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The Signs Failed.

Phil Thompson was asked by some friends to see lady of the party home from the Waldorf. He had somehow failed to catch her name. He was, therefore, uncertain as to whether she was wife, widow or bachelor maid. However, reckless of consequences, he at length ventured upon this remark:
 q see," said he, "from the way you put on your cloak and attempt to catch step with me, instead of allowing me to catch step with you, that you are bachelor maid, and, consequently, Independent of the assistance of men,"
 "On the contrary" the lady replied, "you should at once recognize by these various signs and tokens that am a married woman, and one not long past the honeymoon with second husband at that"
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A Clock Which Strikes 13.

The Bridgewater Trust, England has unique possession in a clock at Worsley which strikes thirteen. The Duke of Bridgewater, who built the canals and founded the trust, main- tained a personal oversight over the works and his employees. He was much irritated by the unpunctuality with which the men came back to work after the midday dinner hour. The men pleaded in excuse that they did not hear the clock strike one-the signal for their return. Thereupon the Duke had clock constructed to strike thirteen at one o'clock, thus cutting away the possibility of excuse. The clock was set up in 17S9 and still strikes its bakers dozen at one p. m., though bell has long been used to summon the men back to work.
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A Question of Time.

On entering compartment of a main line train ticket-collector noticed a passenger who, affecting an air of fa- miliarity with him, said,-
 "Bill, I've forgot my pass. I'm working down the line, you know. It'll be all right"
 The collector looked suspicious, but said nothing. He was going away, when apparently an idea struck him. Turning to the passenger who had no ticket, he said,-
 "What's the right time? My watch has just stopped!"
 'Twenty minutes past five," was the reply.
 "Oh, it is, is it? Now, if you don't show me your pass or pay the fare I'll have you out. No railway man would say Twenty minutes past five;' he'd say 'Five-twentyv
 The passenger paid.
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Josh Billings Philosophy.

Nature haz turned out sum in- different jobs, but never turned one so indifferent that art could not duplikate it.
 The sovreighn mistake iz, that things are valued for what they hay cost, and not for what they are worth.
 Ingratltude iz wuss than hypokrasy.
 When two literary people git welded together the chances are that the fat iz going to git into the fire, or the fire iz going into the fat-one or tother.
 The hardest kontrakt that enny man ever undertook to i'll iz to be striktly honest.
 Mankind hay been failing for over 5 thousand years, and don't think they hay struck bottom yet.
 Trieing to interest very small au. dience with a comik lektur iz good deal like rieing to hit the two corner pins on c 10 pin alley with single ball.
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superstitions of India.

Mohammedans of India are very supersitious, according to the Montreal Herald. No Mohammedan will take a bath on Sunday or Tuesday. But if one bathes on Wednesday all misfortunes and misery that are in store for him till the next Wednesday will be avert ed. AS a rule all Mohammedans bathe on Fridays before going to perform the jumma prayers
 For donning new clothes, Saturday, Sunday and Tuesday are regarded as bad days. If any one dons new dress or puts on a new cloth or allows his tailor to cut piece of new cloth on these days he will live a miserable life till that dress or cloth gets torn or is thrown away. If shirt Is torn and if the wearer wants to stitch 1t, 1t must be taken off, for if 1t is stitched while it Is on the body the person will soon die. A Mohammedan will never allow barber to come near him on Tues days, for Tuesday and also Saturdays and Sundays are bad days for shaving purposes. If absolutely necessary he will get himself shaved on Saturday or Sunday, but never on Tuesday.
 If one receives money o, some valu- able thing 1t Is taken with the right hand, for if 1t is taken with the left the person receiving 1t Is said to forget all about 1t very soon or to mislay 1t. A devout Mohammedan will not start on a journey on Wednesday, for 1t is be- lieved he will never return home safely if he does so. And 1t is said that even snake never ventures out of It's hole on this day.
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sCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

