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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-03-20
WIRES DOWN.

WIRES DOWN,
MEMPHIS, Tenn, March 20.--All
Geographic communication with New
Orleans was cut Off. Floods are as
sumed to be the of the stoppage,
AT SIOUX, IA.
At Sioux City the flood endangered
all the bridges neal the s~tockyards, |
but they were saved by the use Of
dynamite to blow up the ice gorges.
The reports from the Floyd river in
dictate that the worst is yet to come.
1t is considered probable that all
bridges will go out before morning,
but there will be no lives lost, as the
people have been getting ready for the
flood. The Sioux river is causing
trouble to the Milwaukee railroads.
The ice is breaking between here and
Hawarden' and at several places heavy
gorges are being formed. The bridge
at Riverside, across the Sioux, is Ia
danger of going out at any moment.
OTHER POINTS.
At Fender, Neb.. reports of danger
on the ranches are received. The
damage to~the bottom lands Is i'm
mense.
At Webster City, Iowa. DR.. Travis
and Mr.. Kirkberger were drowned
while trying to ford the Boon river.
The bridge. over the Des' Moines, at
Lehigh, Iowa, has been damaged
and may be a total loss.
BURLINGTON, Iowa, March 20.-It
is rumored here that a huge water
spout burst about seven miles west OF
Davenport. Particulars are not OBJ
tainable yet.
NASHVILLE, Iowa, March 20.-The
Burlington river registered 46 feet on
the guage. The rain fell all day yes
terday and continues TO come down In
torrents today. The prospects are
for the greatest flood on record.
Much damage has already resulted
from the overflow in the lowlands, and
more will follow when the flood in
creases.
Large sections of western Nashville
have been under water for several
days. The is steadily climbing
to the business houses on Front street
Boats are now anchored within ten
feet of the sidewalk and the prospects
are that the first floors of these build
ings will be submerged.
WIND AND WATER.
JACKSON, Miss, March 20.-A Sc
we're wind storm struck Jackson yes
Uerday morning at o'clock, coming
from the southwest, accompanied by
a heaYy doWnpour or rain. AS FAR as
known, there has been no loss of life,
although heavy trees were blown up
by the roots, houses unroofed, fences
and outbulldings destroyed and signs
blown away. =
Jackson is entirely isolated In the
matter of telegrphic communication,
and on that account nothing a be
heard from the surrounding country.
1t is probable serious damage has
been done.
1t is reported from Glendale, Miss,
that the levee has broken there, and
Lake Tchula has risen four feet.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-03-20
Clover Seed

Pure seed last years crop, raised on
Salem prairie, no pink, sorrel, or weeds.
Better than any eastern seed. Apply
to Mrs. II. II. Hubbard, 369Commer'
cial street, Salem. 2-26 2 81 WI m
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-03-20

SALEM, Or, Feb. %, 1897.
B. f. Bonham, P. NJ, Salem, Or:
DEAR SIR:-Win you not please to
advise us if the weights of mails now
received from the DAILY JOURNAL
are fully 70 per cent more than a year
O at this time. AS we have not in
creased the size of the DAILY JOUR-
NAL during the past year, we wish to
estimate the comparative increase in
circulation, by the comparative
weights mailed.
Yours very truly,
HOFER BROTHERS, Editors.
SALEM, Or, Feb. %, 1897.
Editor Daily Journal:
DEAR SIR:-The weights of mails
now received from the DAILY JOUR
NAL are fully 10 per cent more than a
year ago at this time.
Respectfully,
b. +. BoNHAM, p. NJ.
BY j. A. Sellwood, Asst. p. M.
The circulation of the Portland
Telegram is stated at $500 copies daily.
The average circulation of THE ONE
CENT DAILY has been for sometime
larger than that and the WEEKLY
JOURNAL has a larger circulation than
ever before.
THE JOURNAL is now established as
the paper having the largest circula
ton in Oregon, next to the Oregonian.
Advertisers are invited to inspect our
lists Of subscribers, and are reminded
that our mail subscriptions are
all paid in advance, and that such
are a desirable class of people TO do
business with. They take this paper
because they want il, not because it is
forced upon them, and they can't get
rid Of il.
THE JOURNAL OutsOld all other pa
pers n'OregOn during the legislative
session.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-11-20
NOTICE.

