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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-10-17
'RY SALOON IN
SALEM WAS CLOSED
4 Lines of Business Remained as
Usual---Wet Weather Caused
Bad Colds

~as virtuous city yesterday,
that was the conclusion
{. Ma rom a casual trip around
tervthing was quiet, and the
,,.t4 night refreshments at other
.,4 han the saloons. The town
....s in demand, but as one of
4. i6os.al reporters had lame arm
VIA eonpelled to forego the pleas.
y ~ eapplying from the cup of
brklipe aqua.
several hours at the typewriter keys
e,,t.eea h thirst, and out started the
.,bt "a uuest of an open house. His
soas BOXED at him askance as he
.fefSed alleys and byways adjoin-
4 u&Ilknown refreshment resorts.
knneked until his knucles were
:oetel but, he met the mixologists
eatlinp down the streets and i'm.
..Fed. Yea even begged to be allowed
. .ttsmiie. - but the efforts were in
|, He thought that they thought
|.l be Did not have the price, and
tfore armed himself with a lead
,4or and even offered to treat the
||naids if they would only allow him
enter within the portals of their
.,Iishments, but he remained dry,
II X will take several days this
NJ TO q catch up' and get back into
nal condition.
fiously, however, Salem, as far as
& kaloons were concerned, was a
.s town. The candy stores were
,es ~ were also the shooting gal
fi1 gar stands, restaurants, ho-
|ls, 'fery stables, postofice, and even
|e dfug steres. The past week has
.en pery bad for colds and the drug
rs were kept busy yesterday selling
iiah medicine and throat tonic. Sew
M drug stores were favorite
'neing places for the sick and af'
4ted, who seemed TO be afraid that
|fy would be seized with violent
spells on the street and their
itaas might think that they had con
.nption. From late reports it is not
'0t4ted that the fatalities will be
'tt from the epidemic of influenza
made its appearance yesterday
a ,|i'ncle' Bill Anderson was loiter
{. 4fDund in front of the creamery
l',se for a drink of buttermilk. He
|ffonsly handed friend a piece OF
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-10-17
Milwaukee Day at Fair.

F} louis, Oct. 17.-Several thousand
,hfoHs visited from the city of Mil
sokto, including representatives Of
B Wisconsin, national guard and del
|aficns from the singing societies,
4lls commercial associations and
hcf organizations of the Cream City
|HA naft today in the celebration of
'ilweakee Day at the exposition. At
,e formal exercises held at the plaza
|e Apeaker included Mayor Rose,
lesldebt Francis and former Governor
y. Hoard.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-10-17
Meeting Of Illinois Baptitsts.

Springfield, Ill.,, Oct. 17.-lllinois
Baptists have rallied here in force for
the sixteenth annual session of the
Baptist General Association of the
state. The meeting opens in the Cen
tral Baptist church this evening, with
an address of welcome by Judge j.
Otis Humphrey, TO be followed by the
annual sermon, which will be delivered
by Rev. George H. Simmons, d. d., of
Peora. The sessions Of the convention
will continue until Friday.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-10-17
Raptists Meet in Akron.

Akron, Ohio, Oct. 1.-THE Ohio
state Baptist association convenes
here tonight for a fourdays' session.
Nearly 500 delegates, including prom
iuent divines and lawmen, are here fol
the gathering. A ministers conference
was held today for the arrangement
of the final details of the convention
program.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-10-17
Mexicans entertained.

Kansas City, Oct. IL Ramon Corral
vieo president of Mexico and party ar
rived this morning from st. Louis and
were entertained by the Commercial
Club and citizens today. They will be
the guests of honor at the horse show
tonight, From here they 60 to San
Francisco.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-10-17
liftv.Pot Glass Furnace.

txahdria, Ind, Oct. 1.-THE larg'
\ glass furnace and the only one of
+ hind in the United States, was
heed in operation today by the Lip
aeofs Glass company, of this city,
IL q 5O-pot oval furnace, and it is
ate than twice as large as the fur
ices in common use, IS pots having
.sn regarded as the limit heretofore
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-10-17
Metropolitan village.

