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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-06-09
RELIEF COMMITTEE AFFAIRS.
Its Fight with the Weather Grafters
and Schemers.

The relief committee seems to have
finally suppressed the pettier forms of
graft. One cannot now get blanket
from relief stores unless he needs it,,
and some who do need them find it very
hard to obtain them. 1t has, however,
to deal with a multitude of other claim
ants, mostly for large sums, and of
whom some are evidently attempting to
graft on a pretty large scale. The rule
to adopt is very simple one. Those
whose goods were seized, or whose
teams or automobiles were used, should
be reimbursed for actual outlay or dam
age, but no resident of San Francisco
should be permitted to get one dollar of
profit out of our calamity at the ex.
pense of the generosity of the donors
of our relief funds. Already the East.
ern press Is beginning to talk very
plain about the exorbitant bills rem.
dered for automobile service. Those
bills should be cut to the quick The
service was very severe. Much damage
was done to machines. That should be
paid for and the services of the drive'
and not much else. No owner of an
automobile is poor man. To permit
him to make profit from the relief
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-06-09
fund would be outrageous.

fund would be outrageous.
. AS for the -four deal, we confess that
il is difficult to write with moderation.
If, in making the sale, the finance com.
mittee was deceived by mis-epresenta-
tion, let it frankly say so and stick to
its resembling 1t is not an incorporate
body and cannot be sued. As to any
citizen of this city who, having bought
the -four, now finds that it can be sold
so as to produce a larger sum to the
fund, but still attempts to enforce his
"bargain," words fail to express the
utter contempt and detestation with
which he will be regarded by all human
beings here or elsewhere. If there are
among us creatures so devoid of all
shame as to attempt in this manner to
get dirty profit to themselves out of
the charity Of the American people,
they should be drummed out of the
city amid the vocal execrations of alb
decent men.-San Francisco Chronicle.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-06-09
Wild and Woody Arizona.

On the plains everyone is supposed
to be a horseman. When a horse was
offered me 1 asked if it bucked.
"Oh, no; he's little playful at first
but he don't buck"
knew that ideas of playfulness in
horses differed, and concluded to look
into the particular brand of humor
possessed by that horse before mount
ing him. am glad did. watched
the "playful at first" performance,
and if that was play / should hate
to be on that pony's back when he was
serious about his bucking.
My friend was a crank on the sub
ject of fresh air, and when bedtime
came rolled himself up in a Navajo
blanket on the prairie under the stars.
Sometimes 1 listened with favor to his
arguments, but one night as 1 was
making my bed beside his on the Iyai-
rie a rattlesnake crawled out from un-
der his blanket and made threatening
demonstrations in my direction. con.
cluded to sleep indoors that night, and
it required little persuasion to con-
vert my friend to my way of think.
ing.
Queer things have happened in Ari-
zona. Once upon time a meteor fell
from space and landed upon the top
of an Arizona mountain. 1t was so
big that the hole where it buried it.
self is today nearly mile in diane
ter, and an eighth of a mile deep, while
fragments of the meteor weighing
half ton and less were distributed
throughout a radius of eight miles. A
mining company is today sinking shaftI
in the mountain for the Secovery of the
iron ore contained in the great meteor
We elambered into the crater like cav.
ity and wandered over its strange form,
alton so long that when we returned
to the surface our train was In sight
and our station nine miles distant,
But although in sight, the train had
so miles to travel That is the ad.
vantage of the combination of prai
rie and a mountain.
Whoop!" 1t was a wild ride down
steep places over rocks and through
sand with galloping horses and a
springless wagon tossing about as
did Hank Monk the unhappy Greeley.
The train made its thi-ty miles while
we made the nine, but we were deliv.
cred on time,-Julian A. Dimock in
Recreation for June.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-06-09

