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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-05-26
MACHINES WEAVE
MAGIC SPELL

The linotype is so complicated that
1t requires the constant care of ma.
ehinist other than the operator, though
in some small shops. with but one OF
two machines, man who is known as
machinise operator performs both
func ions.
Frank Follet, who is said TO have
been the first linotype machinist in
Chicago though it is a matter of dis
pute--says the way the thing took pos
session of him was little less than de.
mOniac. When his paper put in ma.
chimes the manager sent him east for a
month to learn the mechanism.
chssed Him in His sleep.
''I used to tinker around the ma.
chimes all day and dream of them half
the night" he says. "Before got
accustomed to them they seemed like
enemies. They would chase me through
the light like wolves. The would squirt
flames and hot metal at me. as II they
were dragons. They would come to
pieces and fall on me. have even
dre"me6 of swallowing them.
''But after few months they grew
amiable. They treated me "a il was
a friend and brother. But I will
never get over the facination they ex.
ert. 1t seems absurd TO say these ma.
chimes are alive, but there are some
peculiar things about them. Each one
has its individual whims You have
to understand them and humor them
to get good results
One operator tells a story about his
foreman. 1t seems that one day when
the cold man. had an idle moment he
sat down at the machine and began to
spell out words on the keyboard, using
a single finger.
"when he got the line full he tim
idly sent il in. Then he set up another
line and another till his duties called
him away. The next day he was back
at the machine again and we looked at
each other and smiled. The old man
did not realize it. but we knew that
he was falling under the spell of the
machine. AS the days went by he
would practice whenever he could get
a chance. When he was busy ut some.
thing else he would eye the machine
hungrily. II was a pleasant thing to
be foreman, Of course, but could see
that he envied the rest of us who had
nothing to do all day but pound that
blessed keyboard.
:. Bad as Actors TO Talk shop.
"Nobody ever hung around a girl
as devotedly as the old man hung
around the machine. We all knew what
would happen. Sure enough, the old
nan decided that he would rather run
, machine than boss the bunch, and he
IS now one of the 'swifts.' having
given up his job for the privilege Of
work on the machine"
1t has been noticed that the linotype |
men are worse than actors to talk |
hop. When two or three of them are
gathered together they do not speak
u politics, or religion, or $1,000 II.
'ense. or !. NJ. o. They talk about
he "string" they set the day before,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-05-26
.4gPeck'sa So.
Bad Boy Abroad!
BY HON. GEO. w. PECK.
As Pssks Bed Boz end HI Ps. Pti UseL Rs Hss Pfsss
Ped PIT Desa Ne Rsksnsa Ee.

qIs a new book about this
bad boy who has been in
more mischief and created
more fun than any other boy
in the world. The bad boy
accompanies his dad on a
tour around the world.
which the latter takes for
his health. They visit all
the foreign lands and call on
many Of the crowned heads,
The Bad Boy keeps up his
pranks before the Royalty
Of Europe and plays many
funny tricks on them.
~ E-.m- L.. aIaughg
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-05-26
BRICK

Brick furnished In large or snai
quantities. Pressed brick made 70
order. Yard on State street, ssuth %
Psnitsntiary.
SALEM SxrcK YARD.
A. A. BURTON. Prep
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-06-08