A sign of n metropolitan place In the
future is to be seen in the fact that
the streets of the little town of Noun
tain View, in Clackamas county, are
being paved with crushed rock.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-10-17

Upland Hay will give a few hifa-
Iutin steps at the "Huskin' Bee
Tuesday night, providing his wife will
let him. As the latter considers Up
land a little too old for such friyoli'
ties, there may be family dispute.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-10-17

FaFmef Cornhopper has just re-
rned from a trip TO Tacoma, and will
n hia Experiences in tho city. The
|pys and girls at the huskin' bee en-
a. she story, and so will you.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-10-17

Gee Haw laughs long and loud at ev.
cry opportunity at the "HuslSin Bee. "
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-10-17

Dorothy Doughnut has a penehaney
for "readers" at the Iluskin' Bee.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-07-23
A. O. U. w. New Plan Downed.

Portland, or. July 23.-After a
stormy debate lasting for more than
three days the Grand Lodge Of ore
gon A. 0. u. w. has settled the much
mootcd question Of changing the as
sessmont rate by voting down the So
called new PLAN" advocated by the
supreme lodge, and adopted by many
)f the states OF tho Union.
The new plan provided for sink
Ing fund, and a slight Increase In the
rate at which members above 80 years
are assessed
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-07-23
Took Mail of Jap I'rm.

Berlin, July 22.--The German consul
al Alden, Arabia reporting the details
of the seizure Of the mails OF the North
German Lloyd steamer Prnz Heinrich
In the Red sea July 10 By the Russian
volunteer fleet vessel Smolensk, says
that when the detailed mail sacks We're
turned over to the British steamer Per-
sia the Russian commander stated In a
letter to the Persias captain thar two
packages which had been retained were
directed to the management OF a Ger
man ammunition factory to Japanese
address at NagasakL
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-07-23
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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-07-23

I'd like to the Zuns an the Kuns an the laps
The Mouiks an the Mosems an the Romanys an Lapps;
don't much about the they have but must say
It'll be right smart instructive jest to em anyway
What's the to the and fer weeks or months
to hike
When theworld in wenymnutes be sawaong the Pike?
IA Ballad of the Pike"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1904-08-26
Vertical Grain Flooring.

Vertical grain yellow pine flooring" +"
read the sign on the fence of the lum-
ber yard; and Vertical grain floor
ing?" said a man in the office. why,
that's nothing new.
But you never heard of ii before ?
Well. vertical grain flooring is sawed
from logs that have first been quar-
tered; as quartered oak is sawed
Flooring sawed In the ordinary way,
with its grain lying flat, is more or
less liable to splinter; vertical grain
flooring, sawed from quartered tim
Der, has its grain on edge, the rings
that mark the timber's growth show
ing in parallel lines, for which reason
vertical grain flooring has sometimes
been called comb grain flooring.
Vertical grain flooring does not
splinter, but will wear smooth down
to the beams on which it is laid; and it
makes a very durable and handsome
flooring besides.
Vertical grain yellow pine flooring
is laid in places where the floors are
subjected to great wear and where
freedom from splinters is especially
desirable. 1t has been used for school
room flooring and 1t is used in stores
and office buildings, and in fine kltch-
ems. 1t costs more, of course, than or
dinary flooring. With the regular
flooring at S27 to $50 a thousand YER
teal grain flooring would cost So 30 to
$3.50 thousand.
maple flooring. costing $40 to S45 a
thousand. is now also used to fill the
same requirements for good floor,
but there are people who still prefer
the vertical grain yellow pine. New
York Times.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1904-08-26
The Mania for Getting Rich.

