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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-01-05
Against Bitulithic.

I quote the following from the Ore
goninn's report of the proceedings of
the Portland Taxpayers league held
Saturday evening;
"'The report Of the street committee
was the principal theme Of interest.
This committee, consisting of Leo
Friede, l.. N. Teal, Thomas Scott
Brooke, ROderiek l., Maeleay and A.
j. Giesy, discussed in the report street
paving, and went on record as against
the new 'bitulithic' after AN investiga.
tiOn Of this paving in Tacoma and
other cities
"The report states that though the
pavement might be considered suitable
for a speedway or boulevard, it would
hardly be serviceable for a street over
which there is much heavy traffic"
Cannot a trail Of maeadam be made
upon n portion Of some Of our streetsG
ABUTTER.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-01-05

land. He does not approve of what
this p says about it, but most of
all he seems to disapprove Of having
anything good or kind said Of Binger
Hermann or Senator Mitchell.
The Journal has said that if these
men are guilty they shopld be punished
to the fullest extent of the law, but
it has not pronounced them guilty, and
does not propose to do so until they
are convicted. In fact, it has sympa'
thy for these men as it always has for
the under dog or anyone in trouble.
Even if Editor Geens name should be
connected with land frauds, it would
be willing to see him have a chance for
his life and honor. In fact, it would
sympathize with him if he were sued
or arrested, just as it does with others.
1t VIII sympathize with him when his
time comes, even if he does object to
everything Of the sort and this paper
would ever 90 so far as to hope in adj
vance that his turn may never come.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-01-05

are now frame structures, and cost an
immense sum for insurance, and if they
ever start to burn with the children in
them it will be almost impossible to get
them all out.
These frame buildings with large
rooms cannot be constructed SO that
they will not settle and draw apart on
the roof, and require constant repair
ing.
They rot on the side exposed to the
rain, and require painting every few
years, and new roofs once in ten years.
A first-class plain brick building will
not cost as much as a wooden one,
with the usual noun of ornamental
and flagree work that is put on school
houses.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-01-05
The diamond Cure.

The latest news from Paris is that
they have discovered a diamond cure
for consumption. IL you fear con
sumption or pneumonia, II will, how
ever, be best for you 20 take that
great remedy mentioned by w. T. Me.
Gee Of VanleeE Tenn. 81 had a cough
for "a years Nothing helped me until
I took DR.. Kings New Discovery for
Consumption, Coughs and Colds which
gave instant relief and effected a per
manent enE&'' Uneqaalled quick cure
Tor Throat aud Lang Tr0ubleA AZ J.
O PerEy's drug store Price 500 and
q, guaranteed Trial bottle FREE
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-01-05


gJohn White Chadwick, in the January
Atlantic.)
asTake what you can, sirs" (thus the
story runs),
Said a poor scholar, who for dearest
book
Had loved his Virgil; and the
wretcbes took
The book away from him, and thought
his suns
hight was put out. But he had
baked their rage,
learning by heart the Mantuan's
lofty rhyme,
SO, igainst all spite of theirs or en-
vious time,
Holding it safe-a hawless heritage.
SO, dearest, since Il have you in my
heart,
Like that poor scholar I those pow
ers defy
Which threat to rob me: You may
live or die,
Bnt nevermore from me shall you de-
part.
4 have you safe; "Take what you
can" I say;
~4Here she abides, and will abide
Away"
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-01-05
METHODS or THE KNocKER.

The Salem newspapers are besieged
with anonymous correspondents who
oppose and belittle the proposed btu
aithie street pavement.
These articles emanate from an in
terested source that should be made
clear TO the public and it would have
no influence.
On an important public matter, where
a newspaper has to take "A stand, II is
unfair for the anonymous knocker to
HSAo himself.
Probably this same man who does
sahe anonymous knocking is telling the
committee Of his fellow citizens that
ne wants paving.
But read the anonymous howl of the
perennial and everlasting knocker;
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-01-05
X-RAYS

