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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-08-19
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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-08-19

history structure. The first story win
contain reading-rOoms, Libraries, and
rest rooms. The upper floors will have
rooms for games Of all kinds. The
other floors will contain sleeping apart
ments and dining rooms, etc. It is
claimed, nevertheless, that the build.
ing is to be primarily a church." and
not a club.-Literary Digest.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-08-19

than another. Only the vulp,, ,
slaughter objects to the Sl..a
Of the clay pigeon for tn. m. Y
in these trials Of skiu-y~
Sun. "a
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-08-19
Hole Wiag Sane C

An kinds o. fancy DRY ooOdA snkA
Bmhroiderie4 LAceA Make up nsW line
0onts' ana Ladies Furnishing 0oods.
nuita. wrappssA mkirta White Under
. sale cheap Court street. salem.
oregou 'Phons BlAck aI5A see
court 81. eenor alley.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-06-30
A QuoIaIion Wen Used.

Few have ever forgotten the cyclone
OF cheers that burst over the Repub.
hcan, convention of 1880 as Conkling,
tall, majestic, imperious in his bearing,
strobe upon the platform and faced
that great audience Of 10000 souls.
Conkling was there determined to Sc
cure the nomination of Ulysses S.
Grant as president for third term. 1t
was fifteen minutes before he could be
heard. The mighty thunder of those
10000 threats, from friend and foe,
rolled and crashed and rumbled on. At
length Conkling, swinging his arms
above him, brought them down, down,
down, by graceful moves as If to soothe
the tempest. He did this a dozen
times. There was silence at last. In
a voice broken by four days of battle
in committee rooms and on the floor OF
the convention, yet sonorous in its very
hoarseness, he began his speech by de-
claiming:
And when asked what state he halls from
ou- sole reply shall be,
He halls from Appomattox and its famous
apple tree
No scene in any national convention
Of either party since has rivaled that
which greeted Conkling's use of Miles
O'Reilly's famous lines. 1t was half
an hour before he could proceed, and
through 1t all the multitude cheered
and roared its interruptions.-Every
bOdy's Magazine
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-06-30
Thomas F. Ryan,
Napoleon of Finance
Career of the New Head of the Equita'
Bile Life-A Man of Deeds, Not
WOrds-BOrn Poor, Is Now
a MuItimiIIiOnaire.

"HAT the name of Thomas Fortune
Ryan is one to conjure with was
u amply proved in connection with
the recent settlement of the
much discussed Equitable Life Assur-
ance society controversy. The out
come showed that new Napoleon of
finance had arisen and that the power
of Thomas +. Ryan among money
kings was greater than even the best
posted men of Wall street had be-
lieved His purchase of the Hyde in
terest in the Equitable stock gave him
a powerful voice in the affairs of that
big institution. That he is worth $780,
100000 is generally admitted, but the
bald statement of such fact affords
no adequate idea of his potency in the
world of business, for his genius for
organization and his influence in a
large number of leading corporations
give him Il power that some men who
may be his equals In wealth do not
possess.
Mr. Ryan is Il man of deeds rather
than words, and it is his policy as
well as his nature to avoid publicity.
His career is a typical one. He is
descended from Scotch-Irish ancestors
who came to this country before the
Revolution. Mr. Ryan was born
fifty-three years ago on farm in Nir-
gfna. His mother died when he was
five, and he went to live with his
grandmother ut the old homestead.
The family had been impoverished by
the civil war. and young Ryan as a
boy of fifteen sought to straighten out
the entanglements of the estate, but
the task was too much for the future
wizard of finance. He got his first
business training as a clerk in a Bal
timore dry goods house. Two years
after entering its employ the propri-
etor decided TO establish bank in
New York and thought so well of Ryan
that he gave him a position in it. This
was fortunate move, for it put him in
touch with the great financial inter
ests of the country and awakened his
dLlDlllOu " attain pONcl III w al SllCCL
affairs Two years later he became
a member of a brokerage firm and
about the same time married Miss Ida
NJ. Barry of Baltimore daughter of
his former employer. The first big
transaction in which he figured was
the formation of the Richmond Ter
minal company, by which the southern
railroad lines were brought into close
working arrangements. His genius
for organization and consolidation of
capital began to attract notice when
In 1856 he associated himself with the
late William c. Whitney and brought
about the consolidation of numerous
small traction lines in New York city
into one system, known as the Met
ropolitan Street Railway company
After that achievement he gradually
extended his operations until he
brought gas and electric lighting com
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-06-30
Music Under Difficulties.
Ito be continued. J