The mania for getting rich-the
mad. false idea that we must have
money has played worse havoc
among ambitious people than war or
pestlence A member of the Chicago
Board of Trade says that the men
and women of this country contribute
hundred million dollars a year to
the sharpers who promise to make
them rich quick. They work the same
shrewd batting. until the victim parts
with his money. Thousands are plod-
ding along in poverty and deprivation,
chagrined and humiliated because
they have not been able to get up in
the world or to realize their ambitions,
for the reason that they succumbed
TO the scheme of some smooth pro-
moter, who hypnotized them into the
belief that they could make great
deal very quickly out of very little.
The great fever of trying to make
one dollar earn five dollars is growing
more and more contagious. We see
even women secretly going into brok-
ers' offices and bucket shops invest
ing everything they have In all sorts
of schemes, drawing their deposits out
Of the banks, sometimes pawning their
jewelry-even their engagement rings
and borrowing, hoping to make lot
of money before their husbands or
families find 1t out and then to sur
prise them with the results; but. in
most cases, what they invest is hope
lessly lost.
Thousands of young Americans are
so tied up by financial or other entan.
clements, even before they get fairly
started in their life-work, that they
can only transmute 1.-THE of their
real ability or their splendid energies
into that which will count in their
lives. A large part of it is lost on the
way up, as the energy of the coal is
nearly all lost before 1t reaches the
electric bulb.-Success.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1904-08-26

One of the Boston newspapers,
speaking of the old home" movement
which has renewed so much of good
fellowship in many parts of New Eng
land, remarks the taking up OF the
same kind of celebra ton, inviting all
one-time residents and their posterity
to participate, in Ohio towns, and
calls 1t "old-home week out west"
The phrase recalls to a dweller in
Chicago an occasion when during a
sojourn of some months in Denver a
friend of that city rema ked that he
was going east" that night, but
would not fall to keep an appointment
for three days later in Denver How
can you do that il you go east to-
night?" asked the Chicago man. "Ob,
that's easy" was the reply; II could
get back from Omaha In less time
II needed So to go to Omaha was
to go east TO the Denver man, and
the Boston phrase "out west reveals
that the same kind of thing survives
there. 1t is different only in form in
California, where to return to the old
home Is to go to "the states," phrase
that recalls the once tremendous gap
between the old western frontier in
Iowa and Missouri and the scattered
fringe of civilization along the Pa
cific. Out west to the New Eng
lander, going east" to the Denver
visitor to Omaha, 'the states to the
Californian, all are survivals of
time when there were localities with
actual differences that justified the
phrases, but are nearly outworn now.
We have reached the point where
some of the phrases have become alb
surd and others have nearly lost their
meaning. 1t is time to begin to cult
vate the habit of mere relativity as to
points of the compass in a country
rapidly crystallizing into homogeneity.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1904-08-26

Eater, after the chamber of deputies
had twice rejected the proposition, the
establishment of lottery TO raise
more money was authorized, "a condi-
ton imposed by the Minister of FL
nance being that the tide-water canal
be abandoned and locks substituted
NJ. Eiffel, of Eiffel tower fame, was
paid 100000 francs merely for the
machinery necessitated by this change.
After the lottery scheme was sanction
ed loan was authorized by the cham
Der and to float it Baron Joseph Rel
mach was handed 6,000,000 francs. The
best he could do was to increase the
funds by 60O,O0o,00o francs, and
Charles de Lesseps, the son, agreed for
the total said to be on hand to com
plete the canal within three years.
The crash came in 1892 and moth
ing worthy of being compared with
1t had been heard since the notorious
Mississippi bubble blown by John
Law. No way or chance of diverting
money appears to have been overlook
ed. Journalists were paid princely
sums to draw the most alluring pic
lures and induce subscriptions to
stock. Legislators were bought with
little regard to the price paid. Oh
clals drew the most exorbitant sala-
rles and had favored subordinates to
help garner the golden harvest. How
widely the itching to plunder the fund
extended Is shown by the fact that In
1888 the Prime Minister and his i'm
mediate predecessor arbitrarily forced
the company TO contribute $4,000
francs, not for canal building, but for
the good of France" a formula that
had been made to cover a multitude of
sins. After the alleged turning OF the
limelight on the situation there were
still 660,O00,O0O francs unaccounted
for
A furor of excitement followed the
expose. Baron Reinach killed himself,
some say because of remorse, others
say because he was bounded to death
by menaces and attempts at black
mail. His partner, DIR. Herr, a Bava-
rian Jew, who had been wise enough
to become naturalized in this country,
fled to England, and Arton, the GO
between. also decamped. The papers
of the Baron showed the names of
many deputies who had been brlbed
and papers that had been subsidized.
but they received little by way of
and their schemes of pro
noting were so winked at that they
had no hesitancy in denouncing in Bit
ter terms the legislators who had sold
out to the manipulators of the Panama
fraud. Eleven persons were criminal
ly prosecuted for completely, six of
them being ex-cabinet ministers. The
one doubly punished was NJ. Baihaut.
ex- Minister of Public Works, who had
the courage to plead guilty and was
not alone by his colleagues.
but by the public, making the singu-
lar claim that his confession showed
lack of patriotism. The matter was
taken up again In 1897. but even the
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1904-08-26

