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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-03-05
WATER
WAYS ARE
COMING

Washington, March 5..-To those
who view with awe the rccord-break.
ine run OF the United states battle
shlp feet around the Horn, II might
be a surprise 10 examine the record
Of some OF the icet OF commerce that
plies the waters OF the Great Lakes.
According 10 flgurcs complied here.
many OF these lake steamers have
Travelled IA their trips 20 and from
more miles than will the war ves-
sells now ateRming on their lengthy
voyage.
Probably the record belongs 90 the
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-03-05

90 MIMNI. n kI|LM"Na
While kidncydis
orders are the
most common
diseases that pre-
vail. they are
almost the last
recognized by
patient and ply
1lcians, echo con
fsnt fhemssfpes
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-03-05

Mrs. Fred West has had fine monu-
ment erected over the graves OF her
parents. Charles j. Mulkey and
Tersia Mulkey. They are buried az
tho Lewisburg cemetery. in Polk
county. The monument was of the
celebrated granite bronze manufac-
ture for which T. Il. Walt Is sole
agent.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-03-05

Mrs. s. Girard and daughte.
Agnes. has been called 70 be at the
bedside of Mrs. Girard's mother who
Is dangerously IN.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-03-05
FOUR GIRLS
Restored TO Health by Lydia Il.
Pinkham'svegctablc Compound.
Rsas rUhas Thsy Say.

Miss Lillian Ross, $50
East s4th Street, New
York, writes: 4" Lydia
Il. Pinkham's Vegcta-
bic Compound over
ameirrogularities pc
|viodic suffering, and
nervous headaches,
after everything else
had failed to help me.
and I feel Il q duty 70
let others know Of H."
KathafineCraig 23k5
Lafayette ST., Denver,
Col, writes Thanks
10 Lydia r. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound !
am well, aftersunering
for months from ner-
vous prostration.
Miss Marie Et0ltz-
man, Of Laurel, Ia,
writes: "Iwas ina run
downconditionandsnf-
fered fromsuppression.
indigestion, and poor
circulation. Lydia II.
Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound made me
well and strong"
Miss Ellen NJ. Olson.
cf All ~. East 81, Ks-
vance, I'LL, says; " Ly-
diaE. Pinkham'sVege-
table Compound cured
me OF backache, side
ache. and established
my periods. after the
best local doctors bad
failed TO HELM me-"
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-03-05
TEA

The cost of good tea is
so very little: only a third
of a cent a cupl a cent
and-a-half or two cents
for the family breakfast
Your grocer returns your money II yoo dont
HE Schillinss Best Ne pay him.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-03-05
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.

For thirty years Lydia e Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills.
and has positively cured thousands of
women who have been troubled with
displacements, inflammation, ulcera-
ton, fibroid tumors, irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bear
ing-down feeling, tlatulency, indiges-
tion, dizziness, ,ornervous prostration.
Why don't You try itY
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick
women tO write her for advice.
She has guided thousands To
health. Address, Lynn, Mass.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-03-05

writing mention this paper and don't
usake any mistake, but remember the
name, Df. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, and
she address, Binghemion, n. Y.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-08-07

OFFICIAL figures have been pre-,
" pared by Thomas P. Cleaves and
James c. Courts, chief clerk respec-
lively of the committee on appropria
tions of the senate and that of the
house of representatives, showing that
appropriations at the last session of
congress reached $1008, 1897 ,543.56. OF
this amount $95,32S,247 was appropri-
ated for the army, 1922, ,665,SS for the
navy, $163,053 900 for pensions, $222,
97O,S92 for the postoffice department
and Sill, 953,0SS for sundry civil ex-
penses.
In addition to specific appropriations
money was provided for continuing
contracts to the amount of S49,443,-
750. Among the continuing appropri-
ations were the amounts to be paid
for two first-class battleships, two
colliers, ten torpedo boat destroyers
and eight submarine torpedo boats
with the armor and armament for
the battleships estimated to cost $685.
100000 Appropriations for public
buildings aggregated $2O,7S9,75O. Com
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-08-07

