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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-05-28
TROUBLE LIKELY.

LONDON. May PA dispatch TO
the Times from Constantinople says:
The attitude Of the grand yizer is
the subject Of much comment. lie
was regarded as merely the instru-
ment Of the sultan, but he now shows
unexpected ytgor as an advocate Of an
exacting policy toward Greece. The
reply of the porte delivered last even
ing confirms the report that it would
not discuss the conditions Of peace.
The Salem Statesman intimates
that 10 Simon is out Of politics. For
a man who is out he worries fellows a
great deal who think they are still in.
The Populist Eye, Burwell, Nebr.,
says: Found, perpetual motion; "pov-
erty makes rags, rags make paper,
paper makes money, money makes
banks, banks make poverty, ETC."
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-05-28
BORN.

the family home near
Fruitland, Thursday, May q, 1897,
to Mr.. and Mrs. Jos. Fisher, a son,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-05-28
To the people of Salem:

To the people OF Salem:
shall take great pleasure in con-
tinuing the Pioneer store, and hope
TO merit the trade Of old and new
patrons by strict attention TO busi-
ness, and by offering the best goods
in my line at prices that must CEN
vince the closest buyers. We shall
close out the present crockery stock
at a sacrifice, and lit will pay all TO
come ia and see our bargains.
5 "A u z. M. RoWLEY.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-05-28
FRo1 YAQUISA
WEEK May Be s.9PPsd O ~ Ps7ass'
s-5-e O-z-ry-

WEEK May Be S,oPPe5 q ~ Ps9as-'
s.11e Q-zny-
The Pfonee- stone quarry. % LIN
coin county. l. thrests1=d 70 . tea
ID in litigation. A petition for TrIt
% injunction. restraining George "
Davis & son from further operating
the quarry. has been sled in the cir
cut court. department No , here
The petitioners are J. II. Howell and
J. ". Howell. owners q the quarry
The petition sets forth that DAYS. \
Son, Iessses. have MT lived up 70 the
contract. and are Jet operating the
mine in violation o. tue lease and
that stone is being taken from an ad-
jacent quarry and sold under the
name Of Pioneer stone, in violation Of
the Iessor's trace mark. fled in the
Office Of secretary u state. Judge..Bur-
nett viii hear arguments On the pe-
tition next Wednesday.
There are other quarries running
near Toledo. one discovered by Wash
Simpson.
Newport Is enjoying quite a boom.
The prospects u erecting a large
for a summer school has
sent realestate up 80 that people 10
the vicinity Of Nye Greek are asking
twice as much for lots a. last year.
OlssOns addition j. filing up with
for summer cottages
earlier than usual and that part Of
the town is holding its own. 1t is
sheltered from wind and commands
beautiful view o. the bay.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-05-28
GREECO-TURKISH
Latest Peace Negotiations.
Have Taken a Turn More Favorable
10 Greece,

LoxD0S. May 3s.-Tne correspond
eot q the Times at Athens says:
The dispatches which the govern
ment has received from representa-
tives Of Greece abroad all indicate
that the peace negotiations have
turn more favorable To Greece.
Turkeys proposal 70 occupy TheSsaly
DO longer receives consideration,
owing TO Epgland' attitude. while the
proposal to abolish the capitulations
10 the case Of Greek citizens in
Turkey is rejected aud the suggested
extraditiOn treaty Is apparently set
aside.
Tue powers have fixed 100000 as
the highest limit Of indemnity, and
will allow only such a strategic alter
alton Of the frontier as will not In
yolve the subjects Of any inhabited
districts 70 Turkish rule.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-05-28

FINDS A CURIO.-C ". Helenbrand
who is a collector Of curios, has just
found one Of peculiar interest. As he
vas digging under an old rotted out
sill below the warehouse behind his
place Of business, he shOyeled out a
cOin-shaped nickel ta2 with the fol-
loving inscription on it w. W.
Sellers. 1914 Adams s., PeOra, H.,
X. F." II also bears the Pythian coat
Of arms, and was evidently nailed to
a valise or trunk 10 identify the same.
1t must have been under there many
years, as il required much polishing
before the inscription could be made
out. Charlie will refer it to to the
Peona, X. P. lodge, and thinks it may
be the key 70 some mystery.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-05-28
A BUSINESS CHANGE.

