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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-09-03

ing positions on the subway system
and refused to listen to the protests of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engin-
GERS. The employees felt very indig-
lnant and held a meeting in which they
decided to go out in a body, unless the
company should adhere to its promise.
The trouble has been patched up tenn
porarily, but it is by no means perma-
nently settled and the danger of a
strike is by no means entirely elimin-
ated.
The ~gubernatorial problem seems as
far from its solution as it was a month
ago. Nobody seems to worry p%articu-
larly over the question who the Demo
cratic candidate will be, but the ques-
tion whom the Republicans win nomi.
nate Tor the governorship, seems to
trouble the minds Of the politicians a
fgreat deal. Ex-Secretary Root, who
would undoubtedly be the strongest
candidate, does not want the nomina-
ton and has expressed himself on that
point in most unequivocal terms. For
a while the Root boom was in a state
of collapse and a great deal was said
and written about some Ozark horse.' -
which Governor Odell was supposed to
have ready. Quite recently, however,
the talk about Roots possible candi-
dacy has been resumed and it is not
believed impossible that the ex-secre-
tary may change his mind and accept
the nomination for the sake of saving
the national ticket. 1t is generally be-
lieved that the most powerful pressure
is being exerted to induce Mr.. Root to
reconsider his determination not to
accept the nomination, even if the con
v%ention should select him against his
clearly expressed wishes.
The New York end of the strike of
the butchers and other packing house
employees is practically at an end. The
strikers were ingloriously beaten and
the conditions in the local packing
houses are again nearly normal, with
the difference hat the establishments
are no longer unionized. The packers
had but little difficulty in securing all
the men they needed to fill the places
of the strikers and now the latter are
shut out. Naturally, they are very
bitter and indignant, but that does
not affect the situation in the least,
The packers may re-employ some of
the strikers, but only when there are
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-09-03

and impudent manner, the chamber
maids and other faithful vassals of
the psuedo queen demanded her rein.
statement and went on n strike when
the manager refused to comply with
their demand. Then the trouble be-
gan. Practically the entire house
employees quit work and only the office
staff remained to look after the numer.
Gus guests. Clerks, bookkeepers and
stenographers came to the rescue and
prepared enough food to keep the
guests from starving. At first there
was considerable trouble, but when the
guests fully grasped the situation,
they bravely submitted TO the temper
airy Inconvenience and assisted the
Office force by relieving them of part
Of the work of cleaning and tidying
the rooms.
There is great disappointment among
the feminine patrons of the subway
tavern, who were in the habit of drop
ping in and refreshing themselves with
beer at the soda water fountain. No
more beer will be sold at the fountain.
A new room for beer loving women
will be opened, but only women es-
corted by men will be permitted there.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-09-03

Il
vacancies and only if the men are
good workmen. The packers will alb.
solutely decline to deal with the union
and win recognize the men only as in.
dividuals. (,
When the trouble between the mem.
bers of the allied building trades and
the builders and contractors broke out
some time ago, it was feared that the
strike or lockout would seriously in
terfere with the completion of the
sixty-fve new school buildings either
planned or already in course OF con.
struction. Fortunately a compromise
was reached in regard to the work on
school houses and assurance has been
given that enough schools to provide
for $1,000 children will be ready for
occupancy at the beginning of the
school year next month and that the
others, which win provide for over
100,0 600 more, will be completed next
year.
The steamship Minnesota, which was
built by the Eastern Shipbuilding Com
pany, of New London, Conn, for the
Great Northern Steamship Company,
and will be used in the trans-Pacife
trade, arrived here the other day on
its first trip. The steamer, which is
the largest American built ship in the
world, will 60 to Norfolk, to take in
coal and will then start on its way
around Cape Horn to San Francisco.
The steamer is of enormous proper
lions, and compared with it the large
coast line steamers look like pygmies.
Wall street is quite worked up over
the fact that Russell Sage, the poor
man of millions, the cherries apostle
of strenuous work and bitter opponent
to recreation, has taken a vacation.
For the first time in his life Mr.. Sage,
although apparently in normal health,
has torn himself away from the at.
tractive occupation of increasing his
wealth ana is enjoying or is supposed
to be enjoying a spell of rest at Sag
Harbor. What Wall street would ike
to know is, who is paying for Mr.. Rus
sells vacation2 OF course, everybody
knows that Mr.. Sage could not afford
to go on a vacation at his own expense
and it puzzles the street to know who
is paying the piper.
The Martha Washington Hotel, an
institution exclusively patronized by
women, was the scene of a highly
amusing strike the other day. When
the housekeeper of the hotel, who
seemed to labor under the e~rroneou
impression that she owned the hotel,
was discharged by the manager, be-
cause she acted in the most arbitrary
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-09-03
Do Il .oday.

