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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-11-04
The Texas Wonder.

Cures all kidney. bladder and
rheumatic troubles; sold by all drug
gists. or two months' trial treatment
by mail for 800. DR.. u. W. Hail.
2s2s Olive street. ST. Louis. Mo
Send for testimonials. Sold by Stones
drug store.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-11-04

Widely recommended for its cur
ing qualities. It's reputation for SUI
perior merit has stood for 80 years
Nothing so good for indigestion, con-
stipation, rheumatism and bad blood
as HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea
35 cents. Tea or Tablets. For sale
at DR.. Stones store.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-11-04

Manager Cooper. OF the popular
electric theatre. announces a new Of
fering tonight, with all new faces
and bright features.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-11-04
A Good IInIment.

When you need good reliable
liniment try Chamberlain Pain
Balm. IL has no superior for sprains
and swellings A piece OF flannel
slightly dampened with Pain Balm
is superior TO a plaster for lame
back or pains In the side or chest.
II also relieves rheumatic pains and
makes sleep and rest possible. For
sale at Or. Stones drug store.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-11-04
CoUNTERED ON HIS WAD.
creditors Pile Up Claims Against
Johnson's Gate Money.
(Unlted Press Leased Wire. }

Omitted Press Leased Wire.)
San Francisco, Nov. 4.-When
sam Fitzpatrick, manager of Jack
ohnson. turned up at Coffroth's re-
OF last Saturday night to gather his
nshter's share of the gate money for
dipping Jim Flynn. he found that
wad of claims had been put against
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-11-04
Bought Property

Fred Kurtz. the we'll known
butcher OF this city. has purchased
forty feet frontage on Liberty street
Just north of the Elks' building.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-11-04
STOCK
MARKET
FIRMER

The Market Opens Lower Than Sat
urtiay, But Under n Flood of Buy
Orders From Abroad Quickly
Rallied and Closed at Decided
Advance.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-11-04

County Clerk Allen this morning
issued a marriage license TO Georgs ,
w. Keyes. aged 81. and Florence Me-
comber. aged 20. both OF Wood
burn. J. L. johnson witness.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-11-04

First Annual Portland Horse Show.
To be held at Portland. Oregon,
November z. 8 and 0. 1907. Fare
from Salem TO Portland aud return
s2.2O, Sale date November only.
return limit 20 November 10.
VIM. McMURRAY,
General Passenger Agent Southern
Pacific Co. 11-2-4t
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-11-04

Piles Cured I'm q 20 "a Days.
PAZO OINTMENT 10 guaranteed
TO cure any case OF Itching, Blind,
Bleeding or Protruding piles In 8 70
ID days or money refunded. soc.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-10-18
CASE OF ECZEMA IN SOUTH.
Suffered Three Years-Hands and Eye
Most Affected-Now Well and Is
Grateful to Cuticura.

my wife was taken badly with ecze-
ma for three years, and she employed
a doctor with no effect at all until she
employed Cuticura Soap and Ointment.
One of her hands and her left eye
were badly affected, and when she
would stop using Cuticura Soap and
Ointment the eczema came back, but
very slightly, but it did her sight of
good. Then we used the entire set of
Cuticura Remedies and my wife is en-
tirely recovered. She thanks Cuticura
very much and will recommend it
highly in our locality and in every
nook and corner of our parish. I. M.
Robert, Hydropolis, La, Jan. 5 and
Sept. /, 1906"
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-10-18

der. A priced food at present is the
refuse of bean oil and peanut oil,
which ordinarily is used for fertilizer.
The few remaining pigs that are now
being butchered are so thin that they
render no lard, and lard has conse-
quently more than doubled in price.
Having scruples against taking life
(the Chinese Mohammadens are the
butchers of this country, the famine
sufferers are waiting for their dogs
and cats to die that they may eat
them. 1 saw dogs so nearly starved
that they could not bark. It will be a
poor meal that any family will make
from it's household pets, for the lat
ter are only skin and bones.
Starving-Yet Not Hungry.
Many curious sidelights on the fam.
inc are seen by the missionaries. A
great number of patients at the dis
pensaries complain that they are not
hungry, and cannot bear to eat food,
even when they can get it. They do
not realize that this is the last stage
Of starvation. Even more pathetic is
the case of the little children, whose
mothers have discovered certain
weed, which, without affording any
nutrition, nauseates them just enough
to keep them from crying for food.
OF course many persons are being
poisoned by eating the wrong kinds of
weeds; in their desperation they fill
their stomachs with any green thing
they can find.
Disease is yet to reap its worst har.
vest over the smitten area. Smallpox
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-10-18

