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The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-06-04
Art openlno.

The Studio OF the College OF Arts,
Willamette University. will be thrown
open to the public Thursday and Fri
day. juno 4th and 5th. from 3 to p,
m. Everybody cordially invited.
MARIE CRAIG, Dean.
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-06-04

Paris. June i.-The reception ten.
dersd Edmund Rostsand By The aead.
emy this afternoon was the most kFli-
liant eeromony since the 0ae rendered
Pierre Lotyn ID 1891
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-06-04

Salem for the last two years. and
leave a host Of friends here. who
were all out to the train to bid them
God speed"
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-06-04

Detroit Journal: Russian novellBts
seem to be about the only people
whose vocabularics can furnish terms
that are adequately descriptive.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-22
A Museum Within a Museum.

From the Philadelphia Record.
1t is long reach from the sixth CEN
fury before Christ to the present day, but
the University of Pennsylvania Museum
has just incorporated museum of that
date which was discovered by Professor
Helprecht. The museum is not very big,
being entirely contained in large earth
EN- jar-but the contents are very valuable
from an historical standpoint, and show
that the ideas of the early curator were
very much like those of present curators.
Whether the specimens were excavared or
purchased Is not known, but they I'M
doubtedly represent a collection which
must have been made during the time OF
Belshazzar, since 1t was found in one of
the upper strata at Nippur. The best
tanning the titles of Sargon the First. who
lived about 1900 b. C. There is a black
stone votive tablet Of Ur-Gur, POO B. c.,
which tells that this king built the great
wall around the city of Nippur. Then
there is a terra-cotta brick stamp of Bur-
Sin, which is the first yet found of that
king. Another tablet states that the
large hall of the temple was called
Emakh and also that there were twenty
four other shrines to gods in the temple
besides the ones that have been founu
ing tablet gives some astronomical obser-
vations on Virgo and Scorpion The lit
tie museum contains nineteen pieces In
all, and the collection will be placed sep
arately in the University museum.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-22

recess. Those on the boat sing and dance
or lie about resting on the deck, while
the merry rattle of the bones is heard.
The levee negroes hasten to spend their
wages, and then look out for another
boat to load
There are two classes of roustabouts.
those who are employed regularly on the
boats and those who work on the evees.
Both are vicious in the extreme, and ut
terly improYident. There are probably
several hundred negroes who haunt
the Canal street levee in New Orleans.
and they are generally considered a bad
set.
Although these men are sometimes paid
as high as 30 cents an hour, they usually
go barefooted and clothed in rags. As
soon as a river negro gets any money, he
Immediately blows 1t in on liquor. CO.
caine, gambling or some other vice. One
and all they are a dissipated lot. 1t Is
said that the coke habit is widespread
among roustabouts and wharf rats all
along the lower Mississippi. At best
they live a hand-to-mouth existence, and
1t Is wonderful how some of them retain
their strength.
All roustabou are strong--they have
to to be, else they couldn't do the work
required of them-but frequently magniti-
cent specimens of manhood are found
among them. Many OF these ragged ath-
letes possess arms and shoulders capable
of crushing a college football player like
a eggshell. Nearly all bare their arms
while at work. and the play of muscle
thus exposed Is a delight to the eye.
Physically the roustabout Is an object
for admiration. mentally he is but one
step removed from the brute.
Roustabout for 40 Years.
There is one old negro on the levee at
New Orleans who has been a roustabout
for forty years. How he has stood the
pace so long is a mystery. The amount
of brute labor performed by him In all
those years Is appalling. This old darley
is still active, and is to be seen hard at
work every day. His frame is bent ana
his spindle-shanks are those of age, but
he has an arm that could fell an OK.
His biceps are perfectly developed ana
his arm from shoulder to wrist Is worthy
OF bronze.
Passenger traffic on the steamboats, has
almost entirely died out. No one now
thinks Of making a business trip by river
steamer when the railroad can be used.
The palmy days are gone to return no
more, but there is a fascination attached
to steamboat travel and there are
many who would like to see again that
proud feet of the sixties and seventies
come steaming down the Mississippi
Travel by river steamer Is those days
was luxurious in the extreme and is not
surpassed by that of the most magnif-
cent Of modern express trains.
However, the Mississippi will always be
the great freight highway of the middle
west and south, so that the tug, at least,
is destined to survive.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-22
He Wasn't Listening.