The first conductor who played with
a large orchestra in New York was
Louis A. Julien. One of his pieces was
a "Fireman's Quadrille," during the
performance Of which an alarm of fire
was regularly sounded and a brigade
OF fremen appeared in the hall! Theo-
dore Thomas was one of Jullien's VIC
Inists for time, and this may help to
explain why he himself in 1867, when
he gave his New York Terrace Garden
concerts, once created a sensation by
making the piccolo players climb UP
into the trees before the piece began.
On another occasion the tuba player
had been sent behind the audience into
the shrubbery When he began to
play the police mistook him for a
practical joker who was disturbing the
music and tried to arrest him. II
shall never forget the comical scene"
Thomas writes in his Autobiography,
"as the poor man fled toward the stage.
pursued by the irate policeman, and
trying to get in a note here and there
as he ran"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-06-30

course. AT this particular place,
the rise of the first lotion did
not exceed an angle of three de
grees. Above it rose a second
bottom of the same width. and
about fifty feet higher than the
hrst, and gradually ascending
until its further edge rested upon
the bold, rocky face of the noun
tain line, elm hing at once some
two hundred feet to the usual
level of the region around. This
second bottom was more heavily
and densely wooded than the
first. and the underground began
to appear more plentiful where
the ground was less exposed to
the action of the spring floods.
In the bosom of the hill, several
springs united their sources to
give birth to petty rivulet that
hurried down to be lost in the
river.
Its cradle laid in the bed of a
broad ravine, forty or fifty feet
deep, that rose in the hillside,
and crossing the whole of the
second bottom, debouched on the
first, where the waters trickled
oozily down through a swampy
bed. Large trees grew within
and alongside this chasm, and
the usual smaller growth peculiar
to such situation, and prodig-
lous growth of wild grape vines
shrOuded its termination upon
the first bottom and Swallowed
the birth of the infant rock.
About two hundred yards from
the line of hills, and three hun
dred south of the ravine Just de.
scribed, commences anOl her of a
more singular nature; with its
steep sides almost perpendicular,
1t reSemb led direct cut for the
purposes of defence. Rising near
the middle of the second bottom
it ran westwardly to the upper
edge of the first, with a depth at
the head of four or five feet, in
creasing as it descended, and
with width of eight or ten feet.
One hundred aud fifty years
ago, It's channel was completely
o. erhung and concealed by a
luXurlant growth of pea vines
and ira .lers, of bramble bushes
and the Indian plum; its edges
closely fringed with the tall wood
grass of midsummer. Parallel
with il, and about one hundred
and fifty yards north Of this sec,
Ond gully was a third; dry, open
hollow, and rather thinly wooded,
but which afforded ample protec-
ton to the enemy from / he English
fire. Either of these ravines
would have sheltered an army,
the second-the most important,
though not the lOngeSt-would
have afforded concealment for
l, 600 men.
Ito be continued.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-06-30
A PubIisher's Little Joke.

In Twenty Years Ago it is related
that when one of Dowling's Christmas
tales had sold very well Tnsley. the
publisher, thought he might be par
doned for taking rise" out of the
author He introduced Bowling to Il
stranger at the Gayety and then whis-
pered to him: "Dick, my boy, do your
best to make yourself agreeable to our
friend. He is the largest buyer of
those Christmas stories of yours.
must be off"
Bowling spoke for awhile on gen
eral topics to the stranger, and at last
he ventured on the subject of books.
Il suppose you know" he said, that
| am the unfortunate man who wro e
Tinsley's last annual?' Yes, | recol-
nize your name. Mr.. Dowling," said
the stranger. Mr.. Tinsley tells me
you are a large buyer of books" said
Bowling. yes, l buy lot of stuff of
one kind or another. | am a waste pa
per merchant
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-06-30

