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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-04-13
STATE NEWS.

The world : supply of wheat has de-
creased 100000 bushels the past week.
1t now stands 80, 79s, 900 bushels.
The Baker City firemen are doing
all in their power to make the tourna-
ment success.
Portland is to be represented at the
national turnfist at st Louis next
month. About 1000 athets will be
there, 200O haye entered the contests
for prizes.
Eleven conversions and fifteen ac-
cessions to the Baptist church re-
suited from the efforts of Evangelist
Lindsey, in his two weeks revival
meetings at Stayton, which closed
Sunday night.
The members of Protection Engine
Company of Pendleton, resolved to
donate their last quarters earnings
as tiremen to the company, the
money to be used in buying racing
cart and hose.
Some miscreant entered CO. Whites
yard while White was out driving
and liberated eight chinese pheasants
which had been secured for propogat-
ing purposes. They will undoubtedly
propagate to their own satisfaction if
not to Mr.. White.-Pendleto Elk.
A herder working for Tilman Bros.
on Ten-Mile, Wasco county discovered
the other day that a self-cocking re-
volver was indeed dangerous weapon.
While on the range he was fooling
with the gun when 1T went off and
shot him in the fieshy part of the
right thigh The ball ranged down.
ward, and lodged about the knee cap.
The week ADAM the year-old son
of Michael King, of Grass valley,
Sherman county, accidently shot him
self with 22.caliber rifle. He was at
the sheep camp, and was out with the
gun. 1t is supposed he fell, retaining
hold of the muzzle of the gun, which
was discharged by the hammer strik-
ing on some rocks. The bullet passed
through the heart, death was in
While John Moak and G.. Washburn
were coming out from Bohemia last
week they came upon a cougar just be-
low the warehouse, which was feast.
ing on deer it had killed. On see
ing the man, the caugar sprang into
a leaning tree, near where it was eat
ing the deer. Moak happened to have
a gun with him and both men walked |
up to within a few feet of the tree in |
order to get good shot at the cougar
and both were standing side by side in |
snow nearly waist deep. Just as Moak |
shot, the cougar sprang at them, and
in their endeavor to get away in the
snow they both fell in opposite direc-
tions and the cougar lit at their feet,
between them. OF course both
thought they had met their doom, but
to their surprise on regaining their
feet they foune that the cougar was
dead.-Cottage Grove Leader.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-04-13

HaYana is about to spend S15,000,-
600 in improving her sewers and
drainage system. The tribe of Wey-
ler has been using them and this
makes the expenditure necessary.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-04-13
COUNTY
Sunday School Convention
Conyenes at NJ. {, Church in This
City, This Evening,