From the Philadelphia Ledger,
She was on the Darby car, and her girl
friend was with her. She had shrill
catarrhal voice, and persisted in telling
her companion all the innermost secrets
of her own and her relatives and ac-
quaintances to the remotest degree, in a
tone that filled all the space not occu-
pied by a dozen fellow passengers. She
was particularly minute in the relation OF
the details attending the presentation OF
a ring by Johnny D. whom she is to
marry this spring.
This episode was finished as the car
was nearing Cobbs creek. The passen-
ger who sat in the seat Immediately in
front of her. and who had, in consequence
of this proximity, been the chief sufferer,
turned his head toward the lady who
would not keep any secrets and fixed oil
her a look that eloquently said:
We'll. you've broken the recordr'
She encountered the look, took in the
situation instanter, and retorted promptly
and incisively
Are you listening to our conversation,
sir?"
I'm not listening to It, Miss he re-
piled, in a distressed tone, but. by thun-
der, I'm hearing 1t ALL
Except for the occasional titetr of his
co-sufferers, silence thenceforth reigneo
supreme the remainder of that trip.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-22
HOW MILLIoNAIREs LIVE.
Glimpse Into Wealthy Households BY
Housekeeper.

From the New York World
The element of the unknown enters
most largely into the fascination with
which children read their fairy tales and
"grown-ups" the millonaire's llfe-story
Miss Mary Elizabeth Carter. who has
been behind the scenes-who indeed, has
been the trusted scene shifted for many
a milllonaire's daily Household. play-has
written a book and the title and sub
| feet matter can hardly fail to secure for
| it a wide reaoing.
| AS experimenting housekeeper, Miss
| Carter was for many years the proved
| and trusted manager who made the
wheels go around without creaking or
clogging in the palatial homes of the
Vander5lts. The Sloane girls grew up
from childhood to womanhoou under nur-
sery maids and governesses selected and
managed by Miss Carter The beautiful
entertaining for which Mrs. Elliott r.
Shepard used to be famous owed much
to Miss Carter's supervising. Her sister
held similar position with Mrs. VIII
liam II. Vanderbilt until her death. and
both ladies have had the oversight of
wealthy Philadelphians' establishments
whose pedigreed owners ask: who are
these h-talked-about Vanderbilts?'
1t is, therefore. with full authority In
all the SOcldl mysteries Iildl MISS 1dI-
ter uses prints black-and- white magic
and makes the ordinary mortals feel
they are actually In a milliona.re's grand
household
Very fascinating to the feminine reader
is the account of my lady 81 "gown-room:"
ut is built expressly for the purpose,
of hardwood, highly polished-hoors, cell
ing and walls-and can therefore be kept
free from dust Little ever finds refuge
there. Upon opening the door the hinge
turns on an electric current that floods
the place with light. Closing the door
shuts off the illumination. AS you enter
delicate perfume exhaled from tiny
sachets sewed inside of all the gowns
greets you.
"Tier beyond tier-depending from pol
ished poles that run from side to side in
this room and held In shape by skirt
supporters that have been padded and
ornamented win gay ribbons-are skirts
and garments of every description. Every
article is in its assigned place, one never
interfering with another. Usually waists
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-22
ARISTOCRATIC ROBBERY
OF THE GOVERNMENT
BY PHINEAs FLETCHER.