Shanghai, China. A famine at
close range is not pretty sight
1t gets on ones nerves. Homesick-
ness, starvation, freezing, disease
these are not pleasant to contemplate
day and night, for months on end.
That some of the missionaries are be-
ginning to show signs of the strain is
not surprising, for they, and they
alone OF all foreigners, are living eye
to eye with the famine at its worst
Since they are cultivated, refined
men and women, with sensitive SYM
pathies, they are in many instances
doubtless suffering more than the
famishing Chinese themselves.
1t rather interfered with my slum-
bers at Suchien to hear the wierd,
plaintive and prolonged wall of a beg
gar at the gate, crying until far into
the night that he was starving, starv-
Ing, starving, and would perish unless
the noble-hearted foreigners would
give him help. The numbers of
corpses to be seen on the streets of
mornings proves that his prediction is
no idle beggars' plea; the mortality
among mendicants, since the people
who ordinarily feed them have them
selves become beggars, is really ap-
paling. Thrice l passed through the
streets of Suchien at night, and at
every turn there was huddled some
shivering, homeless, hungry creature,
wailing his starvation cry.
There is scarcely a missionary in
the famine region who does not re-
tire at night with the nerve-racking
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-10-18
m THE suPERLATlvE DEGREE.
Little Sons Explanation Seemed ia
Cover the Case.

Little son, aged seven, whose train
ing has been of the most painstaking
and conscientious, rather took away
his mothers breath in describing the
dogs game of ball. He ended with:
"And, mother, Topsy caught the ball
in her mouth, and then just ran like
h."
Like what?" cried the startled
mother.
IVY, like h, don't you know,
mother?" innocently.
'No, don't believe I do. just how
is that, dear?" she asked family.
"Well, I don't know JUS what it
means, myself" he confessed, ''but it's
q whole lot faster than 'lickety-split! :"
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-10-18
TOLD HIM THE TRUTH.
Dads Indignation Got the Better Of
His Judgment.

An old German farmer, who resided
In one of the rural districts of the
state of Iowa, was the father of a
half-witted boy, whose lack of INTEL
lect was the cause of no little anxiety
and solicitude on the part of the pa
ternal parent.
dot poy Shon," he was heard to re-
mark in the course of conversation
with a neighbor of like Teutonic
origin, "he iss not ferry bright, aber
I ton't want you to tell him because
I ton't want him to know it,
Meanwhile the young hopeful was
driving through the barnyard with a
load of hay, which in attempting to
turn a sharp corner he unfortunately
upset.
The old man Immediately became
highly indignant. "Shon!" he below
ed in a voice of thunder, "you iss a
plane fool, you always vass fool,
you always will pc fool, you not
know holdings. Library.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-10-18
Why Advertising Paws.

"You will be pressed for money
oftener because you have no advertis-
ing bills to pay than because you
have" observes the Buffalo News.
big advertising bills and big bank
balances grow, together, out of the
same publicity campaigns" The mer-
chant who holds down his expense &C.
count by cutting out advertising saves
money just the way the railroads
would if they should stop buying coal
for their locomotives. Without coal
the wheels won't turn; without pub
licity trade comes to standstill. It
pays to throw silver out of the window
that gold may come in at the door.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-10-18
OF Little Faith.

At the Pine Grove camp ground in
Canaan, Conn, little girl was re-
moved by her mother for disobedience
and being naughty to her playmates.
The child was told that when she said
her prayers at night she should seek
forgiveness and ask the Lord to help
her be a better girl. Here is the
prayer which the youngster made un-
der protest:
"Oh, Lord, want you to help me to
mind my mamma, to help me to be a
better girl, to help me to be good to
my playmates, to-but, pshaw, Lord,
what's the use? 'spect you don't
believe half I'm saying"
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-10-18
FAMILY FOOD.
Crisp, Toothsome and Requires No
Cooking.

