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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1898-11-14
When Going East

Use tirst-elass line in travelling between
Minneapolis, st, Paul aud Chicago, and the
principal towns in Central Wisconsin,
Pullman Palace Sleeping and chair cars
in service.
The Dining cars are operated in the inter.
est OF its patrons, the most elegant service
ever inauguTated. Meals are served a Ia
Carte.
To obtain 6rsielass service your neke
should read via
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1898-11-14

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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1898-11-14
The Wisconsin
Central Lines.

Tor all connections at Chicago and Milwauke,
For eastern points.
,ieketfall Information call on sodr neaIes,
ticket lgeid OF write
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General Pass AgentMillwAukee.
Or JAS. A CLOCK, G-neral Agent Wis
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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1898-11-14

Uncle Sam might as well GaYe
given Spain her ultlmatum, as well as
TO spend s275, 900 doing It.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1898-11-14
The presidents Ibrother. like Cae-
sar's wife, should be above suspicion.

Will the officers Ia Manila kindly
let the Oregon troops have their
Christmas presents?
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1898-11-14

Philosophy from the Albany Demo.
cTat: 1.-THE person who has done the
most for Others the past week ought
% be the happlest this Saturday
night. The most miserable life lived
10 the one lived for oneself without
regard 10 the rights aud prIvelegesof OF
Others"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-13

great value are obtained. It remains to be
seen how far electrical processes will sup
plant the older ones, but as yet we are
probably only on the edge of the great field
TO be explored.
An 'aseptic ward Of the London Tenn
perance Hospital contains novel features 1t
is fourteen by eleven feet in area and thir-
teen feet high, being intended for only one
patient at a time. The walls and ceiling
are of enameled glass with rounded angles,
and the floor of marble mosaic, with angles
also rounded. A plate-glass window with
outside Dllnd, forms three-fifths of the west
wall. The door is of ground glass. and the
irame-the only wood about the wards of
nara teak. No pipe or drain opens into the
Ward. Great care has been taken with the
Nehtlating arrangements, and the ward is
cut OFT from the rest of the hospital by a
Ventilated lobby. The bed, chair, patients
locker, etc, are of metal. Everything in
the room can be washed IN hO; water with
out harm and it is suggested that future
houses will give similar protection against
the entrance, growth or escape of harmful
germs.
The magnetic properties of Etruscan
vases, lately studied by DR.. Folgheraiter,
have not only thrown light on the earth's
magnetic history. but have afforded pos
sible key to mystery of ancient art Arch
biologists have had three hypothesis to ac-
count for the color of these vases, some
supposing that special kind of clay was
used, others that the clay was mixed with
fine carbon or lampblack, and still others
that the coloring matter was introduced
after the vases had been formed. To ac-
count Tor the magnetic properties of the
vases, they must have been heated to more
than 420 degrees G, a temperature to or be-
yond which the clays experimental on still
retain their Elasticity. AS carbon mixed
with clay disappeared at $50 degrees, and
fragments of the old vases lost their color
at that temperature, the first two hypothe
SEES We're disproved and the third was
shown to be erroneous by failure to blacken
the clay in a chamber filled with carbon
and heated. and the fact that when carbon
was intiltrated into the pores by carboniza-
tlon 1t did not burn away at temperature
that decolorized the vases. DR.. Folgheraiter
gradually fading toward the interior may
have been given by soaking the baked clay
IN bitumen and relocating to about 300 de-
greeS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-13
POSTAGE STAMPS AS CURRENCY.

