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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-11-11
DenniSon Launch Line

G. X. Dennison launch, foot OF
State street, connects with all trains.
Boat leaves Is minutes before ar
rival and departure OF all trains.
Express and baggage handled. Tele-
phone 84S.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-11-11
OREGON LAW SCHOOL.

Glasses open Monday evening, Oc-
tober IS. Students can enter by
calling at Office OF Dean Richardson.
at 442 State street. Students can
enter at any time before Thanksgiv-
ing. 1O-14-1m
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-11-11
Are You Looking for e Home?
O5 Acres.

All extra fne land, in sight of SR-
lem, good 9-roOm house, hot and
cold water. 2 barns, 90 acres
just egibnning to bear, acres
yoMng Royal Ann cherries and all
kinds of small fruits; best homo ia
miles of Salem. Investigate.
o Acres.
Within half mile of West Salem de-
pot, fine new Groom house, new
barn, new fence; buildings cost
$4,000; only $4,000 for few days
I5 Acres.
New Groom house. new barn, fruits,
etc. within one mile of the capitol
building, only $4,000.
400 Acres.
20 In cultivation. so acres timber.
only $4,000
Six Room bungalow.
New fine. modern Groom bnngalow.
close In, a snap. $2700.
New 7-Room House.
Large lot. fruit, etc, $500.
We also havs the cho cest vacant lots
In the city
Fruit Tracts.
Some choice unimproved tracts OF
land close In, We have some finS
inside business property at bal
gain, fyar want anything in this
country see
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-11-11
Phone the ButCher--QuiCk! |!

What Butcherl {. 6. Cross & Son.
Of course; we always get the best
meat there. II isn't necessary to go
down to the market these warm days.
just call Main 29I and tell them 10
send you a nice steak. roast. boil or
anything you want In the meat line
and It viii reach you on time and In
first class condition.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-11-11

Rats" for the hair, alleges the
Duchess OF Somerset, cause insanity.
thus is established a connection be-
tween rats In the hair and bats in
the belfry.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-11-11

Good streets cost less than a town
loses when givea the go-by because
OF its mud and wallOwa
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-11-11
REAL ESTATE
BECHTEL s BYNoN's BARGAIN

BECHTEL & BYNON'S BARGAINS.
5 75O-Five-room plastered house;
cash.
5 S00-House, six rooms, two lots;
one-half cash.
s 9O0-Five rooms, two lots, barn.
$1OOO-House, six rooms, $3.50
cash; $40 per month.
House, Ave rooms, $500;
cash.
$12O0-House. six rooms, $3.50
cash; balance $40 per
month.
s125O-Seven-room house, $1,000
cash. balance $40 per
S130O-House, four rooms, three
lots; one-half cash.
$1SOO-Five rooms. thre acres. run
ming water; installments.
$1S5O-House, five rooms; terms.
$2500-Modern. seven rooms; one
half cash; balance easy.
Big Bargains i'm Lots,
50x150 lot in Fairmount Park, S400
66x1S2 on North Comemrcial. $3.50.
46x160 on State street for $3.50. Ce-
ment walks.
50x122 on Cottage, close in, $3.50.
BECHTEL q BYNON,
Telephone asa.
34Z State st. Ground Floor
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WANTED-Two or tarse N sh. g"oc
layout, light in l.'O: work. I'arties
going to other points can show
you SIS to $40 per week Do no.
want those dead up against it..
260 Chemeketa stree
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4, c. SMITH co.
Room ait stare st Phone 1907
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ANY LADYLCar easily make from
SIS to s2S per week working for
me quietly in her own home local
ity. This is q bona fide offer
one which will pay you to inves-
tigate. even II you can only spare
two hours per day. No invest
ment required. Turn your spare
time into money. Write me at
once for particulars. Address Har-
riet M. Richards. box 80. Wo-
mans building, Joliet, Illinois.
ALLIE Mitgliede des salem Deut-
scher ereinssindermahut die Monat-
liche und Yahrliche versammbung
am sonntag Oct. 81,
zueiuhr Nachmittags.
Wilhelm Humburg,
Secretaer.
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CANDIDATES. CARDS
Platform Of

Equal rights. equal laws, and equal
justice to every citizen. Men grant
your equals justice; women exercise
your rlghtsi Men and women, do
your dutyl 1O-4-tf
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n. a. JOHNSON 4 Co.
Murphy Heck. salem, Orc
lO-25-Bt
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ELLIS & WooD-Real estate,
loans and insurance. notary pub
lie, employment bureau. Phone
554. AIS Court street, Salem, Ore
gon. Ticket ofRce Hamburg-Amer-
lean steamship lines. I1-1-1yr
Read the pain formula on box
OF iPnk Pain Tablets. Then ask
your doctor IL there is a better one.
Pain means eongestion--blood pres
sure somewhere. Dr. Shoop's Pink
Pain Tablets check head pains. wo-
manly pains, pains anywhere, Try
one. and see! 20 for 25e. Sold By
Capital Drug Store
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WANTED.

wANTED-At once. three sawmill
men, two men at 1925 per day.
one man at Ss per day. A. G.
Smith s. Co., "a State street.
10-S0-tf
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LIVERY STABLE.
OSTEOPATH.