The Marion County Sunday School
holds its third annual convention In
Salem Tuesday, this, evening and the
following day and evening,
Delegates from out of the city will
find the committee on entertainment
ready to receive them. Exercises are
to be held at the Methodist church,
opening with a song service followed
by an address by the Rev. G.. A Blair,
after which thirty minutes will be
spent in getting acquainted. Let Sa-
lem workers be promptly on hand to
aid by work and word; give strangers
a royal welcome and speakers a real
inspiration.
Wednesdays program is replete
with premise of good things. We note
paper by DR.. E. NJ. Hurd, on "City
Organizations" an address by Mrs.
r .becca Robb, county president of the
w. c. T. o., on Temperance in the
Sunday School;' Mrs. Amelia Miller,
Mrs. A. j. Garland, Revs. Belknap
and Kantner, and last but not least,
Prof. II. NJ. Hamille international
field worker, aud speaker of more
than national repute, will all do
justice to live practical topics. Salem
workers cannot afford so miss hearing
them: nor can the association do its
best without the aid of their presence,
and ,active participation in the de-
liberation and discussions of the con-
ventiOn.
The program for the convention is
as follows
TUESDAY EVENING.
7:30-Song service.
S-Prayer, Rev. &. w. Grannis.
S:05-AnnOuncements.
S:30-Address, House to House,
Nisitations, Rev. G.. A. Blair.
AT the close of the address thirty
minutes will be spent in getting
acquainted.
WEDNESDAY MORNING SESSION.
9:30--Song service.
9:45-Prayer-Rev. VIM. Steele.
9:50-AnnOuncements.
10-Secretary's report.
l0:05-AppOintment Of committee
10:20-BuSiness.
11-City Organization, Dr. e, NJ.
Hurd
I1:20-Discussion.
1I:30-Temperauce in the Sunday
School, Mrs. Rebecca NJ. Robb, county
president, w. G. T. U.
l2-AdjOurnment.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
2-PraiSe service, conducted by Rev.
f. Ii. Belknap.
2:20-Primary Department-Wha It
and Low to Teach, Mrs. Amelia
Miller.
2:4O-How to Manage County Or
ganization and the Benefits Derived
Therefrom. Prof. H. M. Hamill.
3-DiScuSSion.
3:30--How to Teach the Scriptures,
Mrs. A. j. Garland.
Report of committee on nomina-
tions.
4:l5-E Election of officers. Other
business.
4:3O-Where Shall the Next Conven-
tiOn Be Held?
4:45-Adjournment.
All are requested to remain and
meet Prof. Hamill.
EVENING SESSION.
l'0O-OOuB SeTNlcei COuuuCJcu ny
Prof. r. A. Heritage, assisted by the
choir.
7:O5-Scripture, Rev. VIC. Kantner.
7:55-Prayer.
S-Address, Prof, II. NJ. Hamill
At the close of the address Prof. r.
A. Heritage will favor the convention
with a solo.
Dismissal-After which there will
be a conservation meeting, to which
all teachers and officers are earnestly
requested to remain. 1t will be con-
Quoted by Prof. Hamill.
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Yours very truly,
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SALEM, Or, Feb. 25, 1897.
Editor Daily Journal:
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Respectfully,
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The National tribune., 1897-10-28
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE: WASHINGTON

with these a small piece of meat or few
spoonfulls of molasses, and a quart or so
of vinegar, and several plugs Of tobacco
fer each hundred"
How exquisite, was the taste of the
crackers and molasses! 1t was the first
wheat bread | had eaten since my en-
try into Richmond-nine months be-
fore-and molasses had been a stranger
to me for years. After the corn bread
we had so long lived upon, this was
mamma. 1t seems that the Commissary
at Savannah labored under the delusion
that he must issue to us the same rations
as were served out to the rebel soldiers
and sailors. It was some little time be-
fore the fearful mistake came to the
knowledge of Winder. / fancy that
the news almost threw him into an apo
plectic fit. Nothing, save his being or
dered to the front, could have caused
him such poignant sorrow as the inform
The National tribune., 1897-10-28

At Mount Vernon, on the Potomac few
miles below Washington. is preserved an inn
portant relic of the Bastile-nothing more
nor less than the key to that old fortress Of
tyranny. One hundred and six years ago
the old state prison of Paris was demolished
by u mob ON the eve of the great French
Revolution.
The key was placed in the hands of tho
Marquis de Lafayette, Chief
of the National Guard of France. In March
of the next year Lafayette forwarded it to
Thomas Paine in London, to be sent as a
present to Gen. Washington, together with
the neat drawing representing the destruc-
tiOn of the Bastile.
Lafayette's letter to Washington conclude
with the words: "Give me leave, my dear
General to present you with picture of the
Bastile lust as it looked few days after
ordered its demolition, with the main key Of
the fortress of despotism. 1t is q tribute
which / owe as son of my adopted father,
as an Aid-de-Camp to my General, as mis-
sionary of liberty to its patriarch"
Not less felicitous was the comment of
Paine in forwarding the packet: THAT the
principles of America opened the Bastile is
not to be doubted and therefore the key
comes to the right place"
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ANDERSONVl
Continued from first page

peasantry of Italy believed firmly in
the evil eye. Did they ever know any
such men as Winder and his satellite, I
could comprehend how much founda-
ton they could have for such a belief
Lieut.. Davis had many faults, but
there was no comparison between him
and the Anderspnville commandant.
He was typicaltsyeung Southern man !;
ignorant and bumptious as to the most
common matters of school-boy kaowl-
edge, inordinately vain of himself and
his family, coarse in tastes and thoughts,
violent in his prejudices, but after all
with some streaks Of honor and gener-
osity that made the widest possible diff
ference between him and Wirz, who
never had any. AS one of my chums
said to me:
The National tribune., 1897-10-28
Copyright, 1897, by Albion W. Tourrce.

SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS
The author, noting among The names of the
victims of the Paris Charity Bazaar holocaust
that of "A Quitman.' recalls receiving few
months before letter signed A. Qniman."
accompanying a scaled package. The letter
stated that he was prisoner in Libby with
the author; that the sealed package, which
was not TO be opened until tho writer
death contained the narrative of strange
experience. Tie author remembers NO one
bearing i name at all like A. QnitmaH."
He opens the package seeing the. notice
of the writer's DEATH "Quitmau's" identity
the author keeps secret
"A. Quiiman," or Philip Devers," tells how.
many years before. he, prospecting, prominent
man, possessing wife aud daughter. specu-
lates in stocks, loses his all ana. rather than
face his wife. resolves to go away until he has
redeemed himself. Ills overweight brain
gives way and he rushes blindly on, thinking
someone is pursuing him.
He DISCUSSES himself After that he remem-
bers no more Sensiblity comes to him years
afterwards by degrees He finds himself in q
com Portable large dwelling. where there are
many queer people. He seems 10 be well taken
care Of and is visited by kiad man. who asks
him bis name: but. when he cannot remember,
leaves him rs if in anger.
QHtman finally remembers his past life; he
is harassed by thoughts of the fate OF wife and
child. He resolves not to betray his identity
TO the physician or others. He realizes that
he is in AN insane asy lum. The doctor strives
in many shrewd ways TO find out who he is.
Quitman cautiously searches the files in the
library Of the institution, and finds a record OF
his sudden disappearance. He is discharged
from the institution as cured. and goes to New
York 10 seek employment away from the old
life. but determines to find out the condition
OF wife and daughter.
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CHAPTER VIII.

was greatly depressed by this glimpse OF
the life of which / had been part, and de-
termined at once to turn my attention to
the real object of my visit to the city, and
decide as to the course l should pursue here
after. The past, / saw more aud more clearly
every day, was irrevocsble; the future de-
pended on what duty might owe to others.
If there were need that / should do 30 !
would remain and labor for the comfort of
those loved; if there was none would 90
back to the Institution and take up the work
of Claudius Nasmith, the Superintendent
clerk. 1t was an honorable occupation and
quite good enough to serve as the grave of
q half-life. 1t would not be for long, at
best.
The next day / went to see the man who
had been my nearest friend in the old days.
| had met him half dozen times upon the
street-cars, and knew he would not recog-
nize me. Indeed, had purposely thrown
myself in his way to make sure of the fact.
l called at his office and sent in my card, on
which / had written: a friend Of Philip
Devens.: 1t was the first time / had
written the name since the day that Dsvens
died. l remembered signing it to the last
letter he ever wrote, addressed 70 this very
man.
/ was most cordially received. This busy,
prosperous man had not forgotten nor ceased
TO morn his old friend / longed TO throw
myself upon his neck; to confess my identity
to thank him for his remembrance. But !
knew it was better that he should remem-
Der and regret than know and pity-perhaps
despise. / therefore restrained myself As
we shook hands. He led me to chair and
sat down beside me.
was the elder by year, but The battle
of life had left its scars deep craven on h'i
face while the inert brain had traced few
burrows upon mine. / did not need to talk
The National tribune., 1897-10-28
SAVED A Rash SOLDIER.
Lincoln's Pardon of Man Who Stole
Away to Soc Wife and Child.