Postage stamps are often used nowadays
in making change or small payments
bv mail. but they are not recognized by
the government as currency There was
time, however, during the war, when they
were receivable for all dues to the govern
ment to the amount Of S. and redeemable
in greenbacks. In 1862 silver change had
gone out of circulation and the situation
was exceedingly embarrassing to business.
For a time many business houses, firms
and individuals issued small credit notes
or 'shinplasters," as they We're called, and
they circulated quite freely. In July, 1867,
Congress passed the following.
Be it enacted, ETC.: That the secretary
of the treasury be, and he is hereby direct
ed to furnish to- the assistant treasurers
and such designated repositories of the
United States may be by him selected
in such sums as he max deem expedient
the postage and other stamps of the United
States, to be exchanged by them, on applf-
cation for the United States notes; and
from and after the first day of August
next, such stamps shall be receivable in
payment of all dues to the United States
less than S., and shall be received in eX-
change for United States notes when pre-
scented to any assistant treasurer or any
designated depository selected as afore-
said, in sums not less than So.
Under this act not only postage but in
ternal revenue stamps were used as cur
rency. The postmaster general, in his re-
port Of December, 1862, said: I'm the first
quarter of the current year. ending Sept
80, the number of stamps issued to post
masters was $1O4,OOOOOO; there were calls for
, about 5000 900 &C., which would have been
nearly sufficient to meet the usual demands
for q year. This extraordinary demand
arose from the temporary use of these
stamps as a currency for the public in lieu
of the smaller denominations of specie, and
ceased with the Introduction of the So
called postal currency" Under the law
above quoted the secretary of the treas
ury issued large amount of notes of the
denomination of 5, 10, % and so cents. This
was not strictly authorized by the law, but
those were times of emergency, and the
legality of the action was not questioned.
These small notes, first called postage cur
rency, and afterward fractional currency,
We're a godsend to the country in the way
of small change. and We're eagerly sought
after in all trade centers. They We're used
in sheets and half sheets in paying the
army, 10 make change, ana passed from
soldiers to suffers in quarter and eighth
sheets. They Wore out rapidly, became
ragged and filthy, and were frequently re-
turned to the treasury for redemption and
replaced with fresh issues. All this time
postage stamps continued to be used as
currency to considerable extent. and were
legal tender for government dues to the
saf md iY,Tn
backs to the same amount
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-13

be so expressed as to captivate hearers for
the time being.
In this connection, it may not be amiss to
ask if the Offering of prizes for the best
orator by high schools is not likely to cause
the ornamental in education. to take the
place Of the substantial; and further, if
there are TO be oratorical college contests,
that the orations be submitted to a COM
petent board to consider them upon the
basis of the thoughts they contain and their
clear and exact statement, to the end that,
however fine the words and however well
suited to oratorical gymnastics, an GRAFTON
shall not be delivered If it does not show
vigor of thought and treatment. The mere
"spell-binder," the sensationaIist who relies
upon rounded periods and the sounding
defamation of sparkling but empty sem
fences, is worse than useless. The higher
schools should suppress the young men who
overwork the imagination and mistake
words for reasons.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-13
THE STATE COLLEGE AGAINST
THE INDEPENDENT.

President Parsons has disclaimed the re-
ing higher educational institutions between
the state and sectarian schools. 1t is well
for him to Go so, because there can be no
such issue He is simply an advocate for
universities supported by the taxpayers of
the State. In his communication President
Parsons says that he has simply showed the
pupils of the Normal School that attend
ance has increased more rapidly in state
than in private colleges. The logical con-
cusion is that it is better for young men
and women to be educated at the expense
of the taxpayers than at private expense
President Parsons and those who are in
accord with him would, if they stand by
his logic, have the private colleges driven
out of existence that the taxpayers of the
State may pay for the education of all
those who go to institutions above the local
High School. They ignore the rights of that
large body of people who are taxed to sup
port schools to educate a limited number
of the whole. They would ignore the ethics
in the matter entirely. They refuse to see
the evil of increasing taxation in State,
county township and city. They will not
realize that increasing taxation is a burden,
and a very grievous burden upon many tax
payers. and particularly upon that class to
whom the college is of no use-of no use,
because the teacher of the High School
costs Just as much as if he were not edu-
Gated at a state college. The larger part OF
the graduates of all colleges go into the
professions. AS physicians, lawyers and
teachers they ask as much money for their
services when they are graduated from the
state as from the private college. For
such reasons as these the spending of
large sums of money annually to sup
port colleges cannot be defended upon the
principle that all taxation should be Tor the
benefit of all who are taxed.
At the present time it seems to be the
purpose of the champions of the colleges
forced upon the taxpayers to drive the in
dependent colleges out of existence. They
would have the laws discriminate against
their graduates. Coming from institutions
as careful of scholarship as is the state col
Iege, the champions of the state system
would refuse them the same privileges upon
their diplomas that they accord to those
who are educated upon the receipts of
state levy The State Board of Education
should not be so constituted as to discrim-
mate against the self-supporting colleges.
The educational machinery of the State
should not be permitted to become trust
to force the. support of it's higher institu-
tions of learning upor the taxpayers re-
CARELESS of the implied prohibition by the
Constitution that the state shall support
only a common school system.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-13
LITERARY NOTES.