The timeworn injunction, Never
put OF till tomorrow what you can
do today" is now generally present
ed in this form: do it today!" That
Is the terse advise we want to give
you about that hacking cough or de-
moralizing cold with which you have
been struggling for several days, per
haPs weeks. Take some reliable rene
dy for it ToDAY-and let that remedy
be DR.. Boschee's German Syrup, which
has been in use for over t~hirty-ive
years. A few doses of it will undoubt.
eddy relieve your cough or cold, and
Its continued use for a few days will
cure you completely. No matter how
deep-seated your cough, even II dread
consumption has attacked your lungs,
German Syrup will surely effect a
cure-as it has done before in thou.
sands Of apparently hopeless cases OF
lung trouble. New trial bottles, Csc;
regular size, 75c. At all druggists
At DR.. Stones drug stores.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-09-03
EW YORK NEWS LETTER

York, Sept. 3.-The strike mi
ot hre on a rampage in this city
air is full of them. Nearly
day there is either some new
itt with or without p%rovocation,
ellF without, or there are at least
nH4 of impending strikes. Not
Npneh that there are probably fifty
NIy thousand men idle in the
: lNg trades, about thirty thousand
tAe garment manufacturing trade
q several thousand more in the meat
lcking trade, new strikes are threat
{ aed, which would involve from FIVE to
thousand more.
h There may be some merit in some
h rikes, but others and the latter seem
ha be in the majority, are really with
M sniicient excuse. One of the most
AZ grant examples is the strike which
"a E epployes of the New York Elevat-
roads threaten to inaugurate when
aVbway is opened to the public.
n me- Wen nave no grievance in partic-
" b md demand neither shorter hours
nIpre pay; and yet they threaten
~ftb general strike. The reasons
-|hsc1 prompt the men are decidedly
Iftpiihr. There was a time when the
hotirk power of the elevated roads
fse Team, The engineers formed a
nion which became a branch of the
brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.
IAftes b while the motive power was
fchnnned to electricity. To pacify the
~enQin6ers, who rebelled against the in.
novaiion, which threatened to drive
them but Of their positions, the com.
pany Promised to give the former en-.
nQinoe.S, who became motormen, that,
= . t''ing the new positions, they would
h6 wen the first chance and prefer.
hft4 The change was effected with.
ont Houble. Now, it seems, that many
tAe motormen were anxious to get
posi- pms on the subway system, not
lRose the hours are shorter or the
better, but merely for a change.
thing was said or done, until the
Borough Company began to en-
motormen for the subway sys-
Then the trouble began. The
ormen insisted that the company
made the promise to give its EN-
res on the elevated system the pref
nce, but had violated that promise.
company denied that such a prom
had been made in reference to fill
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1904-07-14

In the Jewish Encyclopedia is an ac-
count Of the queer ceremony of the
taking Off a brother-in-law's shoe by
the widow Of brother who has died
childlcss, through which ceremony he
is released from the obligation of mar
rying her. The ceremony is described
as follows:
The yabam (brother-in-law) must
have his right foot, on which the shoe
is placed, washed very scrupulously,
and after he has strapped it on he
must walk four cubits in the presence
Of the Judges Then the chief Of the
Judges reads the following passage,
which the yabamah (woman) repeats
word for word: MY brother-in-law re-
fuses to raise unto his brother n name
I'm Israel; he will not marry me" Then
the yabam is required to repeat the
sentence. Il do not wish to take her.
He then presses his right foot against
the floor while she looScs the straps
with her right hand, takes off the shoe
and throws II some distance away.
Then she places herself in front of tho
vabam. SpitS on the floor in front of
him and repeats these words after the
presiding Judge: 80 shall 1t be done
unto that man who will not build up
his brothers house, and his name shall
Toe called In Israel the house of him
that hath his shoe loosed.' "
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1904-07-14
His Reward.