First Publication October 23.)
VIM. nj. Buchanan VS.. Edward T. HUFF,
ct. al. 21-25I.
To Albert Huff, Jessie Huff, his wife.
defendants:
You and each Of you are hereby mott
fed that on September 18TH, 1897, Will
lam NJ. Buchanan, as plaintiff. began an
action against you and other defendants
in the District Court Of Lancaster coun.
ty, Nebraska, the object OF which is to
fore close a certain mortgage on the fol-
lowing land 10 said county. to-wit: Lot
number IL in block number IL, in the
city of Lincoln, according to the record
ed plat Thereof, made by Edward I. Huff
and Emma E. Huff to the Lombard In:
vestment Company, dated September
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-11-20

lst, 1890, TO secure the payment OF a
promlssory note OF said Edward Il. Huff
and Emma f. HUFF t. said LoBbi ard
Investment Company for sl.65OOO, on
which there is now due 81 5000 with
interest from September LIST, 1895, at ten
per cent per annum.
Plaintiff prays for decree OF forecloe-
ure and sale OF said land TO satisfy said
liens as aforesaid, for deficiency judg-
ment and general relief.
You are required TO answer plaintiffs
petition on or before the 10Th day Of
November, 1897.
WILLIAM NJ. BUCKMay. Plaintiff.
BY s. l.. &c sthardt, Attorney.
Nov. Ia.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-11-20
GOSSIP OF THE TOWN.

After full summer of glarinR to.
bacco signs, hideous circus posters and
endle; q advertisements for washing com.
pounds and local haberdashers, there
was some hope for at least relief in mural
decorations from the play companies.
But 80 far this season such hopes have
not been realized. A few players like
Clement, Crane and Manteil have nut
out posters satisfactory at least Cd &C.
count ct their simplicity and plainness
One set Of bills only has approached the
artistic-ths posters Of the Gay Coney
Island" company. Striking and novel
as they were in some respects, never,he
less one looks back to them as to a din.
tant oasis in monotonous Sahara. Of
cheap and coarse decorations with which
the public has been affected by such
companies as "McGinty the Sort"
The Passing Shox" and the London
Bell Ringers.'
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-11-20

Speaking Of bills, there is something
pathetic in the sight of small, half.
faded dodger that hangs in the broke n
window of an empty etore down on lower
p street near tho depot. The print 10
poor and the paper coarse and the wind
and the rain creeping in has turned it a
dirty yellow. But still it hangs there
Topping in the breeze and day and dsy
catching the eye Of the travellers hurry.
ing up and down the little hill that leads
to the depot.
Nearly year that old, weather stained
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-11-20
CbUR NEWS
CONTINUED from page 81

for two hours by Mrs. Frank Hall Of
Lincoln. who gave lecture on Religion
and Art" Mrs. Hall has travelled ex
tensively ABROAD" and is brimful Of en-.
thusiasm over Greek aud Roman Art,
and the ladies who were fortunate
enough to have an opportunity Of listen
ing to her lecture and looking at the
large collection OF pictures. pronounced
1t very enjoyable occasion.
At six. the members and guests were
invited into the dining room where a
pleasant surprise awaited them. A row
o: husbands stood by the table, each
ready to claim his wife, or the wife OF
some other husband. A log tail, was
handsomely laid, and Thirty ladi-s and
gentlemen were served a very ralatabls
supper. In the everine, Mrs. Hall Ell.
tertained them by still further talk on
Art, illustrated by stsreoptic views.
The ladies OF University Plac, met
Saturday afternoon at the home OF Mrs
Love for the purpose Of reorganizicg the
Woman's club OF University Place. ANY
lady OF University Place may now be-
come . member by signing the constitu-.
ton and by paying the annualfee. The
following officers were unanimously
elected for the ensuing year: President,
Mrs. DR.. Knapp; first president,
Mrs. Love; second vice president, Mrs.
Esterbrook; secretary, Mrs. Bowlus;
treasurer. Mrs. Gardner. The depart
ment Of book review will meet November
18th at 40 p. N. with Mrs. Love. The
department Of child study will meet
November 10th at 3 p. m. in the recep-
ton room OF the university building
The department Of physical culture will
meet November 10th at $50 .. m. in
the reception room of the university.
The department Of literature will meet
Monday afternoon November end. in
the reception room OF the university.
The current events department Aill
furnish a short program occupying
fifteen minutes at each meeting Of the
club. The social department will take
its turn in rotation OF programs.
All the ladies Of the former club to.
gether WITH any other ladies of the
place are cordially invited to join. TIE
club will meet Friday evening November
18th. with Mrs. Gardner.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-11-20

