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The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-09
THE LAND OF PARADOX.

China is the land of paradox. If it is an absolute. despotic monarchy. 1t is also a very democratic country, with It's self-made men, its powerful public opinion and a states rights" question of it's own. It is one of the most corrupt of nations, on the other hand. the standard of personal and commercial honesty is probably high CT in China than in any other country in the world Woman in China is made to serve; her status is so low that it would be discourteous even to ask a man if he has a daughter: yet the ablest ruler China has had in many centuries is woman. IL is a land where the women wear socks and trousers and the men wear stockings and robes, where white. not black. is sign of mourning; where the com pass points south. not north. where names and titles are put in reverse or der, as in our directories-Th Roosevelt would be Roosevelt Theo- dore in China. Uncle Sam would he Sam Uncle: where fractions are writ ten upside down. as s-5. not 5-s. where a bride walls bitterly at her wedding and q man laughs when he tells you of his mothers death.-Success.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-09
TYPEwRITING RECORDS.

They have been holding a "daetylo- graphic competition" in Paris Dacty- lographic is a new name for typewrit- ing. The competition was under the auspices of the Automobile club de France and of the newspaper Les Sports" The test was to write from dictation the greatest number of words with the smallest possible mum Der of errors in four consecutive hours There were 3l4 competitors, about evenly divided among men and women. They were seated at type writers in a semi-circular room, at the center of which sat Augusta Bordais. resolute champion of old fashioned writing.
 At s a m. the chronometer keeper of the Automobile club gave the word "Go!" the voices of 3l4 persons start ed dctation, and 3.t40 fingers began to wiggle. All began at the same point in Paul and Virginia" the fam cus romance by Bernardin de st. Pi- erre. At midday the word to stop was given, and every competitor ceased on the letter All the copy was then turned over to seventy correctors. The rules allowed three errors to a page,
 The most rapid "dactylographer' proved to be MT Dubost of Paris, who had typewriter fifty-nine pages con tainng seventeen thousand words. or at the rate of about seventy words a minute.
 The old-fashioned writer with the pen had written in the four hours, in beautiful hand and without single error, thirty pages of text, containing nine thousand words Tit Bits.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-09
ANOTHER WHISTLER STORY.

Lord Sedesdale gave description of whistler's methods to meeting in London in support of 3 memorial to the great artist He was painting, he said. 8 portrait of lady. Whistler took up hls position at one end of the room. with his sitter and the canvas at the other end. For a long time he stood looking at his model. holding in his hand huge brush full of color. such a brush as a man would use to whitewash a house. Then he rushed forward and smashed the brush full of color into the canvas Then he ran back. and forty or fifty times he re- peated this. At the end of that time there stood out on the canvas a space which exactly indicated the figure. the form. and the expression of the sitter. There was a pathetic story attaching to the picture The bailiffs were in the house when the picture was fin ished That was quite 2 common oc- currence. and Whistler only laughed. but he went round his studio with q knife. and deliberately destroyed all his canvases. including this picture. which was to have been his CIord Redesdale's .)-Dundee Advertiser.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-09
BLUING OF LUMBER.

The forest service has undertaken experiments at Bogalusa, La, with the object of rendering lumber inn mune from the attacks of bluing, thereby stopping what at present is serious loss.
 Blning is due to the growth of low forms of fungi, all of which probably belong to the genus Ceratostomella This plant Is too low in the scale of life to produce true seeds, but as a substitute 1t produces microscopic or garisrls called spores, which when ripe are carried away by the wind in count less numbers
 The air of forests, and especially around many lumber yards, is SO in fested with such spores that when timber is placed in the yard to dry it is infected with them. If the timber hap pens to be moist and possesses neces- sary food to support the life of the plant the spores immediately germin- ate and send little threads, or hyphae, into the tissues.
 Their action decomposes the slp and causes the wood to become dis colored The deterioration in value of lumber on account of this pest amounts to thousands of dollars each year American Industries.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-09