Tie train was snow bound twenty
miles from the nearest station, and the
passengers, with one exception, found
the waiting weary. The exception, a
stolid Scandinavian, drew from his
valise n squeaky accordion, from which
he extracted such melancholy strains
that the passengers were moved not
to tears, but to wrath. When the con-
cert had lasted half an hour, one of
the listeners rose, quietly helped him
self to the musicians hat and pro
ceeded to take up a collection.
He proved such q persistent beggar
that before long the hat sagged with
It's burden of nickels and dimes. The
player, inspired by the rattle of coin,
played with renewed vigor.
As the man with the hat approached
him, the interested passengers craned
their neCks TO see the presentation
but there was no presentation. In
stead, the man who had passed the hat
calmly slowed the collection away In
his own trousers pocket, tossed the
empty hat to the Scandinavian and
gravely returned to his novel.
"Vellw exclaimed the astonished mu-
sician. "Who vas dot money forT'
For me-" said the man. ~ guess
deserve some reward for having to sit
next to music like that"
Even the Scandinavian Joined in the
laugh that followed, and little later
he got the money-on condition that
be should not play any more.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1904-07-14

Isabel f. Hapgood, the translator of
many of Tolstois books, once visited
the great Russian, and during her Wis
It he told her a story of one of his an
cestors. This ancestor, an army OIL
Ger, was an excellent mimic. One day
he was impersonatng the Emperor
Paul to a group Of his friends when
Paul himself entered and for some
moments looked on, unperceiyed, at
the antics of the young man. Tolstoi
finally turned and, beholding the en-
peror, bowed his head and was silent.
go on, sir" said Paul. Continue
the performance"
The young man hesitated a moment,
and then, folding his arms and imitat-
ing every gesture and intonation Of his
sovereign, he said:
''Tolstoi, you deserve to be degraded,
but | remember the thoughtlessness of
youth, and you are pardoned."
The czar smiled slightly at this
speech.
"Well, be it So" he said.-CleveIand
Plain Dealer.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1904-07-14
Asking Questions In Japan.

If you are travelling in Japan it may
be that you are seeking Information
and make an apology for asking for it.
The rctort is a sharp rcproof that one
is slow to forget "IIar is the reply.
You know to ask Il question is the
shame of a moment and not to ask Is
the shame of a whole lifetime" The
Jap enjoys answering questions, but he
has a habit all his own of remodeling
and tampering with his reply and then
of making it prOverbal.
For instance, | once asked a gentle
man If Philadelphia made locomotive
was intended for Il certain railroad.
He answered by telling me that tka
engine was made in Philadelphia, that
1t was brought over on such and such
n steamer, that its gauge was so many
inches and that the gauge of the road
was the same. Then he added, 1T
will be like cat locked in a cellar
In fine, all this verbosity signified the
affirmative. Instead of saying Yes"
the man delighted in the circumlocu-
tion.-New York Globe.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1904-07-14
SbOpUGMg In Japan.

japanese CcrcmOnIOuSncSS makes IL
serious matter going to japanese shop
unless you are going to buy silk hand
kerchiefs-the only things foreigners
buy often enough to spoil the manners
of the shopkecpcr. You get out Of your
rickshaw, and the rickshaw boy ex-
plains your high and mightiness. Then
nil the attendants in the shop salaam till
you wish they would get up and let
you catch their eye and explain what
you want When they do get up the
Japanese equivalent of the shOpwalker
and three or four counter jumpers in
rotation ask you to repeat your order
while they offer you five cups Of tea.
1t is japanese tea, and there is no milk
or sugar, but you can have salted cher
ry blossoms if You want if 1t is a good
shop. This is the Japanese way of of
fcring the customer a drink. Good
japanese shops contain nothing except
the attendants. When you have got
as far as explaining what you want
the proprietor gives orders to attend
ants. of they 20 at a run good sery-
ants always run-and bring back the
goods tied up i'm faded green silk hand
kerchi2fS or Green cotton cloths.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1904-07-14