Russell had to ring down the curtain
but before he could find the two i'm
promptu supes they were back at their
own house chuckling at each other be.
tween lines OF their own play.
+ 7 + 7
There is notice published in the
postoffice building that IS novelty in
it's way. 1t is government notice
calling for bids to carry the United
States mails to the Klondike regions,
by railway. steamboat, wagon or dog
sledge." 1t "a safe to say that the num-
Der OF bidders from this vicinity will not
be large. The ONLOoKER.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-11-20

Gamer & Curtice at 107 South 1Ith st..
are showing the besi selected line Of pictures
ever seen in Lincoln; a1so the latest IN frames
may Be gotten there.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-11-20


widow or p st.eet.
Clay Clement has CONSENT to m ,der-
ale the hearty kiss OF his in the New
Dominion and the world once more
SIN les serenely upol him and his com
my. and Of them all no one is happier
than Mre. Clement. for reasons too Owl
Gus to anyone who has saw the play.
Some say the whole thing was nothing
but big story Tor advertising purposes,
but be that as It may. it is all tver with
now. and Clement is again bis big. genial
self, and CONTINUES making money and
friends wherever he goes. No actor on
the stage is better boon companion, az
every manager and every newspaper man
knows. His conversation sparkles with
wit and is filed with stories of his half
dozen years on the stage, and under
meath all the lighter flow there is cur
rent OF that pleasing philosophy which
c:ofs out 30 prominently in his play
Such man is worth listening TO- lie
will SIT over a box OF cigars and talk
Just as long AZ anyone will hear him
Two years ago he went down to an in
formal smoker given him here in Lin
coin by a college fraternity Of which he
was a member in Chicago university
end was one Of the boys. singing the old
college songs. telling stories and giving
the fraternity yells until dawn touched
the eastern windows. That was two
years ago. tefOre he was married. This
year he left the young fellows at two
o'clock in the morning-,hs married ac.
tors midnight, as he called it.
One OF Clements stories has never
found its way into print. 1t was years
ago when Robson and Crane had formed
their unusually strong combination and
we're playing in New York. At one of
the neighboring houses Sol Smith Rus
sell was appearing in a political play
One scene she1sd Russell addressing a
mob Of entAssiastic citizens from hotel
balcony. Between acts at their own
house Robson and Crane had jumped
into hack and had been driven rapidly
over to Russell's theatre, and had come
upon the stage just as the "supes'' were
taking their place urder the balcony.
They joined in the crowd and said moth.
ing. The curtain went up, the mob
cheered loudly, and Russell stepped out
to address them.
my fellow citizens he began. Then
he glanced down and caught sight OF
Robson and Crane. Russell stopped
short and the ''supes- cheered again.
But none yelled louder or raised bigger
din than the two actors from up the
street.
"GOod, old man! Look at him, Keep
her upl Rah for Solly!'
Russell was completely overcome and
could not say wcrd. Then in a stage
whisper came from Robson and Crane:
go on! Why don't you keep it ups
Go it, Solly! Why, the old mans
acapad',
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-11-20

bill has hung there; for it is the bill OF
the Convict Minis rel" held last Christ.
mas week at that big dark, ever silent
place just over the hill south Of town.
For the one night that gloomy pile took
on festive ecene, with music sounding
and lights burning. the large hall fiji, d
with smiling and sympathetic faces.
Other things-past, present and future
we're for the moment forgotten in the
buck and wing dances, the Rotations
and popular songs and the screaming
farce that completed it oil. Then the
last car went screaming up the hill and
on toward the city. the lights in the big
hall were put out. the lock step was
formed and the aotprs went back again
t. their cells and their thoughts. And
ell that is. left OF it all is an old torn.
half-fadej "bill Of the play" that fiops
increasingly down in tie empty store
widow or. p st.eet.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-12-19
woRsr STATEMENTS CONFIRMED.

The report of the committee appointed
TO investigate the conditions and 10 rec
ommend reforms at the county poor farm
confirms the statements and accentuates
the necessities remarked OH from time TO
time by the press concerning the relation
OF the ~county's sane and insane wards.
1t is strongly limited that the indiscrimin-
ate minElinG of the INDECENT and the mad
has affected the minds of many who Were
mentally sound when taken to the farm.
If this should bc made clear, the situation
is even more appalling than has been sup
posed. and the demand for immediate ac-
ton is most imperative.
A separate establishment for the insane
of this county is not only a humane but
an economic requirement. and such an in
stitution must he n question of n COM
paratively short time. But the situation
IS SO serious that, pending the erection of a
permanent home for the insane, means
ought TO he provided for the sep
aration OF these two classes. The
recommendations of the committee on
PERMANENT relief. Now that an
official report has uncovered beyond all
doubt that n wretched state OF affairs
exists. the humanity. dignity and good
name Of jackson county demand the
speedy application of remedies.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-12-19
pleu for the ..Rabbit."