To defraud the government national,
state and municipal. out of the revenues
that justly belong to it. seems to be con-
sidered virtue by the rich and fashion
able portion of American society, at least
that section of 1t which plumes itself on
the possession of stately mansions on the
few famous residential avenues of the
first Of American cities, together with pa
latial summer homes fronting on the
shlmmering waters of Rhode Islands eel
ebrated watering place. The thing is
robbery in the eye of the law. Attached
to its preparation are penalties more or
less severe. And then there Is the lg-
nomy of 1t to any one possessed of that
pride of character and self respect to
which only the outcasts of humanity are
supposed to be Indifferent. How account
for it? These people would scorn to com
nit grand or petty larceny In the ordinary
affairs of life, even If they could do SO
without fear of detection. They are gem
orally generous. in fact lavish, in the ex-
penditure of money. To charity and to
religion. to every worthy cause that en-
lists their sympathies or moves their
commiseration they are magnificent con-
tributors. Many of them bestow millions
of money on institutions of learning.
science and art. But when 1t comes to
the payment of what the government
justly demands of them, what they legti-
mately owe to 1t as the price OF Its pro-
lection. there Is hardly a device, however
mean and debasing to which they do not
have recourse, In order to evade 1t. Now
robbery of the government Is robbery OF
the people in their corporate capacity. In
a moral, well legal point of view
1t Is as reprehensible as the .swinding of
single individual, but the fashionable
rich in the region of the metropolis. as 1t
is vauntingly called. are apparently OBJ
livious of that fundamental truth.
Foreign aristocrats with or without
abundance of money are not. as a rule,
models of virtue, civic or otherwise, but
as a class they do not lower themselves
TO the level of ordinary criminals when
1t comes to the question of paying their
respective governments the financial bur-
dens that are deemed necessary to the
support of the institutions under which
they live. They obey the law. however
hard its exactions may be. No wealthy
Englishman would perjuFe himself to
save a pound sterling, or a thousand of
them, in the settlement of his income tax
bills. He would disdan to take a false
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-22

NOE there was a Nice
I'm Girl who graduated
WI from the High School
in a White Organize
and read an Essay on Heliotrope
Paper entitled, Life and its OPP
portunities.''
The Girls Name was Hazel
and about the time she drew the
Diploma, she was eating Sour
Pickles and Just crazy to be an
Authoress. A few Months later
she Debutted with Fanfare of
Trumpets, after which she was so
busy strengthening out her Dates
and sorting over her Dance Pro-
grammes that she forgot all about
her Literary Ambitions.
Hazel was built on the Gibson
Plan and 1t looked as If good
fresh Breeze might blow her
away. Just the same, when she
went to Hop she was good for
everything from the Grand March
to Home, Sweet Home" All she
needed to keep her on the Jump
throughout the entire Night was
a dab of Chicken Salad and
Macaroon about l A. M.
Hazel stood in with the real
Rowdy-Dows and was present at
most of the tall Doings but she
was a trife shy on Wardrobe.
Papa had a large Family hitched
behind his lowly Applicant and
he could not provide Hazel with
very many Snake Rings and Dia-
mond Belt-Buckles.
So foxy Hazel had the Weather
Eye at work. She was looking for
something Kind and Easy.
OF course she liked the Boys she
met at the Dances. They were
lovely Chaps and kept their Hair
combed nicely. Each one of them
owned another Suit Of Clothes and
a Banjo, but Hazel was not look
ing for a Banjo. She was hoping
for Perfect Gentleman who
would hand her a Check-Book and
tell her to go as far as she liked.
Therefore, when an Elderly
bdCutlOl Will oil llCOlllt VI pCN-
eral Dollars per Minute began to
hang around, she hearkened to
the Voice of Reason.
Hazel found herself in swell
Shack right on the Boulevard with
IA Yassals to do her Bidding and
a Change of Jewelry for every
Hour in the Day,
Husband would arise at 7:30
and pike to the Office but Hazel
would take her Coffee in Bed
about 1920 and then read the
Sassiety Notes, for fear that her
Name had got into the Papers.
Then she would have her Hair
done up and permit two or three
strong Servants to lift her into
her Clothes. Then she would go
out for little Ride in a Royal
Equipage, padded IA inches deep.
All this time tho Money-Getter
would be answering the Telephone
with one Hand and debating Con-
tracts with the Other.
At $50, when the Producer
showed up for Dinner he was a
Faded Flower and had about rs
much Gimp as Wet Towel But
Hazel, when she began to sniff
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-22
MODERN FABLES BY GEORGE ABE.
Fable Of Hazes Two What Became Of Them
GEORGE ADE-cOpyrigh by Howard Russell