A little boy down in N. c. asked his
mother to write an account of how
Grape Nuts food had helped their FAM
lily.
She says Grape-Nuts was first
brought to her attention on visit to
Charlotte, where she visited the Mayor
OF that city who was using the food by
the advice of his physician. She
says:
"They derive so much good from it
that they never pass day without
using 1t. While was there I used the
Food regularly. l gained about Is
pounds and felt so well that when re-
turned home began using Grape Nuts
IN our family regularly.
my little 18 months old baby short
ly after being weaned was very ill
with dyspepsia and teething. She was
sick nine weeks and we tried every
thing. She became so emaciated that
1t was painful to handle her and we
thought we were going to lose her.
One day happy thought urged me to
try Grape-Nuts soaked in little warm
milk.
well, it worked like a charm and
she began taking it regularly and i'm
provement set In at once. She is now
getting well and round and fat as fast
as possible on Grape-Nuts.
"Sometime ago several of the family
were stricken with LaGrippe at the
same time, and during the worst stages
we could not relish anything in the
shape of food but Grape-Nuts and
oranges, everything else nauseated us.
I'VE all appreciate what your ia.
nous food has done for our family" !"
There's a Reason" Read THE Road
to Wellville," in pkgA
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-10-18
A HOPELESS Case.

"Yes,'' said the business man, Il
have given up trying to collect that lit
tie bill from Bilkins You see, he is
big, muscular fellow, and he used to
throw my collectors out"
"Then why didn't you employ a
woman collector" inquired a writer
in Spare Moments. :'He couldn't do
that to woman
"That's what thought, so I got one
and sent her round, but she never
came back"
why not?"
He married her."
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-10-18
A fo1ne Bird.

An Irishman who wasn't much of
hunter went out to hunt one day, and
the first thing he saw to shoot at was
blue jay sitting saucily on the~top
OF fence. He blazed away at the
bird and then walked over to pick it
up. What he happened to find there
was dead frog, which he raised care
fully at arms length, looking at it with
a puzzled air. Finally he remarked:
"Well, begobs, but We was devil of
foine looking burd befur OF blew
ther 6thers off o'yers!"- !"-Judge's Ii
brarv
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-10-18

is now ravaging the center of the
famine region, one house in three be-
ing affected. Medical attention is not
sought and vaccination is declined. In
one house found the family gathered
in the same room with a man whose
face was swollen, black and outbroken
in the worst imaginable case of small
pox. The wife was calmly combing
her hair!
Famine fever is scarcely BEGINNING
it's ravages, although thousands will
perish from this cause before -Spring
When the worse plaques come the
missionaries will be in real danger>
One of the doctors at Tsin- -Kiang has
not yet wholly recovered from an at
tack of famine fever some years ago.
The nervous exhaustion incident tn
the extraordinary strain and work Of
famine relief is telling on some mis-
sionaries. One of the most efficient
men is able to sleep only a few hours
every night.
While on the subject of sickness it
is worthy Of note that the only living
skeletons produced thus far by the
famine have been found in the hospit-
ais, and they were suffering from dis
ease as we'll as starvation AS a mat
ter OF record starvation here does not
produce the emaciation which Is so
notable in the Indian famines, Those
In the last stages of hunger become
bloated and swollen, as with dropsv.
The one certain characteristic of the
tamishing, and I have noticed it In
the case OF two out of three persons
met in the rural parts of Kiangpeh, is
the peculiar famine pallor-a lividness.
dustiness, and a tenseness which
overspreads the features. This is the
signature of starvation.
The Grim Reaper's Harvest.
At the end of January, the famine
deaths are only beginning, although
from the corpses have seen, and the
poor, hasty grave mounds, and the lit
tie rag of white on women's heads. in
lieu Of full mourning, should imagine
that the grim reaper had been having
a rare harvest.
With a calm certainty that is hor-
riblN the missionaries assure you that
nothing now can prevent the people
from dying by tens of thousands dur
lag the next few months. They expect
this and plan for it. Already, like
rats in their holes, the peasants are
dying in their homes.
The horror of it comes over one in
the concentration camps, where host
of more than half million refugees,
fleeing from pursuing famine, have
gathered outside the walls of several
cities. The world may have seen
worse spectacles of misery than these,
but, If so, l have never heard of them.
The people have built themselves
straw huts, in no instance large
enough to hold man standing erect,
and In most cases scarcely more than
waist high. In these, on the bare
ground, whole families huddle togeth-
cd. The f1imsy shelters they have
erected serve to keep out the fiercest
OF the wiatry blasts, and the direct
deluge Of the rains. But at the best
there is misery beyond words, espe-
cially when it is remembered that they
are only spots upon which to sit and
wait for food or death.
Mrs. Sydenstricker, q missionary at
Chin-Kiang, was going through a ref,,.
gee camp 4 few days ago when she
came across the dead body Of 4 wom-
an In one Of the shacks. Three chill.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-10-18
Had a Cheer Comma,