All fish are deaf mutes.
 Korea is a mountainous country.
 Every town in Mexico has a public bath house.
 Port Arthur and Cincinnati are in the same latitude.
 Japan has written history extend ing over 2,5O0 years.
 Of the population of European Bus sia SC per cent are farmers.
 There are seventeen metals which are more valuable than gold.
 The center of the countrys cotton growing Is near Jackson, Miss.
 In Finland and East Turkestan thun- der storms are wholly unknown.
 The population of Russia, 12O,OOO.. 900, Is increasing 100000 annually.
 Germany buys abroad, annually, over $12,OOO,OOO worth of green fruit.
 A vessel drawing ten feet rises two inches in passing from fresh water to salt.
 A bushel of wheat, by actual count, has been found to contain 869,7 grains.
 Neither frogs nor snakes inhabit Alaska, but toads are frequently to be met with.
 Austria Hungary gives a subsidy of S1,624, 900 to the Austrian Lloyd Steam ship Company.
 The total number of available men capable of bearing arms In the United States is 10,S53,396.
 Japan has in school one in every nine of her pupils of school age; Rus- sia one in every forty.
 A deputy in the parliament of France receives S1,S00 Q year. free transportation and free lunch.
 An electrical bootblack, which is more rapid and effective than the street Arab Is in use in Chicago.
 German horse butchers will open Q restaurant in Berlin to educate the up- per class in the use of horse flesh.
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ROMANTIC STORY OF UTAH.
How the Pioneer Settlers of the West
 Started tho State.

How the Pioneer Settlers of the West
 Started the State.
 The migration of the first Mormons across the broad, unknown waste that lay between the Missouri River and the valley of the Great Salt Lake was an undertaking of extraordinary dar- ing, an expedition second, perhaps, to the coming of the pilgrim fathers, says John Mathews in Leslie's Weekly. Just as the pilgrims launched their ships upon terrible and unknown sea, these first pioneers of the West ventured into vast, strange land about which they knew little aside from the knowledge of the constant presence of hundred perils.
 The people of Utah were the first to establish themselves in the West. Ore gon. in 1S47, was disputed ground. California belonged to Mexico and the '49-ers, the first American pioneers of that State, did not traverse the prairie until two years later. and after Utah was settlement with several thou sand people. So that Utah was then the very borderland. It was there that the West took root.
 The leaders of the Mormons had de- cided upon the far distant West as the future home of their people. They had no more definite plan than that. They had read of the valley of the Great Salt Lake in the reports of Gen. eral John c. Fremont, the "pathand- er," who had seen the region in 1S48. They had heard, too, of Oregon, and they had considered Vancouver Isl- and. But not until the expedition was well on its way was the exact dest- nation definitely determined. There were three main bodies of emigrants who moved from the camp at winter quarters on the Missouri River to the valley beyond the Rockies. The first party numbered 14S, including three women and two children, and made it's journey in the spring of 1S47. with Brigham Young at It's head. Then fol- lowed in the summer of the same year the second body of pioneers, nearly 2,OO0 in all. among them many of the women and children of these first pill grims of the prairie. under the direc- tion of John Young, brother of the chief. Then Brigham Young returned to the Missouri and the following year guided to the new land all the remain der of his people, about 2,500 of them.
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THE FRAGILE GIRAFFE.

Hardest of All Animals to Bring Into
 Captivity.
 "There Is one order that never like to dll," saAd the old animal collector. "That order is one for a live giraffe Lions and gorillas and tigers and pythons are easy to catch as compared with giraffe. The long-legged, long, necked beast can see, smell and hear . hunter miles away. And when a herd smells danger, of 1t will dash.
 You can't catch a giraffe in pit fall. It would be certain to break It's legs or neck if 1t tumbled into a pit There Is no trap that would do. A trap powerful enough to hold the strong beast would crunch its delicate legs like pipe stems.
 "So there is only one way to catch giraffes alive, and mighty hard way 1t is. They must be surrounded by drivers and chased until they bring up, weary and helpless, in an enclos- ure made of netting and bamboo. That means a drive of many miles, lasting many days for 1t would never 6o to drive, them into the enclosure in the first rush of their terror. They would dash headlong into 1t and kill themselves
 ''This hunting is a terrible piece of business in itself. But after the giraffes are safely penned in the hard est work has only begun. That is to transport the beasts through 500 or more miles of primeval wilderness to the nearest seaport
 'Men have tried all kinds of ways to do this, even to driving the great hrutes. But that doesn't pay. The dsk of accident is too great.
 "I prefer the old-fashioned plan. to }en the animals in bamboo cage open Ut the top 30 that their shoulders and necks can stick out Then the cage is hshed to great bamboo poles, from 20 to 30 feet long. AS many natives as possible lift the four ends to their shoulders and of goes Mir. Giraffe on . free ride to the ocean.
 '"The giraffe's legs break very easily. This is the ever present danger all the way to the coast. But when port is reached, 1t becomes still more grave. for 1t is in bringing the animal aboard . ship and during the storms of @ voy. age that the collector may expect every moment that his precious property will sitp.
 And If it slips and goes down in its narrow quarters, it's good-by giraffe, for its legs haven't room enough in an ordinary stall on ship and are almost sure to double under 1t if 1t falls.
 Bringing the animal aboard is an undertaking in itself. When the steam winch begins to hoist the deep pen with the brute's helpless neck sticking out like mast, the collectors heart is In his mouth, for the giraffe's head may get tangled among the tackle of the ship or strike a spar, mast or shroud, and then there will be wild times"
 Oueof;Ou oP Tfmo
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She Decides for Him.