States is the digging OF the Panama
canal That makes John F. Wallace
interesting. He is going TO dig 1t. he
has accepted the position of chief en-
gineer. Ii was the natural thing TO
select a railroad man for the big Job.
A man who can build railroads as
they are built in this country is equal
TO anything Mr. Wallace is general
manager of the Illinois Central Rail
road. He worked his way up from
the bottom. He has health, mag
nlhcent physique, brains and the kind
of patriotism that caused him to ac-
cept the government job, even though
there is less money in 1t than In run
ming great railroad system 1t Is a
tribute TO Mr.. Wallace and TO the
railroad profession that this great re-
sponsibility should have fallen on the
shoulders of railroad man. Few
doubt that the big ditch will be con-
structed economically and we'll. The
spirit that placed steel band across
the Rockies, that bridged Salt Lake,
that Is tunneling under New York
City, that has been back OF thou
sand stupendous railroad enterprises,
will successfully unite the Atlantic
and Pacific. There is another side to
this. The selection of practical
railroad man means that there will
be few sinecures in the canal Job.
Men will be hired for their ability and
made to earn their wages, and favorit-
ism will stand little show of inter
fering with good service That Is the
way most railroads are run, and 1t is
as 1t should be. The government has
plenty Of money to invest but none to
waste
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1904-08-26

1t is not the least but one of the
greatest advantages of higher educa-
tion that the woman of to-day does
know herself much better than did
her mother or grandmother. and with
that knowledge comes a better
understanding of her relations to the
world about her. The college girl of
to-day is healthier, stronger, saner.
more Independent, more resolute and
more useful than were the social but
tertlies or the household drudges of
her grandmother's time. In the ex-
perimental stages of this new develop
ment there may have been danger,
but the education of the body as well
as of the mind is now looked after
in all our girls colleges. indeed. much
better than in colleges for the other
sex.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1904-08-26

prosecuting off1cer helped 10 shut up
the scandal and to this day II Is not
known where by far the larger share
OF the missing funds went to. The
masses IN France are exceptionally
honest, and 1t is strange contradic-
ton that those of the accused who
again ran for office had no trouble in
being reelected.
To form a Judgment OF Ferdinand
de Lesseps 1t is essential to know
something of his history prior to the
Panama affair He was born at Yer
sailles in 1905. His grandfather had
been in the diplomatic service and his
father was consul to Egypt in the days
of Mohammet All. Ferdinand was
himself educated for diplomacy and
it was because of his ability rather
than because he was cousin of the
Empress Eugenie that he did diplo-
matte service in Spain, Italy. Egypt
and other countries. 1t WAS to Said
Pasha, who had just been appointed
viceroy of Egypt, that de Lesseps pre-
sented the project OF the Suez canal.
Said Pasha entered heartily into the
plan, subscribed for II large share OF
the stock which was sold sixteen years
later TO England in its movement to
get control of the important water
way. Gladstone was friendly to the
undertaking from the outset and help
ed 1t In that way of his which was so
effective. He was the great friend OF
de Lesseps and was like the people of
France in regarding him as man of
answering integrity. Powerful aid
was honestly given to the Suez enter
prise and the yceroy poured money
into it as needed.
The Panama affair was a complete
reversal. Its pretended friends were
grabbers of the hungriest and most un-
scrupulous type. They ruined the un-
dertaking and the man who entered
upon 1t with sincerity and n spotess
character upon which the unscrupu-
lous associates banked while robblng
the subscribers. He was beyond the
psalmist's allotment of years to man
and physically incapacitated, mentally
weakened and leaning upon an incom-
petent son to look after his affairs
when they most needed the supervi-
sion of man who would sanction
nothing questionable He never knew
that the son was party to disreput-
able methods, that he himself was con
yicted of misappropriation of funds
and sentenced to five years imprison-
ment, or that while he sat paralyzed
at home the finding was reversed by
the court. He did know that the un-
dertaking was doomed to failure and
the burden of his lament was that SO
many of the poor of France had suf-
fered loss where he confidently ex-
pected to give them profit. He saw
them gathered about him us he gazed
into the embers of his CRATE fire dur
ing his last days and his mind went
to them rather than to the friends
who called. His honor to-day Is held
above reproach among the great body
of the French people and they pro-
nounce preposterous the suggestion
that he was a swindler He was tech
nically such because of the position
which he nominally filed. but the con-
vincing evidence is that he was VIC
tim, not conspirator; worthy man
among rogues that included his son.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1904-08-26