He follows easiest who follows last
Pomposity is the teammate of vanity
Cowardice is a son-of. gun that car.
ries a pistol.
Trouble is the fruit that is put up in
the family jar.
The frankfurter is the symbol of
mans faith in man.
Presence of mind is the J%ohnny-on-
the spot of emergency.
Some men are so given to lying that
they lie still after death.
The pocketbook frequently gets
"thirty' in going after 'seven-elev-
en-
The election of city officers by the
aldermen went "according to pro-
gram"
Some men are candid just because it
would take up too much of their time
to dissemble.
Is it fair for those who oppose any
kind of paving to oppose one kind by
seeming to prefer anotherH
Marion county will not be in readi-
ness unless the grand jury gets up some
political indictments of the oldest men
in the community.
Like an artiicially constructed bust,
most of the reports of the state %institu-
tions are more interesting for what
they conceal than for what they re-
veal.
Some of our prominent politicians
who want to get a cue in a role they are
well adapted to playing, should witness
the play Monday evening-''The Little
Outcast."
Two stalwart young German-Ameri-
ans were recognized by the present
city administration in the election of
Street Commissioner Kurtz and Police
Patrolman Schedeck.
A man who had a very bright wife
was talking about divorce to a man who
had a very dull me Said the partner
Of the latter to the spouse of the form
err: "Don't do ii. Your wife may
make you swear once in awhile, but she
never makes you yawn."
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-01-05
MR. GEsNER,s REPORT.

After being chairman of the street
committee a year, and strewing the
streets with some of the poorest UNI
screened river gravel ever put on the
business streets, Alderman Gesner files
a report on paving.
The Journal refused to print Mr..
Gesner's report because the rest of the
street committee would not join in it,
and because it believes the report was
really opposed to any paving.
II reads as if Mr.. Gesner had been
listening to a class who have the most
valuable and the most profitable prop
erty on our business streets and who
oppose all improvement that is to cost
them anything.
These influential citizens have been
able to have their streets kept in or
der by their pull on the general fund
in place of paving as owning abutters
should pay for the street in front of
their property.
When really enterprising citizens are
about TO order bitulithic pavement this
class gets behind a report that causes
discussion and d~issension under which
they will defer pavement Of any sort.
The Gesner report is sprung to pre-
vent any sort of permanent street i'm
provement. 1t does not tell the public
where vitrifed brick can be had. 1t is
not certain that they can be made at all
mt Salem.
The Gesner report says in substance
that our streets are all right, and it
almost takes pleasure in saying they are
better than in other cities.
Has not the time come for all citi-
zens to take n forward step and say
with perfect candor that there should
be a few paved streets in this city, wen
if it does take a few thousand dollars
from those best able to pave3
Those who can read between the lines
must see that the do-nothing policy, the
policy that says we are all right as we
are, improvement is unnecessary, sticks
out all over the Gesner report.
Let us all get out of that rut and
make Salem a live town, where the finest
streets, the richest streets, the most
profitable property, shall bear it's just
share of permanent Improvement, as
abutting owners should.
II property owners started in to get
vitrifed brick, non.pavers would prob
ably show that yitirifed brick of good
quality could not be had at Salem, and
il il could be had it would cost II great
dead more than bitulithic.
If the best business property in the
second city in the state eannot stand
the expense of a pavement, the owners
had better sell 1t to some one who will
pave the street as is done cherfully in
smaller places,
II the owners Of II single block viii
submit n petition to the council, asking
an order 20 put down n brick pavement,
that order will be granted. Mr.. Ges'
ner's sincerity eau be best shown in
that way, although we admit his sin
cerity in advocating brick Ms a good
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-01-05
Queer Sect Among Cars Soldiers.