The Pioneer Store of Salem Changes
Hands.
The undersigned wishes to announce
that he has sold the Pioneer grocery
and crOckery store to E. NJ. Rowley
late Of East Portland, who will con-
tlnue the busineas at the old stand.
l wish TO thank the many who have
patronized me In the past forty years,
and feel safe in recommending 70
them my successor as an able, eXper-
fenced business man, who will en-
deayor to treat all in the best man
ner known to the trade.
JOHN g. WRIGHT.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-05-28
NOTICE p!

No matter shat the other fel-
loNs advertise. bring Is their
sds. We viii duplicate The
same g0ols for less uDney-
Quality is our faIisman.
Price T. a1r saiesUan-
4 feB more cf those stylish shirt
waists fgT - cents.
A Ilf u fhr-e handsome bTDcade TI5-
bons 3-incbes EiGef 10 cents Der
yard.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-05-28

The governor OF Michigan' has We
toed an Rnti-cigarette law.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-05-28

GIRL WANTED.-FOr general d a0sIr .,r,s.
in small family. Call at I9S h'sH sga
The record-union., 1897-08-09
A Practical Test,

Dom Pedro, the last Emperor of Bra
zil, was man of practical turn of
mind, as the following story told of
him by Spanish newspaper we'll H.
lustrates
He once gave an audience to a young
engineer who came. to show him a new
appliance for stopping railway engines
The Emperor was pleased with the
idea, but wished to put it to a practical
test.
Day after Tomorrow" said he,
have your engine ready. We will
have it coupled to my saloon-carriage
and start. When going at full speed
| will give the signal to stop. and then
We shall see how your invention works. -
AT the appointed time all was in
readiness. The Emperor entered his
carriage, the young inventor mounted
his engine, and on they sped for sew
eral miles as fast as they could go
There came no signal, and the engineer
began to fear that the Emperor had
fallen asleep. Suddenly the engine
came to sharp cure around the edge
of Cliff. when. to his horror, on the
track directly ahead of them the en-
gineer saw huge bowlder
He had just sufficient presence of
mind to turn the crank of his brake
and pull the engine up within couple
OF yards of the fatal block
Here the Emperor put his head out
of his car window and demanded to
know the cauS of the sudden stop
page. The engineer pointed to the
rock, and, much to his surprise, Dom
Pedro began to laugh.
Push it to one side and go on" he
said, calmly
The engineer obeyed. and kicking the
stone, was still further astonished to
see it crumble into dust before him.
1t was nothing more nor less than a
block of starch which the Emperor had
had made and placed on the rails the
night before.
The record-union., 1897-08-09
PHASED BY FASHIONS.
And Finished by a Hedheaded Girl
With a Crimson Hat.

1t was a Chicago Police Court.
The prisoner dragged before the
Judge was a wreck of once noble man
hood. His expensive clothes We're tum-
bled, dusty, and torn, his unshaven
face was ghastly gray, his eyes were
bloodshot, his hands twitched spasmod-
ically; he was bent and trembled as
he dragged his feet along in shudder
ing steps. Wildly he stared around
with the fear Of a hunted thing
''Y 'ranner," said the brave policeman,
II found him wandering down the
street, shrieking like all possessed.
Every once in a while he'd stop and
count on his fingers and hold his head,
and whenever he'd see a lady coming
up the street he'd turn and run like a
rabbit. And they were mighty stylish
ladies, too''
What do you mean by such ac-
tions?" asked the Judge
The trembling man Strengthened up
in one last spasm of righteous and
lucid indignation. I've stood 1t all
spring" he said, in a hollow vaice;
i've met sea-green straw hats, trim
med with yellow roses and pink ribbon
eiIfo DIISIfl OlQC OlltS Will Puppy pCoo,
lilac bushes, violet meadows, and wa
ter lilies on 'em; I've seen my wife and
daughters and all l hold most dear on
earth go forth arrayed in hats that
would make an explosion in a paint
factory look as black as pitch; I've seen
one tiny head with a pyramid of straw,
chiffon, velvet, quills, Conservatives,
flower stores, corner stands, and win
dow gardens ON it; I've seen a mixed
straw trimmed in green grass, frogs,
tulips, buttercups, American beauty
roses and watered ribbon, and I've
stood it ALL His voice fell. A solemn
silence lay upon the room. But" SO
low he spoke that the sympathetic
Judge leaned forward to catch the
words, yesterday meta red-headed
woman wearing a brilliant, ALFRED hat
and"
Take him awayl" sobbed the Judge.
"and be good to him. He-won't last
long. The shock has been too much.
Poor-poor fellow!"
And gibbering and vaeant-eyed the
maniac was gently led to his CELL
Chicago News.
The record-union., 1897-08-09
THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS.

