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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-04-24
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fence, good out range, I3s acres
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All goes for s. 900 on easy -2avmss.. u
further particlars enquire Of c. M H Cl.
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Pullman buffet sleeper and seco0iS
sleeping cars attached to all through n.
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The mayor of Salem finds solace
from the weightier cares of Office in
considering the dog question. He
says the more poverty the more dogs,
and seeks to maintain Salem's fair
name by waging a relentless war on
the Surplus CANNES Eugene Guard.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-04-24
SALEM PASSENGER DAILY.

400 MI Lv :. Portland. Ar ( IoT1
6:I5P NJ Ar ..Salem ....Ly | Sel
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-04-24

FOR SALE.-FamiIy horse and carriaoe
very cheap for cash. Apply to J, NJ. Howell
~ S'eee muse. 424 1t I
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WEST SIDE DIVISION.

BETWEEN PORTLAND AND coRvAuk
Mail tIains daily [except Sunday
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EMPRESS TRAINS RUN DAIIy

$3.50 P M Lv. Portland. Ar (SS
IIHo Pm Lv. -. Satem ....Lv lon
HIS AM Ar. San Francisco Lv IA
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1t seems not even Mr.. Kincaid's
friends can work him for state claim.
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Difference to Mayor Strong, a lover OF
strong tea; or because our men, like
their English cousins, were actually
going to take time to sip cup OF
CeYlon with their women friends.
The Tea Room Is still there in all
its gilt.edged glory, with perfume
of violets and serviettes of drawn
linen. But at 4 p. M, the hour ]
dropped in, it was an Adamless Eden.
Maids and matrons, however, we're
there in plenty, chatting and discuss
ing the last debutante's tea or recep.
tion. I noticed Miss Katherine Duer,
considered by many to be the hand.
soonest girl in New York's smart set,
at one of the tables looking radiant
in a spring gown of a large cream and
brown check. The short coat fitted
tightly to the figure in the back, fall.
ing loosely in front, displaying wais'
of exquisite grass linen with strips OF
embroidery. A huge brown picture
hat shaded Miss Duer's star-like eyes,
and the soft light that came from the
pink candles made her look still more
orientally beautiful.
The costumes illustrated herewith
were designed by The National Cloak
Co., of New York.
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RESTS ON LOVE.
NEW VIEW OF MUSIC PRO-
POUNDED IN GOTHAM.
Foct Bicycles Are the Latest Fad
Fifth Avenue Tea Room an
Adamless Eden -Wo-
mems Fashions.
Especial New York Letter..

r UST fancy sober old London 60
ing wild over "Foot Bicycles. "
g little bicycles on the feet-and
whirliug in the parks at break
neck speed New Workers, of course,
must follow suit; and a school has
been opened for this latest craze.
Two tiny tires are joined together
and 80 constructed as to fit the boot
or shoe firmly. The softness of the
rubber and the ease and speed with
which one can spin along is indeed
luxurious and exhilarating.
This is assuredly an age where the
one cry is "Time fies;" and We are all
chasing after it. Imagine the sensa.
tion of a modern Rip Van Winkle who
had slept from date when cable cars
and bicycles, to say nothing Of
"wheels in the head" had not made
their appearance. His cry would be,
II am not mad, but crazy"
Miss Virginia Earle, the clever
Molly Seamore OF "The Geisha," is
devotee of the wheel, and looks a
jaunty little figure in her double
breasted REFER and skirt of fine serge
of marine blue. Her favorite run is
to Claremont, adjoining the Grant
monument. spot where one may meet
many we'll known people in kid glove
Bohemia taking eleven o'clock break
fast in the glass-covered balcony over
looking the Hudson.
4 society leader, who recently leo
tured here before a distinguished
company of aristocratic danes, took
for her subject Mr.. Krehbiel's deGni.
tion of music, which asserts that
"Music is an art which rests on love {;
and that it represents pure thought,
lofty imagination and deep learning" "
This may be true at times. But some
German street band music I hear,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-04-21
japanese Economy.