lawyers who have given the dissent
ing opinion to the views of the reform
~four-hushers.'
Then some scintillating genius
among the brethren suggests that an
injunction be obtained from some per-
fectly unbiased" judge. A descent
is made upon the courts, perfectly
unbiased" and complaisant jurist is
picked out, who issues an injunction,
and the "four-hushers' gather to offer
up thanks. An appeal being taken
from his ruling, the state court, or the
supreme court of the United States,
hands down an opinion that the "un-
biased" judge is an lass, or words to
that effect, and the injunction is dis
solved.
Thereupon the "four-fiusbers" hold
additional meetings in which they de-
nounce the supreme courts, and, as
soon as a new set of authorities come
into power, resume the old bluff" of
asking that the business which they
do not like be suppressed.
One of the most unique of political
"four.fushers" is the man who is
"bucking the game" solely on his
nerve. l recoliect one such individ-
ual, and he was certainly q classic
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-08-07

WASHINGTON. - Restaurant keep.
w ers who own cracked mugs must
not intrude them upon their patrons.
DR.. Wiley, Uncle Sans chemistry ex-
pert, says it is wrong.
The cracked mugs which have fallen
under the ban of DR.. Wiley are not
those known in some circles as badly
arranged faces or pounded visages.
They are rather the abused drinking
utensils which come bounding over
the counter at you when you enter a
hurry-up lunchery and hoist the cry:
60 ART and 'arf," or draw one"
DR.. Wiley says the crack in an ordi-
nary mug doing daily duty in lunch
room shelters enough bacilli to put
the nation into decadence. Death of
a horrible sort turks in these cracks.
Show DR.. Wiley a cracked mug - a
china mug-and he will lay bet that
you are a dead man If the right ba-
cillus hustles out of the crack and
bites you on the lip while you are
quaffing your daily beverage.
Washington is making a war on
dirty lunchrooms, and Mr.. Wiley is
furnishing some of the sinews. His
report, after examining a dozen or
more damaged mugs gathered from
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-08-07

stronger of the two. "A" finances the
nomination of an independent" can
didate, or a Prohibition, Labor-S Social
ist, or any old candidate whom he may
think will weaken "B's" chances. If
"B" thinks the move will weaken him,
he may up with an independent" CAL
didate of "A's" party stripe, and pay
his expenses to cut into GAS" vote.
All this is "four-hushing" to make
the voters believe there are four or
five "Richmonds in the field" when, in
fact, "a" and B" are the only real
figures in the contest, and the extra
candidates are fakes" And the
beauty about it Is that these "inde-
pendent" or other campaigns are often
waged valiantly and a tremendous
amount of dust and excitement kicked
up about them.
Reform is a prolific source of politi-
cal "four-fushing." Take some busi-
ness which offends certain of the more
puritanically inclined citizens. This
business may be regularly licensed
and declared legal. and there may be
constitutional grounds which, until a
change in the constitution. would abb
solutely prevent interference in the
business on the part Of the Ruthori-
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-08-07
To Clean White House for Next Tenant

have been using the chairs to build
choo-choo trains, they have placed
their hands on the paper in the red,
blue and green parlors, and in some
mysterious way a big hunk of the
stucco was broken out Of one Of the
columns in the reception hall.
Col. Bromwell thinks the chairs
should be sent to the upholsterers,
new paper put on the walls, and the
whole interior done over with fresh
paint and enamel. The wall paper on
the wall, of course, is not paper at all.
but the finest brocaded silk. The
upholstering on the Sevres designed
chairs Is also of the finest. So the
colonel figures 1t will cost $4,000 to
do the absolutely necessary work.
In submitting his estimate to the
secretary of the treasury he remarked
that the annual appropriation of $685.
900 is barely large enough to keep
the house from going to rack and ruin.
The $4,000 asked for is put under the
head of extraordinary repairs.
Congress will grant the money.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-08-07