quently to listen to two or three Sc
lections. Miss Booth was introduced
by Colonel French of the local Saliva
tion Army, and in a short speech she
told of the sympathy that San Fyan-
cisco has in the east over the calamity
and the admiration which was won
by the buoyant spirit shown in a de-
termination to build up a new and
greater city.
In foreshadowing a more beautiful
and better city, she hoped that her
listeners would do all in their power
to base it on a stouter moral founda.
tion than before. She closed her d.
dress with a prayer, hoping that the
present plans of rebuilding the city
would be uninterruptedly carried out
and that the Salvation Army would
work as courageously as it has done
in the past.
Preceding Miss Booth, Brigadier
General jenkins of Portland made a
few remarks in a religious strain, and
was followed by Lieutenant Colonel
Mcintyre, who accompanied Miss Booth
to the coast from New York. He paid
several compliments to San Francisco Is
undaunted spirit and portrayed the
new city as one that would rank
among the best in the world. He also
told of Miss Booths energetic work
in New York in raising a fund for the
suffering Salvationists here.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-06-09

of Burton E. Stevenson serial, "Af-
fairs of State"
Margaret E. Sangster, Grace Mar
garet Gould, Fannie Merritt Farmer,
Anna Steese Richardson and the other
able editors of the dozen or more prac-
tical departments. furnish the back
bone of the magazine. Fashions for
the summer girl, in strawberry season,
distinctive designs in embroidered
waists, crocheted kimonas and COM
mencement days are a few suggestive
titles. An article allied to fashions,
but in lighter vein, is Vance Thomp-
sons "Memoirs of Paris Dressmah-
er.n'
"Does the Club Woman Need a De-
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-06-09

fenderi" by Bertha Demaris K,a,|
raises an important question insssI
ing to members and non-members aid
Of even creator interest to some y
men is Anna Steese Richardson's "A
ough discussion of the professio,
lady's companion, under the title, n
You Want to Be a COmpaniaI|
What to wear "When Girl Cd
Camping" is a timely and praca4
article by Marion Randall. Helen Nd
vim and Evelyn Parsons contih
some valuable illustrated deseriptha
of embroidered and crocheted rf
Sam Loyd's puzzle page, Aunt Jssls
talks to the little folks, and SVsl
light bits of humor, verse and srs
dote complete this interesting nls
Der.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-06-09
San Francisco still Lives.

The open air band concert in Golden
Gate park yesterday, opposite the
Ninth avenue entrance, given by the
salvation Army band of Oakland to
cheer the refugees camped in the see
tion drew large number OF people, the
crowd being augmented by quite a few
Salyationists, who had heard that
Commander Eva Booth was to address
the assemblage.
Until shortly after 5 O'Clock, when
Miss Booth arrived, the band played
almost continuously the numerous ia.
miliar hymns Of the order, and turn
outs and automobiles stopped fire.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-06-09
Have You a Cough?

A dose of Billiards. Horehound
Syrup will relieve it. Have you a
coldi
Try it for whooping cough, for asth-
ma, consumption, for bronchitis. Mrs.
Joe McGrath, 327 E. lst street, Hut.
Crimson, Kan, writes: "I have used
Billiards. Horehound Syrup in my
family for five years. and find it the
most palatable medicine 1 ever used.
For sale by D. ]. Fry.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-06-09
When You Want Harness

Call on z. E. Shafel, at his =
store, 1s7 Commercial street, =
Ferry. The finest stock of harnss
Salem.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-03-27
Refreshing His Memory.

At 10 O'Clock a travelling man
stepped up to the clerks desk at the
Hillman and with some agitation said
to Clerk Graves:
"Mr. Graves, I have just come from
a man who says he is one Of your
old schoolmates. He told me you
and he were old friends. His name
is John Smith, and he used to live at
Pumpkinville. Do you know him?"
Smith! Smith," said Graves won
deringly. John Smith of Pumpkin
vile, 1 don't recall him just now.
What's the matter with him? Is he
in jail?"
In jail" exclaimed the travelling
man. Why, no. He's just home from
Alaska, where he made 100000 dig
ging gold in the Klondike, and he's
come back to Alabama to spend the
money"
"Oh, yes, to be surei" said Graves.
why, what was l thinking about
Smith-Johnny Smith of Pumpkin
vile, three miles from ~Sassafras?
Why, 1 should say I do know him!
Johnny and I used to fish together in
the creek for minnows and hang our
clothes on the same stump when we
went in swimming. Say, if you see
Johnny, give him my love and tell
him I'm coming round to see him
when | get off in the morning ."-Bir-
mingham Age Herald.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-03-27
The Host Was Pleased.