cry and despair. st. Lazare
founded in lilo as hospital for
ers, as it's name implies. By a chaV
ter granted in 1147 these lepers werl
given the right to choose out of then
kings cellars ten hogsheads of wine
year. Some years later they ex-
changed this privilege for an allow.
ance of beef and bread with few bot
ties of wine.
In 1916 the lepers were ousted and
monks, vowed to piety and poverty,
took their place.
A portion of St. LaZare was set
aside as a house of correction for
men ten years before the outbreak OF
the revolution. Beaumarchais, the IA
nous author of the Marriage OF
Figaro was locked up here solely on
the strength of slettre de cachet."
During the reign of terror St. La
care was transformed into prison
which for many of the suspects there
inGercerated proved but the ante
chamber for the guillotine. The MUIR
der loving tyrant, Robespierre, made.
the feroeious Venner governor of st.
Lazare Venner did his best to make
the lives of the prisoners intrusted
| to his care a hell on earth. He gloat-
ed over the sufferings which the
shadow of impending death caused
| them, and adopted every device that
his malignant ingenuity could suggest
to add to them.
| The cruelties that were practiced at
| st. Lazare are exeelled only by those
of the Inquisition. No prisoner was
allowed to take his rest there at night
without some grim reminder that 1t
might be his last on earth.
After Napoleon had triumphed
over the terror with his whit Of
grape shot" he made st. Lazare
prison exclusively for women, and
such it has since remained. 1t COM
prises five separate buildings, sur
rounding three court yards. Each
building has four Stories and between
them they provide accommodation
such as 1t is-for 1000 inmates. The
ground floor is reserved for female
criminals awaiting their transfer to
other penal establishments, and their
workshops are also situated there.
On the floor above are women under
remand and girls under age, who
have been ordered to be detained un
til they have reached their majority
On the third floor are penned the
"Unfortunates" = feminine outcasti
who have failed to comply with Ger
tain police regulations affecting tbeil
class.
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Woman. 1t cant be over two miles
more. Git along, boys. Whoa! What's
the matter there?"
The horses had stopped plunging at
something which they could not pass.
Good God!" cried Franklin, whose
fence is that? Are we at Buford's?"
NO" said Sam, this must be at
old man Hancock's. He fenced across
the old road, and we had to make
jog around his ID broom-corn
field. It's only couple O. miles now
to Buford's."
"Shall | tear down the fence?" ask
ed Franklin.
''No, it's no use; it'd only let us in
his field, an maybe we couldn't hit
the trail on the fur side. We got
to follow the fence way. May God
everlastingly damn any man that1l
fence up the free range! Whoa
Jack! Whoa, Bill Git out O. here!
| Git upi"
They tried to parallel the fence, but
the horses edged away from the
wind continually, SO that it was diff
ficult to keep eye upon the infrequent
posts of the meagre, struggling fence
that this man had put upon the pub
| lie lands"
Hold on, SAM" cried Franklin.
Let me out"
That's right, Cap" said Sam. "Git
out an go on ahead way, then hol-
Ter to me, so'st kin come up to you.
When VIC git around the corner we'll
be all right"
But when they got around the cor
ner they were not all right At such
times the mind of man is thrown off
its balance, SO that it does strange
and irregular things. Both these
men had agreed a moment ago that
the wind should be on the right; now
they disagreed, one thinking that
Hancock's house was to the left. the
other to the right, their ideas as te
the direction of the Buford ranch
being equally at variance. The horses
decided it, breaking once again dowr
wind, and striking a low-headed, sui
len trot. as though they would out
march the storm. And SO the two
argued, and SO they rode, until a
last there was lurch and crash
and they found themselves in rougl
going, the sled half overturned, will
no fence, no house, no landmark o
any sort visible, and the snow drift
ing thicker than before. They spranl
, out and righted the sled, but thu
| horses doggedly pulled on, plunginl
, down and down; and they followed
clingiDg to reins and sled as bes
they might.
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GRIM OLD ST, LAzARE
FAMOUS PRISON AT PARIS TO
BE PULLED DOWN.
Built as Hospital for Lepers In
ITO, It Has Served Since
the Revolution as
Jail. W