Years ago, when the G.. A. R. annual
department encampment was held in
Boston, as the veterans were marching
along one of the avenues a lady, who
had secured an elevated position on a
wagon in side street, became con-
spicuous by the enthusiasm she dis
played, and was dissatisfied with the
lack of it in the by-standers. "Cheer!"
said she. "Why don't you cheer? /
guess you'd cheer if you'd lost two
husbands in the war as I did."-Life.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-10-18

cry of beggar at his gate resounding
in his ears. Yet it is impossible, as
have seen, to give help at the gate;
such an action would bring down
perpetual mob upon one; a mob, too,
in which the less worthy cannot be
distinguished from the absolutely per-
1shing. In these times, only the lat
ter can command attention.
tricks That Arc Vain.
1t is not for gratitude and loyalty
that these suffering Chinese are being
helped. Three times out of four the
beggar to whom handsome largesse
has been given, instead of knocking
his head on the ground in gratitude,
after the Chinese custom, will only
importune for more. These poor are
like the horse leach's daughters, cry
ing, Give, Give!" and, like Sheol and
Abaddon, they are never satisfied. The
impression that these famine victims
are going about singing the praises
of those who have put bread into
their mouths is a mere fancy, the
Chinaman is an ungrateful customer
will, by ways that are dark, secure a
double portion of relief for himself.
The women missionaries at one sta
ton are giving their time to making
over clothes for the innumerable ILL.,
clad refugees; as result some per-
sons have presented themselves abso-
lutely naked at the dispensary. 1t
was found that some Chinese were
coming twice for clothes; now every
recipient of aid is marked between
the shoulder blades with a nitrate of
silver pencil. In former famine the
expedient was adopted by the mission
aries of shaving off a portion of one
eyebrow as means of Identification.
The authorities at some points require
each person who receives government
relief to dip his hand into a bowl of
dye, but the shrewd natives know how
to remove this, and the missionary
doctor has been applied to for some
chemical which cannot be washed off!
This is the sort of thing which
makes all missionary work In China
so discouraging. One day 1 went with
a missionary to take a census of a
destitute village. Further investiga.
ton showed that every family had
for this occasion increased the num-
ber of it's children two-fold, while no
less than ten families outside of the
village had registered themselves as
residents. If there are any more con-
stant and unblushing liars liz TIE
world than the Chinese, l hope it
may never be my lot to have dealtugs
with them.
Cattle Fodder for Human 1alAqs.
An admirable trait of these mis-
sionaries Is that they are impelled to
their labors by deeper motives than
the deserving of those whom they
seek to help. They realize that even
il the Chinese are unlovely and dis.
honest, they are none the less fellow
mortals in need. The very village
that I have just mentioned was facing
imminent starvation; not a grain of
rice or wheat could be found in any
of the homes, and the family cooking
pots contained only sweet potato
leaves. Throughout the famine re.
gion the people are subsisting solely
on leaves, weeds, fungus, bark and
roots. The supply Of these is now
giving out. Nobody but the Chinese
could have STAYED of death so long.
The peasants in the famine area
have sold their live stock, as we'll as
their other possessions. and now they
themselves are glad to eat the fod.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-10-18