While sitting on one of the veran-
das of the Yaami Hotel, Kioto, one
evening, writes Robert P. Porter, a
Japanese gentleman said to me-:
"What an inconvenient man you are.
You require 80 much more than we
Japanese to keep you comfortable.
Here, for example, You are paying SIS
(silver) per day, and I am only paying
Is sen, or 40 cents of your money. I
am just as comfortable and happy as
you are. To be sure, you have tables
and chairs and washstands and pitch
ers and bedstead and sofa and goodness
knows what, in your rooms. l have
nothing of the sort. A nice clean
tatami mat and quilt is good enough
bed for ne. Then you give so much
more trouble OF your meals with your
tables and chairs and crockery and
glassware and knives and forks and
spoons and mustard and pepper pots.
Then you are crowded together in one
room. My meals are served on tray
in my room by a pretty maid who
kneels before me while I eat, and chats
and makes herself interesting, looking
after my every want at the same time.
Then you cart lot of unnecessary
baggage around. The hotel furnishes
me fine silk dressing gown and nice
clean night robe, and I can buy q
toothbrush for sen or 80. No, say
what you like, you Europeans are in
convenient people"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-04-21

may CLEAN almost innumerable refer
ences and allnsions to the pretty Gus
tom of hallowing the May Day, and
we also learn that less than 200 years
ago the May pole was as indispensable
in every English village as the stocks
the pillory. When the Puritans
into power the May Day dancing
'Hwer gathering were tabooed
poles were all cut down. But
Il old Oliver passed away the
perp4e began to amuse themselves
again, erected taller May poles than
were ever known before, and danced
about them harder than ever. But, as
often happens in such cases, when
nobody opposed the May Day aid its
pole, both soon fell into 'innocuous
desuetude," and now there is hardly q
May pole to be found in all England.
The custom of remembering the day,
however, still survives, and little girls
wearing garlands, and carrying with
them q doll decorated with flowers,
termed the "Lady of the May" still
60 about the towns on this day, pre-
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senting their doll to the passers-by as
a modest hiEt for halfpence.
It is strange circums tance that the
chimney sweeps and bootblacks of
London should be the only people in
that great metropolis who now do
honor to the May Day. When Pepys
was keeping his journal the whole
court used 10 go out at sunrise to
gather flowers and wash their faces in
dew for good luck and looks, but the
custom gradually fell in caste until
finally it remains only among the
dregs of society. Every May Day,
however, it is religiously observed by
the street boys, who, with green
branches or leaves in their hands, pa.
rade to the music of a fife and drum,
attended by two or three figures fan
tsstically attired and 'jack-in.the-
K" "whboo is indispensable to the oc.
casion. Who the jack originally rep.
resented, or what was the significance
of his presence on 80 joyous an occa.
sion, can not now be ascertained. but
he Is always on hand, and IN dlnerent
countries assumes different forms.
From street to street goes the little
procession of. ragged and dirty folk,
halting here and there to dance and
caper about. while one of the number
diligently passes the hat to collect
such pennies as the spectators feel like
contributing, but, poor and dingy as
it may be, it is one of the survivals OF
the grand parades in honor of Flora,
of which emperors and kings were
proud to be part.
In France there are more remains OF
the old-time customs, and even to the
present day the dance of the milk.
maids marching in proc ession with
their COWS is seen in scores of villages
at this season. That the dance origi-
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-04-21
PENNSYLVANIA Is Rich in Fur.

DR.. B. 81. Warren, the Pennsylvania
State Zoologist, shows that. notwith.
standing the great slaughter of animal
life, the fur trade of the State is great.
In York County alone the fur-chieay
muskrats, opossums, raccoons, mlnks
and foxes-last year obtained there
scld for 100000. In Chester County
one dealer has for several years sold
fur in New York worth from $4,000 tc
$4,000. In Wayne County large sum
is annually realized by hunters and
The official county records show
that the Payment Of bounties has
grown to Be something Considerable.
Statistics from nine counties show that
during the past few years bounties
have been paid on $4,000 foxes. 1000
wildcats, 1 panther, 5000 weasels, SOC
mink, 900 hawks, 1000 owls and thou
sands of other animals and BIRDS
New York Press.
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The Language of q Pet Eagle.