Mars. MINNA FIELD GIBSON, for.
NI merly Mrs. Preston Gibson, daugh
ter of Mrs. Thomas Nelson Page, has
gwen society another surprise in her
marriage to Algernon Burnsby Of
Leicestershire, England. The cere
mony took place in the summer home
of Mr.. and Mrs Page in York Harbor
Me-, where Mrs. Gibson and her sister
Mrs. Londsay of Boston, are summer.
ing. The future home of the bride
will be Baggrave Hall, Leicestershire,
one of the Oldest estates in the heart
of the hunting district of England.
1t was just year ago that Mrs.
Gibson surprised Washington and So
ciety by divorce in Chicago, their
homo at that time, from Preston Glib.
son. Both Mr.. and Mrs. Gibson were
well known in the social circles OF
both cities, Since her divorce Mrs.
Gibson has made her home with Mr..
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-08-07
Uncle Sans Budget Goes Above Billion

parison of the contract liabilities with
those of the last session of the Fifty
ninth congress, amounting to $67,934,-
S49, shows reduction of $1S,490, ,599-
The new offices specifically authorized
are 1924 in number, at an annual
compensation of $13, ,764 ,676, and those
abolished are 6,142 in number, with an
annual compensation Of S4,67S,389,
making a net increase of 1852 in
number and $9,OS6,2S7 in pay. OF the
net increase in the number of new en-
ployes 5000 are seamen for the navy,
500 are additional officers and enlist
eu men for the marine corps and g.
S68 are clerks and other employees Of
the postal service.
The total apparent number OF sal
aries increased is 129 1928, at an an
nual cost of $9,146,575 OF this number
42,636 are commissioned officers, war
rant officers and enlisted men of the
navy, and S,907 officers and enlisted
men of the marine corps.
A comparison of the total appropri-
ations of the last session of the Fifty
ninth congress '0,79S,l43 - with
those of the first session of the Six
tieth congress-$1, ,OSO, ,397, ,543-shows
an increase of SS7599, ,399. Increases
are shown in all of the general appro.
priation acts, except those for the Dis
trict of Columbia, the Indians and the
military academy, the reductions in
these three aggregating $43S,709.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-08-07

vote we can rake and scrape There's
lots of ugly talk about this thing in
my neighborhood, and it's the same
everywhere. Well, so long"
No one but a rank "four-fusher"
makes these senseless breaks" but
the large cities simply swarm with
rank "four-fushers."
A favorite scheme of the standard
"four-hushers" In elections was to put
up an independent dummy" candi-
date. Sometimes two dummy" can
didates were put forward in the race.
Suppose, for instance, that "a" and
"B" are the regular candidates of the
main parties. "B," we will say, is the
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-08-07
ROUND THE CAPITAL
Information and Gossip Picked Up
and There in Washington.
Wiley Puts Ban on Cracked Crockery

the lunchrooms, is partly as follows
I'VE find the presence of 23 distinct
species of organisms in the debris
within the visible cracks and seams
of vessels examined. The number of
organisms per area of surface ranged
from 4S6 to 1850, ,619."
The report made to DR.. Wiley by his
chief bacteriologist goes on to graph
ically describe process of exam
ining the mug cracks in terms that
will undoubtedly cause quick lunchers
and habitues of those restaurants
where chinaware is slid, rather than
pushed, to purchase sanitary lunch
boxes and tote midday snacks from
home.
Judging from the number of colo
nies developed upon the glass plates
upon which we spread the watery d.
lutions containing the debris" writes
the expert, there were undoubtedly
many thousands of organisms In the
recesses of the broken china, some
cracks harboring more germs than
others and varying in accordance to
their magnitude and character of ma
terial contained therein"
Among the germs disclosed by the
meteorological examination of the
cracks was the bacillus coli, which the
department experts say unquestion-
ably belongs to the group of undesir-
able bacteria, especially when asso-
ciated with foods in any manner. This
particular cup crack inhabitant is said
to be associated with many inflamma-
tory conditions in man, particularly
appendicitis.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-08-07
Society Girl Takes Her Second Husband

