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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-02-25
CAKEWALK ON THE
SEA
SEA

as stage. Perhaps never had a min.
strel show been given with a stanger
audience, and l could not but think
how little our predecessors of the
days of Pharaoh could have imagined
the scene on this particular evening,
thousands Of years afterwards should
be enacted in the locality of their fa-
nous sea passage. In the midst of the
festivities the engines came to a sud.
den stop, and upon inquiry It was
learned that an accident had occurred
the repairing of which would necessi.
tate the stoppage Of the ship for sew
eral hours; probably until daylight.
The engine room force having signi-
fed their ability and willingness to
handle the situation without further
help, the commanding officer ordered
two vertical red lights suspended
from the truck, signifying that we
were temporarily disabled, and told
the officer Of the deck TO go ahead
with the "skylarkng." The display
of amateur talent was undoubtedly
good, and the local hits, as they would
have been called on shore, very fetch
ing. Finally the evenings fun came
TO an end with a cake walk. Many of
the men were bringing home silks,
fans, slippers, etc, as gifts TO their
mothers, sisters, sweethearts, and
these taken together with such ar
ticles as the paymaster's stores could
furnish, coupled with the never end
ing ingenuity Of the average sailorman
produced some quite striking femi-
nine costumes for those who were to
impersonate the "cOlored ladies'" The
starbOard gangway was cleared, and
the band striking up "A Georgia Camp
Meeting" the men proceeded TO out
shine even their previous efforts. Up
and down the long gangway the dusky
pairs promenaded urged on by words
OF encouragement from their different
admirers among the spectators. Dina's
shoelace "got adrift," as she would
probably have described It in every
day life, and she called on Rastus
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-02-25
ONCE A WAITER
NOW A BARON
The Romantic Career of Lord Lyveden,
Who Held Menia1 Positions Here
and Abroad

ocer and settled down to nursery
work again--this time near Higham
Ferrers, where he spent four years of
hard work and happiness, and Incl
dentally introduced to the world a
new tomato known by his initials as
the "P. "" But fortune was not kind
to him, and he secured an engage
ment as third steward on a vessel
trading between London and Dublin.
After eight months of this expert
ence he exchanged to the City of
Paris, and later became bedroom
steward on a mail boat sailing to South
America. During this last term of
service Mr.. Vernon contracted yellow
fever, and for some weeks lay be.
tween life and death at Buenos
Ayres.
Another swift transition took this
nomadic aristocrat back to England
and for two years he acted as steward
on a vessel plying between Barrow
and the Isle of Man. a post which,
during the holiday season, was, per
haps not so pleasant as it was lucra.
tive.
Then followed a more agreeable
spell as principal steward on a holiday
yacht, the Ceylon; and this paved the
way to Lord Lyveden's last enterprise
which was that of caterer to line
of vessels belonging to the General
Steam Navigation company. This
was the work on which his lordshlp
was engaged when news reached him
that his uncle, the second lord, was
dead, and that he was Baron Lyveden
and owner of several thousand acres
of land.
This is but a bare outline of Lord
Lyveden's kaleidoscope life It's full
story would fill volumes of thrilling
interest, for he tells countless stories
of adventures and of hair-breadth es.
capes on sea and land, not the least
startling of which was when his boat
was upset in a heavy sea off North
Carolina, and, after being rescued at
the point of death, he was taken
ashore just in time to eperience one
of the worst earthquakes that ever
devastated that coast.
The hero Of this eventful life is to-
day a TALL handsome, resolute man
Of 46, with much of the breezlness
and unconventional charm Of a sailor;
and now that he is a peer of the
United Kingdom he is absolutely as
free from affectation as during the
many years when he made countless
loyal friends as plain Percy Vernon
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-02-25
CBy r. L. Newcomb.)

