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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1903-12-03

The Ticket for the Workinsman.
The workingman who wants the
city TO prosper should vote the Re
publican ticket. He can count on no
Encouragement in the way Of public
improvement from the Citizens party.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1903-12-03

long, and any abuse which will return
to the camp those likely to struggle
out of the ranks. is considered a com
pliment by the active members for
the cause of the young Republicans
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1903-12-03
REPUBLICAN,
CITY CAMPAIGN
The Republican Candidates for Mayor
and Alderman Stand for All Possible
Progress and Development Of Greater
Salem Consistent With Good Business
Administration.

REPUBLICAN CITY TICKET.
For Mayor--Frank Waters.
For Aldermen.
First ward-Robt. E. Downing.
Second ward-R. A. Crossan.
Third ward-A. Gesner.
Fourth ward. Frank Hughes.
Fifth ward. w. Young, Geo. r.
Jacobs.
Sixth ward-E. C. Churchill, Frank
Smith.
Seventh ward-Andrew Vass, Lee
Atchison.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1903-12-03
Church DESTROYED.

Fort Wayne. Ind. Dec. 3.-St.
Paul's Lutheran church was destroyed
by fire this morning; loss $50. 900,
with small insurance.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1903-12-03
Do You Want Progress or Expensive
Theories

Theories
Do you want clean streets?
Vote for the Republican ticket.
Do you want improved streets?
Vote for the Republican ticket.
Do you want a street light to find
your way home?
Vote for the Republican ticket.
DO you want to ride on the side.
walk?
Vote for the Republican ticket.
Do yop want anything else?
Vote for the Republican ticket.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1903-12-03
Warshln Went ASHORE.

Victoria. b. c., Dec. 3.-The British
warship Flora went ashore this morn.
izg in a fog on Denman island. The
damage is unknown.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1903-12-03

The Citizens council abandoned
the popular loan plan OF funding the
city bonds that fell due the past year.
to save the expense OF a special cleo.
ton, when the interest they would
have saved would have several times
paid the expense.
They refused to give the people the
benefit Of the Australian ballot law
on the ground Of expense. and, in
stead, force the poll tax law, to keep
as many as possible from voting
They went back on their own light.
ing contract, the best the city ever
had. under which they claim the city
has saved 81. 500, after the managers
held a secret meeting at which It was
proposed TO hold up the contract to
promote real estate interests"
They enacted a restrictive bicycle
ordinance that was uncalled for, then
went back on It, and when il was re
vived by veto Of the mayor, refused
TO enforce it.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1903-12-03
Give Salem One Decent Street.

Give Salem One Decent Street.
If the Republican ticket is elected
there is reason to hope that the com
ing yea will see one decent street
built in the Capital City. There will
be a large cash street fund, and II
should not be all spent hauling I'M
screened river sand and gravel onto
the streets in summer, and hauling it
of in wlnter-usuaIly just before cleo.
ton. If the Citizens ticket is elect.
ed the people need expect no change
from the old-fashioned process that
has been the rule for forty years-a
rule that has been abandoned by thu
progressive prune growers of the red
hills. TO the shame and disgrace Of
the Capital City. The Republicans
hang the banner of progress at the
head of their campaign column. and
the hayseeds howl about what they
have done. But they promise neither
the city nor the suburbs any progress
whatever This campaign will decide
whether Salem shall take a stand for
progress, or endorse cold.blooded
business"
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1903-12-03
Moodmen Oh the World.

General Organizer Rogers will be
at camp meeting Friday night, and a
full attendance is requested Of all
members. BY order Of p. L. Frazier,
consul.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1903-12-03

Meeting tonight. Initiation. Or.
chestra rehearsal at Z O'Clock. Ban
quet. II. II. OLINGER,
Exalted Ruler.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1903-12-03
Cold Driving

Without a good warm winter buggy
robe. We have a good assortment at
popular prices. and It's worth your
while to inspect our line.
Storm aprons, too. for buggies and
hackS Keep your knees dry and
you'll not catch cold.
Buggy whips, all grades and prices
Dixon's Graphite axle grease for
buggies and wagons. A truly good
grease and the most economical thing
one a use.
Deeerhakos castor oil grease for
wagons, a splendid brand.
Lane Wagon Jacks. a good sub
stantial wrought iron jack. Two
sizes TO pick from.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1903-12-03

Republican Candidates for Aldermen
All Workingmen.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1903-12-03

THESE COLUMNS ARE CONDUCTED BY THE REPUBLICAN
CITY PRESS COMMITTEE.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-26
Birminaham's Unioue Exhibit.