and Mrs. Page. Mr.. Gibson also moved
east and established himself on an old
estate near Alexandria. Va, where his
house parties are society features. He
is writing short stories and plays. One
of his productions, a one act curtain
raiser, was recently produced at a
Washington theater
Mrs. Gibson spent the greater part
of last season in England with her
late fathers relatives. Her small son.
Henry Field Gibson, was with her.
She was admired in England for her
skill as horsewoman. Much of her
time was spent in the hunting district.
where she met Mr. Burnsby. Mrs. Glib
son has an income of about 100000 a
year, left her from her fathers estate.
Her sister, Mrs. Londsay of Boston.
has an income equal to hers and they
will receive more from their mother.
Mrs. Gibson is still very young. her
marriage as a schoolgirl to Mr.. Glib
son, schoolboy, being well remem-
bered in Washington society, as II
was an unexpected runaway match.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gibson made their homo
in Chicago where their married life
was ended after \ little more than
1--WE years.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-08-07

1T IS the official view of Col c. S.
1 Bromwell, the army engineer in
charge of the White House, that it will
be necessary for the American people
to spend 81, 900 a week during the next
fiscal year to keep the home of the
president in a habitable condition,
This is the minimum of cost based on
conditions as they exist now.
Should the one time executive man.
sion be turned into a two apartment
structure, the cost would probably be
about the figure set forth by the
colonel.
The up-keep of the house during the
current fiscal year is only 1878 and a
few pennies each week. But things
are getting shabby. The children
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-08-07

ties. Does this daunt the "four-fush-
er" who wishes little advertising?
Not bit of it. He gets together his
cohorts and besleges the political au-
thorities demanding that they do those
things which are under the law abso-
lutely forbidden.
The authorities consult the law de-
partment and the department gives
an opinion, based on the soundest au-
thority, that the proposition ia unten-
able. Then the reforming -four
flusher" holds a few public meetings
and adds some more "four-fiushers' to
the list. Speeches are made and the
authorities are denounced, also the
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-08-07

specimen, and nervy proposition.
A certain hotelkeeper had been Sc
lected as a candidate for aldermanic
honors. At party headquarters, after
his name had been offered and deter
mined upon, committee of "promi,
nent citizens" was picked out to noti-
fly the gentleman of the honor which
had been accorded him. Among
others, this hot sport" was chosen, as
he was a very neat talker, and the
Craftsmanship of the notifying commit
tee was reserved to him, as the man
who was best qualified to break the
news to the hotelkeeper of his selec-
ton as the aldermanic standard
| bearer.
AT that time Of the year, early
| spring, a number of these prominent
| citizens" were wearing light over
coats, and our hero was nattily attired
in one which buttoned high to his
throat, with an immaculate silk muf-
fer folded neatly above it.
AS the committee entered the rotun-
da of the hotel it met the then city
clerk, who, on invitation, accompanied
them on their trip.
The Boniface was sent for, a pri-
vate room opened and the gentleman
with the dove.colored spring overcoat
and silk mufiier stepped from the
| group of prominent citizens" and
urged the acceptance by the tentative
candidate of the honor vouchsafed
him. 1t was neat speech, and told
of the representative citizens" who
were present, anxious to lend their
prestige and solid business standing
to his campaign, all prominent bust
ness men," and all desirous of having
| the ward taken care of in the council
by man of their own stamp.
The hotelkeeper was very much
| gratified, accepted the honor in a few
words and invited the committee to
take dinner with him, it being just
about six in the evening. All but the
city clerk and the orator of the even
ing accepted the invitation with alac-
rity. The orator however pleaded an
imperative engagement, and the city
clerk had to catch a train. But as
| lutSS IWO NalllG OlI VI Tic lOLGl LIe
city clerk, who knew his companion
as a sort of "fy-by-night" ward politi-
clan, said, why didn't you stay and
Jake dinner with the committee, Dick ?
The old man will give the boys a fine
feed in there"
To which the politician, with a per-
fectly nonchalant air, replied: I'D
have liked to, first rate; but haven't
got any shirt on" at the same time
opening his spring overcoat and dis
closing underneath his stylish muf-
fer the unmistakable presence of a
neat but not gaudy undershirt next to
his manly chest
The city clerk reached into his vest
pocket and dislodged a two-dollar bill.
This he handed to his friend. You're
a dandy representative citizen all
right Dick" he remarked. "and first
class business man. Go and get you 4
shirt with that and then buy some.
thing TO eat"
ERNEST MGAgFEY.
Copyright. 1908. by Joseph =. Bowleal
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-08-07