Jobberwok-Your friend Meekerton appears to be man of very decided views.
 Dinglebatz-Yes, did you ever meet his wife?
 Jobberwok-No, I believe not.
 inglebatz-Well, when you do you will understand why he has them.
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Another Call Necessary.

Rubring-Anything wrong at your house? I saw the doctor going in to- day.
 Everard Upp-Yes, and he'll have to come again.
 Rubring-That so? What was the matter?
 Everard Upp-I didn't have the money for last years bill.-Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-11-29
DOG HAD
HEART
DISEASE

"Riley," the little Fox Terrier pup,
which belonged to Cap Mitchell, the
nightwatehman at the Salem Touring
mills, is no more, and deep dark mys-
terry shrouds his death. The little fell
low, who was a great favorite with all
the mill hands, was playing near the
mill yesterday, when one of the EN-.
plOyes called him, and, agging his tail,
he started to answer the call, when he
suddenly fell over, and with one kick
expired. 1t was thought that he was
poisoned at tirst, but on examination il
was seen that could not have been the
case, and as he had no bruises on him
it was to be seen that he had not been
mistreated by onyone, and the only ex.
planation that can be derived is that he
died from heart failure.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-11-29

The bureau of forestry, at its new
experiment stations in Wisconsin and
Michigan, will have seasoning tests OF
cedar and tamarack telephone and tel
egraph poles which have been sub
merged in water for varying lengths
Of time. This is an entirely new line
of experiment. That immersion in
water seems TO affect the rate of sea
soning has often been noticed. Raft
ing is said by many lumbermen to i'm
prove timber, and logs which have lain
for a long time in swamps are in some
places eagerly sought for their superior
ity for certain uses But just why this
should be true, and what practical use
can be made of the fact in seasoning
generally, are matters which have new
er been thoroughly ascertained.
1t is known that the sap of green
wood contains certain soluble sub
stances-albumen, starch, sugar, tan
min, etc.-which undoubtedly are
leached out of timber immersed in
water to greater or less extent. In
ordinary seasoning these substances are
left behind as the water evaporates
and are deposited on the cell walls AS
seasoning begins on the outside these
deposits must act as clogs which vir-
tually bottle up to certain degree
the water in the interior. 1t is possi
BILE also that chemical or physical
changes in the wood cells are produced
by soaking.
Timber seasoning is at best tedious
and slow work. II can be done fairly
well in ten or twelve months, but thor
ough seasoning requires from Is to "a
the time varying with the diff
ferent kinds of wood. If the bureau
of forestry realizes its expectations
from thcese new experiments, the time
required for seasoning poles will be re-
duced one-third, and possibly much
more. This would prove an exceeding
ly valuable economy. If, in addition,
the durability of the poles can be in
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-11-29

The young man referred to in this pa
per yesterday as masher, and having
trouble in prune packing house with
some of the girls employed there asks a
correction of the statements made in
the article about him. He says it grew
out of the Portland girls imposing an
his good nature, by jamming prunes
down the back of his neck, and rubbing
prune juice on his neck and face when
he was attending to his own business,
and was merely calling to see some 9th
er girl friend there. He retaliated on
one of his tormenters, and her two sis
ters joined in an attack that ended in
his getting the better Of them and all
landed in heap over pile Of boxes in
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-11-29
WITH
SEASONING TIMBER