st. Petersburg, Jan. 5.-Among the in
teresting letters from Manchuria is one
just received from Artillery Captain
IUgorsky, who tells of a curious state
of religious e~xaltation produced among
the uneducated Russian soldiers by the
strained excitement of the last few
months.
I'm two of the Siberian regiments, +"
he writes, ga sect who call themselves
'Krovupitsi' (bloodsuckers) has made
considerable progress. These men haYe
sworn to accept no quarter, to expose
themselves as much as possible in the
battlefield, and to keep as far as posi-
BILE an exactly accurate account of the
number of heather they have killed.
To slaughter a race which rejects
Christ they believe to be a pious act;
and many of them dread any conclusion
of peace which would leave a single
Japanese alive. At the recent battle
of Sha-ho some of these men came into
great prominence. They stood up in
the trenches, screamed fierce defiance,
n attempted to rush out to meet the
enemy. One man kept constantly ex-
posing himself where the fire was hot
test, and when a bullet went through
his chest screamed delightedly, NOW l
am saved, brothers. They are Christ
ian d%ervishers, in fact"
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-01-05

secured without any one getting hurt.
Postmaster II. w. Riches took refuge
on the top shelf in the office.
Mrs. Moser, wife Of William Moser,
was buried here today. The Mosers
are some of Oregon's oldest pioneers.
They were formerly from Missouri.
Louis Rauch has accepted the posi-
ton of bookkeeper in the band of
Messrs. Coolidge & Mechanic, taking
the place Of Mr.. L. j. Adams, who re-
tired the first of the year.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-01-05
THREE MAGAZINES.

The Atlantic for January contains
Mary Austin's story, "Isidro," the
best piece of fiction since Miss John
ston's "To Have and to Hold" was
written. Thoreau's Journal is u new
feature of the Atlantic literature. The
general program for the month is Of the
high standard typical of this magazine.
Outing for January has a fine win
ter program. From Mark Twain's
"Country" to the ''Swamps Of Ma
lay" there is great variety. The edi.
tors review Of sports is authoritative
information,
The Kindergarten Magazine for Jan
uary opens the work Of the year in an
enthusiastic manner. This Chicago
publication stands alone in its field aad
should have a warm place in the homes
whore children are
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-01-05
Fruitland.

f. Rutherford went to Albany Mon.
day. He intends entering school at
that place.
Mr.. Frazer is erecting a blacksmith
shop on his farm near Fruitland.
Some much-needed improvements
were made about the school premises
during the holidays.
Tuesday evening the Literary and
Debating Society again had election of
officers for this month. Mr.. Wagner,
president; Mr.. S. C. Ralston, v~ice-presi-
dent; Miss Elva Walton, secretary and
treasurer; Mr.. Lutte Savage, sergeant,
alarms; Mr.. Fred Bradley, editor, and
Joseph Jones, %janitor. The question was
decided in favor of the affirmative. The
question for next Tuesday night is;
Resolved, That there is more hard
feelings caused at the play parties than
at the home dances"
Revival services will commence oro
week from Thursday evening, January
18th.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-01-05

II Is the misfortune of this city that
some of it's wealthiest men are always
ready 10 east their influence against
progress that will cost them a dollar.
This knookor probably belongs to
the same class who want To take their
slice out Of the public revenues ON all
occasions.
This class mako their pile out Of pub.
iie gratis and let no avenue Of emom.
ment escape their grating process.
These anne knockers want TO be es.
toemed by their fellow citizens and
want reputation Of being fairmindod
and public spirited, They don't deserve
either.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-01-05
STATE
SOCIAL
NEWS
Blodgett.

Blodgett.
j. A. Wood was in Corvallis Satur-
day.
Mr.. Isaac Norton went to Corvallis
Tuesday.
w. D. Mixter went to Albany We'd
nesday, and returned Monday.
Vivian Post is visiting her grand
mother, Mrs. BlOdgett, this week.
Mrs. Blodgett went to Toledo Thurs
day.
Miss Lauro Skaggs, of the Summit,
is visiting her sister, Mrs. G. Butler,
this week.
Andrew La Grange and wife, Ray
James, Harry Blodgett and Nicholas
Mulkey attended the dance at the Sum.
init last Tuesday night.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-01-05
r

