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The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1901-07-08

10 gum aud crack. when cherry tree
does that in Oregon Il is generally all
day with Il. Mr. Lagrange opened up
some oI The bad places on the tree and
found il literally alive with SOW bugs.
That may not be what the Agricultural
College calls them, bat the sos-bng is
well known to common people from
Maine to the Philippines. IL is an OBJ.
long bog with its mouth apparently ar
ranged all around the edge Of its body
like bedbug. Il lives on dead or de-
caying wood, and seems 70 do nothing
bat obey the injunction to the children
Of Israel, when they went into the prom.
ised land, wax fat aud multiply. A
gummed cherry tree seems to be a regu.
lar Canaan for the sow-bug. and Mr.
Lagrange found they not only filed the
crevices on the bark on the trunk, but
bad formed a trust all around the roots
away down into the ground. lie had
been using come Lees Lice Killer on
his chickens and hen house with great
success, and as the tree was likely TO
die anyhow he gave it a dosc Of the
louse-wash from top TO bottom-fairly
soaked the tree about the roots. II did
for the sow-bugs what the Red Sea did
for Pharaoh's army-not one was left
over for seed. The tree healed up and
got new life and lie today bearing crop
Of Royal Annes as big as hickory nuts.
This recipe is not coucbed in scientific
languague, bit as we we have never
heard Of any college agriculturist curing
up gummy cherry tree, the fact speaks
for itself louder than any theoretical
horticultural. send one of those swine
bugs to the college and they would tell
you that the insect was a Lollipop-in-
Jay Clodhoppericus and didn't live on
the sap Of cherry trees. They would
have one student make a diagram of
his hind leg and another dissect his jaw,
while hundred dollara month professor
would dig his Latin name out OF an
chronological dictionary In the mean
time all the cherry trees might die and
nothing in the world the matter with
them but common sow-bugs under the
bark.
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1901-07-08

Don't talk to me OF the tenderness
OF woman's heart" said the man who
hates women, though he has never
been married. "She hasn't any. |
was travelling recently ON a through
train 20 New York from the west. aud
In the morning, just after most OF us
had dressed and were sitting In the
end OF the car, the conductor came aud
called two men away. One OF them
belonged 10 an intelligent and well
dressed woman sitting opposite me,
and when he came back she asked him
what the conductor wanted.
why said the man seriously, the
man In lower 5 has been found dead
The woman's eyes widened, and l
thought she was going 20 say some.
thing sweet and sympathetic. but she
didn't What she said was;
Why, how thoughtless OF him, In
car with all these women toog
"Don't talk TO me about women
Washington Post
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1901-07-08
JOURNAL x-RAYs

VIM. Towne, the we'll known German
cabinet maker at Albany is dead.
The Hebrews OF the east are running a
swell ChAutauqua at Atlantic City, N.
J.
Mr.. Flagg is not dead as reported. We
are glad; with all his faults we love him
still.
The Dowager Duchess Of Abercorn,
London, is 30 years old today and has
lis descendents.
Every glass bottle blown in the United
States for the coming year will be at y
price agreed upon before hand.
q &c
Establishment Of we'll equipped free
reading rooms on the Santa Fe railroad
has decreased wrecks and accidents.
The Metschan for Governor organ at
Salem is being mailed broadcast over
Marion county. IL is rather early 10
open the barrel.
The Eastern Oregon papers are united
regardless Of politics TO get State Of
dcer Ibis might make Williamson
Secretary OF State or something.
The declaration Of war by Postmaster
General Smith in the ma me Of the ad-
ministration against the Quay machine
at Philadelphia has created a genuine
sensation.
The Eugene Register deserves credit
for making the popular loan OF $4,000
four percent school bonds a success. In
all f5S, 900 was subscribed for, number
being asked for outside the district.
The award Was made to 40 subscribers
ranging from 800 to $500. but only
hye subscriptions OF $1,000 or over.
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1901-07-08
EnITnRIALS.