Mr.. W. LIE G. Beard writes in st.
Nicholas OF pet eagle named Moses,
which he caught in the Arizona de-.
sert. Mr.. Beard says: Moses had a
language of his own, which, by the
constant practice he gave us, we soon
learned to understand. 1t consisted
of series of cries, all harsh and
nerve-rasping, but perfectly distinct,
each one expressing different emo
tion. Thus, rage, entreaty, excite
ment and pleasure were each easily
distinguished by those who knew him
we'll. His one syllable note of greet
ing was more explosive and perhaps q
shade less disagreeable than the rest;
and he had also low, grooming sort
of murmur; but this he used only in
soliloquy, so to use it expressed only
the fact that Moses was talking over
things with himself.
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blue, like BARRIERS poles, they often
ornamented the top with an iron band,
which, at the time of the annual festi-
val, was covered with flowers, thus
making a very presentable wreath. A
tub containing a tree or shrub was oc.
casionally substituted for the wreath,
but as the tub was hard to get up and
easy to fall down, it was not in much
favor.
In the quiet country districts OF
France, Germany and Italy there are
still queens of the May, young girls
who are on this day crowned queens
of the festivities. A little floral arbor
is provided, in which the queen sits in
state all day long, taking no part in
the festivities; no one speaks to her;
save bow or courtesy in passing, no
one pays her any special attention,
and the situation would seem rather
dreary, but the honor of the position
has compensations, and at every May
Day there is lively competition among
the various candidates.
In many parts of Europe the May
festival takes the form of games and
athletic sports of various kinds. In
England there were formerly the Robin
Hood games among the country peo-
pie, which kept alive the memory OF
the merry outlaw and his companions.
Various persons, dressed in character,
enacted in an open square a panto'
mime representing some scene chosen
from the ballads which are the princl.
pal literary survivals of the famous
hunter. Every entertainment, at one
time or another, has contest in arch
cry as a special feature, a popularity
Of the Swiss games also, which have
probably inherited this part of their
programme from the exploits of Will
liam Tell.
1t is q singular fact, as showing not
only the university of the custom, but
also the fact that all the varieties
probably had one origin, that many
of the features of the celebration In
countries very widely separated are
almost Identical. The Chinese, as we'll
as the English, had a Queen of the
May, while in Mexico and Peru, the
crowning of young girl with flowers
at this season is q hint of the same
thing. While there seems nothing so
transient as a jovial custom like this,
nothing is, in reality, more perma-
nent, and the manner in which appar-
emily frivolous and meaningless cele'
bratlons are handed down from parents
to children, from race to race, consti-
tutes one of the bonds which unite us
to remote ages and countries far dis.
tant from our own.
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means follows that library will make
readers, there can be no denying the
fact that convenient and comfortable
room, with something of artistic sim
plicity and finish about it, set apart
and dedicated as q library, encourages
and fosters the habit of reading. That
this is generally known and appreci-
ated is shown by the fact that of late
years very large proportion of the
houses built contain room set apart
for that purpose. 1t is we'll within
the memory that when house con-
tanned two rooms on the first floor in
addition to the dining-room, one was
called "front parlor" and the other
"back parlor," or, more euphoniously,
perhaps, psrlor and reception room.
At the present time, however, one of
the rooms is almost invariably dubbed
"the library" even if it has only
beggarly array of books.
It is meet and fitting that the Ii.
brary should be q general sitting room
and the place where the best of the
home life centres. Most plans that
are drawn now give the library one OF
the choicest locations in the house,
and full advantage is taken OF this fact
in the fitting and furnishing OF the
room.
Reds and browns are the most pleas
ing colors, but these may be shaded to
light fawn color, terra Gotta, or warm
yellow if necessary. There may be u
panelled ceiling and hardwood floor,
the latter covered with rich Oriental
rugs, if means permit. Of course these
are not essential some OF the most de.
lightful libraries have merely papered
ceilings, and floors covered with
cheaper carpets or dark mattings.
In new house where everything is
planned from the beginning, the prob
lem of fitting the library is compara-
lively simple. Instead of movable
bookcases, which are always cumber.
some, low shelves should be arranged
around the walls as permanent Tx.
lures, or they may be carried up to
the ceiling to fill odd corners. Dust
is great enemy of books, and to keep
this out is the excuse many people
give for sticking to the old-fashioned
way of having bookcases with glass
doors; but this end is just as we'll OBJ
tanned by placing escaloped leather
valances on the shelves, or hanging at
tractive India silk curtains in front of
them.
The central feature of the room
should be an elegant library table for
books and magazines, O desk made for
writing and not for mere display, one
or two straight-backed chairs, several
easy.chairs and a comfortable lounge.
The attached plan shows that the
architect has provided most attract
i've library, finished in cherry, with
Hooring of maple, the whole room
lending itself to the most artistic
furnishing, and that without great
outlay of money.
The arrangement and sizes of the
rooms are shown by the floor plans,
the width of the house being forty
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-04-21
CANNING CORN.