The most famous prison in Paris
since the destruction of the Bastile
st. Lazare-is to be pulled down to
make way for modern improvements.
Vast, grim and sinister looking,
haunted by evil memories, unsanitary,
no longer fitted to survive even as an
abode for those who have fallen un-
der the ban of the law, its demolition
will cause rejoicing in Paris. Only
those antiquarians, to whom every
thing that is old is precious, will re-
gret its disappearance
Situated in the most populous re-
gion of the city, the Faubourg st.
Denis, 1t has gone through many
phases, and the uses to which 1t has
been put from time to time, reflect
the startling vicssitudes that have
attended the growth of the French
capital. Could they speak, its hoary
stones might tell strange stories
stories of peace and charity; of piety
that in after times served as a mask
for hypocrisy, levity and debauchery;
of the horrible atrocities perpetrated
in the name of liberty, equality and
fraternity; of crime and depravity
1t Is strange to reflect that 1t was
the beneficent charity taught by the
gentle Nazarene which gave birth to
the gloomy structure which has long
seemed fitting habitation for mis-
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where Franklin sat on Christmas eve,
listening to the clinking rattle of the
hard snow on the pane. Sam was
white from head to foot His face
was anxious, his habitual uncertainty
and difidence were gone.
Cap" said he, with no prelude,
1.-THE whole country below'll be froze
out. The billiards. awful"
81 know it," said Franklin. 1--WE
must get out with help soon as we
can. How far down do you think the
danger line begins?"
"Well, up to three or four miles
CIT it's thicker settled, an most o
the folks could git into town. AS fur
out as thirty mile to the south, they
might git little timber yet, over on
the Smoky. The worst strip is fifteen
to twenty-five mile below"
Franklin felt tightening at his
u cart. about fifteen to twenty
ave miles?" he said Sam nodded.
Both were silent.
Look here, Cap" said the driver
presently, you've allus told me not
to say nuthin' bout the folks down
to the Halfway house, an | hain't
said thing. I low you got Jared
down there some. l know how that
is. All the same, reckon maybe you
sorter have leanin that way still.
You may be worried some"
Franklin groaned as he sank into
a chair. his face between his hands.
Then he sprang up. 1--WE must go!''
he cried.
"I know it," said Sam simply.
"Get ready" exclaimed Franklin
reaching for his coat.
"What do you mean, Cap-now?
ayes, to-night-at once"
"You id fool" said Sam.
"You coward" cried Franklin
"What! Are you afraid to go Out
when people are freezing-when-'
Sam rose to his feet, his slow feat
ures working. THAT amt right, Cap,
said he. 1T know I'm scared to de
some things, but II don't believe
I'm no coward. I amt afraid to e
down there, but won't go tonight
ner let you go, fer it's the same al
death to start now. We couldn'
maybe make it in the daytime, bu
I'm willin' to try it then. Don't 20,
call no coward to me. 1t amt right.
Franklin again cast himself into hi
chair, his hand and arm shifting OF
the table. 81 beg your pardon. Sam,
said he presently. 81 know your
not a coward. Well start together Il
the morning: But it's killing me t
wait. Good God! they may be freez
ing now, while we're here, warm an
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minors, or of improper literature to
anyone; they may inaugurate ma
tional movement in favor OF stricter
marriage laws, or for the adjustment
of what seems to many women the
browning barbarity of the age, CAPT.
tai punishment.
Women have already concerned
themselves through clubs in en-
deavors to improve the condition OF
child-laborers, and the bitter cry OF
the children, dwarfed and stunted by
long hours of hard toll, touches
chord in their hearts, that instantly
responds.
Women serving on school boards
bring into the school room the moth
erly and sisterly element; In some
neighborhoods they have done away
with desks that were too high or 100
low, for the comfort of pupils, they
have embellished school rooms with
treasures of art, and, have done very
much for the betterment of light and
ventilation, fighting also with some
success the over-crowding, that Is the
bane of the public school in some sec
lions Of the larger cities.
They have likewise introduced vital
reforms in the management OF prls-
ons, and have separated or induced
the separation of child culprits from
older and hardened criminals. In
some jails and houses of detention,
through the efforts of women, SCHOOLS
have been organized where boys and
girls unfortunately arrested and held
for trial, may be daily taught.
Accepting this presentation of the
situation as in the main true to fact,
we can but modify the opening state
ment of this bit of talk that women
have less public spirit with us than
they have in other lands. The diff
ference Is that ours assumes what
may be deemed the practical side in
stead of the theoretical.
Our public spirited women see
something wrong and try to set 1t
right; they are accustomed to WELD
broom and buster indoors, and on
occasion they have no contempt for
scrubbing brush. They pounce upon
dirt where they see it, and loathe
crime and graft of every sort, and are
ready to sweep and scour 1t out OF
their domains. One of these days
they may add to this livelier inter-
est in partisan politics. II ever the
| day dawns when women are permitted
to use their influence in amending
some home question, such as railroad
rates and the tariff and the collection
| of customs, we are sanguine enough
to think that they will help their hus-
bands and brothers to ways and
modes in which there shall be less
friction and more courtesy and COM
mon sense.
Not being an advocate of universal
suffrage, do not profess to point out
the manner in which this possible i'm
provement is to be brought about, but
then logic is not the strongest feature
of my sex.
In one direction women are leaven'
ing public sentiment to some purpose
and that Is in protest against 1000
adulteration. There is peril of Turk
ing poison in depraved bread, degen
crate spices, spurious canned goods
and the like, coming as they do OF
the family table and slowly or swift.
sapping the fountains Of health ant
life. In no way can woman evince
true public spirit better than by re
fusing to buy or use tainted foods am
in uniting her sisters everywhere Il
crusade against them.
Copyright. 1906. by Joseph B. Bowles)
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go some day." His words drove
Franklin again to his feet, and he
walked up and down, his face gone
pinched and old.
At dawn the wind lulled. The
clouds swept by and the sun shone
for an hour over vast landscape
buried under white. Sam was ready
tc start, having worked half the night
making runners for sled at which
Of unacquaintedness. The sled box
was piled full of robes and coal and
food and liquor-all things that SEEM
ed needful and which could hurriedly
be secured.
With perfect horsemanship Sam
drove his team rapidly on to the
south, five miles, ten miles, fifteen,
the horses now warming up, but still
restless and nervous, even on the
way so familiar to them from their
frequent journeyings. The steam of
their breath enveloped the travellers
in a wide, white cloud. The rude
runners crushed into and over the
pdCk6Q uTllJS, VI IuS oduuy
CRIME where the wind had swept the
earth bare of snow. In less than an
hour they would see the Halfway
House. They would know whether
or not there was smoke.
But in less than two hours on that
morning of deceit the sun was lost
again. The winds piped up, the cold
continued, and again there came the
binding snow, wrapping all things
in its dancing, dizzy mist.
1.-THE winds just on my right
cheek" said Sam, putting up NIT
ten. But where's it gomez"
you're frozen, mani" cried Frank
lin. pull up, and let me rub your
face"
mo, no, we can't stop" said Sam
catching up some snow and rubbing
his white cheeks as he drove. "KeeI
the wind on your right cheek-we're
over the Sand Run now, l think, and
on the long ridge. back of the White
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CHAPTER xxv.-continued.