Alabama, as a state, will doubtless have an exhibit at the St Louis ex. position, but whether it does or not the Birmingham district will be repre- sented in a most impressive manner by a colossal statue of Vulcan, made of Birmingham iron. contract for the design has been signed by the dis tinguished sculptor, G. Moretti and James A. MacKnight, as an accredited agent of the Commercial club.
 Birmingham idea which materializes in Vulcan as the exponent of the great mineral district of the south, as unique and fitting. Many states and cities and industrial corporations and private firms will display much ingenuity in arranging their exhibits at St. Louis, but it may well be questioned if any exhibit makes the hit that Vulcan does. bDu tuG OCSL ol IL ID, llt GADOSlllOti management, struck with the unique character of Birminghams contribu- tion to the fair, has accorded the CO lossus commanding position near the main entrance. Not man, woman or child who visits St. Louis next year will fail to gaze at Vulcan and learn something about Birmingham.
 The Jefferson county board of reve- nue has appropriated $5000 toward de- fraying the expenses of this Birming- ham exhibit. About $15000 more will be needed, but the Commercial club will have no difficulty in raising the amount by contributions from the bus mess men of the city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-26

era house by paid singers and actors, on the ground that the libretto was based on legend which dealt with the chief sacrament of the church. This point was argued pro and con in the newspaper columns, and public opinion finally set tied in favor of the performance.
 Some of the clergy who gave out in- teryiews were clearly not familiar with Wagner's treatment of the Holy Grail story, for the libretto is peryaded by a reverent and sympathetic spirit
 There is no scene or line in Farsi fal' that could offend the most deyout Christian-Catholic or Protestant On the contrary, it's production will tend to quicken the religious imagination and uplift the spiritual nature of men and women.
 As to the music of "Parsifal." il marks the highest stage of Wagner's creative genius. It is not music that will be hummed or whistled after the show Few of the masters music dramas contain catchy airs. But it is real music nevertheless, and must only be heard often to be understood and appreciated.
 Wagner was reformer, not in the technique of opera. but as Dudley Buck states it, his music reform embraces the whole field of conception and ex- pression.' He contended that the theme of opera should be poetic in the purest, deepest sense: that the poetry should be joined with fitting music, vocal and instrumental, and that the whole should be associated with the convictions and sympathies of human ity."
 Wagner reveled in the Grail myth, and if he could come to life and see the superior manner in which Farsi faf' is presented at the Metropolitan opera house, he would not find fault with the atmosphere. Unimaginative and uncultured people who attend the performance on Christmas eve will not be elevated, but rather bored, but those who know the story and have some knowledge of music and are in sympathy with the composers ideals, will be more than repaid, no matter what their tickets cost.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-26
NO BONUS OF s1o.ooo .ooo

From the New York Times.
 The senate should not hastily accept the judgment of the President and Secre- tary of State in regard to the payment of s10,00o0OO to Panama. We were con- tent to pay that sum to Colombia but the transaction presents itself now in 8 new aspect. The risks we run and the costs to which we may be put have been made much greater by reason of ncuring the hostility of Colombia. Knowing the habits of Central American statesmen. we ought not to deude ourselves with the belief that the payment of the s10 000,- GOO would be benefit to the republic. It would be a curse. II is a matter quite within our control. Panama will do any thing that we require. We have created the new republic, we are going to main tain it. That is an ample consideration for the grant of the right to build the canal. We should be justified in declin- ing to make over the sl0OOo,000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-26
TINE ONLY nAlLy NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
That we should thankful be.
 -Loves Labor Lost.
Railroad. General Offices.

