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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-06-20

Manufacturer 10 chairman of a
committee OF workmen)--What
now? Did / not raise your wages
last month Am ! not paying you
more than anybody else In the
trader
chairman-Yes. sir. But what Is
the use Of having more money with
out more time 20 spend itg We
want another day a week of.-Ans-
wer4
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-06-20
THE swEDE GOT MAD.
Hunted Up and Licked the Man Who
Robbed Him.

j. Summer an escape from tho
Canyon county Jail OF Idaho. and
who was held In that state on the
charge OF larceny. arrived In this
lefty some time Tuesday and immedi.
ately proceeded to get busy. mar
ratets the Huntington Herald. He
proceeded up. the track and held up
a Swede taking his watch and some
change. The Swede was evidently
too surprised too offer resistance
and gave up without a murmur.
Later, e. the Swede evidently
got to thinking the matter over and
thought he would go on a man hunt
himself, He went up the river and
made several inquiries about the
footpad. but could get no trace of
him. The Swede then bega nto beat
the brush around where he was held
up, with the result that he ran
across Summer. and there was, from
all indications. one OF the most des-
perate battles that has ever been
fought In this section. Alone, and
with no witnesses, they went at II
like two hends. lighting for how
long, no body knows, but long
enough TO trampie out 20 yards OF
tlis brush and make II look like a
cyclone had hit II and that II had
afterwards been used for a slaugh-
ter pen, blood being all over the
bathe ground. Finally Summer sue
cumed 20 the powers OF the Swede,
who beat and kicked his face into a
pulp. The Swede In the scrap got
bad lick over the eye and HIS thumb
In the other fellows mouth with
disastrous results. After the swede
had conquered his opponent into
submission he started with him for
town. arriving he turned him loose.
Later they were both arrested and
placed In the city Jail. How badly
Summer was injured II was not def
initely known AZ the sheriff Of Can
yon county arrived the next day and
took the prisoner back ON the Pony.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-06-20
Ancient Rome

Is now merely memory OF the. past
Billiards. Snow Llniment is the fam
lily liniment of the twentieth century.
A positive cure for Rheumatism.
Burns. Cuts, sprains. Neuralgia. ETC..
Mr.. @. II. Runyon. stanberry. Mo-.
writes: II have used Snow Liniment
for Rheumatism and all pain. l
can't say enough in its praise" Sold
by ID. j. Fry.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-06-20

Albert Ramm, a German aged 81,
committed suicide at his home at
crabtree' near Albany. Tuesday
morning. He got up and built a
nre' attended bis cows. went into
the barn, and, facing looking
glass. while sitting on the hay, pulled
the trigger OF an old 3s-calibre Ger
man revolver. and the ball plowed
through his brain and into the side
OF the building.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-06-20

IL have fired the walking-sticl<
I've carried over 40 years. on account
OF a sore that resisted every kind OF
treatment, until triod Bucklen's
Arnica saive; that has healed the
sore and made me n happy man."
writes John Garrett. Of North Mills.
N. q. Guaranteed for Piles. Burns
etc, by j. @. Perry druggist. abc.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-06-20
MORE
BATTLE
SHIPS

Washington. June 20.--Bids were
opened by the navy department this
afternoon for two new battleships OF
the Dreadnausht type, their speed 90
be al knots and displacement 2O.-
900 tons. One will cost nearly s4,.
10000 0and the other s4.5O0.0O0.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-06-20

Cosmetics will ruin the complex
ion. There's no beauty practice
equal TO the effects OF HOLSTERS
Rocky Mountain Tea. II keeps the
entire body in perfect health. Tea
or Tablets. 35 cents. DR.. Stones
Drug Store.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-06-20

"Moving?" inquired a neighbor.
as a furniture van stopped in front
OF Kcrfects house.
mo, indeed" replied Kerfect. "a
friend wants to borrow our collection
OF souvenir post cards. Judge.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-06-20

For stomach troubles. bilicusnsss
and constipation try Chambsrlain's
Stomach end Liver Tablets. Many
remarkable eurss have been effected
by them. Price rs cents. Samples
free. For sale by DIR. stones drug
store.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-06-20
Not Quite.

