Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-10-29
NEW YORK NEWS LETTER

campaign chest is far from bein.
empty. 1t is a fact that German an,
Lamont are regarded as the prineipa
money getters-next to Belmont in tn,
national democratic councils. Senator
German is influential in certain inan
cial quarters, and Colonel Lamont il
influential in other quarters Between
the two they can reach pretty nearly
all the sources of monetary supply fol
democratic campaign purposes.
A man well advanced in years is al
most a daily visitor to Central park
He is generally accompanied by young
woman. Some of the park employees
who observed the two thought they
were father and daughter. Aftel
awhile it was noticed that a different
young woman appeared with the mar
about every two weeks. 1t was moi
possible that any man could have Sc
many daughters A person of an in
quisitive turn of mind constituted him.
self an investigator. This is what he
learned:
The old man is person Of means,
and he pays so cents an hour for the
society of any young woman of eduea
tion who is willing to accompany him
and entertain him on his rambles
through the park with bright conver.
sation on any topic but love. AS they
pass about six hours day in the park,
the girl earns SO day just by talking.
The different objects in the park evil
IDENTIFY supplies the different themes
of discourse. Why the man changes
his escort every two weeks remains a
mystery. Perhaps a young woman
talks herself out in that time. May.
be he thinks it best to take no chances.
Frank Taylor, an aged resident Of
Brooklyn, who declares that he has
been cured of dyspepsia by eating moth.
ing but grass, has bought a farm in
New Hampshire, which he will lay out
in grass and clover 80 that he can have
an inexhaustible supply to draw from
He now gets his daily supply from Sun.
set park, where it is gathered by his
daughter. The young woman makes
daily trips to the park and plucks the
grass, bringing it home in a paper bag,
Her father eats it with great relish.
His palate has now become so accus.
toned to the juice of the grass that
nothing attempts him any more, and
he considers that he has taken a new
lease on life. He has been made an
offer of 800 a week to lecture in a
museum, but it has been declined, as,
he says, he desires no notoriety.
Few persons have any idea of the
rigorous extreme to which surgeons
carry the antiseptic idea nowadays
Here is an illustration: At an opera
tion in one of the big city hospitals
a few days ago one of the assistants
discovered that something was needed
from outside after he had disinfected
his hands. He stood on one foot and
pushed the electric button with the toe
of his other shoe rather than take the
risk of picking up bacteria by touch.
ing it with his finger.
New Workers justly pride themselves
on the completeness of their telegraph
and telephone service in these days.
All the same there was very efficient
means of communication between the
early Dutch settlers before the year
100. 1t might be called the first wire
less system used in America, though
there was no electricity about it and
the poles were common Dutch wind
mills. The windmill appeared in Amer.
let almost as soon as the Dutch set
foot on Manhattan Island. In a few
years there was such a mill on every
bit of rising ground in the island.