Judge Boise Of tbs Circuit court will
grant about hundred DEGREES Of di-
vorce this year because the parties APP
plying comply with the statutory proofs
emitting them 10 a separation. With most
Of them II is inability ON the part Of the
husband 10 earn enough 10 support his
wife and keep his home and support
himself. Most men have TO have to-
bacco and something 10 drink and once
In a while play = slot machine II not
worse iorms Of gambling. OF courae,
many men do these things who are not
divorced. The real cause Of divorces
is an improper conception Of marriage
At the bottom, and then a defective
hono and school education on top Of IL.
Many parents no longer teach the chill
dren any household domestic economy
whatever. Jennie is not taught how 10
take care Of a COW and Jack is not
taught how 70 make a garden aud these
two ihings are hAlia ianily's living. OF
course. so-ealled school education could
not concern itself with such inconso-
quental matters ~ teaching young peo'
pie how 10 get things 10 eat or cook and
put grub On the table. It can teach
them gum-ehewing, street.chasing, note
writing, tafiy.eating and score OF other
useful things besides running boys and
glrls together before they are we'll out
Of short clothes. But 10 milk COW,
Talse cabbage OF get up a boiled dinner
is not properly part Of public education.
sueh uneduoated young people get into
the marriage relation the frst time they
eef . chance and then they have 10 be
furnished good wages for the man in
order 10 live. Every mouthiul they eat
has 10 b bought out Of his earning, as
well a. rent, fuel, light, clothes and II
they have childsn or doctor bills, and
rnost have hardly anything else. they
are busted aud candidates Tor hard
times the reat Of their lives. The girl
can alick up 70 walk the street and 90
70 meeting. but abe hardly knows beans
when fhe bag q open. II is a wonder
there are not more divorces. These
young people are not 70 blame. With
pat . sound domestic economy. with an
'dneation that leaves them without
ny relasion % industry, unahle 10
'roducs any Of the neesanities of life,
IaKdly able 10 prepare plain food 4 4
IeIe inrnished. many o. shem unable 70
AXE eyen plain bread, how can they
ID ia anything bat divorces, when they
ege noyer even aualiaed for any Kind
aucpeanlul family llfog
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1901-07-08
TO OUR MAIL SUBSCRIBERS.

Some time ago TIE DAILY JOURNAL
reduced ils price to mail subscribers from
50 cents 10 80 cents per month CAsH liz
ADVANCE. This was done to save book
keeping and expense Of collectors, and
the subscribers are given the benefit OF
The reduction in price. Such subscriO-
ers should not expect to get time on the
paper, and as they get the benefit Of the
reduced price they should not expect it.
There is the further advantage about
this system oinot having bill piled up
against you. A notice lie sent out before
subscriptions expire, and should be
promptly observed.
Investigate draw cut Champion
Mower.
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1901-07-08

Aud ell this expense for committe,
to investigate, when the school lanC
shortage transaction was covered by the
statute OF limitation Salem Indepond
ent.
Senator Brownel knew all that, but
could not resist the temptation 10 in.
dulge in his old practice Of playing e
the galleries Aurora Borealis.
The trouble with the last Legislature
Was that il was controlled in both houses
by the crowd that played to the galleries
and il cost the people $500, 900 to $780,
600 more than il should.
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1901-07-08
CeeLsd uaaer Mnter.

An Engllshman made a wager that
he could cook plum pudding ten feet
beneath the surface OF the Thames and
won the bet by placing the pudding IN
a tin case aud putting the whole In a
sack OF lime The beat OF the lime,
slaklng when Il came ln contact with
the water was sufficient 20 cook the
pudding In two hourA
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1901-07-08
The Best Remedy for Stomach and
ROMel TrOnhles.

81 have been in the drug business for
twenty years and have sold most all oI
the proprietary medicines OF any note,
Among the entire list have never found
anything 10 equal Ohamberlain's Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for all
stomach and bowel troubles, says o,
". Wakefield, OF Columbus, Ga. This
remedy cured two severe cases OF cholera
morbus in my family and have recon.
mended and sold hundreds OF bottles OF
II 10 my customers TO their entire salts
faction. IL affords a quick and sure cure
in pleasant FORM" For sale by +. e..
HaaA Druggist.
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1901-07-08
Craln.Ol Grain .OI

Remember that name when you
want a delicious, appetizing, nourish
ing food drink 10 take the place OF
coffee. Sold by all grOcers and liked
by all who have used IT, Grain-O ID
made OF pure grain, II aids digestion
and strengthens the nerves. IL is not
stimulant but a health builder and
the children as well as the adults can
drink II with great benefit. Costs
about "a as much as coffee. l5c. and
25c. per package. Ask your grocer
for Graln-O.
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1901-07-08
Cure for Cholera lnfantum. Never
Known 10 Fail.