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"And the children of Israel went in
TO the midst of the sea upon the dry
ground and the waters were wall
unto them on the right hand and on
their left" So says the Good Book,
and perhaps that is the way it was
done in the days Of Moses: but in A.
d. 1899 the children of our Uncle
Samuel" to the number of eight hun.
dred, returning home from the Philip
pines by the way of the Suez canal,
came up the Red sea in a United
States cruiser at the rate of fourteen
knots per hour Probably far more
satisfactory way of travelling than
hiking It," as some of them had
learned TO do and say during their
sojourn on the island of Luzon and
as the majority of them would have
characterized the passage of the Is
raelites, had they been posted on the
subject. Among the draft returning
10 the United States were quite a
number of men with decided ability
and taste for amateur theatricals,
and now they had concluded to give
an exhibition of what they could do
as a sort of a farewell TO their home
ward-bound voyage. The duties Of
the evening being suspended for all
hands except the engine room force
on watch and the weather being fine,
the most Of the crew were on deck
in the second dog watch. Shortly be
fore sundOWn we came up to and
an English tramp steamer bound for
Suez and the entrance of the canal,
and as she dipped her colors in calute,
one could almost fancy that her cap
tain was i'll pleased at seeing the
Yankee ship go by at the rate Of three
knots TO his two. She was soon hull
down astern, and shortly after dark
the fun commenced. The decks were
cleared, and the ship illuminated from
stern to stem. The majority Of the
crew and offcers were grouped along
the rail. on the bridge and deck houses
while a clear space amidships served
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-02-25

For sale.--Good team; weight 1900
pounds each; 8 and years old
Call at corner Of 18th and Waller
streets, Yew Park r. w. Van.
Fleet. 2-22-3t|
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-02-25
MISCELLANEOUS.


Unique Cleaning Rooms--c. A. John
son, successor to Shaw & Johnson,
the cleaners, is now located at zoe
Commercial street. He does a gen
eral pressing and repairing bust
ness. Specialties: Skirts, silk
waists, kid gloves, gents clothing,
etc. Phone 2614. 5-2S-1yr
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-02-25

to retie the same, or perhaps she said
"shipmate make that fast, will you"
and Rastus with all due grace did so.
So on, with all the Characteristic
points of a typical entertainment of
the kind the affair was carried out,
Perhaps over all hovered the ghosts
of the old Egyptians looking down
through the darkness of that midsum-
mer night, and did they wonder what
strange dance this was, and in honor
of what strange gods? In the mean
time our friend the English tramp,
and had been steadily coming up and
upon sighting the two red lights he
judged, and rightly, that the Yankee
cruiser was disabled, so he promptly
changed his course aud came over
within hailing distance 1t was in the
midst of the cake walk that he hailed,
and inquired If he could be of any
assistance, and we could fairly see
the puzzled look upon the faces of
her officers and crew as they tried
to imagine what was going on. Clear
ly something very foreign to their
ideas Of what life on shipboard should
be. At least far different from what
they had learned in that hard appren.
ticeship Of a sailors life in the west
ern ocean and Baltic sea trade. The
officer of the deck declined the Of
fer with thanks, and assured him
that we would be under way again
in few hours, adding, 1--WE will beat
you into the canal yet" Curiosity
has been the downfall of many, and
in this case It was too much for the
peace Of mind of the master of the
tramp steamer. So he hailel again
and shouted through his megaphone:
"What in thunder are you people do
ing. anyway" A shout of laughter
went up from almost eight hundred
throats, for Jack is quick to see the
amusing side of a situation, and even
the stern order from the bridge of
stop that noise down there in the
gangway," could only partly hush the
merriment. This laughter to the eyes
of the English skipper seemed to be
adding insult to injury, and without
waiting for an answer to his inquiry
he gave his engineer -four bells and
a jingle" to go ahead, and steamed
away with all the speed with which
her engines could drive the blunt
nosed old craft along It was told in
the half French and half Egyptian
town of Suez for many days after,
how the master of an English steamer
had reported that he had passed an
American man-of-war drifting help
lessly, and that when he had proffered
the assistance OF his ship and crew
It had been refused, and he stated
that the decks OF this ship were
crowded with men, many Of them
in strange and outlandish costumes,
that a band was playing, and that
these men were doing a strange and
heathenish dance All this he had
seen with his own eyes. and II could
not be classed with stories of the
sea serpent and like tales. The
dance had been stopped when he
drew alongside and when he had
asked a civil question, and as he
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-02-25