small means, if industrious, to acquire a home without feeling it.
 4 special effort is directed toward the completion of the largest general store in West Texas: it is 16O feet square, and Is being filled with a vast stock of merchandise of all kinds groceries, hardware, dry goods, cloth ing, boots and shoes, and particularly farm machinery. A blaming mill is now running, where all kinds of window and door frames, flooring, etc, are manufactured. This will shortly be fol- lowed by a large machine shop. and a factory for making windmills
 About 1.500 windmills will be re- quired on the lands. Wells are being drilled as fast as possible. and pure water is plenty. Coal outcrops in some places, and will be mined for. Vast de- posits of salt exist in parts of the ter ritory. and splendid building stone is found in great abundance. As soon as the railroads appear, Post City will probably extend It's building operations rapidly. It's being built on the best known sanitary and hygienic lines, and under the impetus of ample financial resources, bids fair to be the most de- sirable residence city in West Texas.
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The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-09

China has too long suffered the evils flowing from that in which they have been engaged. In Fuh-kien and elsewhere we learned that already the fields under poppy cultivation were being measured with view to the annual diminution of area provided for by the edicts.
 A clean Chinese city Is something I had not expected to find; but I have found it in the capital of China's larg- est province, Sz-chuan, which is some what larger than France. Shut off from the outer world, and even from eastern China by the Yang-tse gorges, with all their grandeur and all their danger, this province is in many re- spects world of it's own. Yet the throbbing aspirations of young China are as much felt here as in any part of the great empire; witness the ad- mirably organized modern university, the industrial school, the clean streets. the clearing away of beggars. For the last two reforms Chentu is indebted to an enterprising and active official. the commissioner of police, Tso.
 In this province the question of opi- um-growing is almost as important as that of opium-smoking, and it was not without grave apprehension as to the possibility of putting down a trade in which the agriculturists. have so great pecuniary interest that l made my way into Sz-chuan. The official at the head of the recently-formed de- partment for managing the opium rev enues of the empire has started in a memorial to the throne that. out of a total of 21 million taels to be derived
 from the imperial opium tax, estab- lished last year, three millions was
 the estimated share of Sz-chuan But
 pecuniary considerations are not to
 De allowed to influence the imperial o
 provincial governments in their deter
 imitation to stamp out China's nation
 al curse.---J. G. Alexander, an English
 Missionary, in the London Tribune.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-09
THE INFLUENCE OF A FACE,

An, the potent power of sIngle face-even of married face--upon the one who, beholding 1t, under standingly and responsive reads.
 Recently I was in a greatly perturp- ed state of mind. I was running for a Milwaukee train at tho Chicago union station and I feared I was late.
 In an agony of suspense and mental anguish, with protruding eyes and gaping mouth, labdred on wisn what speed l might while burdenad down with heavy grips.
 While l was thus suffering md making my suffering noticeable to the most casual observer I suddenly saw a face--a placid, common face-but il bore message of courage and nore for me, It made me ashamed in- stantly, that l was perturbei or an guished in spirit over so small thine as the prospect of missing aNtrain.
 My features relaxed; my eyes re- turned 10 the vicinity of their sockets; my mouth came shut like a st,.l tran whose spring has suddenly bsen re- leased. Calm entered my sricit; my pace slackened.
 The face l had seen was that If the station clock, and it told me I had ten minutes to make my train.- Judge.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-09
DIR. RIXEY'S ARGUMENT.
They Rest on Hypothesis as Unsub-
 stantial as Fairy Tales.