The sun came on, valiantly stripped
bare, knowing what was to be. sui
louder rose the requiem OF the wire.
The sky smiled on. There was no
token to strike with alarm these hui
man beings, their faculties dullcd by
e thousand years of differentiation.
To the north there appeared long,
black cloud, hanging low as the trail
of some far-off locomotive. new upon
the land. All at once the cloud
sprang up, unfurling tattered battle
flags, and hurrying to meet the sun
upon the zenith battle ground.
Once the wind pelted the slant snow
through the interstices of the grasses
upon the furry back of the covering
coyote. Now they found new sport
In driving the icy powder through the
cracks of the loose board shanty, upon
the stripped back of the mother hud-
ding her sobbing children against the
empty, impotent stove, perhaps wrap.
ping her young in the worn and whit
,ened robe of the buffalo taken years
ago. For it was only the buffalo,
tHOuSH HOW uepdTtSu, WHICH uCiu IHC
frontier for America in this unpre-
pared season, the Christmas Of the
Great Cold. The robes saved many
of the children, and now and then
q mother also.
The men who had no fuel did as
their natures bid, some dying at the
ice-bound stove and others in the
open on their way for fuel Mishap
passed by but few of the remoter
homes found unprepared with fuel
and Christmas day, deceitfully fair
dawned on many homes that were to
be fatherless, motherless, or robbed OF
firstborn. Thus it was that from
this, the hardest and most self-re
liant population ever known on earth
there rose the heartbroken cry fol
comfort and for help, the frontier fol
the first time begging aid to hold the
6kirmish line.
Sam Poston came into the Office
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Island BARGAIN.

A millionaire who has an ambition
to be a monarch would do we'll to bid
In Lundy island. at the entrance of
Bristol channel, which is to be sold
toward the end of the year, says the
Springfield (Mass.) Republican. 1t Is
three miles long and one mile wide
and has been overlooked by the insat-
late British empire. 1t Is no country,
1t pays no taxes, its owner Is mon
arch in his little realm. And all this
splendid isolation within sight of the
shores of England
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-06-08
ADMIRAL Toeo's CADET DAYS.