Did young cashunter get a foot
Ing In that rich family whose daugh-
ter he wanted TO marry?"
Il think 1t was more what might
be called booting. Baltimore
American.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-06-20

Cures ali kidney, bladder and
rheumatic trouble; sold By all drug
sists. or two months' treatment By
mail for 81. DIR. u. w. Hail. ssss
Olive street. 81 Louis, No. ssad
Tor testimonials. Sold By stones
orus store. dw-iyr
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-06-20
studying ECONOMY.

Dearborn--I see II costs the same
for a dog liccnss rs II does for
marriage lisense in Chicago.
Wabash-Yes. but the dog license
is cheaper in the end. -Yonkers
Statesman.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-06-20

The come and go' feelings that
you experiences after taking Hollis.
tsrs Rocky Mountain Tea "a simply
wonderful. Dress increase yoaE
weakness. This Eemsdy does shs
business IS cents. Tea or Tablets
DR.. stones Drug store.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-06-20
A Fortunate Texan.

Mr.. z. w. Goodloe. OF 10T st.
Louis st.. Dallas. Tex. says; ''In the
past year I have become acquainted
with Or. Kings New Lafe Pills. and
no laxative ! ever before tried 80
effectually disposses OF malaria and
biIiousness." They don't grind nor
gripe. 25c at J. G. Perry's drug
store.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-06-20

Miss Emily Staiger. who recently
underwent a serious operation In the
Good Samaritan hospital, In Port
land. has been removed to her moth
er's home In the metropolis. and is
reported TO be improving rapidly.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-06-20
Taft Has a Cold.

Ottawa, Kan, June 20,--Taft
speaks al the Chautauqua this after
noon. He has a cold and saw a doc
tor this morning at Kansas City be-
fore leaving.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-06-20

Chicago. June 20.--Fairbanks ar
rived In this city this morning. and
speaks at the Northwestern Univer-
sity exercises tonight.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-06-20

The automobile IL Of great assist
anee In increasing the receipts under
The inheritanee tax law.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-18
DUTY DODGERS AND TAX DODGERS.

| Prosecutions under the new wife
desertion law are cropping up here
and there over the state. In a north
western Iowa county one fellow who
had made a practice of leaving his wife
and family to depend on themselves
and private and public charity while
The visited well-to-do relatives in the
| Dakotas for three or four months at a
time, was nipped when starting on a
new trip. A term in the peniteniary OF
| q square deal for the family Were the
only thoroughfares left him to travel.
His relatives, Well-to-do people, came
/ to his rescue and signed his bond of
$1,000 that he would perform his duty
to his family. Then he gave up his
Dakota trip and went to work In 9TH
| er cases the law has worked well. The
| recalcitrant husband and father pre-
fers to stay outside the penitentiary.
| But suppose he concludes to go to
the pen? What benefit can his fami-
/
they to live while he spends year at
| F't. Madison or Anamosa? And is he
| likely to come out reformed and ready
to take up the obligation to labor for
his wife and children? We are all
pretty we'll agreed that our states
prisons are penal more than reforma-
tory institutions. When his term is
over and he energies, what has the
family, the convict and even the state
to his family or does his discharge
from the penitentiary relieve him? He
paid the penalty. What are you going
to do about it?
The wife desertion law can be i'm
proved. No able bodied man should be
permitted to dodge his duty to his
family by a years penal service. Re
fusal to support, unless justified by
circumstances, should be met precisely
as refusal to pay taxes. The state
should proceed to collect from the duty
dodgers Drawn as it does from the tax
dodgers property. He should be set
making public roads at dollar a day
and board and made to earn his wages.
His wages should go to the support of
his family. He should become a ticket
leave man when discharged and the
proper officials should make monthly
reports on him. If he supports his
family well and good. If not, back to
the roadside and a dollar a day
The point in the whole matter is that
a healthy man should endeavor to sup
port his family or be forced to do it,
He can't earn wages for his wife and
children in the penitentiary. He is
better out of prison. The need is for
reform more than punishment. The
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-18
TERMS:
TINE PERSON WHO PAYS.