The truth is that pr. Rixey, who is an excellent physician, an experienced bureau chief and bear hunter of long established fame. has not been fortunate in his postulates and syllo- gisms so far as concerns purely nav al matters. Nor indeed could the contrary have been expected by any fair minded and well-balanced person. The doctor has set up arguments in this case which will not bear the most easy going inquiry; he has planted himself upon hypotheses as precari- ous and unsubstantial as fairy tales. He quotes for instance, the history of the hospital and other transport ships of the army, yet If congress were to ordain an investigation of that record and in view of the present promised proportions of the current scandal such an investigation is indispensable it would be found that so far from supporting Dr. Rixey's position the facts constitute an almost unanswera- ble plea in protest and dissuasion. The doctor fares no better in his appeal
 the Hague conference, and when we consider his citation of the Japanese example as he imagines it the mystery deepens rapidly. The best informed line officers who have commanded ships and squadrons on the Asiatic station, and who ought to know more about such things than the staff chief tains who stay in Washington. are by no means sure that any such system prevails and are altogether persuaded that even If 1t does the United States navy does not need to model itself and it's policies upon the Japanese.-New York Sun.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-09
A MISE ROSS.

In a New York street 8 wagon load ed with lamp globes collided with a truck and many of the globes were smashed. A looking old gentleman eyed the drlved compass sionately, My poor man." he said. T suppose you will have to make good this loss out of your own pocket 2' Yep" was the melancholy reply. well. we'll said the philanthropic old gentleman, hold out your hat here's quarter for you, and I dare say some of these other people will give you a helping hand too" The driver held out his hat. and several persons hastened to drop coins into it. At last, when the contributors had ceased. he emptied the contents of his hat into his pocket Then, point ing to the retreating figure Of the philanthropist who had started the collection. he observed: Say, maybe he ain't the wise guyi That's me bess!"-Belin1an
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-09
sEwARD's FORESIGHT.
Evidently He Never Expected Japan
 fo Bob Up in the Pacific.

The presence of the American war ships in the Pacific will forcibly re- mind not a few nations that the United States have right to consider the huge western ocean as highway from which 1t canot be shut out. More than fifty years ago, on the floor of the Senate chamber at Washington, Mir Sewani. then a senator from New York. predicted that the Pacific ocean would in the not distant future be- come the theater of the worlds great est activities. When he became Sec retary of State he showed his faith in his views by negotiating the purchase of Alaska from Russia, which then forever withdrew from the North American continent MT. Stewards precedence has been amply vindicated by events That great man, who was a true friend of Mexico, as we'll as famous patriot and statesman, will always be identified with the Asiatic policies of the United States govern ment. He looked forward. as he ex- presslv said. to the meeting of Ameri- can and Russian soldiers on the main- land of Asia. They di so meet when the allies sent their troops to relieve the beleasuered legations at Pekin.
 Seward had the true prophetic vii sion, the clairvovance of a great statesman. In his expansionist ideas he was the legitimate political de- scendant of the immortal Jefferson. who annexed the vast Louisiana Ter ritory to the United States, though as 8 strict constructionist of the Consti- tuition he had to throw pendantry over board and allow himself to be gui.led
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-09
PRIEST A MOUNTAIN CLIMBER

The Abbe Gorret, who climbed ev- cry important peak in the Swiss and Italian Alps and who was the first to asce~d the Matterhorn from the Ital- ian side, has died at Costa, aged 73.
 He taught Alphinism to the present King of Italy and was well acquainted with the late King Humbert, who call ed him "the Mountain Bear"
 Abbe Gorret. who was born of hum ble parents. began life as guide. He was a man of superb physique and was noted in his younger days for his feats of strength.
 By studying at night he passed his examinations as clerical student and became a priest. He soon relinquished parochial duties, however, and retired to a cottage in the mountains, where he spent his time writing books on the Alps and climbing.
 He was an intimate friend of Tyn- dall and many other well known Eng fish Alpinists of the old school-Lon- don Express.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-09
NODDED MILK SYSTEM
Government Installation for Washing