Henrik Ibsen's new play, which will be
ready by the summer is said to bear the
title of Die Rattenkinder."
A posthumous volume by Bishop Phillips
Brooks will be issued shortly 1t will be
entitled 1.-THE Best Methods OF Promoting
Spiritual Life"
Some of the British critics expect a re-
vival of interest in Byron in the near fu-
ture. The attack on Byron's poetry thew
think. has been overdone and a reaction is
bound to follow.
Maarten Martens, who has not published
anything important for some time, has
just finished a novel which will soon APP
pear in serial form. 1T is to bear the not
very definite title of Her Memory"
Signor Gabrielle d'Annunzio the italian
novelist is only thirty-two years old, but
looks older; the features are worn and
thoughtful Yet his mission is, as he
phrases it, 1.-The propagation of joy in life. -
His novels do not bear him out.
Mrs. Amelia f. Barr one of the few au-
thors who can boast of an income of $40. 600
from their. works, says that much of her
success is due to the fact that in her child
hood she was brought up on all the books
of fancy and imagination so dear to Il
childs heart. 1t was such tales, she claims,
that first instilled in her great love of lit
erature.
ships That Pass in the Night is a COM
monplace title in comparison with that
which Miss Beatrice Harraden has selected
for her next story. 1t is long and not easy
to remember-'I. too, Have Passed Through
Wintry Terrors." One of its characters is
said TO be modelled upon that of her dead
father, who was particularly proud of his
literary daughter.
Stevensons method of work was thus ex-
planned by himself in letter 10 a friend.
published in one of the volumes of the
Edinburgh edition of his works: Il am still
a 81 ST u
silent on my eggs: unconscious thought
there is the only method; macerate your
subject let II boil slow. then take the lid
off and look inland there your stun is
good or bad.
Mr.. NoEman Hapgood, writing TO the
Author speaks of a forthcoming book
which Will be made up OF a series OF articles
giving the Judgment OF various writers
OF fiction on their favorite novelists. The
item suggests this question TO a contempt
raTy: ITO what extent do writer's Of fiction
read the works Of other writers OF fictfon2
Ne remember being present once when a
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-13
THE HoECAkE.
Why Does the Wheat Bread Crowd
Out the Corn.

TNlcnlHOliC OlSpdtcli.
Most middle-aged persons remember we'll
when cornbread was served upon nearly all
tables III the South and West at least twice
a day Sometimes 1t appeared in the form
OF 'hoecalSe" or batter bread" and again
in pones." 1t was par excellence the
bread of the negro, and every man who
served in the Confederate army was also
1uu graduate in the use of it, Now the
darkles eschcw 1t where wheat bread is to
be obtained, and upon the tables of thou
sands of Southern and Western whites 1t
never appears at all, while others continue
to use ii only for dinner.
Now, why is this? Surely corn meal is
as II ever was Those who sincerely, but
probably mistakenly, believe that water
ground meal is better tlian the product OF
mills turned by steam can always find a
supply of that in most cities, and ii is com
mon enough in the country. There is no
trouble about the meal; but we doubt
whether the art OF cooking 1t has been pre-
served. The high-toned 'colored damselS
who are turned out by our public schools
arc not the adopts that our old Aunt Di-
mans and Aunt Peggys Were. No Self-re-
speeding pan of dough would be conjured
into shape by such unskilled hands. And
then We may seriously doubt whether corn
bread can be cooked in Il stove as we'll as
in an open fireplace.
The Indians laid their dough cakes be-
tween layers of forest leaves or upon the
hard ground and cooked them in the hot
ashes. Hence "ashcake." a very luscious
product indeed, when one has whetted his
appetite for 1t by a long days hunting.
The hoecake was SO called because 1t was
originally baked upon hoe-that ever
ready and useful instrument of agriculture,
which is to be found upon every plantation.
But later ON cooking utensils were manu-
featured which took the place of the hum
BILE hoe. So, too, shingles were used where
upon to place the dough while it went
through the process of becoming we'll
done aShCake.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-13
FOREIGNERS SUCCEED BEST.
How to Thrive on the border of the
Bad Lands.
Kirk Munroe, in Harper.