From the New York Sun.
Ambition is an estimable thing. Nobody
can object to ambition when the underiy-
ing intention is worthy. There are the
people who are always scrupulouS TO say
Between YOU and 1" instead of Between
you and me- Who can help being fond OF
them? Ones heart goes out to these con-
scientious people. They know. if Mr.. Lind
ley Murray did not. that Between You and
T. is the more elegant phrase. They are
beautifully sensitive. and possessed abso-
lutely by the desire to be nice IN language.
These alert and scrupuioUs spirits would
never say Il feel bad or She looked
beautiful They know better. AS soon as
say Il feel bad" they would say Il seen
my duty and l done it"-of course. an in
dcfensible locution.
This suggests the question as between
welsh rabbit and Welsh rarebit." Moth
ing is more interesting to the intelligence
which is qualified to be particular. Mr..
Thomas ]. Murrey. an unexcelled authors
ty. has investigated this question thorough
ly and with all loving care. and in an aid
mirable monograph. just completed, has
fixed upon Archbishop Trench the guilt in
volved in the mistaken form, "rarebit.'
| now almost universally and very irritating
~ employed upon American bills of fare.
| The truth Is. Mr.. Murrey points out, that
DIR. Trench did not take the trouble to he
| correct. and that a host of his followers
were willing to trouble themselves as lit
tie as he did. The worthy archbishop was
a logician, and he delivered himself readily
10 intuitions arising in a logical way. The
| name of the dish was originally and is
really rabbit but it is easy to see how
the exasperating variation arose. Melted
cheese poured over a bit of toast may very
reasonably he called Il "rarebit," the arch
| bishop and others like him said. hut how in
| the world can it be called n rabbit Who
ever heard of a cheese rabbit? Or of a
toast rabbi? 1t will be seen at once that
these reformers We're essentially losicians
and purists, with no particular sense OF
hunor. 1t was probably only because they
had other and more important things to do
that they did not correct the still prevail
ing impressions that an Essex stile' Is a
ditch. an Essex lion a calf. 4 Field lane
duck" a baked Sleeps head, and Il Cape
Cod turkey" a Goldfish. Even Shakespeare
has been questioned by serious persons su-
perior to the figures and whimsicalities OF
speech. 1t has been vigorously contended
that instead of Sermons in stones and
books in the running brooks he meant &c
say sermons in books and stones in the
running brooks'-certainly a much palmer
proposition.
Still, undoubtedly DIR. Trench was wrong
and MI. Murrey is right. Rabbit it WAS,
is. and must be. Only when we have lost
all understanding OF humor. of daring and
amusing flight in speech. shall it be rare
bit" Gracious, Shall some archbishop o.
the future tell us that Draw one in the
dark means coffee procured from an unil,
Illuminated place, instead of coffee without
milk! Perish the thought. And. incidental
~, let us continue to say "ketchup" in.
stead of "catsup.'" No cat will eat it
| Lust try one.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-12-19
THE SANDMAN.

Oh, how does the sardman come.
And how does the sandman go?
Does he drop from the sky like a cloud AT
night.
Does he walk through the streets In broad
daylight
To visit the high and the low?
Oh. what does the sandman do.
And why is the sandman here?
Does he carry q sack on his little round
back.
While he scatters the sand with a lavish
hand
To tell us that sleepy times here?
An: my dear children. nobody knows
How the sandman comes and the dina
goes:
Fer though we may wish very much for the
sight,
When the sandman comes we shut our eyes
-Harper's Young People.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-12-19
ONE wEEk.s SHOWING.