An old saw generally accepted as en-
tirely applicable to all men Is to the
effect that when the pocketbook of the
! individual is touched he grows touchy
land even excited. 1t is true enough.
Money in plain sight, going in or out
OF the pocketbook of the individual
affects his expressed belief and his ac-
/ ton In morals, religion politics, the
pocketbook is an influence to be reclS-
oned with Men in general vote to
| their own private interests first and to
public interests after. The wonder Is
that so many private citizens may be
| fooled into voting money out of their
own pockets in an Indirect way when
an attempt to take the same boldly
would call for gun play.
| For the private citizen pays. The
taxpayer pays. Every particle of pub
| lie graft is paid for by the citizen
Whose pro rata of success is the basis
of his pro rata of taxation. He pays
for every mistake that costs money
from the deliberations of city coun-
ell or village board up to the senate
of the United States. The private cit
izen pays. He pays the men who de-
fend the government and the thieves
who steal from it, All graft and spe-
cial privilege is at his cost 1t is his
pocketbook.
Every private citizen can. IL he
chooses, recall a large number of oc-
casions upon which he has been called
to pay for folly and greed and scoun-
drelism in the conduct of public af-
fairs It has been his own fault, his
and his kind In some instances he
has misunderstood or failed altogether
to understand. And this is his own
fault. He has been remiss in inform
ing himself. has permitted others to
think and see for him. He has ne
elected the public business under the
impression that it was none of his own,
and intrusted it entirely to others. II
there has been knocking down" and
walking past the cash register it is
largely the fault of the private citizen
who financies business, is respon-
sible for it's operation and neglects to
give it even ordinary attention.
When the man who pays gets the
knowledge thoroughly absorbed that he
pays for an unfaithful and self serving
administration as he does for a herd
Of fence breaking cattle in his corn field,
he will pay more attention Anyway,
he must pay, either in attention or
from his pocletbook.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-18
Why Jimmy Didn't Sit Down.
Nav YORK. Tip,ac


The woman who had shopped until
the closing gong had sounded stood at
the transfer station and awaited the
suburban trolley.
''What." she YEARLY asked herself,
docs it profit a woman if she does
gain the elusive bargain and loses every
trace Of physical freshness?"
Presently the car came along. 1t
had the usual fringe Of humanity
strung along the running board, and
the woman resignedly prepared to
stand between the seats, when igrimy
youth arose and rendered her his place.
Protesting family, she sank into it
guiltily, and registered vow never to
shop overtime again.
In due time several seats were va
Gated, and the woman looked hope
fully toward her knight.
Jimmy" a friend Of his was say
ing, there's room inside now. Why
don't you sit DOWN."
And the last drop of discomfort was
added to the woman's cup of humilia-
ton when Jimmy responded:
Jaw, what's the use. No sooner I'll
get me legs stretched when another
tired old hen will get on and III have
to hop up!"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-18
WHY NOT SOME "SpEAKlNG7"

| The Sioux City Journal, which has
mary law is an invention and snare
Of the evil one, received a serious lar
| when Senator Allison declared his in
| tention to abide by the decision
reached under it's provisions. Previous
| to that declaration it was evident that
a standpat plan to hold the progress
sives to the primary IL Cummins We're
defeated and depend on n combination
| in the legislature to nullify the law
by defeating him il successful in the
primary had been Matched and APP
proved in some quarters. The Allison
The unsyndicated portion of the stand
pat press followed Allison. 1t was a
jolt.
Recovering its breath the Journal
now proposes that neither Cummins
nor Allison make senatorial cam
paign. no speaking to speak of, just
submission of names to the primary.
But why? Why not some argument
and plain statement of the merits
of the contest, pro and con? Thousands
OF voters will be glad to see and hear
the venerable senator and the COVER
nor Thousands are undecided and 1t
would seem that sight of the senator
in the fullness of vigor attributed to
him would make many votes in his
favor. Then too. many thousands will
be glad to hear the differences argued
his reelection or succession?
To be sure such a campaign would
newspapers as printed the un-
truthful account of the Scott county
OF garbled and manufactured specials
that filed their columns. Many thou
sands of voters depend on these papers
for news. Location assists much In
determining a subscription list and
quick market reports more than poll
tics. Last years campaign illustrated
the willingness OF a few newspapers to
print anything likely to make an anti
Cummins vote. confident that whoever
took one daily was not likely to take
two
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-18
"Pub Docs" Public lnutilities.
(Boston Courier)