Lincoln's Pardon of Man Who Stole
Away to Soc Wife and Child.
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: The recent
death of Capt. NJ J. Grsalisb, u. s. A., reminds
the writer that lie was one of the few remaining
links between the great Lincoln and tive pres
ent generation. az he knew the war President
Intimately | recall Que of his stories of Lin
coins great kindness. In October, 1862, Greal-
ish was a Lieutenant of Volunteers. and at
Washington. One afternoon lie called on the
President, and whic waiting in the ante room.
noticed handsome young woman with babe.
The woman was apparently in great mental
agony aud frequently wept. He finally asked
her what was the trouble, and if he could in
any way help her.
my husband is to be shot to- morrow, and
car, get to SEQ the President"
Senator Pomeroy, of Kansas came in about
that time, and after shaking hands he too be.
came interested in the mother and child.
The condemned soldier belonged to the
Pennsylvania Bucktails, and was from Frank
| lin County. While in McCleilan's army on
| the Peninsula the young wife had written him
| to como homo furlough and see the baby.
| He wrote back that they were on the move.
| After Manassas he made application for leave.
| but the Antetam fight was brewing and Con-
federates were in Maryland. After that battle
| he again tried for a furlough but failed. The
enemy had rccrossed the Potomac into Virginia,
| and the Union army was now lying inactive
on tho Maryland shore.
| Then did tho young man take French
| leave" and HE away TO see his first born and
his loving wife, after which he returned to
duty. Buthe was arrested, tried as desertsr
| and condemned to be shot.
This, in substance. was her story. Grealish
and PomerOy took her into the presence of Mr..
Lincoln, who, after shaking hands, asked:
| "WhO is this yonng lady 2"
| She broke down and ontinued to weep, when
Lincoln spoke kind words to her.
Grealish related her story. Mr.. Lincoln
quickly penned order to Gen. Burnside to
send the condemned soldier to him.
Lewis, take this quickly to the telegraph
office; don't let Stanton see it," said he to his
messenger.
Next day, instead of being shot. the boy was
ushered into the presence Of the President.
well, young man," said Lincoln, taking
! him by tho hand, there is somebody in the
next room who wants to see YOU" He told
me afterwards" said Capt. Grealish, in narrat-
ing the incident, THAT after leaving them
alone for awhile he returned to their room and
there sat the young. manly soldier with his
wife on one knee and the baby the other
husband and wife were weeping for joy"
/ Mr. Lincoln offered him furlougb, bat the
young man thanked him, and said he wanted
| TO return where duty called. Then he told
| the President he hadn't money enough to
| take them both home. "Wsll, guess the m an
that saved your life furnish you little
money to go home."-W. A. RODGERS, Pitts.
| burg, Pa.
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alton that so much good food had been
worse than wasted in undoing his work
by building up the bodies of his hated
enemies.
Without being told, we knew that
he had been heard from when the
tobacco, vinegar, and molasses failed to
come in, and the crackers gave way to
corn meal. Still, this was vast i'm
provement on Andersonville, as the
meal was fine and sweet, and we each
had spoonful Of salt issued to us regu-
larly.
| am quite sure that l cannot make
the reader who has not had an expert
ence similar to ours comprehend the Won
derful importance to us of that spoonful
of salt. Whether or not the appetite
for salt be, as some scientists claim, a
purely artificial want, one thing is GER
tain, and that is, that either the habit Of
countless generations or some other cause
has SO deeply ingrained it into our COM
mon nature, that it has come to be nearly
as essential as food itself, and no amount
of deprivation can accustom us to Its
absence.
Rather, it seemed that the longer we
did without it the more overpowerlng
became our craving. could get along
to-day and tomorrow, perhaps the
whole week, without salt in my food,
since the lack would be supplied from
the excess / had already swallowed, but
at the end of that time Nature would
begin to demand that / renew the supply
of saline constituent of my tissues, and
she would become more clamorous with
every day that | neglected her bidding,
and finally summoned Nausea to aid
Longing.
4 To- he
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By ALBION w. ToURdEE.