panies in New York under his conf,
as well as traction lines. He crosss
the Hudson river into New Jersey and
with his associates and allies, acco,
plished the consolidation of the stro'
railway lines of Jersey City and n
entity under the name of the Consoe
dated Traction company Public SCR,
ice corporations in Staten Island. n vi
and along the New Jersey coast al,
fell under his sway. He was the m,
moter and builder of the Union AL
waited road of Chicago and dcvelona
the present system of electric railwor
and lighting plants in Milwaukee. Cm
solidation has been his watcbwo,i
and his operations have touched va,
Gus branches of industry and financ.
He brought together and organized I,
terests representing assets Of S1M
100000 behind the Bank of Commer,
of New York. is the vice president \
the Morton Trust company and organ
izer and financial master Of the Can
solidated Tobacco company He Is
director and important stakeholder
several western railway lines.
In personal appearance Mr. Ryan
tall. broad shouldered and good lo&
ing, has courtly manners ana an q
gaging smile William c. Whing
used to describe him as tile mo1
adroit, suave and noiseless man"
ever met One of his diversions
raising Holstein cattle, and he IA
kennels containing some of the fines
dogs in the world. Mr. Ryan was
leading figure at the last Democrat
national convention. and it was dn
in part to his influence that his frel
Henry Gassaway Davis of West VII
ginia, was nominated for vice pres
lent
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-06-30
Irish Pronnnciationn.

When an Irishman pronounces -
SAY" and clean "clane," he does 50
the highest and most unimpeachaH
authority, for Chaucer. Spenser, Milh
and Dryden all pronounced these won
exactly as he does. AS matter of fad
most of these so called Irish pronunGi
tions are merely old time importatiG
from England and are thus more En-
fish than Irish. For instance, tim
centuries ago and more the educata
Englishman always said harde (hearl
goolde gold, afeard (afraid), child,
Children. swoorde Sword, hoo
(hOme). and so OH, and when the Iris
man .ses these and similar pronuG!
tons he is simply reproducing the ID
tured Englishman of the days of Quea
Bess London Chronicle.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-06-30

Two or three hundred yards
above the spot where Frazier's
cabin stood, was the mouth of
Turtle Creek, which flowing in a
southwesterly course towards the
Monongahela, that here has
nOrthwesterly direction, EN-
braces, in an obtuse angle of
about 100 degrees, the very spot
where the brunt of battle was to
be borne. The scene is familiar,
being as the crow flies, but eight
miles from Pittsburg, and scarce
twelve by the course of the river.
For three quarters of a mile
below the entrance OF the creek,
the Monangahela was unusually
shallow, forming a gentle rapid
or ripple, and easily forded at
every point. Its common level
was between three to four hun
dred feet below that of the sur
rounding country, and along its
upper bank at the second cross
ing, stretches a fertile bottom of
a rich pebbled mould, about a
fourth of mile in width, and
twenty feet above low water
mark. At that time it was GOV.
cred with a fair, open walnut
wood, unincumbered with brush
or underground.
The ascent from the river, how
ever, was rarely abrupt, but by
a succession of gentle slopes or
bottoms, the steep hillsides were
approached as though the waters
had gradually subsidized from their
original channel to narrow bed
at the very bottom of the ancient
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-06-30
g. - arrived At last
Unto the wished haven"

They saw their labors crowned
with glory, their wsnderings
rounded out with we'll earned
repose. But through the narrow
passage that Law between them
and their promised land rolled
deep and dark the waters of an
unseen stream, blacker n
night, deeper than the grave; for
its shore, not death alone, but
dishOnOr, disgrace aud defeat.
with welcoming hands. awaited
their approach. Behind the west
ern hills their sun had sunk for
ever, his last rays crimsoning the
bright current of the Mononga,
hela, overhung by stately groves
bending to the waters their waver
ing boughs.
Only one man in the camp that
night did not sleep; this was Sir
Peter Halkett. Oppressed by the
feeling of impending danger, he
lett his tent and wandered
through the encampment Moth
ing broke the stiffness of the
sultry night but the melancholy
boot of the owl, or the more
plaintive call of the whip-poor
will. Wandering to the edge Of
the encampment, Sir Peter cast
his gaze towards the point where
rolled the gloomy waters of the
MOnongahela, musiug on the fate
of tomorrow, until the early
stresks of dawn warned him that
the break of another day-and
what Hateful day-was at hand,
when he retired to his tent.
ITO the prophetic vision of a
Highland seer these waters would
have curdled with the clotted
gore of the morrow sere; the
warning trees would have sighed
responsive to the sad wailings of
the winds of night; the dismal
boot of the owl, would have been
dire forebodings of disaster, and
along the guilty shores would
have fitted in phantom bands
the bloody ghosts of the unburied
slain"
1t was night never to be for
gotten by those who escaped the
bloody defeat of the ensuing
twenty four hours.
THE MARCH RESUMED.
In the meantime, with discre-
ton, Braddock had concluded his
arrangements for passing what he
regarded as the only perilous
place between his army and the
fort, which he designed to reach
early on the 10th. Had the prop
ositiOn started and abandoned by
st. Clair, to push forward that
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-06-30
OUT WITH BRADDOCK
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY
YEARS AGO THE TRAGIC
EXPEDITION OF 1855.