the Night Air, was just as kitten
ish as a Broncho and keen for a
Frolic. She was for taking in
chaste and instructive Musical
Comedy and then having tasty
little Supper of about II Courses.
II the Producer tried to lie down
and claimed that it had been
Hard Day at the Office, Hazel ac-
cused him of being a Slobsterine
and minated that he had ceased
to Love. After sitting around all
Day, Hazel was not laundering for
any Quiet Evening in the Library.
She wanted to get out and hit up
the High Spots and dazzle the
Public with her Al Exhibit of
Precious Stones.
Papa knew that if he did not
go, she would call up some of the
Live Ones and leave him behind.
He wanted to be game. So he
would trail along and hover like
a Dark Cloud at the Outskirts of
the Happy Group. The only time
any one paid any Attention to him
was when the Check came.
Hazel had him going South most
of the Time.
II he ever started to rise up and
declare himself she would give
him sweet little Kiss, right on
the Forehead, and tell him to lie
down and Behave.
There is only one Finish for the
deluded Mortal who tries to work
on Day Schedule and at the
same time cover the Bright Light
District with the Night Shift. He
winds up as the Principal Attrae-
ton of a Daylight Function at
which six of his old-time Friends
wear White Gloves. Every one
sends Flowers but he does not
have to acknowledge them
Hazel looked very well in Black
but it was Hard Lines for her to
stay indoors. She knew it would
cause Talk if she cut loose before
the Grass was Green in the Family
Lot, so she was pulling for an
Early Spring and plenty of Rain.
When she bought her Second
Ticket for the Merry -go-Round,
she was determined on one Thing.
"The next one | pick out will
not to be tied down to any Office"
she told herself. 81 want Man
who can keep awake all Evening.
refuse to travel with CUTTERS.
What we need in this Country to
put Ginger into our Social Affairs
are Gentlemen of Leisure who be-
gil. to get Good along about Mid
night"
So she picked out a handsome
Wretch of Good Family who never
had worked a Moment in all of his
Life and who hated the sight of a
Bed.
He argued that 1t was Bad Form
for any one to suggest going, home
before Day break.
They went travelling together
as soon as she had settled the In
surance. When they arrived in a
New Town he would go out to buy
a Package of Cigarettes and then
he would return in three days to
find out if everything was o. X.
and II she was having Nice
Time.
But you could say one Word to
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-22
Gents Furnishing
Department.

We have just received a new lot of
Manhattan and Monarch Shirts. Call
and see Them they are beauties. See
our line of Neckwear, Sox, etc. We
can please you.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-22

his Credit. He never intenered
with any of her Arrangement for
the Reason that when the Ar
engagements were being made he
was Non Est He belonged to sew
eral Clubs at which the Members
removed their Pyjamas to put on
Evening Clothes. Sometimes he
met his Wife at Dinner Parties
and when he did so, he showed
her every Consideration and asked
her If she was still living at the
same Place. He never forgot TO
be a Gentleman, even at a Din
ner Party.
Although she saw him only
about once a Week. she always
had this Consolation. She knew
he was not working himself to
Death in any Office.
When she applied for a Divorce,
the Officers had to Hunt a Long
Time before they found him
He was very much Panied and
said he had never used a harsh
or cruel Word to her because he
always talked over the Phone,
with Central listening.
She obtained a Decree and as
she was leaving the Courtroom
she was met by sympathetic
Friend.
what are you going to do
next?" asked the Friend.
81 am going to buy Dog" was
the Reply.
MORAL: 1t is often necessary
to try two or three before the
Right Kind is Landed.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-22
The Bank of England.

From Tid-Bits.
The Bank of England generally COM
tains sufficient gold, in sixteen pound
bars. to make 2O,OOOOOO soverelgns. The
bank. which stands in three pasishes.
covers three acres of ground and. as the
current price of land in the vicinity works
out at 91.O000OO an acre. 1t Is easy to
form an idea of the money value of the
home of Englands wealth. The ratable
value is about $1,000 a week. The bank
employees about 1000 people, pays a quar-
ter of million year in wages and
935000 a year in pensions. There are
925000,O00 worth of notes In circulation
which have been handed over the banks
counters.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-22
Dictionary Joke.

From Tit-Bits.
Certainly no one would think OF read
ing a dictionary for pleasure-as the
Irishman said, he would lose the thread
of the story in the great mass of detail.
Nor would one expect to find jokes in
such book, says the Philadelphia Led
ger, except the one Of Mark Twain's
about the carbuncle. But that learned
and otherwise stald dictionary the Cen
tury,' contains at least one laughable
entry.
Under the word question" Is the fol-
lowing; Il
ITO pop the question-see pop"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-22
A Premature Boom.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Judge Parkers boom is in danger Of
getting out of breath before 1t reaches
the last lap. The papers are printing
pictures of the members of the judges
family. This is an extremely advanced
stage of the presidential vegetation, and
there is liability to many frosts between
now and the summer of 1904.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-22
Why He Called Her Peggy.