strangely. There is less of formality aud
less of boisterousness-a least there seems
10 be, 10 one who has so long been accustomed
to quieiude.
Tie days slipped by not unplcasantly.
/ met many whom knew, and was often on
the point of selfbeiruyal, hut not one gave
me Il glance of recognition or even question
ing look, so / was saved from unconscious
revelation Of my identity. | think | seem
much younger than / should had the lost
years been passed in the haunts of business
Instead of seclusion free from care At
least, none know my face, and the bit of sill
yer underneath my tongue effectually dis
guSed my voice.
One day the car on which I rode was
blocked on lower Broadway, while the
Eiceroy OF China passed by, escorted By two
squadrons of cavalry. How my heart
throbbed as the bay horses of the 9Th CAV
came on at Il sharp trot The men had the
same easy upright seat / remembered so
we'll in the long ago. The trot, half single
foot, and the riders not merely jaunty, but
the same cool, earnest fellows / had known
when one who was forgotten was the guest
of their commander at their Western canton
ment-their commander who had been his
comrade. How / scanned the brown faces
under the shakos In the hungry hope of
recognizing one of these old friends. OF
course, it was foolish to expect it. Men do
not stay forever in the same rank even if
there is no war TO increase the supply of
dead mems shoes"
The cortege halted just rs the Viceroy's
carriage came opposite our car, and l scanned
eagerly the strong oriental face. How
many years was it since the incompatible
Grant had spoken in nay hearing Of this
same man in terms of admiration-almost
of affection? Beside him sat gray-haired
soldier. 1t was 81 years ago and few
months. since young staff officer last re-
ported to him for orders.
Since that time-but why think of it :?
His past is bright; mine forever cloud.d.
have strange longing 10 call myself to
his memory-to 60 and see him-but never
shall. Death bars the pleasures Of memory,
and blights those of hore. have no yestef-
day and can have no tomorrow.
The National tribune., 1897-10-28

The name of his old friend had opened the
dood-gates Of his memory.
Aud you knew Deyens?" he said. while
tears gathered in ais eyes Poor fellow!
Poor fellow! Yes, he disappeared dozen
years ago stepped out Of life into oblivion
in an hour. Left his Office hale, hearty,
hopeful, in broad open day--a man loved,
trusted, admired by all who knew him, and
known by thousands-yet never was seen or
heard of afterwards. Every possible effort
was made to find some trace of him, but in
vain. Not even a hint of his fate has ever
been received.
For a year kept hoping and searching.
Advertisements, detectives everything.
Not a word, not trace. 1t was the most
remarkable disappearance ever known. If
The National tribune., 1897-10-28
CONSUMPTION CURED.

An old physician. retired from practice, had
placed in his hands by East India missionary
the formula Of n simple vegetable remedy for the
speedy and permanent cure of Consunptlons
Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma and all Throat and
Lung Affections. also positive and radical euro
for Nervous Debility and all Nervous Complaints.
Having tested its wonderful curative powers IN
thousands of cases, and desiring to relieve human
suffering I will send free of charge to all who
wish it, this recipe. in German. French or English,
with full directions for preparing and using Sens
by mail, by addressing. with stanlr, naming this
paper, w. A. MOVES. $40 Polcers Block, Rochestae,
The National tribune., 1897-10-28
California in 3 Days,
ITO be contin,ied.I

Via Chicago Union Pacific, and North Western
Line. No change of cars. All meals in dining
cars Two trains daily, with frst-class and
tourist sleepers. Personally conducted excur.
sions every Thursday to California and Oregon
For rates and other i'll formation ask your near.
est Ticket Agent or write,
II. A. Gross, g. T.. P. A.. 423 Broadway, New
York.
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street, Philadelphia, Pa.
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An Oversight of History.

The battle of the Arikaree in Kansas 90
years ago beat either the charge of the 600 !"
or the holding of Thermopylm for genuine
bravery and heroism. But history doesn't
notice it, nor have poets sung about it.
The National tribune., 1897-10-28
A STRATEGIC POINT
Operations Around Chatta-
nooga-Fighting in the
Clouds.
Chatta-
BY COL. LYMAN BRIDGES, CHIEF CT Ar
TILLERY, FOURTH CORPS

Chattanooga, in East Tennessee, the
acknowledged key and strategic center
between Georgia and Eastern and
Middle Tennessee, Alabama, Ken
lucky and North Carolina, having
three important railways centering
there, as we'll as being located on the
Tennessee River, and surrounded by
mountains, was thus made pre-emi-
The National tribune., 1897-10-28
Key to the Bastile.
Mail and E-.rnress.I

Ito be continually