The Advance From Fort Cum
berland "A Long March
The Shades Of Dea th-A
Gloomy Scene = Change in
the Route ofMarch-A Fatal
Blunder Nearing Fort Du
Quesne-The Night Before
the Battle-The March Re-
sumed = A Brilliant Spec
tacle - Topography of the
Battlefield.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-06-30

out of all patience at the manner
in which the expedition had been
conducted and had determined to
return to England the moment
the campaign was concluded, the
success of which he was more
than doubtful. Colonel Wash
ington. also during the march
had witnessed enough to shake
his confidence in British regulars,
and had on the day before the
battle suggested, the placing in
the van the Virginia Rangers.
who were accustomed to Indian
warfare. and for the purpose Of
guarding against a possible sur
prise. He received only an angry
reply for his timely suggestion.
The second in command was
not free from similar forbodings.
As though gifted with that mys-
terious power, "secOnd sight"
Sir Peter Halkett, whose sands
oil life had but twelve hours more
to run, with a melancholy ear
nestness pressed that night upon
BraddOck the propriety of exam
lining every foot of ground be
tween his present position and
the fort, lest through this neglect
he should imperil the army's
existence.
This advice. as will be seen,
was not altogether neglected, but
its most important feature of
beating up the forest was set
aside by BraddOck "as unsuitab BILE
to the eXigencieS of his position"
With sad presentiment of un-
defined evil. Halkett withdrew.
"Did he in sOoth possess the
fatal power of peering into the
future, and exploring the secrets
of unborn time, what awful Wis
ions would have pressed upon his
sOulw
ooh God Of Battles, steel my soldiers
hearts;
Strike then not with far, Oh Lord;
Not today, not today
1t was night in the encamp-
ment--a sultry night, a night of
dreadful anticipatiOns, few
hours respite from mad and
laundering sounds of war, that
tells the story of death and desc
lation. Unconscious of theis i'm
pending doom. around mbered
hundreds of gallant men. sleep
ing their last sleep upon blood
less couch, nor needing the tenn
pest gathering fast above, which,
OncOmiDg like a summers cloud,
would pour destruction on their
devoted heads. Through the long
summers day the wearied and
devoted army, anticipating any
thing rather than defeat, had
marched steadily onward. The
encircling woods shut out all sight
of the heavens above, save the
serene blue sky directly overhead,
bright with MONDAY splendor,
but all around, beyond their mar
row vision, a dark curtain hung
like a pail upon the horizon, and
driving clouds and the circling
flight of eagles high in the air.
denoted the approaching storm.
Footsore and., toll worn, the
troops we're now stepped in Stun
Der, and in dreams that came
from heaven through the ivory
gates, they beheld themselves
g. - arrived At last
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-09-27
NO FUNDS
BEING IN SIGHT SOME OFFEND.
ERs WERE PLACED ON THE
STREETS TODAY.

John Miller and Fred Jones stuck
in a First ward saloon until closing
time last night and then found out
that they could not navigate accord.
ing to Hoyle and the city ordinances.
Carpenter and Gould escorted them to
the lookup. Mayor Kinsey fined them
each $500 and when they admitted
no funds, Chief Morgan ordered them
sent to work On the streets.
Tom Meredith was locked up yes.
terday afternoon late by Chief Nor:
gar and Officer Fleming for drunk.
enness He was found in the alley
near the Manley Hotel. This morning
he was unable to be brought out for
trial and a physicians services will
be required to get him in shape.
One Of the men arrested Monday is
in a pretty bad shape from snakes.
He had some terrific battles with the
reptiles during the night but is doing
better this morning.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-09-27
SENATOR PROCTOR
WILL ENpow sANITARIuM FOR
VICTIMS OF THE DREAD Tu-
BERcuEosIs.