the others at the card table and there
by rake down the pot But it does
not always work.
In politics | have seen enormous
quantities of "four-fiushing' INDUCED
In; and in fact about two-ffths of all
politics is "four-fushing"
In the various angles of the political
game there may be counter four
flushing" or practicing the art on
both sides, or II there are four or five
candidates in the field. there may be
only one candidate who really stands
any show of election, and a quartette
of "four-fushers" gaily bringing up
the rear The also rams" have entered
the race for various reasons. Some
of them get little notoriety, some of
them to try their political strength.
and others for the purpose of leading
"a forlorn hope against the probable
winner.
l recollect particularly one of this
kind He was always going to do
great things. And he would demon
=. strate by verbal mathematics just how
1t was a "cinch" that he had the ward
tied up as tight as q snare drum. All
suggestions that he might possibly be
mistaken were either pooh-poohed
away. or you were given to undel-
stand that you were dead nutty."
This gentleman would keep on swell
ing until the morning after election,
and then he would disappear for few
days. When he reappeared, with his
ward knocked 'galley-west" in the
election, and about 80 per cent. of his
predictions gone wrong, he would still
have that old "bluffy" walk on him,
and would be Cabling triumphantly
about some precinct that had gone his
way, and explaining how they would
have all went the same way if Bill
BotsforJl" or Joe Sammons" or pete
Highball' had stuck" The only Of
fensiye thing about this lobsters atti-
tude was that he assumed that some
one was going TO believe him. He was
per Sc a stiff" as such cattle are
termed in politics. ard a laughing
stock among seasoned politicians, but
he went about imagining that he was
a real factor in politics. when he could
scarcely control his own vote.
You know how that is, Mac" he
would go on. The people out there
feel that way and that's the way they
feel all over the city. It's strange TO
me that some one hasn't pointed 1t out
to the mayor. If something isn't done
wen lose out election day. Such q
comparatively small thing, too. II
don't make any difference to me per.
sonally for / don't care. But l don't
want to see our boys lose. Somebody
ought to see his honor about it. I'm
just telling you because you can see
for yourself how 1t is We need every
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-08-07
HE term "four.fiushing," al

HE term "four-flushing," al
III though of comparatively
recent origin, merely
means, in it's last analysis,
~ a pretense. 1t is a poker
term, meaning in that game the prac-
tice of pretending that you have five
cards of one suit when you only have
four of one suit and one of another,
and of trying to win with that kind
of hand, in hopes that the other play
y ers will believe that you have a gen.
uine flush" five cards in one suit.
1t is a favorite pastime in the great
American game to bet high on a
-four flush" to intimidate or "timify'
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-08-07

His Ways, His Manners, His
Methods, His Dress, and
Fly by Night Election
Schemes-Dead Politically
To-day, He Resurrects
Himself Tomorrow in a
New Ward, with a New
Plan and Perhaps Affiliates
with the Other Party-How
He Takes Up Reform as an
Asset and Meets Defeat,
with Attendant Notoriety,
Gracefully.