The prime causes of success among these
foreign-bOrn farmers with lands that
Americans had declared only fit for graz
ing are thrift and frugality. They protect
from the weather their expensive farm ma
chinery while the natiVe-born nearly al
been used. from one season to another.
The American wheat farmer exhauSts his
rich lands by planting them TO the same
crop year after year, burning his straw
and restoring nothing to the soil that he
has taken from it, The Russian varies his
crops, or allows his land to lie fallow in
alternate years, and plowS in his straw.
1t costs the American about 35 cents to
raise a bushel of wheat and deliver it to an
elevator within mile of his field The Rus
sian can raise wheat on poorer SOIL haul
1T fifty miles, and place it board the
cars for several cents per bushel less
money. When the latter goes to town he
carries provisions with him and sleeps in
his wagon: The American puts up at a
but his more civilized neighbor must have
1t three times a day.
The American engages in stock raising on
q large SCALE allows his cattle to pick up
their own living on the open ranges the
year round, and loses half of them during
hard winter. His competitor from oversee
only raises such stock as he can feed and
severest winters he saves it all. He is mar
row-minded and conservative. and his
methods are those of the old world. where
of necessity his sphere OF operations was
limited. The American, especially in the
West, brought up with large ideas, scorns
a small economy as he does. d petty mean
ness. He deSpises the small but sure profits
with which the foreigner is satisfied, and
prefers to assume great risks with the hope
of large returns.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-13
SHREDS AND PATCHES.

An Atchison man will shortly resign his
Job to marry a school Standardization
Globe.
Liberality is a kindly feeling toward
other peoples foolishness, when it doesn't
annoy us.-Puck.
Plain-spoken people would be well enough
if they were not so conceited over their
accomplishment.-Puck
Why is it that about two-thirds of a
doctors bill is for guessing at your COM
Chicago News
1t is so easy to wound tender heart and
so hard to blot out the memory of the
hurt.-Philadelphia Times.
Common sense is the knack of seeing
things as they are and doing things as they
ought to be done.-C. +. Stowe.
We have too many so-called educated
men and women who don't know how to
do anything.-Atlantic Journal
Selfishness is that. detestable vice which
no one win forgive in others, and no one
is without himself-H. w. Beecher.
If l can hav plenty NV mackrel for brek-
fasst can generally make the other two
meals out Ov Water-JoSh Billings.
Our idea of a genius is man who can
put anything away carefully and remember
in a week where he put it.-Atchison Globe
Intellectual differences do not cause
wounds, except when very unintellectual
sentiments are behind them.-George Mere
dith.
The only real way to love man is not
to believe anything against him. even when
you have the proofs of his wrongdOing.
Philadelphia Times.
A good listener is person who can APP
pear profoundly interested in all you say
and still keep on thinking about something
else.-Emma Carleton.
Marriage sometimes seems to be failure
because it is engaged in by so many men
ard women who would be failures at any
other occupation.-Chicago Record
Once ma had Il spell when she couldn't
sleep. 'Bosh.'' says pa; 9TH way 20 cure
insumny is to go to sleep an forget you We
got it."-Little Plato Smith.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-13
Millions OF bibles.

