Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1903-12-29
JOURNAL X-RAYS

Maybe that gambling bill commit
ted hari-kari.
The mcanost things Roosevelt has
had said about him are the words
of praise given hom by Dowie.
The Russian Japanese warcloud
like that lowering over the Turk
seems to be of the stage variety.
It may have been all right TO hold
Columbia up and take Panama away
from her, but it is unhighwaymanly
to keep twitting her about it.
The suggestion OF annexing San
Domingo is made. This would be
much like an individual trying to
benevolently assimilate bottle of
tabasco sauce.
General Wood in his troubles
showed wisdom in going to the Root
of the matter.
Tacoma prides itself upon the fact
that while the whole top is reported
to have slid off Mt. Rainier. Mt. Ia
coma is still doing business with his
top all there.
According to dispatches the invad
ing Colombian army consists of four.
teen generals, forty colonies, 800
other officers, and 400 servants and
tortilla bakers, the last perhaps the
most deadly.
Schwab denies that he was one OF
the promoters OF the shipbuilding |
steal, but he admits he got most of
the plunder, but then he always did
enjoy a joke
Hartman and Hill are said to have
reached an agreement, but there was
said about how much tighter
the cinch would be drawn.
II the Car would take San Do
mingo to his bosom and also off the
map, the other nations would make
no objections.
The Vermont woman who enticed
her husband TO the river side play
fully tied his hands behind his back
and then chloroformed him throwing
the body into the river showed true
womanly delcacy and refinement in
the art of murder.
Don't be a mere obstruction cum
Dering the earth. Help some one to
10 business Don't oppose better
roads, paved streets schools. Start
,ome business, give somebady
,hance to make a living, do some
hing, be alive, don't be a mere
sponge sucking the life and energy
If others. II you have not done so,
,rder an advertisement in The New
Years. Journal.
A subscriber at Macleay asks us TO
lame the most sublime verse In the
,ible. There are so many OF them
his is almost impossible. But the
me nearest TO answering that de-
we recall at present, is
eremiah 10:12:-"He hath made the
arth by his power, he hath estab-
Ished the world by his wisdom, and
ath stretched out the heavens by
is discretion" Can you quote one
lore sublime in thought than that?
Mark Hanna prefers to rest on the
lurels OF two successful national
ampaigns. Some politicians do not
now enough to quit.
Rockefeller must be pleased when
chwab and Morgan are scrapping.
The popularity OF Santa Claus con.
nues undated and he is by all odds :
he favorte presidential candidate.
II Colombia don't like the way
Incle Sam got his right OF way for
he Panama canal what's the matter
nth referring the whole thing to the
Iague International Arbitration
curt?
CONSTITUTIONAL sacred document
tanding between the people and their
leeds, and reinvoked only on such oc,
asions.
The gambling bill gave few Holy
rollers in the legislature a chance to
make speeches for the benefit OF their
constituents, and then
ct IL pass out OF existence.
The next opera company that comes
o Salem without a pretty girl in the
'horus should be fined for contempt.
They do say that there is only one
A. a. /