Then comes the government with it's
messages and documents of hundred
different kinds, every one more I'M
readable than all the others, and every
one demanding place on the library
shelves. OF course no library can even
try to take care of 1.-THE of what
it receives, SO it makes a place for the
most important to it's own constituency
and let's the rest go. Any library that
tries to shelve even all the government
reports would be swamped in year.
To the ordinary reader the official re-
port is of no earthly value. An exam
ination was recently made of the labels
of over 1000 volumes of government
reports on the shelves of public IL
brary in western city and not one
had ever been called for, much less ta-
ken out. If all the government reports
We're condemned into one volume of
500 pages it might be frequently con-
suited but as it Is a reader generally
prefers to remain in ignorance of what
he wants to know rather than consult
half hundred huge volumes in the
hope of finding it.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-18
THE OLD COUNTRY CHURCH.
Cedar Falls Record)

The churches of this country are
confronted with many grave problems
but none are more potent than the
conditions that obtain in the rural
communities There was a time when
services in the country drew the whole
neighborhood to the house of God,
when everybody not only regarded
it as a privilege. but as a duty, to be
present on meeting day. Creditable
chureh structures We're erected IN
many communities and the religious
and social life of the entire neighbor-
hood was measured by the faithfulness
in attendance 1t was here the parents
would take their children and In happy
unison join In singing the grand old
hymns that We're an inspiration and
comforting solace amidst the busy
cares of farm life
1t was at the altar Of the old coun-
try church that the whisperings of the
spirit spoke words of comfort and
cheer to sin-burdened souls and that
hearts were touched and influences set
in motion that made for sturdy char
acter and noble aspirations. In the
old churchyard was the cemetery,
around whose sacred precincts cluster
the tenderest sentiments and emotions
of the human heart. AS the minister
would speak the words that have
brought hope and joy to millions, II am
the resurrection and the life," some
member of the community was laid
away in the silent tomb. and in rustic
simplicity yet with a melody that was
pathetic in its tenderness, some pious
follower Of the savior Of the world
would start "The Sweet BY and By
or "Shall We Gather at the River"
and with bowed heads and moistened
eyes, in broken cadences, the song be-
came prayer that swept the skies,
and the gates ajar at the entrance into
the holy city by faith appeared, and
with palms of victory the redeemed Of
earth, +ransplanted into the garden Of
Gods omnipotent love, becl1oned the
weary toilers of earth to prepare for a
Nome beyond the stars.
: But now the old country church by
the wayside is deserted. The bats and
owls hold nightly revelries in the erst-
while sanctuary. The voice Of song and
prayer is hushed and the tender plead
ing of the preacher is only a memory
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-18
Iowa Newspapers
SOME PUMPKINS.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
(Raxtcr New Era.

Abe Dahlem thinks he can raise
more squash with less seed than any
truck gardener in Iowa and we are IN
clined to think so, too. He planted O
number of hills. but only one hill pro-
duced anything and that from single
seed, The stalk is about as large as
the wrist of an Irishman with leg on
him like derrick, and from this stalk
ran three vines. When Abe came TO
harvest his squash he found he had
twenty five-mind you, grown from
single seed. They will weigh from
twelve to twenty pounds each. Abe
wants to know if his squash story can
be bested in Iowa? The New Era Is
now in possession Of one of Abe's IL
Founders. and IL our purse holds out
we're going to have squash pie three
times day from now on.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-18
Topics Of the Times