As class, doubtless, mothers.n
law are too rudely treated by the
puryeyors of humor and satire and
not sufficiently honored They may
be interested to learn that President
Smith of the Mormon church, who was
a conspicuous witness in the Smoot
case, and probably has had as large
an experience with mothers-in-law as
any living American, is their ardent
ally lie says the custom of rdicul-
Ing them is contemplate, and adds:
"The best friends | ever had were
my mothers-in-law. | loved and hon
ored them and shall ever hold their
memories sacred They We're true
women and We're worthy of their
daughters" Perhaps some women
will think this last sentence conveys
doubtful compliment.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1904-08-26
eToRY OF A GREAT SCANDAL.
Ferdinand DeLesseps and His Connec-
tiou with the Panama Canal.


tion with the Panama Canal.
Special interest attaches to the Pa
mama canal scandal in France because
the great undertaking has become an
American enterprise and because. from
partisan sources, there have been
grave charges of financial crookedness
In connection with securing title
from the French holders. The plan TO
cut the isthmus of Panama with a ca
nal was projected in May. 1879. NJ.
de Lesseps went personally over the
ground in 1880. said that the water
way could be completed In eight years
and that from the start 1t should pay
per cent, or better upon the invest
ment. 1t was his name and standing
that interested the French people, for
he had built the Suez canal, an achieve
ment OF his own suggestion. 1t was
opened with imposing ceremonies in
1869, the Empress of France leading
the procession of royal personages The
man who had done so much to honor
his country upon the eve of her mis-
fortunes was beloved of his people
and their confidence in him amounted
to enthusiasm.
All classes capitalists. tradesmen
and peasants, were eager to subscribe
for stock and S251 100000 were real
lied. 1t being given out at the time
that two responsible contractors had
q preal IN do tho anfira work of ,on-
struction for about double that sum.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1904-08-26
Stage Fright and seIr-Consciousnes.

Stage fright is an intense form of
elf-consciousness. but the man who is
incapable of stage fright lacks the SEN
sitive temperament to achieve great
power as an artist. The man who
overcomes stage fright by getting out
of his own way, and by letting the
character he Is playing. or the. music
he is interpreting work through him
as clear. unseltlsh channel, receives
new power for his work In the pro.
portion that he shuns his own interfer-
ing seltishness- Monthly
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1904-08-26

mean farmer claims that there
used TO be fine echo on his farm
that attracted numerous summer
boarders, but one day his wife got
Into controversy with it, and in its
struggles to have the last word the
poor echo strained itself so badly that
1t lost its voice entirely. Ii is a mean
man that would make up this joke.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1904-08-26

According to new encyclopedia,
poverty is caused by four things
drink. inefficiency and shiftlessness,
crime and fondness for rowing. One
other cause that might be mentioned
Is lack of money.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1904-08-26

Now that the Carnegie hero fund
commissioners have met and organ
lied, let the heroes come forward
promptly. No need to push or shove,
either; just come along quietly and In
single die.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1904-08-26

Mrs. Hannah Elias deeply regrets
that she is negress, but seems to be
unconcerned about the things she
ought to regret most keenly.