Among the stories of the British
peerage are many chapters as roman.
tis as any you will find in fiction, but
II is doubtful says the Chicago Tri.
bune, whether any one of them all
is as crowded with strange experien-
ces and vicissitudes as that which
gives the life story of the third and
present Lord Lyveden.
As Courtney Percy Vernon, son of
country rector he failed to pass his
examination for the army. But he
took his fate boldly into his hands
and enlisted as private in the Royal
Artillery. "I put my pride in my
pocket" he says, "and shared and
thoroughly enjoyed the lot Of the
Tommy, whom | found to be a splen-
did fellow in all ways and a thorough
gentleman at heart"
But there was restless, rowing
strain in Mr.. Vernor's blood, and after
eight months Of soldering we find him
on the London stage playing a utility
part at the Haymarket theatre. From
this modest start he had risen within
two years to the dignihed position
of Second lead" when he abandoned
the footlights and made his way to
America
Landing at New York with but a
few pounds in his pocket, he served
for a time as waiter in a Bowery res.
taurant enlarging his acquaintance
with humanity and thankfully pocket
ing his tips; and then he suddenly
transported himself to North Carolina
where he tempted fortune as a nur-
seryman.
A little later he wearied of the life
Of nurseryman and engaged himself
as steward on a vessel running be-
tween North Carolina and New York,
making in this as in all his other
callings, hosts of friends by his gent
ality and entire absence of side"
But again, after two pears of life
aboard ship, his love of the stage re.
asserted itself and he spent some ad.
venturous months travelling through
this country with a company. From
America he returned to England, and
we find him playing the leading part
in Diplomacy" and playing 1t ex-
cellently. too; and. emboldened by his
success, the embryo peer started a
company Of his own and toured with
it, with varied success for a year.
He had now had ten years of roam.
ing and, thinking it was time to rest
a little he married, in 1890, charm.
ing woman, the daughter Of an army
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-02-25
My Breath.
ShOrtnesS of Breath
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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-02-25

For sale.--A fine Groom house, with
two lots, $1,000; small house and lot
on Center street, near Capitol, 5000 /;
a lot 50x170 on North Front street,
$500; no agents. Call on A. +. Nc.
Atee, 18th and Mission streets,
Phone 37S Blue. 2-22-3t'
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-02-25
White PlymOSth Rocks

ENoLEWoop POULTRY YARDS.
c. r. Ruet Prop.
Setting Of 16 eggs s1.5O. Breedr Of
pure stock white Plymouth Rocks eK'
clusively. They are good layers and
seldOu set Salem, or. l-1S-lm
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-02-25
PHYsIcIAN ANp SURGEON.

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Or. I. w. starr-Ofice in Bush q Brey
building, over Oregon Shoe Store.
ONCE hours, to 10 a. m. and 2 to
p. m. Calls attended in city or
country. Residence phone 1855
Red. 1-5-tf
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-02-25
FOR RENT.
FOR SALE.

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For Saie.-Nice, well located resi-
dence in this city for sale at $500.
Also fine farm of 24Sh acres, well
improved and located in Polk coun.
ty for sale at $40 per acre. Quarter
block of property in Salem for sale
or trade. worth $1,000. other resi-.
dence property for sale, centrally
located and reasonable. Call on G..
A. Hurley, on Tuesday, Wednesday
or Thursday, at the office OF w. II.
Holmes. 2-22.3t
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-02-25

Chickens do not always come home
10 roost when a colOred man lives .
mile or two down the road
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-02-25