To preserve green corn By canning
is more difficult than the preserving Of
any other vegetable. In former years.
some patents have been issued for
some processes, and even now factories
make something of trade secret OF
their methods. The general princi.
ole to be observed is. that after the
corn has been removed from the cob
to subject it to enough heat to destroy
all germs, several hours being neces-
sary for this. After the corn has been
put in the cans, these are placed into
3 water or steam bath. The cans
must be completely filed, leaving 9
very small hole in the top of the can,
the critical point being to close up
this vent by soldering SO that air can.
not enter the can.-New England
Homestead. ........
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When traces of May Day are discov-

When traces of May Day are discov.
cred in the earliest ages OF Egypt and
at the dawn of history in Greece,
among the Etruscans, among the Celts
of the Rhone and the Germans of the
Rhine, in Scandinavia and Wales and
Ireland, among the natives of the In
dian Peninsula and among the Abor-
igines of America and Australia and
New Guinea, the conclusion is safe
that such custom is of universal OBJ
servance and remotest antiquity. So
it may be that the Chinese are not as
extravagant as they seem when they
claim that May Day originated in the
Celestial Empire 10000 years before
the food, being instituted by the
never-to.be-enough-pralsed Emperor
Chi. Whee, who was fond of flowers
and employed exactly 1000, 900 men
to take care of his garden.
Leaving, however, the claims OF the
glorious Chi.Whee to be defended by
his own people, it is worth remember
ing that festival, in many particu-
lars bearing a close resemblance to
our May Day, was celebrated all over
Italy and the south Of Europe at the
beginning of the Christian era, when
every one who could spare the time
went into the woods and fields for a
days outing, gathered flowers and re-
turning laid them on the affairs of
Flora. 1t is also interesting to know,
that on these occasions the goddess of
flowers was personated by a young
girl, the prettiest who could be found,
who, during the day, received the
homage of her friends and was
crowned with the spoils of the fields, a
genuine Queen of the May. As cities
grew, it became inconvenient to go far
into the country, for the excursion
steamers and railroad trains packed
full of pleasure seekers were not, and
a substitute was found by bringing
tree into town, setting it in the ground
in q public place, decorating it with
flowers, which the country people, in
the hore of gaining shekels, or oboli
or denarii, or whatever other coin was
legal tender for debts public and pri-
vate in the neighborhood, were easily
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-04-21
Trees for City Planting.

Persons who are not members OF
the Tree Planting Association may
share in its fruits. The association
will mail free OF charge to all those
who may desire to set out trees in
New York q printed list of trees that
are recommended by experts as most
suitable for growth in this city, to-
gether with list of city nurserymen
who will do the completed work. in.
Guiding iron guards, with their charges
for the same varying in price from
SO to $40. The Office of the associa-
tion is at No. 66 White street. Trees
increase the value of property,
beautify the streets and improve
health wherever they grow. New
York Press.
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wAsrEFUL HOUSEWIVES.