Government Installation for Washing
 ton to be Copied Elsewhere.
 It's reported from the national cap ital that as result of the agitation for pure milk bill has been prepared for the establishment of model sys tenn at Washington after which the health departments of all other cities may pattern with profit. This inform alton will be received with interest. as the milk problem is one that troubles every large community.
 The proposed bill for the govern ment of the milk industry in the Dis trict of Columbia Is said to embrace provision for the establishment of thorough inspection by a large force of competent veterinarians. and the institution of system of licensing vendors that will extend the privilege of engaging in the milk business only to those who meet the rigid require ments of standard. The theory of this proposed system is that the vet erinary inspectors will see to 1t that only healthy cattle are kept in the tributary dairies, and the intelligent and painstaking distributors will so handle the product that 1t will not be contaminated during the process of delivery to the consumer.
 These measures of protection are constitutional. They have been tried in varying degrees wherever health boards have endeavored to throw safe guards around the milk supplies of cities. But the matter of cost Is so important in the production of a sta- pie food like milk that efforts to es- tablish rigid inspection in the cattle sheds and in the milk houses and de- livery carts have been defeated.
 It is of great importance that the price of milk be kept at the lowest possible figure. It has been high enough under loose systems of dairy management against which health boards are taking precautionary steps. It can easily be made disastrously high for the poor by imposing rigid restrictions which entail unnecessary cost in product-on and delivery. There every proposed system of dairy man agement and milk control should aim at the highest efficiency at the lowest possible cost. It is easy to so swell the cost that the price of milk will rise beyond the purchasing ability of the poor, with whom 1t Is a necessary of life. especially for the young children Milwaukee Wisconsin.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-09
FANCY SHADES FOR SIGNALS.

When Mrs R. l.. Hoy was being ex- amined as to the fitness for a position as telegraph operator. Division Oper- ator Johnson asked her the color of 6 piece of ribbon.
 That is cerise, said Miss Hoy, "l just bought hat of that color. trim med with a veil of crushed violet"
 Whats this ?'
 That is Alice blue.
 Johnson recovered slowly, but was game for another effort.
 What would you call this ," he asked
 Nile green"
 And all these years we thought they were red, blue and green" he sighed Chicago Tribune.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-11-20
Portland Receipts.

Applos-0GO bX, cranherries I
car, oranges cars, herries bX.
Iaper 3S7 hX, pears 90 bX
Vegetable Celery n crt, cucum-
bers . bx. carrots sN, onions 1877
sX, onions I car, lettuce 10 bN, pota-
toes sol SIX, uotatoes car, uotu-
toes, sweet, I car; peas 4 bX, quash
9 crt, vegetables sX.
Dairy Produce Butter 81 bX,
eggs 81 cs, eggs car (eastcrnl J,
Chee-e Ga bX, cream 3S05 gal, milk
S65 cal.
Flsh-Clams 35 bX, crawfish =
bX. fish 146 bN. ov-tcrs Ga bX. mus
sells / bx.3 sturgeon. 240 pounds
Poultry and Dressed Meats-Chic-
kens ISL cps, ducks 3 cps, geese 6
cps, turkeys 81 cps, dressed poultry
177S pOlnds, hogs dressed 25G, veal
dressed l02, mutton dressed 4, meat
2 cars, lard l car.
HAY and Graiu-Wheat % cars,
barley - cars, oats 4 ears, hay Q
cars, feed cars corn / car flour
$500 SIX.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-11-20
SALEM MARKET.
Local Wholesale Market.