1t is said there is nothing distinctive
about the American faces, as there is
about all the rest of the group of eau
casian faces. 1t has no individuality.
1t is without particular features such
as mark the Irish face, the French
face, the German face, the Jew face.
the English face. It is peculiar only
in its cosmopolitanism. It is in one
sense q opposite pace, from which are
obliterated all the provincial narrow
ness and weakness that make the other
faces distinctive, and in it is combined
the strength of them all.
Nevertheless the American pbysioe-
nomy is decidedly marked. It is said
that an American is recognized at a
glance in any part of the world.
The thing indelibly written on the
American face is "hustle.o Every
American looks as if his eyes were
glazing into the far west and the far
future. He has a serious loow that
portends business. French imagination
sparkles in wit as brilliant as the dia-
mond; the American imagination fash
es it's sheet lightning over half a world.
This terrible'intensity of purpose and
activity is very fine in many respects,
but it is at the bottom of the i'll health
which is so serious a curse to the life
of this country. The American, works
himself to death.
We think and we exhaust; we scheme
imagine, study, worry and enjoy, and
proportionately we waists. Overworked
brains and stomachs, underworked
muscles and limbs soon derange the
balance of supply and demanl. We
waste faster than enfeebled digestion
can repair. We feel always a little de-
pressed; w restore the equilibrium tenn
porarily by stimulation.
What is most wanting TO arduous en-
terprise in the present day is time. We
can scarcely command a few hours un-
disturbed or effectual inactivity. We
live in the midst Of tempests or dead
Gains, condemned alternately TO ship
wreck or inaction. More rapid and
controlling than ourselves, events car
ry away our ideas aud intentions be-
fore they have passed into facts and
often before they have ever ripened
into attempts.
In no section of the world is insani,
ty more prevalent than in this.
This stratling effect must undoubted-
ly be traced to the general restlessness
and excitement that ~pervades the coun-
try and the general indifference to the
common aud essential physiological
laws.
We have too little recreation, too lit.
tie regard for the refreshing and invig-
Grating influences Of social intercourse.
Our devotion TO business of every kind
is too long continued and too absorbing.
We rise early and sit up late and eat
the bread of carefulness, and eat it
hastily, that we may lose no time from
work.
Constant care and anxious thought
write deep traces ON the brow and
their eorroding influences consume not
only the elasticity of mind and body,
but the better feelings of the heart.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-01-05
sura Cure Tor nIsa

Itching piles produce moisture and
u itching, this form, as well as
Bling, Bleeding or Protruding Piles
are cured by DR.. BO-san-ko's Pile
Remedy Stops itching and bleeding
Absorbs tumorS SOC a jar at drug.
glst. or sent by mail. Treaties free
Write me about your case. Or. 30.
sankO. PhilA. Pa
Fore sale by DR.. S, G Stone. druggist
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-01-05
RUILp A ooop RuIInnan

mere arc some good reasons why The
sAie@ Board Of Education should build.
= substantial brick building for the
new high school,
Az she ssAeol houses ia the district
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-01-05

Nai'ef NeeF has beon = little uaeasy
ePepi The |%ourual ever since the land
t'ap' EASES Aass been On trial Ia Port.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-01-05

Boise City has a eolored woman
club The elub has a membership OF
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-09
PREY OF THE PELICANS
WE'RE AT MERCY OF
 NEW ORLEANS TEAM.
O'Brien Showed Poor Judgment by Sending a9ultx in to pitch First
 Game of the Series.