A member of the Virginia legislature made a vigorous but a foolish speech the other day in advocacy of meas ure concerning public service corpora, tions which defines what is meant by the principal offices of a railroad cor poraton.
 This lawmaker used the Southern railway as an illustration, declaring that the charter of the company re quired it's principal offices to be lo- cated in Richmond. He pointed out the fact that the Southerns general offices were located in Washington where force of officials and clerks, numbering all told about 700 found employment, while the Richmond office was only nominal and the quarters un. occupied, except once a year when the stockholders held their meeting.
 He contended that Richmond had been badly treated by the Southern, and proposed an amendment to the bill under discussion which would cause the company to forfeit its char ter, granted by the Virginia legisla, ture, if the general offices were not re- moved to Richmond or some other city in the Old Dominion.
 The majority of the members of the Virginia legislature are reasonable men, and that being so, no such radical measure as that referred to will pre- vail. While every city should use all fair and business-like means to in. crease its population and it's payrolls and strive to increase it's commercial prestige, modern conditions have made it imperative on the part of large rail road systems to maintain their general offices at such points as will best sub- seNye economic ends and facilitate the proper handling of great volume of traffic.
 Railroad companies are supposed to be operated on strictly business princl- pies. It is to the interest of every com pany to accommodate it's patrons and to develop new traffic. With great system like the Southern 1t is impos. sible to maintain general offices at every important point touched by it. The economy of management would be seriously interfered with if general offices were established where they were not needed.
 Let legislatures call the railroads to task and regulate them when they vio- late privileges bearing on the rights of the travelling public and shippers, but no sensible lawmakers will ever vote to hamper the companies in mat. ters that do not affect the public.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-26
WOMEN GAMESTERS AND
 THEIR BAD INFLUENCE

womanly purity have made our chivalry and our power have kept us a proud, courageous and invincible people through poverty and oppression, have made us triumphant over disaster. They have given southern men high ideals and noble purposes, restrained the vicious. upheld the weak and melted the good to splendid efforts and results. When women permit themselves to descend to sharing the vices
 in this section at least hitherto peculiar
 to men, they forfeit their right to respect
 and need not look for respect. They sur-
 render their power for good and permit
 us to exchange the clean and high and
 bright social life we have had for the scandal, astentation and vulgarity and low tone in morals and department with which some communities are sorely af- iicted.
 The women of Richmond may be said to stand in the pass. They can keep back the baleful and pestiferous influences and give the entire south tone and atmos- , phere of refinement goodness and purity,
 or they can permit themselves to be in- fected and get down to the Smart Set
 level The responsibility is on them. Sermons on the same subject from every pulpit in Richmond may not be urgently
 needed but they coud do no harm.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-26
Waqner's ParsifaI.

The decision of Judge Lacombe, in the United States circuit court of New York, declining to grant the injunction asked for jointly by Cosmina Wagner and Siegfried Wagner, restraining Manager Heinrich Conried of the Met ropolitan opera house from producing the late Richard Wagner's music festi- val drama, "Parsifal," insures the pre- sentation of this great work December 24, as advertised
 'Parsifal," more than any other opera or music drama ever written, demands sacred atmosphere, and the contention of the petitioners was that it would be illegal to produce it out side of the Wagner theatre at Bay reuth, where the Wagnerian and relig- ious atmosphere is supposed to be ideal. But the court quickly perceived that the claim of the widow and the son Of the composer were chiefly senti- mental and therefore not to be seri- ously considered in the injunction pro- ceedings.
 No opera house venture was ever so well advertised as Conried's project to produce "Parsifal." The impressario had no sooner announced his plans for presenting this drama-the first time outside of Germany-than Frau Wag- ner and her son employed counsel to fight the enterprise. It would be a dissertation, they protested, to stage and render so sacred a work in New York. Later, prominent clergymen of New York got up an agitation against the production of 'Parsifal' in the op-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-26
GoosE-RoNE PROPHECY.
From the Baltimore Sun.

From the Baltimore Sun.
 Householders who have not yet figured out their winters fuel expenses are anx- iously awaiting the 'natural' signs of the season, which will tell them what to ex- pect in the way of weather and tempera- ture between now and April. Next week should resolve all their doubts into cer- tainties For then will be the season for the annual scrapng of the breastbone of the goose which will disclose those mys- terious markings which, when interpre- ted by the weather-wise, will foretell the mldness or the severity of the winter. There are other signs of a hard winter than the token of the marked goose bone, but they are merely suggestive while the goose-bone prophecy is regarded as abso- lute. If the other signs differ from the goose-bone, then they lose their prestige. If they agree with the goose-bone, the shrewd observer of all the confrmatory indications piles up his wood and coal and has an extra lining sewed into his overco et, and hunts up his old mittens. For he knows that the winds will blow and the snow will fall and the rivers will freeze, just as he knows that the grass will grow in April and May. One of the famous goose-bone prophets of the coun- try is Uncle Si" Collins of Roseland, N J., who has peered into the meteorological future for many seanons through the me- dium of nature. He is awaiting the ad- vent of the goose-bone with keen inter- est, for all the preliminary signs tell of hard weather. Here is his preliminary evidence:
 The coons have three sets of hair spring pigs have extra sweetbreads, shin- gles have shown a thicker fuzz, fiagstones have sweat frost in the sunlit morning hours. and squirrels have been more than usually active in putting away a big sup ply of nuts"
 So nature writes her prophecies. There should be no lamenting for lack of warn ing if some needless folks are caught this winter with insufficient fuel or covering. after the ancient and honorable goose bone has thus verified the coons and the pigs, the squirrels the shingles an6 the nagstOnes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-26
WINTER PICTURES.
mes Russell Lowell.