keokuk has always tolerated gamb-
| ling, houses but a quarrel among the
| gamblers has led to them being closed
| up. If mayors can close up the gamb-
! lers when thieves fall out, what is tc
! hinder doing the same thing as a ster
/ toward observance of law and decency
St Paul reaped 1400 per cent profit
on the cost of it's first months pub
licity work If advertising pays like
that in st. Paul, seems like it ought
to pay other cities fair profit on an
investment.
Mr. Peabody's insinuation that Mr..
Fish lied, should bring him a Carnegie
medal.
The bulletin of the State Federation
of Labor says: "The child labor law
became operative July 4, 1906, and
shortly thereafter all establishments
coming within it's provisions were
supplied with copies of the law, after
which for about ten months the Off
GERS of the Bureau of Labor Statistics,
carefully inspected such establish
ments, taking great pains in explain
ing the provisions of the law, and
where violations were found requesting
IAN Immediate discharge of the Illegally
employed children. Their avowed pur-
pose being to secure for the state the
full benefits of the provisions of the
enforcement. Upon a second visit.
finding the instructions of their edu-
cational campaign ignored, they have
had no hesitancy in emphatically en-
forcing the law. That they have in no
instance exercised undue haste or poor
judgment in enforcement is fully made
manifest in the fact that up to date
there have been fifty-six complaints
filed and in every case there has been
a conviction"
A Des Moines paper says "Dave
Brant's friends are urging him to be
candidate for lieutenant governor"
However, those who know the situa-
ton will question whether such urging
should be termed friendly act. Brant
was a bolter last year.
Marconi now announces that his
company will accept business between
New York and London at 10 cents a
word for ordinary messages and S
cent sa word for press matter. Per-
haps some day the ordinary ten words
for % cents citizen may welcome a
wireless rate of cent a word.
"Now, Johnny" asked the gentleman
who had kindly consented to teach the
class, what does this fascinating story
of Jonah and the whale teach us?"
1T teaches u.s. said Johnny, whose
father reads practical articles on prac-
teal people. that you cannot keep a
good man wallpapers Weekly.
Eighty-tWo per cent of the workers
engaged in the paper box industry of
tHe uHlteu States are women. Among
tobacco and cigar operators two thirds
are women and of the bookbinders
more than half.
BY digging canal from the Rio
Grande not far from its mouth to the
Mississippi the United States would
enjoy an inland waterway 5000 miles
long. The cost of the work is esti-
mated at 81 llflh lnn
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-18
Just Like "old Times" Talk.

FROM the houston lIeA.J sFOSl.J
1t is a shame to do it. We hate to
slam small little wad of earth like
South Carolina, but it becomes neces-
sary at times to draw from the sublime
figure of truth every vestige of drapery
in order that the world may behold
her glorious charms. The noisy, med
dlesome and fakeriferous Charleston
News and Courier feels called upon to
discuss agriculture in Texas. OF
course, it knows nothing about agri-
culture of any kind, let alone the mag
nificent diversity and abundance of
Texas products.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-18

of other and better days. Strangers
carelessly find their way thru the tan
gled grass and underbrush as they read
the inscriptions upon the marble slabs
in the churchyard, and out of the soli
tude there comes only the pathos OF
the gentle zephyrs as they tenderly kiss
the tinted foliage on the weeping will
low that stands at the head of mothers
grave.
The few churches that are left In
rural communities are struggling along
In an unsatisfactory manner, and
bishops, elders and ministers are
wondering what Of the future. 1t is
not our purpose to leave the impression
that the country folks are wholly de-
void of religious zeal and enthusiasm,
but it is palpably in evidence that in
difference to such matters has taken
large hold, especially upon American
communities. The foreigner is making
much better record in this direction
and the great majority of the churches
left in the country districts are under
the control Of the denominations that
have come to us from across the sea.
One great problem that confronts the.
church today is to re-establish itself
in country life and country thought. 1t
will not do to say that the towns and
cities get the same percentage Of the
people from the country that the old
church at the crossroads formerly got,
because this is not true. The claim
ofttimes made that facilities for going
to town are SO much improved over
former methods that the same num-
Der Of people can be reached from the
centers Of population more satisfac-
torily than they could when the coun-
try church was in evidence is not in
keeping with the facts. The problem
of a religious awakening in rural COM
munities is ever present and the church
must meet it in some way.