Edward Everett Hale" said a law
yer, was one of the guests at a mil
Eionaire's dinner.
"The millionaire was a free spend
er, but he wanted full credit for every
dollar put out.
"And, as the dinner progressed, he
told his guests what the more expen-
sive dishes had cost.
This terrapin,' he would say, was
shipped direct from Baltimore. A Bal
timore cook came on to prepare it
The dish actually cost a dollar a tea
spoonful
$50 he talked of the fresh peas,
the dollhouse asparagus. the Covent
Garden peaches and the other courses.
He dwelt especially on the expense
of the large and beautiful grapes,
each bunch a foot long, each grape
bigger than a plum. He told, down to
a penny, what he had figured it out
that the grapes had cost him apiece.
THE guests looked annoyed. They
ate the expensive grapes charity. But
DR.. Hale, smiling, extended his plate
and said:
Would you mind cutting me off
about a dollar and eighty-seven cents
worth more, please?'"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-03-27
FACIAL PARALYSIS
Nervous Distortion of Face Cured by
Or. Williams Pink Pills.

What appears to be a slight nervous
attack may be the %forerunner of a severe
disorder. No nervous sufferer should
neglect the warning symptoms, but
should see that the starved nerves are
nourished before the injury to the deli
cate organism has gone to all extent that
renders a cure a difficult matter. The
nervesreceive theirnourishmen through
the blood, the same as every other part
of the body, and the best nerve tonic and
food is DIR. Williams Pink Pills. The
experience of Mr.. Harry Bemis, of
T%ruthville, Washington county, N. Y,
substantiates this.
~ had been feeling badly for a long
time" said Mr.. Bemis, land in the
early part of September, 1902, l was COM
PEELED to quit work on account of my i'll
health. MY trouble was at first ex-
treme nervousness, then my sight be-
came affected and l consulted al oculist
who said Twas suffering from paralysis.
He treated me for some time, but l got
no benefit. l tried another doctor and
again failed to obtain any relief. My
increased. Slight noises
would almost make me wild. My mouth
was drawn so 1 could scarcely eat and
one eye was affected so L could hardly
see. L had very little use of my limbs,
in fact / was almost a complete wreck.
81 am all right now and am at work.
That is because 1 followed my wife's ad.
vice and took DIR. Williams Pink Pills.
She had used the same remedy herself
with the most gratifying results and she
persuaded me to try them when it APP
peared that the doctors were unable to
help me. They acted very surely in my
case; my face came back into shape and
in time I was entirely we'll"
DR.. Williams Pink Pills are sold by all
druggists or by mail by the DR.. Williams
Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y, A
booklet on Nervous Disorders sent free
on request.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-03-27


the Atlantic Handicap now centers
on Saracen. Opening at 100 to 1 in
the winter betting, his odds have
dropped to five to one with wise
money going on fast at that"
The Deacon dropped the paper and
felt in his pocket. He drew forth the
~pasteboard card.
"A thousand to ten," he murmured,
"and this hyar card belongs to the
one who has it,"
He replaced the card in his wallet
and did not speak thereon at the Sun
day school.
The handicap was to be run the
Tuesday of the following week, and
the Deacon became distraught and
anxious as the day approached. In a
surreptitious manner he obtained a
sporting paper the day before the race
and discovered that Saracen was
quoted at three to one.
In the meantime he had issued a
proclamation f~orbidding Carey his
house and his daughter meeting her
lover. Sarah, mo~urnfully, submitted,
but Carey boldly told the Deacon that
If he could outwit him he'd do it.
When the day of the race dawned
the Deacon wandered about the house
as a perturbed spirit. The Handicap
a to be run about four o'clock and
by that time the Deacon was sinking
about the entrance to the course in an
agony lest he be recognized and lest
Saracen should lose. He heard the
cheers and shouts which heralded the
finish and a cold sweat cam out over
him. Men began to come out of the
entrance and seek the cars, but he
dared not ask who had won. Finally,
in desperation, he approached a sport
i've looking man and asked quavering-
ly who had won the handicap.
why, S~aracen," replied the man,
Glands down and the jock looking
back at the other skates"
The Deacon staggered back against
the race track fence.
SIS this your ticket?" asked the
cashier of the Turf Club.
at is" snapped the Deacon.
The man called to someone in the
office, and in a moment the Deacon
and Fred Carey, two very surprised
men. were staring at each other.
This man has the ticket you
stopped" said the cashier.
81 found it in front of my house"
murmured the Deacon.
by George!" exclaimed Carey, 81
must have pulled it out of my pocket
when l was going to see your daugh-
ter. AS long as you found it, why,
half of it goes to you and the other
half will help to pay for the house
Sarah and l will live in next month.
You know you've agreed to the mar
riage and Of course III say nothing
about the ticket and you being at the
bookmaker's."
That night the Deacon opened the
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-03-27
MAKING HIS KNOWLEDGE FELT
~Sehoolboy Writes Home a Lucia and
Comforting Letter.