"reminiscences of the Foremost Jap
anese Admiral.
A retired English naval officer, who,
when a lad, was on board the train
ing ship Worcester at the same time
as the prominent Japanese Admiral
Togo, tells the following reminis-
cences:
Togo was constantly the victim OF
all manner of chaff from the young
Britishers on board, who called him
o-go-three-go." Disliked at
first, perhaps because he was unlike
his mates, he grew in popularity on
account of his remarkably alert mind
and agile body, until at length he be-
came a general favorite with officers
and boys.
He stood all chaff with a certain
amount of bravado, unless 1t touched
on his resemblance to the Chinese.
To one fellow sailor who dubbed him
a Chinaman he said with emphasis:
You wait; when I am the admiral
l hang You on the yardarm."
One day that Togo had his leave
stopped for some small offense, lib.
erty boys to go ashore" was piped.
and the boys went up to him and said.
Are you to go?" NO" he replied.
Immediately the youngsters got round
him and pinched him for telling lies,
shouting at the same time. "You are
Togo!"
His Christian name being rather
difficult to pronounce. Togo was told
by one of the boys to shoot his god
father and godmother on his return
home. 1--WE do not shoot gods In
JAPAN" was his reply.
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ON PUBLIC SPIRIT
AMERICAN WOMEN BEHIND
THEIR ENGLISH SISTERS.

Women Intensely Interested
in Their Government-our Women
Accomplish Successful Reforms,
Notwithstanding Their Lack of In
terest in Politics-Clean Streets,
Health Protective Associations,
Stricter Marriage Laws, Improved
School Systems, and Vital Prison
Reforms Are Results of Their Eff
forts-Their Protest Against Food
Adulteration.
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Described His Cheese.

The girl asked the polite salesman
II he had good cheese.
I'VE have some lovely cheese" was
the smiling answer.
you should not say lovely cheese"
she corrected.
why not? It Is" he declared.
Because = with boarding-school
iignity-"lovely should be used to
qualify only something that Is alive.
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AN EMBROIDERED DOLLY.
Scallops and Padded Work Give q
Very Rich Effect to Dolly Model
Here Illustrated.

This may be worked on fine white
linen. to be used as a dolly for cake,
sandwiches, ETC., or on fine cloth for
lamp or vase mat.
On linen the work would be exc
cuted in white fax thread or soft
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embroidery cotton; for working on
cloth, silk would be used.
Rather more than half the design
is shown in No. 2. 1t is worked in
satin and cording-stitch. The leaves
and flowers should be well padded by
running out two or three times before
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working the satin stitch; this gives
the work a richer effect. The pat
tern must be continued in light trail
round the opposite side of dolly. The
scalloped edge Is run out twice in the
narrow part and three times in the
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Travelling Together.

TTdVCII1H IU9SHfFSIs
where's that dude hunter?"
"Oh, he left me to go after bear"
"When's he coming back?"
Whenever the bear does"
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Couldn't Find II.
why don't you appeal to hiD con
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Women show public spirit, too, in
movements for reform.
Wherever there is established a
wide-awake and active Woman's club,
there is instant sympathy with move
ments for reform. These may concern
the comfort of operatives in factories,
and of saleswomen in department
stores. or they may be directed toward
, 1906-06-07
CHILD DROWNED.

The youngest child of Mrs. Gar
IRISH who lives ON Jack creek, was
drowned at that place last Friday
afternoon by falling off the loot
bridge across the creek. The lit
tie girls name was Elva and is
about six years old. She and her
brother were playing down by the
creek near where her mother and
elder sister YER working in the
garden. The little brother came
running up to where the mother
was and said that Elva had fallen
into the creek and that he couldn't
get her out, as the creek was SC
high, The mother ran down to
where she had fallen in but could
see nothing of her and after
searching down the creek for about
100 yards she was found lying il
the water under the bank where G
bunch of willows were overhanginl
and had caught the child under
, 1906-06-07
Correspondence
cow CREEK

Cow Creek is a very busy place this
spring. Rain has fallen every day
for the past eight days, missing but
one. Cow creek has been overlooking
its banks for the past week.
Ditch building and cleaning is in
progress. G.. NJ. Wilcox, l.. D. Peck
and A. Underwood are making quite
a showing IN the company ditch in
the Crocheron field.
The Cow Creek boys are practicing
and figure on holding their own with
the Saratoga nine in the coming ball
game on the 4th.
We hope Saratoga will have her
s%prinkling cart out and keep the dust
down during the 4th. We want to
see things on that day and don't want
our eyes filled with dust,