Harper's Weekly.
The circulation OF the Bible in this coun.
try is enormous. steady and constantly in
creases. OF Bibles and Testaments the
American Bible Society annually sells or
gives away about million and a half, the
International Bible Agency sells about half
a million. and other large concerns, or
which there are four or FIVE in New York
alone. circulate a great many more. With
such q distribution as that in constant op-
GRAFTON one would think the demand would
presently be supplied. but that IS not the
experience of dealers. They say the de-
mand increases all the time. That must be
because two or three million new citizens
are born every year in the United States,
aud large proportion lot them presently
get new Bibles. The idea of starting a new
citizen in life with secondhand Bible Is
not popular. New boy Cor new girl), new
book" is the rule. and tOleraby fortunate
children have n fair collection before they
have grown up. A moderate allowance OF
the sacred writings for one American citi-
zen includes one family Bible that belonged
TO parents; one family Bible for ones own
family: one Testament in large print used
In childhood. one convenient Bible pre-
scented by mother: ono Bible in flexible
covers subsequently, obtained at least one
obsolete Bible containing the ApDcrypha;
one Testament, revised version. the Book
of Psalms separate: a. few Bibles 70 bS
kept in church; an office Bible; and per-
haps others
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-13

hlrK MunTOc, III harper.
This first settler can speak but a few
words of English. and his children use It
with difficulty, but his grandchildren talk
the language of their adopted country as
fuently as they do the Russo-German of
their parents. They attend schools where
only English is taught and in which the
law OF North Dakota compels them to gain
q rudimentary education. They ride the
unbroken cow ponies of the range with
the foarlessness OF young Indians, and
celebrate the Fourth Of July as though
to the manner born, but the acme
of their Americanzation was reached in
a thirteen-year-old lad whom j met in
the valley of the Knife river. Alone on
the prairie, miles remote from a house
and with no sign of human presence in
a wide range Of vision. he was herding
sheep on a bicycle. He was q cheerful
little chap and claimed that wheel gave
much less trouble than pony. because 1t
did not have to be watered and never ran
away. 1t was also very good to chase
coyotes with when they came sneaking
around his sheep, and he believed that IL
he could only induce one to stick TO the
road he could run it down.
Yes, he was u Russian--that Is, he was
born in Russia. but he did not remember
much about the place he came from and
was forgetting what he did remember as
fast as he could.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-13

A statue of General Grant, (which now
stands near the place where he used to
stand when he hauled wood to the St. Louis
market, is about to be removed to a spot
on the City Hall grounds, where it will be
more conspicuous and have better environ
ments. 1t happens that the present mayor
OF St Louis was neighbor of Grants,
hauled wood at the same time with him
ana reveres his memory profoundly. When
a protest was entered against moving the
statue the mayor said
The last man in heaven whose memory
would think of dishoporing is General
Grant That statue would remain on
Twelfth street forever If ] thought the one
1T represents would oppose its removal. The
location that has been selected cannot be
equaled. What could be more appropriate
than to place the image of the defender of
the Union in the grounds of the finest
building in our city, with his face turned
to the South, where. he achieved his vic
tories and fought out the salvation of his
country. Where it is now located no one
sees 1T. 1t is the center of crowds that gath
er to listen to the harangues of patent medi-
cine quackS and fakirs.~ In the City Hall
park 1t will be surrounded by flower beds
and green grass. In time 1t will be shaded
by the Overhanging branches of trees. Who
could imagine a more fitting location? And
who could ask for a more fitting center
piece to what will be the garden spot of
downtown st. Louis?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-13

The gentle and guileless dairyman who is
much given to enlarging upon the iniquities
Of the manufacturers Of imitation butter
variously knownsas oleomargarine, butter
inc and sometimes as ''plse country butter, -
feels himself perfectly justified in adding a
little harmless artificial "butter color
to his own product, thus making what
might otherwise be a white, unattractive
looking roll more pleasing to the eye of
the customer. These coloring substances
are openly recommended by writer's for ag-
ricuitural papers as entirely proper for use,
being, according to. their argument, really
necessary for those who would cater to the
popular prejudice in favor Of yellow butter,
Nevertheless, Maryland paper records the
death of farmers child as result of
drinking from bottle containing harm
less butter coloring. And probably that
farmer will continue to rail against oleo-
margarine as a wicked fraud upon the COM
munity.