During last May an infant child of oul
neighb0r Was suffering from cholera in
lAntum. The doctors had given up ali
hopes OF recovery. l took a bottle OF
Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and Diar,
rhoea remedy 10 the house, telling them
| felt sure Il would do good IL used ae,
cOrding 10 directions, In two days time
the child had fully recovered. The
child is now vigorous and healthy. /
have recommended this remedy fire.
Quently aud have never known il "a
fail Miss. CURus BAKER, BOokwalter.
Ohio. Sold by +. q. Haas Druggist.
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1901-07-08
Asst TIA.
ssau tho n The Kind You Have MNaIs BOugt4
Signature a %6H2ZINu

A remarkable case is on trial at
Parkersburg VIVA. Ellis Glenn charged
with forgery. Miss Glenn is the young
women who masqueraded ss a man and
for several years did carpenter work
and other mans work.
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1901-07-08

spirit. when be went In the Grorge
Davis gang wtre in the saddle in Marion
county. George vas county chairman.
His b0ndsmsn was city chairman snd
city and county attorney, and Ike Pat
terson had just pulled the chair out
IRON under Geer's custom house aspira-
tions. Mcbride vas in the Senate
sendiEg reindeer expeditions TO the
KlOndike. These fellows have al been
downed BY The people since then. II il
hadn't been for Little Doc Smiths
sneaking base and Nod Looney's
loyalty that was worthy Of q better
cause, the Davis crowd would not have
named senator but would have been
put out OF business entirely. II they are
the Republican party, the thing to do is
70 bring Davis tack end make him can
didate for Governor. The statute has
run and in Pennsylvania they made Mat
Quay Senator under similar circumstan.
ces. Bot the state is not going 70 turn
ba,k TO any Of its old methods. It is
going forward and may make Geer Gov
ernor again for the enemies he has
made, OF IT will take some younger and
more progressive man. II may not be
able 10 convict all its old thieves but It
has not fallen % far from grace as TO
make official negligence a passport 10
the highest Offices, or put itself where
in a sacred obligation will
have TO be endorsed in its platform.
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1901-07-08

until 1927 the Chinese wore their
hair long aud eolled on the top OF tho
head where Il was fastened with an
ornamental pin. The Mantch0O edlct
making the plgtal a sign Of loyalty
changed this style.
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1901-07-08

named by Governor Geer sitS at Salem
this week to adopt school books for the
common schools, five men, land any one
Of them could do better job than the
hye,) are 10 select books for four
years. In the past this business has
been done by politician educators. The
old system. .deyised by textbook trust,
State superintendent named ten men
on a sO.called State Board Of Education,
aud this high-class push Of eleven with
thirty county superintendenls had a
vote on selection Of textbooks for the
whole six years alta crack, q contract
that amounted alta low estimate TO $780,.
600. by a singular coincidence the
gigantic intellects OF 2l Of these political
educational cracks always exactly
coincidcd Ia agreeing on an identical
list Of about l75 different books, when
no two Of them could agree on how 70
figure the Tule-oi-three or common
fractions. OF course, the trust engineered
the whole job, from drafting the original
law 10 drawing itsown contract. II also
engineered the q intellects. The text.
book monopoly generally had the State
Superintendent aud he named ten men
on the state Board that were all right,
20 the trust had only 10 pick up ten
county superintendents make It's list
Of any old textbooks that IL could not
give away in other states, and fix its
prices aud the slate went through.
This thing lasted for eighteen years and
State Superintendent McElroy waagiyen
a place ON the faculty Of the State Uni
veraity for life for his eminent services
asehiei engineer Of the textbook iniquity.
Peace 70 his ashes, now that he is dead,
but he Was an expensive luxury 10 the
people Of Oregon, imposing high-pricsd
aud mostly inferior textbooks on tho
people Of this state for eighteen years,
aud the influence OF his eminent services
wlll not DO overcome for many years
A monument should DO erected 10 the
McElroy- Nc Bride. Metehan push for
having socked Il TO the people Of Oregon
the way they did aud be paid for il by
the dear people AT the same time. Now
thors is a eommission OF two business.
men, two lawyers, aud only one probes
sionAl educator, and tho chances are
that not having gigantic educational
intellects they may exercise little horse
sense and not give the whole business 10
one Publishing house At its own terms.
In spite Of the re.es,Ablishment Of an
organ al Salem 10 belittle Governor
Geer, he refuses to disappear from pub.
lie view, and comes home from his
Eastern Oregon trip a hali-ineh taller
politically than he went AZ this paper
intimated, the people Of orogon are not
going 10 take any steps backward Il they
swap Governors. They will not drop a
man who has given thom a clean deal
on the school land business aud take up
,ne ol the back number politicians who
TOT iat Ia Office when Stealing was a
I7oat deal easier than at present Geer
las offended some Of the CRATER element
~ hla iudopendenee and progressive
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1901-07-08
Three nay Excursion Rates