dren, too small to know that they
were motherless, had been sitting be-
side the cold. unanswering corpse for
"a hours, wondering why their only
friend did not heed them. Worse, to
the point of nerve-shattering, have
been some of the scenes have had to
witness of women wailing beside their
uncoHned dead. l fear I can never
forget the picture of one woman.
standing despairingly beside her hus-
bands body, which lay in the street,
from which she was too weak to lift
1t. The destitution here is really unto
death-and a penny a day would keep
man alive!
Children for Sale.
One Of the missionary problems pre-
cipitated by the famine is what to do
about the children that are constantly
being offered for sale, or as gifts to
the missionaries, by parents eager to
prolong the lives of their little ones.
Up until the present no mission has
telt equal to the task of accepting
any waits or of starting a home for
them. The pleas of the parents are
pitiful to the last degree. The lengths
to which mother love will go were IL
lustrated by the answer of one Chi
nese woman when her child complain
ed that he was dying of hunger. II
Snow 1t, my child, and I would give
you my arm to eat If it had any meat
on it." One woman succeeded in SELL
Ing her baby to a missionary's next
coor neighbor for ten cash (half q
cent?, and she was so grateful that
she got down and knocked her head
on the ground. I have had several
fine specimens of Chinese childhood
offered to me.
The sale of children provides pros.
porous families with slave girls. adopt.
ed sons and prospective daughters-in.
law. It also, alas, recruits the broth.
els of the Orient, Shanghai's traflck.
ers in human flesh are said already to
have gone to the famine field. Mis-.
s1onaries in the same city are like
wise taking steps to establish an or.
phanage or home for such children as
the parents are disposing Of. Many
infants, and invalids as well, are be.
ing cast on the roadside to die, or
else being thrown into the canal. The
homeless refugees are frantic with
distress, for countless homes las well
as several native Christian churches)
were washed away by the flood which
caused the famine.
4 stream of relief is now on Its
way to the famine district, and it must
be maintained for five months. The
missionaries are buster for with en-
listing helpers from other parts OF
northern China, with handling freight
boats. wheelbarrow trains, carrying
coolies, distributing stations and other
methods of getting food to the hungry
than they are with preaching. But
their work is elementally Christian,
even If it bears no denominational or
missionary label. China and the
world will remember the missionaries
part in this famine.
copyright. by Joseph B. Bowles)
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-10-18

My doctor kept me on strict diet, but
as his medicine was not helping me,
I began using Doan's Kidney Pills.
They helped me at once, and soon all
traces of sugar disappeared. 1 have
regained my former weight and am
perfectly WE'LL"
Sold by all dealers. so cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-10-18
Time Brinus Chances,

when 1 was 15," remarked JUS
tice of the supreme court, at the lun-
cheon table, Il thought a man of 40
too old to need teeth. At IS regard
ed a man of so as about at the end of
his string. To-day 1 know a lot of
mighty lively boys who have passed
the age of TO-"
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-10-18
Bird Feared by Tiqer,

India's tiger bird, so called because
he is the one thing the royal beast
fears, is no larger than the SPAR
row. Yet so bold and combative is
he that if the great cat is surprised by
sufficient number of the little crea-
lures far from the protecting shelter
of the jungle it will go hard with
him. When alone the bird will not
attack. Supported by focb of
friends, however, often numbering sew
eral thousand, the bird will seek out
his hereditary foe and give battle.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-10-18
Hints for Wives.

There are two ways of looking at
husband. One is to make up your
mind that he has no faults and to
consider him piece of perfection.
The others is to recognize his faults
and to make up your mind to love him
in spite of them.-Health.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-10-18
New Zealand's Good Work

New Zealand has set aside 100000
acres of land for endowment for the
purposes of education and old age
pensions. Custom duties have been
reduced on necessaries of life, and in
creased in other lines to protect in.
duStrieS.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-10-18
HoW'a This?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any
case Of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hairs
Catarrh Cure.
FL. CHENEY 4 CO., Toledo, o.
We the undersigned, have known F. j. Cheney
for the last IS years. and believe him perfectly hon.
orable in all business transactions and financially
able to carry out any obligations made by his frm
WALD1NG, KINNAN & MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure ts taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the
system. Testimonials sent free. Price Is cents Per
bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
Take Halls Family Pills tor constipation.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-10-18

that my hOuseWOrk
was becoming a. bur-
den. / tireA sasily,
had no ambition and
was failing fast. My
complexion got yel-
low, and i lost over
SO pounds. My thirst
was terrible, and
there was sugar in
~ ~ 1/fl~@
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-10-18

If all men paid their debts prompt.
ly there would be fewer financial
panics.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-10-18

1t is proof positive of mans es-
sential soundness If he improves as he
grows old.-James Parton.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-10-18

We Pay Top Price for Cream.
Cash every day. Write for prices and
tags Miller & Holmes. St. Paul. MINI.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-10-18

don't think much of a man who is
not wiser to-day than he was yester-
day. abraham Lincoln.