lcreased in this way, the saving both
to users of poles and to the cause OF
forest preservation will be enormous
For every year added to the service OF
poles cuts off a proportionate demand
upon the forests for their renewal.
In these new tests the poles will be
submerged in water for different peri.
DDS, from one week up, to decide what
length of time will give the best re.
suits. They will then be placed on
skids about two feet above the ground
and left to dry. They will touch each
other, but will be laid only one layer
deep. At the expiration of every 30
days each pole will be weighed, and
also measured to ascertain any shrink
age of it's circumference. Unsoaked
poles have furnished a circumference
shrinkage of one-sixteenth to one
eighth inch in 80 days, and of one
fourth inch in six months.
An important matter in seasoning is
the loss in weight. Past experiments
with white cedar poles have shown a
loss in weight of about one-third after
go days of drying. In the case of
chestnut poles the same length of time
showed 10 per cent. loss. These poles
are long and very heavy, and such a
large weight reduction means a decid-
ed saving in freight charges, and in
creased ease in handling. But this
advantage though important, is small
in comparison with the gain in length
ened service. Further, with great re-
sistance to decay it will be possible to
lower the present butt diameter re-
quirement, which is now based on the
certainty that rot will soon weaken
the power of the pole to withstand
strain at the surface of the ground.
Altogether, if the soaking process full
fills what it seems to promise, it will
have a notable bearing on one of the
large branches of timber consumption,
as a moment IS thought of the number
of poles in use in the entire country
will show.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-11-29
YOUNG MAN NOT eB
ON MASH ORDER

the packing house. A man claiming to
be the boss, interfered and ordered
him out of the house, and he went. On
the occasion Of another visit one of the
Portland girls slipped a rope around his
leg, by crawling under the table where
he was standing talking, and they all
proceeded to literally pull his leg, and
he only saved himself by cutting the
rope with his sharp jackknife. The
Journal is disposed to give the young
man fair show, and says he is not a
masher, but member of a respectable
family. He has probably learned a les
son to not hang around place where
there is lot of Portland girls working,
who are naturally jealous of any atten-
tions showered on Salem girls.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-11-29
Sure Cure for Piles.

Itching piles produce moisture and
cause itching, this form, as we'll as
Bling, Bleeding or Protruding Piles
are cured by DR.. Bo-san-ko's Pile
Remedy Stops itching and bleeding.
Absorbs tumors. zoe a jar at drug
gist, or sent by mail. Treaties free.
Write me about your case. DR.. Bo-
sanko. Phila.. Pa.
Fore sale by DR. S. G Stone, druggist.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-11-29
MISSOURI FARMERS
WANT TO SECEDE

farmers near Hornersville, who plumply
stated that since Missouri had gone Re,
publican respectable men could not
acknowledge citizenship in the state
without shame, and asking that the
legislature enact such laws as would
allow the county to transfer all allie
glance to Arkansas.
A similar petition has been started in
Pemiseot county, and the two counties,
it is said, will make a joint move for
transfer
In 1900 the vote Of Dunkin county
for Bryan was 27l1, and for Mckinley
considerably less than half that num-
Der. This time the county cast only 1928
votes for Parker and 995 for Roosevelt.
In 1900 there were only II votes in
Pemiscot county for Mckinley.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-11-29

Governor Chamberlain recently re
Seived information that the original
muster rolls Of the Oregon Mounted
Volunteers of 1855 and 1856 were in
che possession Of A. s. Gross, manager
of the General Investment Company, of
Seattle, and wrote for information re-
garding them, and today received reply
from Mr. Gross, sending the original
rolls for the governor to copy, and stat
Sng that he hoped they will aid the
veterans to collect what is justly due
them. The rolls of the following com
panies were sent in the package:
Company A, recruiting battalion, LIST
regiment, o. M. ", Captain E. J. Hard
ing. From January 25 to May 8, 1856.
Company d, recruiting battalion, 1st
regiment, o. M. ", Captain John H.
Sittle. From February l, to May 26,
1856.
Company II, 1st regiment, o. M. ",
Captain David Sayton. From October
81, 1855 to May Is, 1856. Mustered in
at Portland.
Company A, 1st regiment, o. M. ",
Captain Alfred v. Wilson. From 0c-
fOber 13, 1855 to May, 1856.
Company +, 1st regiment, o. M. ",
Captain Charles Bennett. From Octob-
er 10, 1855, to March Q, 1856.
Company G., 1st regiment, o. M. w.
Captain Benjamin Hayden. From Oc-
e~ber %, 1855, to February 1s, 1856.
Mustered in at Portland.
Company X, 1st regiment, o. M. ",
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-11-29
LIKES
EASY
MONEY