Does the righteousness of cause
justify its promoters in trespassing up
on the rights of Others? Assuredly not.
Yet that is the position Commander
Booth Tucker of the Salvation Army
takes practically in his published pro-
test against his recent conviction un-
der the law in New York for keeping
a disorderly house. He declares that
new offense has been created by the
action Of the court and jury that jeop-
ardizes religious liberty We think not.
Religious liberty always and every
where is subject to those wise and nee
essary regulations essential to the pres
ervation of other liberties. If others
wish to sleep in the hours usually given
by the mass of mankind to sleep, the
Salvationists cannot claim that they
have the right in the prosecution of
their liberty to invade the right OF
their neighbors to rest in hours of rest.
Nor can they with any sort of justice
claim that those disturbed by their
midnight services should move away
from the range Of hearing. 1t happens
that the house of the citizen is his
castle. and he who wishes to indulge
in that which invades the right of castle
must himself choose a field for action
from which no effense will go forth
against the right of that castle. The
revelry is religious, it's true, but if it
deprives the citizen of his needed rest
wherein does it differ, so far as he is
concerned, from irreligious, revelry? 1t
follows that religious liberty is not
jeopardized by such restraint put upon
it's manifestations, as is necessary to
secure another in the enjoyment of his
right to quiet that he may sleep. Mr..
Booths published protest is simply ri
diculous. for it is at swords points
with the very law that guarantees him
the right to worship after such man
ner as he chooses and TO be free from
interruption in the exercise of that
right
The record-union., 1897-08-09
Moderate Smoking in Japan.

/ asked a Japanese friend of mine who
called on me the other day during his
brief sojourn in New York with Mar
quis Ito, in whose suite he is, why the
Japanese use such very small pipes.
A Japanese tobacco pipe holds mere
ly a pinch of tobacco-less than would
suffice for the making of half ciga-
rette, say. Moreover, the tobacco
smoked by the Japs is exceedingly mild.
The Japanese who, like my friend,
have been educated in the United States
or in Europe, smoke cigars, like the
rest of us, and cigarettes, too; you
won't see Jap smoking any of the
small pipes of his own country when
ever he is away from home. Yet in
Japan the tiny pipe is seen everywhere,
and had it been left to me to explain
why so vigorous and virile people are
content to get along with so little to-
bacco. l should probably never have
solved the problem. When l asked
my friend to solve it for me, he laugh
ed softly for a moment, and then said:
None of the Americans or English
men who go to Japan and then write
about the people and the country have
given this subject any attention. If
they ever do, the world will probably
be told that the Japanese smoke little
tobacco in little pipes because the av
erage Jap is a little man and takes
Liliputian pleasures. Or, the Western
world will learn that the Japanese are
poetical people and recognize the small
pipe of tobacco as the perfect type of
a perfect pleasure, as an Englishnan
once called the cigarette.
Yet neither of these is the true ex-
planation. The Japanese smoke little
tobacco because in the old days little
tobacco came into Japan and the tariff
was very high. We are a frugal and
abstemious people. The masses in ia
pan have but little money to waste on
luxurieS. In ancient times they had
much less than they have now. They
earned little, and so they could spend
little. The tiny tobacco pipe of Japan
is survival of the days when money
was scarce, tobacco dear and tariffs
high. In a generation or two when
AN Japan - Dali Nippon shall have
taken her place among the wealthy ma
tions of the world, the old time pipe
will be as much of a curio at home as
it now is abroad. Tobacco Trade
Journal
The record-union., 1897-08-09
RULE OF THE ROAD.