By James Russell Lowell.
 (From the "visain of Sir I.aunfal.') Down swept the chill wind from tho
 mountain peak, From the snow five thousand summers
 old; On open wold and hilltop bleak It had gathered all the cold, And whrled it like sleet on the wander
 CTS cheek; It carried a shiver everywhere From the unleafed boughs and pastures
 bare; The little brook heard it and built ia
 roof Meath which he could house him winter
 proof; All night by the white stars frosty He groined his arches and matched his
 beams: Slender and clear were his crystal spars As the lashes of light that trim the stars; He sculptured every summer delight In it's halls and chambers out of sight; Sometimes his twinkling waters slipt Down through frost leaved forest crypt, Long. sparkling aisles of steel stemmed Bending to counterfeit a breeze; Sometimes the roof no fretwork knew But silvery mosses that downward grew; Sometimes it was carved in sharp re-
 lief With quaint arabasques of ice fern leaf; Sometimes 1t was simply smooth and
 clear For the gladness of heaven to shine
 through. and here He had caught the holding bullrush tops And hung them thickly with diamond
 drops, Which crystalled the beams of moon and
 sun, And made a star of every one: No mortal builders most rare device Could match this winter palace of lee; Twas as every image that mirrored lay In his depths serene through the summer
 day, Each fitting shadow of earth and sky, Lest the happy model should be lost. Had been mimicked in fairy masonry By the elin builders of the frost
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-26
Our Street Car Service.

Birmingham is extremely fortunate in having so excellent and so well conducted a street car service" said Dr. A. C. La Touche of Chicago.
 Tn Chicago during the past ten days we have been experiencing all the inconve- niences of a strike among the street car men and those of us who lived on the south side were especially handicapped.
 "Of course a street car strike in so large a city as Chicago causes much more harm than in smaller places, because the dis tanees one has to travel are so much greater and other means of transportation are approximately more expensive.
 Your service in Birmingham however, is better than the surface car service Of Chicago at it's best Your cars are all new, your tracks are fine and there are nearly always enough cars in service to prevent the crowding that is one of the greatest bugbears to man who has to ride on the cars in Chicago"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-26
THE GORMAN LEADERSHIP.
the Atlanta Constitution.

From the Atlanta Constitution.
 The St. Louis Globe Democrat is jolly ing itself with the idea that Senator Cor party leader, because he could not line up the democrats in opposition to the government on the Panama canal ques- ton.
 The canal question, however, was not a partisan question. Democrats and re- some of the incidents of the government policy. but the large majority on both sides of the senate were of one mind that the recognition of Panama as free state was justified and treaty with her on the canal question was an opportune sequence which our government rightly seized.
 Senator German had no leadership to exert in the democratic caucus. That meeting was held for no other purpose than to allow democrats to express to each other their views concerning the canal question. That interchange made two things apparent-first, that democrats would not regard the canal question as partisan one. and, second, they would vote upon it as their interests lay and not as mere stubborn opponents of estab- lished facts.
 The GlobeDemocrat will not act with its usual acumen if it decries Senator Germans leadership on account of this matter. In it he made no effort to lead. But when a partisan issue arises where his leadership is called into play we would advise the G.-D. and all of its republican allies to keep their eyes well peeled in the German direction.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-26
The People Thankful.

The American Thanksgiving is a firmly established institution, and whether harvests have been large or small and whether prices are high or How, the President issues a proclama. tion designating the last Thursday in November as a day for the people of the nation to assemble in their re- spective places of worship and give thanks for the manifold blessings be- slowed upon them. And it is an ill- disposed man or woman who fails to observe the day in a proper spirit.
 But on Thanksgiving Day in this year of our Lord 1903, when the earth has yielded more abundantly than usual, when prices have been unusu- ally remunerative and when pros. perity has been the rule from one end of the United States to the other, the rejoicing will be especially hearty and general. The congregations at the churches will be large, and the thousands of people who remain at home will be filled none the less with the spirit of thanksgiving.
 The reflex benefit that comes from an act of thanksgiving is most whole some and far-reaching, and every man and woman will be all the better for observing this day.