Here is 9 list of careless bits of ex.
travagance which keep many woman
poor. They seem like insignificant
matters. but the sum of them is no
small affair. Let every housewife with
a desire to save read, mark, learn and
inwardly digest the list and resolve
never again to be guilty Of the follow
ing: ....
Allowing pieces Of cake and bread
to dry and mould and then throwing
them away. a..
Failing to dry q box of soap for
several days before using it. -
Leaving dried fruits uncovered and
consequently allowing them to become
wormy, -..-s..
Using dish towels for holders, nap.
kins for dish towels and sheets for
ironing.
Using the face of flat irons to crack
nuts.
Cold potatoes allowed to sour. !
Sour milk thrown away.
[ The kerosene can left open to eyap-
crate. ... ..... g. LIZ
Gold fish thrown away. %
Cheese permitted to mould. e
Lemons left to dry.
Fat put in esrthen dishes.
The mustard cruise remaining open
to dry. a
Gan goods left exposed in cans.
Bread pan left with dough sticking
to L. .. : ....' u
Left over vegetables thrown away.
Rice and sugar wasted in the hand
ling.
Too much starch made and thrown
out. ..... .asi
Pals and waahtubs left dry to fall
to pieces. gt
Silver spoons and forks used in the
kitchen.
Tin dishes improperly dried when
washed: 49,. "a
Mops and brooms not hung up.
Tea and coffee pots neglected. W
Soap left in dishpans to dissolve and
waste. -
Bits OF meat thrown away.
Carpet brooms used to scrub with.
Throwing away tea leaves (save them
for sweeping dark carpets; coarse
table salt should be used for light car
peis.)
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RECIPES.

Celery and Sardine Salad-Cut up
crisp, tender celery into inch lengths.
Take the sardines carefully from the
box and put on the celery. Pour a
mayonnaise dressing over. Serve on
cold, fiat dish.
Vanilla Chips-Beat three whole
eggs and ten ounces of sugar together;
add half pound of sifted -four and
two teaspoonfuls of vanilla. Nix we'll,
roll the paste out on the molding.
board in thin sheet, and cut into
narrow strips six inches long. Lay
on a creased tin, and bake carefully
in hot oven for ten minutes. While
warm twist them around stick or
pencil to give the chips spiral form.
Kept in a tin box they will remain
fresh and crisp for long time.
Graham Butter Cakes-Tske two
coffee cups of graham -four, one tea
spoonful of salt, three teaspoons
tsmooth) of baking powder. Mix we'll.
then make very thin batter with cold
water. Have your griddle very hot.
The cakes will seem thin on pouring
on to the griddle, but the heat makes
them swell and puff up so light that
they are delicious, so quickly made
and QUE of the incest ways to use this
healthful food. A cup of granulsted
sugar and three tablespoons of boiling
water make nice sirup after boiling.
i've minutes. .-
Fig SaladSPlace. one gill Of strained
honey ina bowl; squeeze over it the
juics bt Two LEMONS, and stir together.
Beat to q stiff frpth half pint q
cream, and str this lightly into the
honey. Strip the skins from two
dozen ripe but firm figs, and with a
keen-bladed knife divide into quar-
ters. Pour over them the dressing
and place on ice to become cold.
When fresh figs are not obtainable
cover dried figs with lukewarm water
and allow them to soak from Eve to
seven hours; dry on coarse towel,
divide into quarters; then proceed %
directed above.
Goldfish Omelet-One large cup
quite full Of freshened and we'll picked
Goldfish. Rub one tablespoon of butter
into one of -four. Warm cup of milk,
stir into it the Toured butter, a dash
of pepper, little minced parsley and
the fish. Toast six pieces of bread
and butter while hot. Beat six eggs
light. Cook the milk and fish two
minutes, then add the beaten eggs.
As they begin to "set" pour them into
a spider in which q spoonful Of butter
is Kissing. Shake we'll; when the
mixture begins to brown on the edges
heap it on the toast and send to table
at cnce on q heated dish -......
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be called g nation of readers. The
peasantry of other lands rarely make
a practice oireading; but in America
the laborer. the artisan and the
farmer are ardent readers OF the daily
newspapers, and often Of class publl'
cations, even if they do not venture
into the field of general literature.
The magazines owe their enormous
circulation to their widespread love OF
reading, there being dozens. OF them
that sell more than q hundred thou
sand copies every month, thus
proving that they must go into
millions of households.
The tremendous and ever-increaslng
output of books Is another testimonial IN
of the habit of the people. This
growth of love for reading must to
great extent influence their lives for
the better; and although it by no