%schooIboy Writes Home a Lucia and
Comforting Letter.
my Dear Mother-I am very glad
to hear from you, and know that you
are very glad to hear from me. /
feel rejuvenescent and sanguine. Your
letters are SO encouraging. | love to
read them several times. You are the
best friend / have in the world. There
is no place like home and mother.
Mama, l hope you are feeling better,
and some day I will come home and
help you like a son ought to do.
Il know you are malcontended when
| am from home. l am very much
indiscriminated to think you are los
ing your health. 1t will be indispen-
sable for me to help you. You sup
ported me, and l shall support you in
restitution. Nobody can indurate my
heart against my mother, for she has
done so much for me, and | will resti-
tute it if l can.
I'm very glad to hear that you are
pertinacious in trusting in the Lord.
He is our perpetual ruler and he will
circumscribe us in heaven. We all
have a chronical time. We should
be %sagacious to trust in the Lord, and
that is something I can't do. l tried
but failed. l have to stand for the
v~ituperation, but some day I will be
undaunted, and be on the Lords side.
And then I won't be sacrilegious. We
all should ask squares of the Lord.
Though we shouldn't be a procrastin-
ator. You said you were going to
work by the week. l hope o will
succeed. I'm glad to hear that Cliff
ford has turned from the ways of sin.
From your son, -" Pittsburg Dis
patch.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-03-27
At the End ID Aready.

At the uttermost end of Already
There lies a garden fair,
And W. and two the lovers be
Who one day wander there.
And Love, who walked with them de-
bonair
Through the pathways intricate,
Sits down at last on a messy stair
And yawns and is glad of it.
At the uttermost end of Already
A quiet garden lies,
Peaceful and fair and still to see
Under it's cloudless skies,
There comes no danger to rouse sur
prise,
The fears O. the road are gone,
But little Love rubs his dropping eyes
And smothers a sleepy yawn.
At the uttermost end of Already
Is the goal Of settled things;
Strange they walk in it soberly
Who strove for the peace it brings.
The sim night goes and the full sun
swings
His lamp DER the silent lawns.
But little Love sits with ~listless wings
And stretches his arms and yawns.
-Theodosia Garrison in Life.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-03-27
AMMUNITION FOR THE PASTOR.
Sinners Alone Need Have Feared Con-
tents of This Box.

The Rev. Edward Lloyd Jones, a
Manchester, England, minister, tells a
story OF his experience in Fenian
days. He was travelling from a Welsh
village to Brecon, and had with him a
strong wooden box filed with heavy
theological books. At Shrewsbury
the detectives who we're on the look
out for explosive machines and the
like suspected this heavy box and
word was sent on to Brecon. When
the young minister stepped out of
the train he was ~astonished to find q
sergeant and several constables
awaiting him. 81 think YOU have a
box with you" said the sergeant.
quite right" said the preacher, who
began to scent a joke. Out came the
box and its weight excited fresh sus-
picion about its contents. This is
your box?' YES" 1T contains am.
munition?" ct does" Every we'll.
consider yourself in charge. Open the
box" The company stood away while
the sergeant found it contained moth
ing more explosive than Adam
Clarke's Theology" he expressed his
Indignation freely to the minister. All
that he got back was the soft ans
wer: why, bless my soul, man, YOU
asked if the box contained ammuni-
ton. That is my ammunition. I am
a Methodist parson, and that's what |
shoot with"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-03-27
~
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Especial Correspondence