Eggs-36c.
Butter-Creamery acc.
Hens-9c; young chickens, &c.
Local wheat-S7c.
Dairy and Country Produce.
ButteT-City creamery. extra, 81
N see per pound; fancy. S2 y a. S5c;
store, ia zoe.
Eggs-Oregon select. 81 lsc
a 40c; Eastern, 276 S2 &c per doz
Poultry-Hens, 120 12ikc; sprin1
.12012lkc; ducks, old 14d l5c;
geese. old. 1ON 12c; turkeys, l7h
@1sc.
Fancy cream twins, l5c
Der mound; frll cream tr'plets, l'c;
full cream young America. &c.
V-a'-Fytrp 81 r 9c Dcr pound,
ordinary, 7671Ac; heavy, s.
Pork-Fancy, &c per ponnd'
large. 8 y a &c.
Misoellaney.
Hops-Oregon. 1908. choice, Sg
sac per pound; prime, 7@7he;
medium, 5iZ a &c; 1907 sq &c;
1906, 1G11kc.
Wool-Eastern oregon, average
best. IOG14e per NJ. according 70
hrinksge; valley, IS n Ice.
Mohair-ChOice, lSc per 10.
TTidas-Dry hides. No. I, l3 n DC
,a- ~: dry kip. No. /, l3c b.; dry
caIfskins. I &c NJ: salted hides, y q
r. ~. salted calfskins. l2@ lSe 10 :
green. 1c less.
Oats-42c.
Barley-s26.00.
Flour-Hard wheat. IS; valley
s4.25.
Hay-cheat. s12; clover, SO per
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-11-20
BREAKS IRON SEWER
PIPE WITH HEAD

Wala Walla, Wash, Nov. 90. -
Robert Johnson, a young carpenter.
did not know until today when he
regained consciousness, that his
skull was hard enough TO break a
cast-iron sewer pipe In a 20-foot
fall.
Johnson fell that distance yester-
day while he was working on roof,
his head striking on the pipe. With
n part of his skull caved I'm he was
rushed 10 n hospital. where an OPP
GRAFTON was performed. His chances
for recovery are good. An eXamin-
alton of the pipe showed the damage
done by Johnson's skull
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-11-20
.iLr uNDCs no
DISCARD uEADGEAR

DISCARD UEADGEAR
stockton, Cal, Nov co. The Hin
due colony In the grape vineyards
uolr here o. split into factions today
by the decision OF many of the Orien-
tails 20 discard the turban In order
90 stand better chance OF Oyercom-
iug race prejudice In obtaining em-
ployment.
There Is another action that refuse
90 give up the rcyg ed headdress and
they predict that Buddha viii visit
punishment on those who have adopt
q The common heDd gear oi the street
The Hindus have discovered that
Oriental prejudice causes them 20 be
rejected by the wine growers when
ever there Is choice between thcm-
selves and negroes or MeXicans AbOl-
ishing the headdress they are en-
abled 20 pose as MeXicans and obtain
work that otherwise would be de-
MED them.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-11-20
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Grnin. Elonr Eoed. Etc.

Portland, Or, Nov. Wheat
Club, 90d ole per bu.; 40-fold, 90
95c; valley, 91c; Red Russian, SIC.
Balrey-Feed. S2G.50 per ton:
brewing, S2700.
Oats No. /, white, 031.50
per ton; gray, S29.00dS0.0O.
Millstunfs-Rran, S2G.50 per ton;
middlings, S33; shorts, country
$50; city, $50; U. $. mill chop, S22.
rolled barley, S2Sd?9.
lIay--Timothy Willamette valley
$i4 per ton; Willamette valley, ordi-
nary, S11; eastern Oregon, SIG
d1750; mixed, S13; clover, s12;
alfalfa, s12Q12.5O; alfalfa meal,
S19; grain hay. $t2.5O613.
Vegetables and Fruit.
Fresh fruit-Apples, new Csc a s?
box; peaches. S5c a st.0O per box.
pears, S161.25 per box; grapes,
S1.4oG 1.G5 per crate; ounce s10
1.25; local Concords, 12l6 @15c per
half basket; Eastern Concords, 35c
per hal ba kot; cranberrles, S10.5o
012.50 per barrel; sweet potatoes,
1a 02Hc. pound; potatoes, S00
soc per cwt.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-11-20
THE MARKETS
SAN FRANCISCO MARKETs.