The Legislators of New York City
have adopted wholesome rule of the
road, and have directed the police to
enforce it. This rule requires, after all,
is only copformance with the old rules
of the road everywhere known in this
country, but much abused. A driver,
as all well know, must keep to the
right hand of the highway. He should
not drive in the middle of the road,
though in cities this law is constantly
violated But drivers in six cases out
Of ten when driving on the right Of
the road, and having occasion to turn
TO the left to pass into a street run
ming at right angles to the original
course, cross over at an acute angle,
thus rendering any one driving towards
them on the right of the cross street.
liable to collision. The authorities of
New York now require that the turn
from the right hand of one street to the
right side of another street, must be
made by driving across the intersec-
aiOils ~ mat llAC III II C<AAl ON AAAS~NN -
rectly into the right side of the cross
street, and then the speed must not ex-
ceed three miles an hour All riders
and drivers going north or south are to
have the right Of way over those go
ing east or west. In this city such a
rule would have to be reversed, so as
to give the right of way to those go
ing east or west. This means that if
one is driving south on Seventh street
and another is driving east on K street
and they are about to meet at the in
tersection, the one driving south must
yield the crossing, by. slowing up, to the
one driving east. Stopping upon an
intersection is forbidden, and if one
driving along a street with others fol-
lowing behind closely, he is required to
raise his whip or hand and give a
signal if he is about to stop in order
to avoid end-on collisions. So, too, a
signal must be given when about to
to eight miles an hour on the streets,
no more than two must ride abreast,
and they must turn no corners at a
speed of more than three miles an hour.
Bicyclists must carry and use a bell,
but they must not exceed three inches
in diameter, so as not to be mistaken
for ambulance and fire-cart bells At
night lamps must be carried. They
in overtaking, and must not turn in
front of a wheel or vehicle less than
fifteen feet distant
The record-union., 1897-08-09
Dromedaries That Smoke Cigars.

There is no reason why a dromedary
should not be partial to a good cigar
Most dromedaries, according to a me-
nagerie proprietor, are particularly
fond OF tobacco smoke, and can be
made to do almost anything under it's
influence.
Travellers in Egypt he asserts, ire
~ more on tobacco smoke for their con-
troll over these huge beasts than any
thing else. When travelling on long
journeys the dromedaries are in many
cases required to travel at night and
day without rest and the beasts are
kept up to their tasks by smoking ci-
gars. The driver carries triangular
piece of wood, which is pierced at one
point like a cigar holder. This is in
serted in the mouth of the beast. the
cigar being lit and pressed into the
hole in the same fashion followed by
man.
The dromedary Immediately closes
its eyes and puffs away through it's
nostrils until the cigar is burned
away."-Answers.
The record-union., 1897-08-09
Where Prosperity Comes From.

A farmer and engineer opened the
throttle to the real and true compre-
hension of the signs of prosperity yes
terday, in the picturesque style of thor
oughness that marks the work of all
sons of the Tuscarawas. It's like the
old lark we used to hear tell Of" he
said. TT had it's nest and little ones
in a big wheat field and one night it
returned to the flock to find great ex-
cftement. The farmer and his son had
visited the field that day, and the lit
tie ones had heard them say that to-
morrow they would send for the neigh
bors to come for frolic and bring III
the harvest. oh, possess your souls
with patience said the mother lark,
with a shrug, there is no need of
alarm On the appointed day the
farmer and his son appeared, but no
neighbors arrived. Well, said the
farmer, Tomorrow we will send for
our relatives The situation was get
ting serious. Surely their relatives
will come reported the youngsters to
the old lark. Still the latter was un-
alarmed. But the relatives failed to
come. Well said the farmer; to-
morrow we will cut the wheat our
selves. When this was reported to
the old lark, she said, Then we must
move immediately And so if the peo-
pie of this country wait for a paternal
government to help them they will get
fooled. They must help themselves. -
-Pfttsburg Penn.) Dispatch.
The record-union., 1897-08-09
Changing a Family Name.