on THE c. 4. X. X.
A special round trip rate of $3.50 from
Albany 10 Mill City, Berry, Niagra and
Detroit has been put into effect on the
Corvallis & Eastern Rail road for hunt
ing or fishing parties.
Tickets good going Saturdays ana
returning Monday, giving three days IN
the mountains Of good spoit and recrea,
ton. Good hotel Accommodations at NH
City, Gates, Niagra and Detroit at Teas-
enable rates. No special order nece isaFy'
tickets on sale AZ the ticket Office.
5 "a Sm
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1901-07-08

Mr.. Lagrange, In the Lincoln school
nelghborhood, has done two things that
are a. much public interes. 20 our read.
ere as the doings OF Kings and Emper-
ors. He has raised this year tho lanes.
red raspberrles We have ever seen grown
in Oregon. The way he did il was TO
iust bank them ap with ooW-manure
and nature did the rest. Some OF them
are an inch across aud ss sweet as
honey. lie has found = way 10 save a
Royal Anne cherry tree that has begun
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1901-07-08

There are NO big words IN the ser.
mon ON the mount
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1901-07-08
The Best PreserIptIou for Malaria

ChillS and fever IL bottle Of Groves Tastele
Chill Tonic II issimply iron and quninc In
tastelesa form. No cure-n0 pay. Price Soc.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-03-26

| Once, years ago, when Daniel Web
ster was secretary of state, there was
an important foreign matter up for dis
cussion before the cabinet, and the ut
most secrecy was of course maintain
ed, but the whole thing was blazoned
about in a few hours after the cabinet
meeting. So the president hastily sent
| for his cabinet to talk over this leak.
Each man had different idea of it
Finally Mr. Webster arose, saying,
"You, gentlemen. go on with your dis
cussion, and I'll be back in a minute !"
In few minutes he returned and re-
peated every word that had been spo-
ken in the room in his absence. He
explained that If. by standing close to
the door outside the cabinet room, you
held your ear to 1t, you could not dis
tinguish one ineligible word; but if,
moving back from the door and little
to one side upon a certain spot in the
carpet, you kept an attentive ear, ev-
cry word could be plainly heard as
though whispered.
Some enterprising eavesdropper had
been experimenting with the door and
had found that upon that exact spot
there was some acoustic property or
the door or room that conveyed the
sound IN perfect entirety Saturday
| Evening Post
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-03-26
work In the caisson,

1t Is the strain within the bowels of
the working chamber, unnoticed gen.
orally while there; the change Oh com
ing into the outer air that the sand hog
the workman breads. Under an air
pressure the blood is forced away from
the extremities. 1t is driven from the
exterior into the central organs, espe-
cially toward the brain and the spinal
cord.
The man, exhausted by toll under
these conditions, climbs long ladder.
He is in the airlock again, with the up
per door alone closed. The lock tender
jerks up the bottom door. With a twist
of the valve he hustles the compressed
air out The ordinary atmosphere rush.
es In. The upper door is thrown up, and
Gods sun and air come to the prisoner.
The reaction is too severe. The blood,
released by the sudden vanishing of
80, 40, 80 pounds of air pressure on
each square inch Of the body, refuses
to act normally. Heart and lungs weak
en-, vitality GIBBS. A sand hog is never
sure that the next trip may not be his
last.
The practical limit below ground is
30 pounds of air pressure. The men
that can work in that atmosphere are
masters of their trade. Yet now and
| then a man is met with who has the
strength to go farther. = Cromwell
| Childe in Leslies Monthly.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-03-26