From Answers.
II thought your *ife's name was Eliz-
abethY'
$50 1t is
Then why do you call her Peggy?"
Short for Pegasa."
What has that to do with t?'
'Why, Pegasa is feminine for Pega-
sus"
''Well?"
well, Pegasus is an immortal steed."
What of that?"
"Shl Not so loud. She's In the next
room. You see, an immortal 81 ed is an
everlasting nag. and there you arc"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-22

of dresses are laid In chlffoniers and other
drawers reserved for them. Each is kept
by itself"
And what woman would not willingly
worship at a shrine described In words
like these:
Ordinarily for lingerie there are very
large wardrobes with shelves. The shelves
are first entirely covered with perfumed
silk sachets. When the doors are opened
one sees dainty laee-trlmmed and be-
ribboned articles piled In sets. Every
shelf holds ravlshing snowy heaps OF
delcately tinted silk garments. In draw
ers below, lying upon the ubiquitous
sachet, are my lady's silk stockings OF
| every hue and style, matching her end
! less gowns. Another wardrobe is appro-
priated to bonnets and hats. When its
doors swing open a bewildering display
of millinery arrests the gaze, and proves
a convincing argument in favor Of the
millinery business If one thinks of "go-
! Ing into trade" for every out-of-door
costume has its corresponding headgear."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-22

oath IN order to get of from tax on
personal property. But among the -four
hundred" of the chief city of the En-
pire state, the man or the woman who in
this respect. renders unto Caesar that
which is Caesars Is the very rare ex-
ception In their mental obiquity they
act as if they considered 1t vulgar to pay
taxes, assuming that. as a privileged
class, they should be exempt from the
operation of the statutes which apply to
plain people The French noblesse under
Louis XVI, and his predecessors held
somewhat similar theories, and they did
not get 1t out of their heads. until the in
venton of DR.. Guillotine came along and
swept away vast accumulation of aris-
tocratie rubbish. the heads included.
Smuggling Is another branch of the GRIM
inal fine arts specially cultivated by the
members of the high society of Fifth ave-
nue. and New port The enormous amount
of 1t that Is going on from year to yearis
shown by the records OF the principal
custom house of the country and Of the
treasury department in Washington. I'M
til within a very few years ago the
bribery Of the officers charged with the
examination of the baggage of the re-
turning aristocratic tourists every sea-
son was practiced to such an extent that
these positions were among the most ln-
crative berths under the government.
some measures OF reform nave Deen
adopted to check this wholesale pillass
of the revenues, but 1t is we'll known that
they are ineffective In the case OF the
very rich. who the worst offenders
of all in this branch of erlminality.
| But how account for this aristocratio
proclvlty toward plunderlng the govern
ment? Is It heredity? Few OF the great
fortunes of America, that Is the founda-
lions of them. will stand the test of rigid
| investigation Some of them smell Of
| Jamaica rum that never bore the seal OF
the revenue officer Not a few can be
traced back to pirate slaveships of the
last century. Scores and hundreds had
their origin In schemes as iagitious az
any of the "get-rich-quick" swindles OF
our own day; while legislative corruption
was the rank soil from which have
sprung another brood of Millionaire
accumulatons The enumeration could
be extended almost indefinitely. Tho
grandchildren and great-grandchildren OF
today are the fashionable benehciaries
of the questionable deeds OF plebeian, UNI
serupulous ancestors. If to notorious.
glaring robbery of the government. which
has at last called for the Intervention of
the New York courts is not the result OF
heredity what is IT?
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-04-14

docks Blood Bitters, 1852; Ayers
Sarsaparilla, 1852; Warmers Safe
Tonic Bitters, 35.7; Parker's Tonic,
41.6; Hostetter's Stomach Bitters.
44.3; Peruna, 90; Electric Bitters, %.
Think of a crusade against beer,
which contains only from 2 per cent
to 5 per cent of alcohol, while allow
ing the free sale of ''bitters" con-
tanning ten times as much. The "bit-
tiers" are stronger than whiskey, far
stronger than sherry, port, ETC., and
claret and champagne are far behind.
American Medicine.