Like the old woman who could not see
the town for the houses, there stu are
people who refuse 10 recognize prosperity
when they see it all about them. For such
rs these. persistent instruction is a good
thing. and facts and figures. continuously
employed. may not he without ultimate
avail. Here is the i. q. Dun Mercantile
Ageney's epitome of last weeks trade
record:
payments through banks are again %
per cent larger than in 1899. heretofore
the year Of greatest prosperity; the pro-
duct!on Of iron and woolens and boots and
shoes is larger than ever before. exports
eclipse all past records. and failures Tor
two weeks have been the smallest for cor
responding weeks in five years. Probably
all records are surpassed by exports for
this year. which have been 1914, 900. go in
eleven months, and the excess over imports
in five months has probably exceeded $685.
Oo.0o0."
Such records as these are not. Of course,
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-12-19
IN LATE

The midnight bells are trowlirg.
The wintry winds are bowling.
The ciiff-beat surge is growing
In thundcrs far away;
And heaven and earth are signing,
And drearily replying.
The old year is a-dyinG,"-
SO. so they seem to say.
The angry clouds are driven
Across the scowliug heaven.
In vain the stars have striven
To how their shimmerinG light:
One broad and mighty shadow
Clothes st.eam and hill and meadow.
And. welded like a widow.
Droops down the gloomy night.
Across the pathway shooting.
The spectral owl goes hootinS,
The yelpinc fox is footing
His way along the moor:
Within the farmers houses
The bayinG watchdog rouses.
Then stretches down and druwses.
And dreams upon the il1Or.
The ways with SHOWS are blocking.
Against the easement knocking
Tie wind makes dismal mocking.
With gusty rise and fall,
On cracking hinges hanging.
The garden gate i banging.
And drc,riiy are changing
The windows one and all
-Gsorge Lur
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-12-19

From the New York Press
It's n funny thing to think that In
Noah's time Ham was no funnier u name
than Japhet.
The longer a man lives the more incl
dents OF his boyhood he remembers that
never happened.
A woman may know best how to hold Il
baby. but it takes a man to know how
TO hold Il woman.
4 child's main object in life is to do
things. a woman's to see things and q
mans TO nave things.
The woman who pays less for love than
it costs will generally find she has paid
more for it than it is worth.
When an old bachelor writes a poem
about n girl who is dead, the women say
1t is u pretty little thing: when a man
writes one who has lost his wife it is called
q "heart-throb."
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-12-19
ANOTHER PULPIT soCIoLOGIsT.

4 few days ago The journal had occasion
20 review. in the light of modern social
theory, the attempt of 4 local minister TO
resUrrcct and regalvaniZe the corpse OF
Rousseau's theory OF the social contract.
The weather seems TO be favorable for
pulpit sociology. Last Sunday the Rev.
W. i. George addressed his audience on
The Administrations of Justice" He al
luded 10 the primeval Paradise. referred
feelingly to the angels that kept not their
first estate and engaged in rebellion against
the Divine Ruler OF this universe" and
finally spoke of those who hold that man
has no right TO punish his fellow man. but
may sequester him on some island to re-
form him. or by some other method nurse
ard transform him into n higher life. say
inS, This and other sentiment far more
ridiculous is quite prevalent now He then
went on to emphasize the retributive view
of punishment, and call for 4 return TO if.
Now this question is really i serious one,
not one TO be played with in the light of
WORKOUT theories and occurrences reported
from another world. but one to be met by
the clearest. sanest thinking that Kansas
City men and wDmen are capable of. The
increase of crime and the corruption of our
criminal courts are notorious. The thought
full man who faces this state of things
needs something more tangible presented
TO his mind than the barred gates of the
Garden of Eden. and the chains of the an
gels who kept not their first estate. The
man who knew that slavery was right be-
cause Cain killed Abel and Noah built the
ark has passed out of date.
The retributive idea in penalogy is vicious
and obsolescent. 1t is derived from the old
theology of the early Latin church. This.
In turn, was shaped and determined by
the spirit of the old civil law. because the
early theologians We're Roman lawyers.
Seeing heaven as only a magnified justice
court, and hell as a Jail, these men pro-
duced a literature which troubles the world
to-day.
The new criminology, with its watch
words of renovation of body and reform
of spirit, has one signal advantage over
that of retribution. 1t works. It is actually
taking criminals, at Elmira, n. y, and
elsewhere. and manufacturing them into
good citizens. it is in harmony with CON-
mon sense. To confound this movement
with the maudlin spirit of the age which
strews lowers in the path of the condemned
murderer and overlooks his viciousness'' is
bad pulpit ethics. To present as ridiculous
the action of the man who sequesters his
fellow man, ito reform him. or by sons
other method nurse and transform him into
a higher life is TO be magnificently indie
pendent of facts.
This subject needs discussing. The min
listers of our city occupy a position o
strategic Importance for its discussion, by
reason of its relation to the Christian spirit
of the age. But TO discuss 1t effectively
they must yield lsome reverence to triet
social theories and to demonstrate socia
facts. No excellence of intention or up
riShtncss of character can excuse a public
instructor for teaching the thing that 4
not for truth.