San Francisco, Cal. Nor. 90
Wheat-No. / California club, per
GENITAL, $1.e7h 01.7O; California
white milling, $1.75@1.sO; north
ern bluestem, SHAY @I.77h; of
grades wheat, $1.50Q1.6O; Reds,
$1.621A @1.67M.
Barley-Feed barley, $1.4O@1.4s
common to fair, S1.SO61.S5; brew
ing at San Francisco, nominal at
Sl.45 q Los; Chevalier, $500
L6O, according to quality.
Eggs-Per dozen, California fresh.
including cases. extras, 54c; frsts
90 cents seconds, 4Oc; thirds.
2Sc; storage, California extra, 35c;
drstst, S2lac; seconds, 261kc; East
ern storage, extra, 2S1kc; firsts, 27c;
seconds, 25c.
Butter-Per pound, California
Fresh, extras, 21hc; frsts, sc;
seconds, 23c; thirds. 20c; eastern ex-
tras, 27c; ladies, , extras, 22c; firsts,
2lc; picked, No. 1, 231h storage,
|'litOIhld extra, 70 Ha packing No.
1, 21hc.
New cheese-Per pound. California
flats, facy, 12hc; firsts, 13c; sec
onds, 11ls; California Young Amer.
lea, fancy, lie; firsts, Ice; Eastern
New York Cheddars, fancy, 17c; Ore.
gon storage flats, fancy, 1dc; Young
America, fancy, 16hc; California
storage, fancy, fats, 12isc; Oregon
hats, fancy, 13hc; 90. Young Amer
ca, 15c.
Potatoes--Per GENITAL, River
Whites, (sacks) fancy, 700 S5c,
poor, 5Od Csc; Salinas Burbanks.
$1.40d 1.55; Oregon Burbanks,
s115Q 1.3O; sweet potatoes. per
pound, IA 61kc.
Onions--Per sack. 50d 60c.
Oranges-Per box, valenclas,
SO "a; new crop, navels, s2GS;
Tangerines, crates, S1.25.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-11-20
ARE YOU SICK?
DO YOu Wish.
TO Get Cured?|

After you hay
tried the othef
doctors, come and
see the old rellabld
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-11-20

ton; timothy. SIS; grain hay, $12.
onions-$1.25 cwt.
Hops-l907 crop. 5d &C.
Cagcara Bark y Gf3c.
Mohair--lSc.
Retail Market.
Oats-S1.50.
Wheat-$1.05.
Eggs-4oc.
Butter-Country. 35c; creamery,
4Oc.
Flour-valley, S1.25 per sack;
ard wheat, $1.45.
Bran--95c per sack, s31 per ton;
shorts. S1.35 per sack.
Livestock.
Stock hogs-s3.40.
Dressed, fat, 5la d6hc.
Cteers-3h
Veal-5 a 7r.
Cows-S3@3.50.
Tropical Fruits.
'Bauanas-$6.OO.
oranges-s4.00.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-11-20

AFTER you hay ~ ~.
tried the othef 49,
doctors. come and
Chinese doctor. He
guarantees 10 cure after everything
else has failed.
DR.. Kun has lived over 20 year,
In Salem, and has cured n great many
OF Salem's well-known men and wo.
men. and has scores OF testimonials
from thankful patients whom he has
cured In the past. lie guarantees 20
cure where the knife seems the last
resort lie treats all chronic ana
nervous diseases, catarrh. asthma,
lung and throat troubles. stomach,
liver. kidney and heart trouble, rheu.
matism, gall stones, tape worms, Lost
vitality. general debility. rupture and
all kinds OF female complaints. Ex-
animation and consultation free. II
you cannot call write for symptom
blank TO the DR.. Kun Dow Wo Drug
CO., 1877 South High street, Salem,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-11-20

Pleasant, sure, easy, safe little
liver Pills, are De Wits Little Early
Rlsers. For sale all druggists.