For sale.--A span of 14O0 pound work
horses for sale at Red Front livery
barn, Salem. 2-20-3t"
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-03
HINTS FOR HOSTESSES THE GLORIOUS FoURTf

holding a small hrecracker, the small
est size she could get. When the guests
were seated the hostess touched off the
hrecrackers with lighted taper, and
the meal opened with a salute Of thir-
teen guns to the flag. When the meal
was over each ribbon was pulled by a
guest, who drew out silk flag as
souvenir.
If the hostess is a city woman she
need not despair. If she has a balcony
overlooking the back yard-and the
decoration Of the back yard is a mat
ter Of pride with most women who
stay in town during the hot weather
she can serve the dinner or supper to
half dozen guests or more by using
small tables. If the porch is not avail
able, then she makes her dining-room
as light and airy as possible and serves
her dinner early, before lights are nee
essary. A music box sending forth pa
triotic airs is pleasant accompani-
ment.
A heavy dinner menu is not appro-
pirate for the evening meal on this hol-
iday, when all the world grows young
again. Something on the line of an
old-fashioned six o'clock tea or supper
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-03

tastes infinitely better to jaded city ap-
petites or healthy country ones.
Here Is an excellent menu for a six
o'clock supper on the glorious Fourth,
and it gives the touch of color which is
quite essential to service on that day:
Raspberry Cocktail.
Creamed Fish in Forget -Me-Not
Ramekin Cases.
Olives in an Ice Tub.
Broiled Chicken. Creamed Potatoes.
Cherry Salad. Crackers.
Frozen Strawberries with Whipped
Cream.
Angels Food. Coffee.
Raspberry cocktail calls for dead
ripe fruit. A dozen berries are washed
and heaped in glass. with the juice
OF an orange poured over them and
allowed to stand for while. Then, at
serving time, a heaping teaspoonful
of powdered sugar and tablespoon
full of finely chopped ice is added,
giving a fine appetizer for hot weather.
The forget ramekin cases
are of paper in delicate blue, with arti-
ncial flowers outlining the edge.
The ice tub is formed by melting a
small cake Of ice into the desired
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-03

Upon the outside there are stubby lit
tie trees and Russian wolves and low
houses. There are square silk purses
and hand bags that are wonders In
handsome French brocade; and there
are bags Of 1880, made from the attic.
IT is a fad to have a great many OF
them and to carry as many as possible,
one at time, but changing often.
And the New York girl has other
fsds, and one og these Is very mex
pensive. 1t is the fad for laundry
work. Don't put out your fine laun-
dry II you want to follow this fad. Do
1t yourself. In one OF her summer
miniature laundry outfit. Everything
same.
There is the tiny washboard. There
Is the little bit OF a washboard, no big
ger than little girl would need for
her doll clothes. There is the little
box of fine starch and the salt to make
1T smooth and glossy. There are the
tiny clothespins and there Is the blu
ing and there the dyes. Fine washing
nowadays includes the knowledge OF
ecru tints, cream and blue and gray.
For ironing purposes the Gotham
girl takes with her a little charcoal
iron. You build a fire in II and 1t
stays hot all through the ironing. 1t
is the neatest, safest thing that ever
was and the summer girl who owns
such an iron is quite independent of
gas and electricity, of stoves and un-
certain heat.
Washing ones own clothes in ones
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-03

porches can be purchased. These are
all made from folded papers and are
easy TO carry to the summer home.
They come in the national colors, as
do the lanterns. Nor should the host
forget to have "Old Glory run up on
a pole on the cupola or f1uttering from
an upper window.
II the dinner table is set on the porch
screw a big hook in the ceiling directly
above the center of the table.
Make this the center for streamers OF
red, white and blue bunting or crepe
paper, which can be run out to the
four corners Of the ceiling overhead or
draped to hang above the table like a
canopy. For the center piece on the
table use a cut glass dish filed with
poppies, bachelor buttons or larkspur
and daisies or marguerites, which will
give the national colors in bloom.
A Western hostess evolved the idea
Of centerpiece made from as many
silken flags as she had guests. These
were stuck into a mound OF soft moss
and connected by red, white and blue
ribbons with the plates. Surrounding
this mound of flags was circle of thir-
teen guns, tiny brass cannon, each
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-03