San Francisco, Nov. 90 Betting is
10 to 4 on Young Corbett, and an inn
monse amount of So and $40 bets are
going on Nelson. There is more money
up than on any fight since Young Cor
bett and Britt met. Both men will
make the weight. Nelson, on his arrival
in the city this afternoon, said; 81 will
win by knockout after Corbett is tired
out. am glad to hear of the latest
odds, because it chance for me to
make some easy money"
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-11-29
ORIGINAL MUSTER
ROLLS OF VOLUNTEERS

Captain N, A. Cornoyer. From Octob
err 30, 1855, TO May 81, 1856.
Company D, I'd regiment, o. M ".
Captains James Bruce, E. A. Rice and
John s. Mittens. From November 10,
1855 to May IS, 1856.
Company B, I'd regiment, o. M. ",
Captain Pleasant G. Noland. From Oc-
tober 23, 1855, to July 10, 1856.
Company G. recruiting battalion, LIST
regiment, o. M. ", captain A. P. An
keny. From January 20, to May 10,
1856.
Company B, 1st regiment, o. M. ",
Captain John T. Jeffreys. From Octob-
er 10, 1855 to Juno /, 1856.
Company G, 1st regiment, o. M. ",
Captain James X. Kelly. From octob-
er 10, 1855, to February 10, 1856.
Captain f, recruiting battalion, 1st
regiment, o. NJ. ", Captain William A.
Carson, February 25, to June 10, 1856.
Company d, 1st regiment, o. M. ",
Captain Thomas r. Cornelius. From Oc
tober H. 1855, to May 5, 1856.
Company E. LIST regiment, o. M. ",
Captain A. j. Hembreg, October 10, to
May Z, 1856
Company c, I'd regiment, o. M. ",
Captain Jonathan Keeney. From Octob-
er "a, 1855, to February 12, 1856.
Among the other muster rolls was
also the roll of Company X, of the I'd
regiment of Washington Territory Vol
nnteers, Captain F. M. P. Goff. From
May 81 to July 81, 1856.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-11-29
Not a Sick Day since.

"I was taken severely sick with
kidney trouble. l tried all sorts of
medicines, none of which relieved me,
One day saw an ad Of your Electric
Bitters and determined to try that.
After taking few doses 1 felt re-
lieved, and soon thereafter was en-
tirely cured, and have not seen a sick
day since. Neighbors of mine have
been cured of Rheumatism, Neuralgia,
Liver and Kidney troubles and General
Debility" This is what b. f. Bass,
of Fremont, N. c., writes, Only 50e
at J. G. Perry's drug store.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-11-29
pisastrous Wrecks.

Carelessness is responsible for many
railway wreck, and the same causes
are making human wrecks of sufferers
from Throat and Lung troubles. But
since the advent of DR.. Kings New
Discovery for Consumption, Coughs
and Colds, even the worst cases can
be cured, and hopeless resignation is
no longer necessary. Mrs. Lois Cragg,
of Dorchester, Mass, is one of many
whose life was saved by DR.. King IS
New Discovery. This great remedy is
guaranteed for all Throat and Lung
diseases by J. c. Perry, druggist, Price
soc and 81. Trial bottles free.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-11-29

A st. Louis dispatch says:
Farmers Of Dunkin county, which lies
on the southern border Of the state,
have just heard that this state has
gone Republican.
The shock stunned them for a day,
dbut on recovery from their daze they
at once began to take indignant action.
Secession is the only remedy they can
see for the disgrace of belonging to a
Republican state, so they have started
a petition to the legislature allowing
Dunkin county to be annexed to Ar
kansas, state which they fondly hope
is in no danger of being captured by
the hosts of Republicans.
The work was begun by James Crab
troe, Joe Turner and s. p. Williams,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-11-29
Buggy Comforts.

These cold days of approaching win.
ter, persons who drive want the great.
est possible amount Of comfort On their
trips. To supply this need the Mitch
ell, Lewis 4 stavSr Company, have put
ia the most elegant line ever brought
to Salem Of wOOleR lap robes Can
and look over the immense supply. and
you win be satisfied.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-11-29

colleges and universities for 100000
of persons. suppose that in the year
1850 there graduated 100 young men
with the first degree from the 3,000,-
900 persons. Doctor Harris has fav-
ored me with report of last year from
which it appears that $4,000 persons
graduated in 463 colleges; that is to
say, we now have ll6 Colleges where
we then had one, and we now have $50
graduates annually, whore we then had
one"