumber all about it, some b
elbow and sweet-smelling, and some
'rown and musty from rain and storm. f
The children who lived in the little
ouse called the great towering stacks r.
fountains, though they did not know a
ow a. mountain really loOked; and n
hey pretended that a brlndled cat,
nth one ear gone, that went prowling
bout the lumber yard, was tiger,
cry fierce and dangerous.
There were three of the children,
Wo boys and a glrl-almost too many
Or such very small house, but they
ere so jolly and rosy and good
atured that one would not have OBJ
'cted to half dozen of them. 1t !
as Betty who first discovered the =
zee, the day after they moved into
lie house, when they were all little
She was poking about I
nong the tin cans and old shoes and
I6bish, and all ut once she noticed
le brave little tree. 1t had started
grow right under the window that
tied out like some sort of a swelling
ON the front of the house. 1t must a.
I'VE been disappointed when il grew DC
against the floor and found it Vc yS
uld get no further that way; but il hs hs
st bent its head forward and went Il,
shing out towards the light, until ali
last 1t got beyond the window and en- en-