A canal man, unless there happens to b
a member of his family who can help him
hires a man called 1.-THE hand The mer
who run the boats come from various posi-
tions in life to become canal men. Some
have been farmers who own farms along
or near the canal and not few have been
born and lived all their lives on canal
boat. Perhaps one of the most unusual
cases is that of we'll educated man, who
was formerly Methodist minister, but ID
now and has been for several years living
with his family on one Of these boats and
driving mules for living.
The majority, however, are rough and
ignorant, and the proverbial swearing IL
to be heard in it's most repulsive forms.
One notices frequently lame or crippled
man in charge of boat, since this is one
of the few positions in which manned
person is able to earn a livelihood. A
canal mans family, If he has one, lives
with him on the boat during the open
season, and the rest of the year some live
on little plots of ground, often too small
to be called farms, or perhaps they may
live in one of the larger towns near by
Ethel Belle Appel in Godey's Magazine
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-03-26
:
breaking Up the Mess.

Lasting friendships are formed in the
officers mess abroad ship in our navy,
but no effort is made to keep track Of
a mate when he is transferred. This
strikes the landsman as a queer freak
of nature, but the sailors accept it as
a matter of course never to be ques-
toned. Men get into pretty close COM
munion with each other when they
breakfast, dine and sup together for
three years. AS a rule, they learn each
others history to the minutest detail
unless a man chooses to be disagree
able and distant Close attachments
grow up, yet when the memorable or
der arrives from Washington, sending
the mess to the four winds of heaven,
breaking up, as it were, the family, a
warm hand shake ends it all. Each Of
fcer goes into new mess, and the old
Is forgotten.
1t was my good fortune to be intro
duced to as fine mess as ever broke
bread together on a man-of-war. The
devotion of the officers to one another
was an inspiration. Finally the sepa-
IdLlOA OAC we'll " SO11C La y
yard, another to the Philippines, an
other to China, another to Washing
ton, etc. They were scattered all over
the world. One day, meeting the lieu
tenant commander, who had gone up
for promotion, inquired when he had
heard from Lieutenant So-and-so.
"Why, not in several months" he re-
piled. "In fact, not since he was or
dered to his new station. You know
we fellows don't follow each others
movements after a mess is broken up.
We form new associations, new
friends, and the old drop out of sight.
We never think of writing to each 9TH
er. 1t is more than likely we shall new
er see each other again as long as we
live, and we haven't the time or in
clination to worry over each others
fate."-New York Press.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-03-26
The BLIND ARCHER.

IAttle boy Love drew his bow at chance.
Shooting down at the ballroom floor.
He hit an old chaperon watching the dance,
And, oh, but he wounded her Sorel
"Heh, Love, you couldn't mean that
Hi, Love, what would you be atf''
No word would he say,
But he few ON his way,
For tine little boys busy, and how can he
stay?
Little boy Love drew shaft just for sport
At the soberest club in Pail Mall.
He winged an old veteran drinking his port,
And down that old veteran fell.
''Heh, Love, you mustn't do thatl
Hi, Love, what would you be atF
This cannot be right.
It's ludicrous quite"
sight
A sad faced young clerk in cell all apart
Was planning celibate VOW,
But the boys random arrow has sunk in HE
heart,
And the cell is an empty one now.
"Heh, Love, you mustn't do thati
Hi, Love- what would you be at
He ism t for you.
He has duties to doi''
"But am his duty I" quoth Love as he few.
The king sought a bride, and the nation had
hoped
For queen without rival or peer,
But the little boy shot, and the king has
eloped
With Miss No One ON nothing year.
"Heh, Love, you couldn't mean thatl
Hi, Love. what would you be at9
What an impudent thing
To make game of a kingp'
isBut I'm a king alsoI'' cried Love on the
wing.
Little boy Love grew pettish one day.
IF you keep on complaining, y he swore,
"I'll pack both my bow and ny culver away
And SO / shall plague you no more"
t'Heh, Love, you mustn't do thati
Hi, Love, what would you be atp
You may ruin our ease,
You may do what you please,
But we can't do without you, you sweet lit
tie tease!'
"A. Conan Doyle in London Speaker.