E-HA
BURLINGTON, VT. Sept. 27.-Be-
his son. Redfieid Proctor. Jr.,
has been afflicted with tuberculosis.
United States Senator Redfeld Proc.
tor has offered to furnish a site and
erect a tuberculosis sanitarium and
present 1T to the State Of Vermont
and in addition endow It with $780,
600.
Senator Proctor estimates that a
site and building will cost about $780,.
600, but in his letter tic DIR. w. H.
Bryant. secretary of the State Tuber-
culosis Commission, he says that that
does not fix that sum arbitrarily, but
has promised his children that when
a suitable site is selected he will
erect a substantial hospital to &C.
commodate twenty-five or thirty pa
TENTS. Senator Proctor says he does
not wish TO have his name connected
with the institution, but wishes I'll to
be a State affair under the control of
a State Commission.
In Lis letter Senator Proctor refers
to the sickness in his family caused
by tuberculosis.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-09-27

IT'S q Joy TO eat-I welcome my dinner hour;
Because I rout indigestion with August Flower
qconstipation is the result Of indigestion,
b~ihousness, f%atulency, loss Of appetite,
self-poisoning, anemia, emaciation, uric
acid, neuralgia in various parts Of the
system, catarrhal inflammation of the In
testinal canal and numerous other all
fnents that Q life Of its pleasures if they
do not finally rob you of life itself.
q"I'm bound in the bowels" Is a com.
mon expression of people who look mis-
cradle and are miserabfe--yet who persist
In Letting nature take its course.5
qWhat a foolish plan, when nature could
be aided by the use Of Green's August
Flower which Is natures own remedy for
constipation and all stomach ills.
!gAugust Flower gives new life to the
liver and insures healthy stools.
qTwo sizes, a5c and 7sc. All druggists
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-09-27
THE BAREFOOT A

49, ~ -I....- --nM mHHefUH u 10y
From the Saturday Evening Post.1
Out Of the dear front gate it>ran,
Into the sun and dew and tan;
Traversed the dusty, peaceful street,
Arched by. naples Tin mem'ry sweet);
Crossed the pasture, with clover lush;
Entered the copse where trilled the
thrush;
Rambled, loitered and played-and
then
Turned to mother and home again.
Street and pasture and hill and vale
Such was the course of the barefoot
Trail;
Pausing and veering for this and
that
Now for a game of n old cat,
Now for a rollicking butterfly,
Now for a nest hung Just too high,
Now for a brookside haunt-and then
Back to bother and home again.
a sun for this trail too hot,
Never a nook that knew it not,
Twisting and turning from scene to
scene, 4.
1t checkered the realm of the gold and
green,
Passenger-courier boyhood, slim;
Passport-whistle and tattered brim;
Province-to beckon afar, and then
To lead to mother and home again.
Many a secret and many a tale,
Ours who followed the Barefoot Trail.
Wonders witnessed and maryels
heard;
Kinship to squirrel and hare and bird.
The shortest root to the swimming
hole, /.
The finny spoil of the swaying pole,
Care-free triumphs and joys-and then
(Best) the mother and home again.,
EDWIN L. SABN.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-09-27
RESCUE BOYS FROM
1000 FOOT CLIFF.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Col, Sept.
21.-Fffteen hundred persons, mostly
toudists, witnessed the daring rescue
of Charles Clar and Robert Skinner
from the face of Eagles Cliff, in Chey.
enne canyon, Sunday afternoon, after
the boys had climbed almost to the top
of the cliff, which is one thousand feet
high, and had reached a ledge from
which they could neither advance nor
retreat.
They were trying to climb to the
eagles nest on the cliff. They start
ed at four o'clock and an hour later,
finding themselves on the ledge and
unable to advance or retreat, called
Justify for help.
B. U. Dodson n a man known as
"Frenchy" Mandel went to the scene
with a long rope, which Mr.. Dodson
took to a place above the boys near
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-09-27

the top of the cliff. He lowered the
rope down to the boys. who descend.
ed hand over hand. The rope, how
ever, was not long enough to reach
to the road, and Mandel climbed $50
feet up the cliff and caught the boys
as they dangled at the end of the
rope.
Ihe N person who ever climbed
the cliff was Dodson, who is in charge
Ditch city party in the canyon.