When "Calliope" Burke announced the batteries for yesterdays game lt seemed a foregone conclusion that the Pelicans would have just about the easiest thing that they have had on this trip, and expectations were assuredly justified. this writer advised that Jack Lee be put in the box for the first game against the Pelicans. Breitenstein was to pitch for them and knowing
 that 1t would be an unusually nara nara judgment on the part of the iocal
 manager to have put in a winning pitcher. To have won yesterdays game would have given the Pretzeis
 more confidence for the next three. Good judgment however, seems to De quality lacking in the bench manager of the local team. The result was that
 until the last half of the sixth inning when Lynch's base on balls, Buschs neat sacrifice and Brouthers pinch hlt scored solitary run.
 In the first inning StultZ was pulled out of an uncomfortable close place The first man to face him got base on balls. The next man up made neat sacrifice and sent him to second: not handle. Rohe was out on "a fly to first. but Stultz filled the bags by giving Beck another base on balls, the 1 second in the inning. Kid Busch say, say GU tue uay ny iNASNAtAS - liams's hit.
 In the last half it was three up and three down with the Pretzels and the same thing with the Pelicans In the first of the second. In the last half of the second Molesworth got the first hit that had been made off Breitenstein, but 1t did no good. In the third Hahn for the Pelicans and Stultz for the Pretzels both hit safe, but nothing re- suited.
 In the fourth the Pelicans opened upon Stultz in grim earnest. The first man up-Rohe-pounded out two-bagger. Beck got a base on balls, Williams sac rificed Rohe to third and Beck to second Rohe scoring on Holly's fly to Gardner, Beck going to third. Sulli- van cracked out one to center and Beck scored Breitenstein getting another base on balls, but Gardner ending 1t by getting Stanley's fly. In the seventh a severe case Of ratties | took possession of the Pretzels. Busch | threw Stanley's hit to him wild. Nadeau tried to sacrifice him, but Tn | trying to dig up the bunt Shibech got in his own way and fell all over him" self Hahn's sacrifice sent Stanley to third and Nadeau to second and when
 l Rohe crashed out terrific fly to deep
 left that Lynch misjudged both scored
 Rohe going to second and scoring on
 Backs long drive to left which, by the
 way, Lynch let get through his legs
 williams and Holly ended 1t.
 Nothing more was done by either
 eida The score was:
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-09

sion stationed on the Isthmus of Pan-
 anna or to any of the employees of the Government who are not within the or
 dinary meaning of the words "laborers
 and mechanics" Also that the scope
 of the act is not limited by the terri
 torial jurisdiction of Congress, but is
 co-extensive with the subject matter
 to which it was directed, to wit: The conduct of officers and agents Of the United States in respect to the hours
 of labor of mechanics and laborers up-
 on all public works of the upited States. Congress. he says, may fix the
 hours of labor upon all the works Of
 the United States. wherever conducted and make the law binding upon the ot- flcers of the United States and through
 the agency of contracts upon all con-
 tracts with the United States
 In answer to the request of the Sec
 retary of War for an opinion upon the additional question of whether the pro visions of the act mentioned apply 10 the hours of labor of mechanics ana
 laborers" employed in the construction maintenance and operation of the Pan- anna Railroad and steamship hne, the
 Attorney General decides in the nega- tive and says:
 "The act of Aug. i, 1892. prescribed an eIght-hour day for laborers and me chanics employed by the Government of the United States, by the District or Columbia or by any contractor or sup- l,o-
 contractor upon any of the public worKs of the United States. or of the said | District of Columbia. Upon the facls stated by you, those who are In the service of the Panama Railroad ana Steamship Line arc not 'employeu oy the United States they are employed
 by the corporation itself Nor does the corporation appear to be contractor upon any public works of the United states I am. therefore, of the opln- | ion that it does not apply 10 iapot otels
 or rnechanics in the employ of the Pan- anna Railroad and steamship Line.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-09
RECIPROCITY FAVORED.
New York Merchants Association
 Adopts Resolutions.


 Adopts Resolutions.
 New York, June S.-The Board of Directors of the Merchants Ass %ia- tion today adopted resolution fave ing reciprocity treaties with the prin- cipal European nations, and providing for the appointment of committee to urge Congress to adopt them and to solicit the cooperation of other com merciaI bodies in the movement.
 A resolution was also adopted declar- ing that as the most important foreign outlet for American manufacturers, particularly cotton goods and the mar ket which promises an immense ex- pansion in the near future, is China and it is the sense. of this association that existing laws of the United States excluding Chinese subjects Of a class whose immigration Is not subJected 10 restriction by the terms of the treaty are harsh. unreasonable. wrongtully violative of the sacred obligations or treaty and detrimental to the best in- terests of the people or the unlteu States. and this association, therefore earnestly urges upon Congress tnell ' repeal and recommends the negotlatl tloh of a new treaty with China whlch' while providing for the proper reg ula- tion of undesirable Chinese immlSra. tton. shah likewise permit freedom or entry and of domicile upon the part ot inc Chinese not of the laborlhg class, and with whom the maintenance or friendly relations Is of prime import anca to the development of the busi- ness interests of this country