A gentleman living in Boston told an
interesting story, the other day. about
how some of his blood-relations hap
pened to have a family name different
from his own. 1t seems that during
the prosecutions in Scotland these par
ticular Kirkpatricks went over to Ire
land and settled in Belfast Suisse
quently the head of the family came
across the ocean, and, as soon as he
was established, sent for his wife to
join him, bringing with her their four
sons, two of whom We're old enough to
make stripping soldiers had some ex-
igency demanded such sacrifice. The
journey was undertaken in a slow going
ship bound for New York, and while
she was somewhere in mid-Atlantic the
war of 1872 between England and the
United States broke out. The ship,
when nearing our seaboard, was over
taken by a British cruiser which put
her about and escorted her to Halifax
Nova Scotia. The officer in command
of the cruiser declared his intention of
impreSSing sailors and soldiers from
among the passengers. A mother hav-
ing more than two sons would have to
give up all over that number who
might be available for military or naval
service. Mrs. Kirkpa trick, who was a
quick-witted woman, instantly planned
a ruSe, which she justified in her own
mind by calling it ruse de guerre "a
trick of war;. She stood two sons in
one part of the ship and two in another.
and was accepted, without detection, as
the mother of both pairs, though she
called herself Kirkpatrick in one in
stance and fitzpatrick in the other At
ter they disembarked, the deception
had to be kept up, as they were con-
stantly under the eyes of British offic-
ers. The interception by the cruiser
resulted in the family settling in Hal
flax instead of in the United States,
but even after peace was restored the
two Kirkpatrick boys found it much
harder to get their name back than it
had been to exchange it on shipboard.
In fact, they never got it back Those
who had come to know them as KiIpat-
ricks refused to know them as Kirk
patricks, and in the course of time the
effort to reclaim the family name was
abandoned as hopeless. The variation
in prefix made expedient pro tenn. by
the intermeddling cruiser seems to
have been ordained to continue sine
die.
The record-union., 1897-08-09
ALASKAN NATIVES.
They Are Proud and Intelligent
in Spite of Their Raggedness.

John Muir, the California naturalist
and discoyerer of the great Muir gla-
cier, writes of THE Alaska Trip" in the
August Century" OF Fort Wrangle,
Mr. Muir writes:
On the arrival of the steamer most of
the passengers make haste to go ashore
to see the curious totem poles in front
of the massive timber houses of the In
dians, and to buy curiosities, chiefly
silver bracelets hammered from dollars
and half-dollars and tastefully engray-
ed by Indian workmen; blankets better
than those of civilization, woven from
the wool of wild goats and sheep; carv-
ed spoons from the horns of these ami
mails; Shaman rattles, miniature totem
poles, canoes, paddles, stone hatchets,
pines baskets ETC. The traders in
these curious wares are mostly women
and children, who gather on the front
platforms of the half-dozen stores, sit
ting on their blankets, seemingly care
les whether they sell anything or not,
every other face blackened hideously,
naked circle about the eyes and on
the nose, where the smut has been
weathered off The larger girls and the
young women are brilliantly arrayed in
the blackened and blanketed old crones
like scarlet tanagers in a flock of black
birds. Beside curiosities, most of them
have berries to SELL red, yellow and
blue. fresh and dewy, and looking Won
drous clean as compared with the peo-
ple. These Indians are proud and in
telligent, nevertheless, and maintain an
air of self-respect which no amount or
raggedness and squalor can wholly
sGbdue.
Many canoes may be seen along the
shore, all fashioned alike, with long
beak-like sterns and prows. the largest
CARRYING twenty or thirty persons.
What the mustang is to the Mexican
vaquero the canoe is to the Indian of
the Alaska coast. They skim over the
CLASSY, sheltered waters far and near
to fish and hunt and trade, or merely
to visit their neighbors. Yonder goes
a whole family, grandparents and all,
the prov of their canoe biithely deco
rated with handfuls of the purple epi-
bolium. They are going to gather ber-
ries, as the baskets show. Nowhere
else in my travels. north or south, have
| seen so many berries. The woods and
meadows and open spaces along the
shores are full of them-huckleberries
of many species, salmon-beTries. rasp-
berries, blackberries currants and
gooseberries. with fragrant strawber-
ries and service berries on the drier
grounds, and cranberries in the bogs,
sufficient for every worm, bird and hu-
man being in the Territory. and thou
sands of tons to spare The Indians at
certain seasons. rowing in merry bands.
gather large quantities, beat them into
a paste, and then press the paste into
square cakes and dry them for winter
The record-union., 1897-08-09

There is from the opposition press a
roar in remarkable unison that the new
tariff bill protects and booms the trusts
and corporations. But to this writing
there is not presented a single item of
proof in that direction, save the two
days furry in the sugar pit. The
friends of the Dingley bin, who are ia
miliar with its details, on the contrary
declare that it is the most equitable tar
iff bill ever framed, and that it does not
favor unwisely any interests. Again
there is harmony of expression from the
opposition press that the new law lays
a tax upon necessaries of life while ad-
hitting luxuries free. and this charge
is made right and left with unblushing
effrontery. 1t should scarcely need de-
nial, but the dogmatic and mendacious
way in which it is preferred is anything
but complimentary to the character of
the American press for fair play.