fore reaching the hospital, and ter
rife rumbling sound greeted their ears
mingled with shouts and screams. II
was all over in Il second-the runaWays
attached to the heavy dray dashed
straight into the ambulance. The
driver hurtled through the air. Dr..
james felt a blow somewhere, there
was an instant OF blankness, then he
realized that he was stumbling blindly
toward the sidewalk with that death
Ike figure in his arms and something
very hot trickling, trickling into his
eyes.
1t was two days before 1t all came
back to him, clear and suffocating as
an awfu, nightmare. He clutched the
nurses hand.
"Whrro is sheT
Who
Maud Miss Alien
"Oh, maybe you mean the girl you
snatchcd out Of the ambulance just in
time She's coming round, | guess,
though she had q dreadful prostra-
ton"
Il must see her at once" he said In
his old. pcrcmptory fashion.
The nurse laughed We'll, Just wait
until you can raise your head from the
pillow. You VIII get n medal or hon
orablc mention for that work, DR..
james. You are quite the hero OF the
hospital"
Il want something more than med
ais" said the young doctor grimly.
Then, while the nurse wondered, he
fell asleep.
1t was two days more before he
could be pulled into Mauds room. and
very white and i'll he looked, propped
NJ in his invalid chair. But they set
tied the matter then and there, for
Maud told lin how she had wanted
to wait. merely to see that he had not
inherited his fathers weakness and
lack of ambition, and how when her
father had died suddenly, leaving his
affairs badly entangled, she had left all
for the creditors and come to the big
city to lose herself in the one line of
work for which she felt fitted.
And when Billy heard about 1t all
he said if his broken leg mended in
time he proposed to be best man, be-
cause he'd carried the young surgeon
to his ladylove. if she was half dead
one
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1904-07-14

Poe loved Richmond as he loved no
other place on earth. His happy child
hood was spent there-the only period
Of his troubled life which was free
from want Here he found his foster
father, John Allan. who was proud Of
the orphan boy, and the only mother
lie ever knew, who was sweet and gen
tie with him TO the end. Here were
the friends and playmates of his boy
hood. and here lived the gentle wO-
man who was the Helen of the most
beautiful of his early poems. Here
after a first ceremony in Baltimore, he
was married by a second to the lovely
anl youthful Virginia Clemm, and
here they spent the happiest year or
& cir married life Here, as editor or
tie Southern Literary Messenger he
did much Of his best work.-Charles
Marshall Graves in Century.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1904-07-14
pnIann In Walls.

"As much as 46 per cent of organic
matter has been found in plaster taken
from the walls Of a hospital ward In
Paris" Statistics tell us that it is not
uncommon to find air in public assem-
bly, rooms and even in dwellings con-
tanning from ten to fifteen times the
amount of carbonic acid found in pure
air OF this gas Tomlinson says: 1T
acts as a poison. If we attempt to
inhale it by putting the face over the
edge of a beer vat the nostrils and
throat are irritated so strongly that
the CLOTHS closes and inspiration be-
comes impossible" One need remain
but half an hour In an unventilated
room to have inhaled 600 times the
foul and poisonous fluid; the blood
will have carried 1t to every part Of
the body, and the entire system will
have become turated.-EXchange
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1904-07-14
The Legend of ST. Denis.

st. Denis was u wanderer in the
w1lds of the Thessalonian forests for
the space Of seven years. The strange
foods that he ate and the constant
companionshtp Of nothing but beasts
and birds had a startling effect. His
fingers grew claws, and his hair be-
came as the fine feathers Of an eagles
neck and breast. Finally, when near
ly heartbrOken by the changes that his
wild life was making In body and
mind, he wandered over to fine look
ing mulberry tree and ate heartily Of
the fruit. The tree was enchanted
and partaking of its fruit brought a
change more terrible than all his other
transformations lost every sem
blance to u man, instantly changing
his shape and likeness to those of a
deer. He lay down under a tree and
bemOaned his fate in these words: "I
was of late man, but now a horned
beast; | was soldier, but now a prey
for dogs. My bed of down I must
exchange for moss, and musick for
hewleing windes" While thus lament
ing his fate the tree spoke to him in
words Of cheer, informing him that in
seven years he would be a man again,
which" the account says, did truly
come to pass"
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1904-07-14
Professional styenrer.