neighbors did more highly esteem us
than the others"
The Charleston people treated the
newcomer from the Massachusetts, bay
colony with the utmost consideration
and helped them materially to found
their little church and state.
Not far from the first church found
ed by the men under the leadership of
elder Pratt. and built by the same
sturdy class of men, was built the st.
James Goose Creek meeting house.
This church, erected during the in
cumbency of Rev. Francis LIE Jan, in
iii, is still in a fine state of preserva-
ton. This is built OF. brick and cherub
heads adorn the windows. The royal
arms of the king of England are still
oyer the chancel. and it was the pres
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-03-27
Prof. 5onney Heard Enouoh.

Prof. Bonney Of New Bedford,
Mass. is a noted wit. On one c
sion one of his Latin students went
into his Virgil class with a half-pre-
pared lesson. Prof. Bonney called
upon him to translate the famous pas
sage in which Aeneas vainly strives
to embrace the form Of his lost wife.
Thrice l essayed to throw my
arms around her neck" 'trotted" the
half-prepared student. Thrice | es-
sayed to throw my arms around her
neck And. professor" he stammer-
ed, that's all the far l got"
"You got far enough" 'roared the
irate Bonney; "sit down."
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-03-27
1copyrlght. 1gOs. By pally story Pub. Co.

urgings for a runaway marriage. 81
won't marry and have Papa mad with
me" said she, softly, when Fred
urged her, and he knew she meant it.
The village, being right in the shad-
ow of the great race course, naturally,
contained some ungodIy souls who
were interested in the sport, and a
few evenings later the Deacon, car
rying home a half-soiled pair of boots
from the shoemaker, found them
wrapped in a sporting paper. The
Deacon eyed it with a hostile CLEAN
as he u%nwrapped the boots in the pri-
vacy of his kitchen and then his eye
caught an item in the paper:
Public interest on the winner of
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-03-27
Neon Is Constant.

The old idea that changes are TAX
Ing place on the moon carefully has
been investigated by M. Puiseux, a
French astronomer. Going over all
records. from the earliest observations
to the latest, he concludes that the
reality of the supposed changes has
not been proved, and that the varying
s~ensitiveness of the retina to faint OBJ
jects is sufficient to account for differ
ences seen, while different conditions
of exposure might explain all appear.
tances In the photographs.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-03-27
Not EasiIy pIscouraaed.

1t may well be imagined of what
sort of stuff these old fellows were
made, when they loundered around in
Boston harbor in an open boat for four
hours in m%idwinter, and never once
lost their ardor. They waited two
days, and then made another attempt.
The brigantine had returned to get
her belated passengers, and they set
off in a strong gale on one Sunday
evening.
on the Virginia coast they encoun-
tered a tempest, and for several days
it seemed that South Carolina would
have to get along without the sturdy
missionaries. They pulled through all
right, though, and accounted for their
safe conduct through the storm by the
efficacy of two days of fasting and
prayer.
OF the voyage from that point the
leader tells in hiS notebook-with
some quaint spelling which may be
translated:
"On Monday, and so forward, We
wind often shifted. yet not so often as
to hinder our going on in our desired
course, though we could not go with
so much speed as we desired. Thurs
day morning, being We 18th day of We
month, we came in sight of the land of
Carolina, but were by a disappoint-
ment prevented from getting in that
day; but the next day we go in
through divine goodness, being the
goth day of December.
when we came to We town our yes
sci fired three guns, and the people to
welcome us to land fired about nine
guns. which was more than the usual,
and when we came to ancor, being in
ye evening, many Of We people being
worthy gentlemen came on board and
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-03-27

this hyar paper at Sunday school,"
and he replaced it in his pocket.
The horses were gathering for the
spring races near the village, and
Fred Carey was doing a large bust
ness with the horsemen. He was
liked and trusted by the race men.
and while they lodged some bills.
they always paid Carey. If it were
not for the Deacon's savage opposi-
ton to his suit for his daughters hand
he would have been entirely happy.
Sarah Potter would not listen to his