own room Is a great fad. The board
ing-house keeper and the proprietor
do not like it, but what can the poor
girl do when there is no laundry
handy or when prices are ruinous!
1t Is a fad to give a laundry party.
All the other boarders are invited In
your room while you slap out your fine
laces, wash your organdies and lawns
and dOa little lace handkerchief iron
ing on the Iooking-glass and window
pane. There Is many a dollar saved
this way, so 1t Is very useful fad.
The monogram fad is not new. but
it is more the fad than ever. You can
get a belt buckle which is made Of
your monogram and nothing else. You
can put big monogram on the back
of your gloves. You can stamp your
bag with monogram. You can en-
broider one on your instep. You can
put a monogram upon the breast Of
your shirt waist or upon your right
sleeve. And you can monogram your
sash end and goodness knows what
not. 1t Is very pretty fad and one
that affords work for busy fingers all
summer, for the making of mono
grams there is no end.
And, among the fads, there Is the
patch. Do you know how to make q
patch, and how to put it on and how
to wear it? 1t is the thing to cut it
out in fancy shape and wear 1t next to
ones best feature. If you have a
dimple by all means put the patch
next to 1t. If your chin be cleft then
let the patch adorn your chin to show
its pretty curve. If your forehead be
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-03

declaration must also be supplied and
there could be no more appropriate
prize than a good photograph ~
Thomas Jefferson. daintily framed
rms goes to the guest who comes
nearest to filing out all the blanks:
Another contest which will create
no end or fun and rivalry reouires.
the use OF large nag. the field COW
cred with plain blue cloth to hide the
stars This is fastened on the wall
ana each guest is supplied with this
teen paper stars and as many pins or
thum0 tacks. The company is then
invited 10 take turns at pinning fbs
thirteen stars in the order in which
tney appeared on the first flag OF tba.
united states Not one person i'm =
hundred knows the correct ARRANGE
ment OF the original thirteen stare.
The prize for this contest might he
small picture OF Betsy Ross displavfns,
ner handiwork on the first flag Ia the
committee appointed to view her de~
sign This picture comes in a snalI
color reproduction. as we'll as in bIact-
ana white. tnexpensively framed ana
makes a pleasant souvenir OF the na-
tional holiday.
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-03

shape by the application Of cloths
dipped into hot water, or a warm iron
wrapped round with a clean cloth. The
object is to get crystal tub, hollow
In the center. to hold olives. 1t is set
In nest of fern leaves.
Cherry salad consists Of rich OK
heart cherries, stoned and served on
lettuce leaves, with delicate French
dressing.
When the hostess has house party
on her hands, whose members do not
incline toward athletic sports, 1t Is
well to have some game or guessing
contest TO suggest when interest in
fireworks wanes, especially If the af-
ternoon Is passed on a shaded porch.
Here are two games which will test
the patriotic knowledge OF the average
gathering and find 1t sadly wanting.
The hostess prepares typewriter
copies OF the preamble to the DecIara-
tion OF Independence, omitting every
fourth word, and the guests are asked
to fill In the blanks with the correct
words. This is the way the test is ar
ranged:
when in the - of human
events - becomes necessary fer -
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-03

7 Y Apply that hostess who, on the
Ii glorious Fourth, can boast a
porch. either in town or
country. II ever there is a
day when all the world and his
wife wants 10 so a-summering It is
Independence day; and never are
guests so easily pleased as then.
on her porch. therefore, the hostess
concentrates her energies and her pref
test things. From the front porch the
women folk viii watch the men renew
their youth in ball and tennis. In
secluded corner of the same porch the
table should be set forth, and again at
night the guests viii move TO the front
steps to watch the fireworks. The
hostess may, therefore, feel safe in
despoiling her living room of its easiest
chairs. softest cushions and prettiest
tea table, the latter for the punch
bowl and glasses.
Decorations OF crepe paper, paper
lanterns or bunting should be used on
the porch At the favor counters OF
the department. stores a bewildering
variety OF queer Chinese balls, fans and
rings strung together for garnishing