A man lcarcd from a car in the ele-
vatcd station. ram at the swinging
doors and bUjtcl them open with his
suit ease and tore doun through the
passenger shoot into the Union depot.
He took the stairway In a few jumps,
nearly knocked down several men as
he rushed through the waiting room
ana reached the platform in time to see
the rear end of his train disappearing
around the curve ut Bluff street Then
he halted, the suit case dropped to the
floor, he took off his hat, wiped his
forehead and began to swear loudly.
Just then one of the depot passen-
ger directors stepped up to him and
said.
I'VE have a man to do that, sir"
"To do what?"
ITO do the swearing for people who
miss trains There's so much Of it to
do here that we've hired an old switch
man to do the swearing for 'em all"
The man looked for minute as if he
would fight But he said nothing. lie
quietly picked up his suit case and
walked back into the depot.-Kansas
City Journal.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1904-07-14
On the Hot
Waves Crest
BY A. s. RICHARDSON
Copyright, 1908 by T. c. Mcclure
BY A. s. RICHARDSON

Young DR.. james tightcned up his
belt with scowl as he heard the am
bulance gong sound The little tents
which dotted the grounds of the nos
pital were already filled with victims
of the heat His own head wh!rled'
and his pulse throbbed violently, and
there were four hours Of relentless
sunlight stiI before the scorchtn@ city.
The electric ambulance rolled light
" and noisclcssly under the porte
cochere of the great hospital a-H8 then,
with its clang Of warning, Threaded
its way between cars, trucks and de-
livery wagons. People eyed it with
curiosity not unmiXed with awe.
There was no telling whose turn
would come next. And, unmindful Of
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1904-07-14
French housekeeping.

A French cook turns any and every
thing to advantage, and many Gull
nary chef dpuvre is the result of care
and skill rather than rare or costly In
gradients With just a pinch of sa-
worry herbs and n clear fire a cook will
turn shreds of cold meat into delicious
" appetiZing morsels, gastronomic dis
crimination on the part of her patrons
keeping up the standard of excellence.
If | were asked to point out the lead
ing characteristic of the French mind
| should unhesltatingly say that 1t Is
the critical faculty, and to this faculty
we owe not only the unrivaled French
cuisine, but pleasures of the table gen
orally. Here is one instance in point:
One quite ripe melon to the uninitiated
tastes very much like another, but a
French country gentleman knows bet
ter. Whenever melon of superlative
flavor is served he orders the seeds
to be set aside for planting. Thus the
superlative kind is propagated. The
critical faculty Is ever alert in France,
warning with mediocrity and incom-
pleteness.-Cornh Magazine.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1904-07-14
Practical Economy.

A man whose impecuniOus condition
Is chronic and who Lorr0ws with the
airy grace Of beau in an old comedy
recently approached an acquaintance,
all smiles and ecniulity.
You're just the fellow | wanted to
see" he said. Gould you lend me S.
for minute"
81 could" said the acquaintance dry
ly. but let me tell you how to save
that So. Wait minute and you won't
need IT"
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1904-07-14

An Oregon newspaper man says he
was once travelling in the back country
of Oregon, and, going to little inn
for lodging, was surprised to see n
large picture Of Dr. Edward Everett
Hale on the wall. The woman Of the
house explained it thus: well, you
see, good many strangers come here
and want me to keep 'cm, and l don't
know anything about 'em, but if they
know Edward Everett Hale's picture
| know they're good for something,
and let 'em stay"
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1904-07-14
Fathers Reward.

"Why don't you go to work and earn
money as I did at your age"
MY dear father" said the cOmpla-
cent youth, "if l were to 90 ahead and
work, what would be the use of your
having done so|-Washington Star.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1904-07-14
lust n Hint.

Mr.. Sloman-Its so strange that we
have no national flower. We certainly
should have one. Miss Waite (signiti-
cantly)-Yes; l think the orange bios
som would be nice.-Philadelphi
Press
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1904-07-14

The seas of Japan, Okhotsk and
Bering contain 133 distinct species Of
fish.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1904-07-14
ELECTION NOTICE

Resolution such behalf passed by the Town Council OIL
Borough qualified electors OF
required at their
the holding municipal elections IN
Words Of the said Iorough OF Danvlle on
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1904-07-14

Weekdays. Daily. Flag station.
Pullman ParlOr and Sleeping Cars run on
through trains between SGchury, WillamspOrt
and Erie. between Sunbury an1 Philadelphia
and Washington and between Harrisburg, PITTS
burg and the West.
For further information apply to Ticket Agents
NJ w ATTFRBITRY j. X. WOOD
Geu'l Manager. Pass. lraiilc Mgr
GRO. w. Boy, Gen'l Passenger Agent