Dr. B, n. WHITE,
Osteopath and Nerve Specialist. Grad
uate OF the American School OF
osteopathy, Kirksville. Mo-. 1902.
Postgraduate and specialized in
nervous diseases at Los Angeles
College 1909. Treats acute and
chronic diseases. Consultation
free. Office 1913 Breyman Bldg.
Phone $50. Residence 346 North
Capitol St.; phone 469. 8-sO-tR
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GIRL WANTE-For light house
work, Sc per week for competent
WANTED-Apples at the new cider
plant on North Commercial street.
person. j. ]. Stratton, Route l..
Phone Farmers "a. 11-5-1w
See Ryan & Co.; 81 per ton, $3.50
per ton, IL party furnishes their
sacks. Ryan & Co., corner of
Center and North Commercial
streets. 11-S-4t
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FOR SALE-Good, gentle horse for
slae cheap. VIM. Wilson. Phone
1897. Route /. Box b. 11-s-St"
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FOR RENT.

FOR RENT--FuI nished light house.
keeping looms. Phone 467.
1'-s. st
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PIANO TUNING--ThoroUgh WORK
on .lanos. organs al d players. :n-
Guiding all repairs. Leave orders
with Meyer & Bell Land Co. C.
w. Simon. II-S-lm
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gruesome load he handed tin Clipper -
whisky to him to drink.
The barges were not filed until late
that night. for the men worked by the
dim light of lanternS-worked as the
avengers did in the days when the turn-
brils rolled through the streets of Paris.
At last the barges had their CHASTITY car
goes completed Their crews went
knelt and said prayer for the dead.
When he had finished the lines were cast
off. the tug started out through the jet
ties with the barges and their Charon's
and then the bodies were cast into the
sea and the barges returned to Calves
ton.
There was rejoicing when the boats re-
turned. The people thought that all that
was necessary to prevent the plague was
to dig out the bodies quickly. put them
aboard the barges. take them out to sea
and feed them to the sharks
But the following day new horror
came to the sorely stricken city The
gone forth on the barges and cast them
in winnows on the beach.
kirwfn went to one of the warehouses
and got three barrels OF oil. With Diff
Guilty he managed to transport them to
the gulf side of the city. where the tide
was heaping up its CHASTITY human wreck
age. With Morrissey and a few others
he gathered masses OF driftwood here
and there. With his same crew of irish
men and with his same crew of negroes
they piled the corpses on these heaps OF
wood. Some of the corpses they gath
cred from the sands where the tide had
left them; others they waded into the
surf to seize Over the heaps OF slain
they sprinkled and poured the intiam-
al ri harl y-tf q az fiN,s
priest went from pyre to pyre and set
them all aflame. He burned the dead TO
save the living.
When 800 had been consumed that day
he went with Col L. ]. Polk. the vice
president Of the Gulf. Colorado and
Santa Fee railroad, and with John Baiy,
general manager of the Wharf Com
pany. to the fremont Hotel, where they
proclamation declaring the city to b.
under martial law and handed IL to Jones
to sign. Jones signed it. Martial law
was necessary, for few men more than
forty years old were sane in Galveston
just then.
For ten days and ten nights kirwin
worked in the ruins digging out the dead
and carrying them to feed the ever-burn-
have, all told. twenty-four hours OF
sleep. But in those ten days order was
brought out of chaos, the city was saved
from total destruction and the basis was
laid for the new Galveston of today.
When those terrible ten days were over
Kirwin went back to ST. Mary's and re-
sumed his parish work. Today you may
find him just as you might in the old
times when he used to shock the staid
churchgoers by marching through the
streets with a cigar or pipe In his
mouth or out at the ball game. roofing
harder and louder than any other man
in town. But when Galveston celebrates.
next September, at its co. ton carnival, its
rise from the ruins. greater honor will be
given to no one than to James Kirwin.
Copyright. 1907
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Of the time he was busy keeping the 200
from under the towers OF the church or
the organ loft. He expected the towers
to fall any minute Soon after daylight
he assembled the altar and said mass The
storm had subsidized. but the streets were
almost impossible from wrecked. build
ings. More than one-third of the resi-
dences in the city were wrecked, and
there were not 100 structures In all the
city unchanged Thousands of people
We're dead in the ruins. The waters had
emptied the cemeteries Of the dead. too,
and collins had been carried many miles
away. Horses. cattle. sheep, hogs. chick
ems. rats. all sorts OF animals had been
killed by the hundreds or thousands
From the altar kirwin went out over
his parish. consoling the living, amounting
the dying and searching for the dead.
In that climate at that time Of the year
decomposition sets in rapidly. There was
not hearse or a wagon in the whole city
that was fit for service. and even if there
had been hearse or wagon there was not
a road, a street or an avenue that a
wheeled vehicle could traverse. so great
was the chaos Of wreckage and debris.
All that day kirwin searched for the
dead. Temporary morgues had been es-
tablshed in the warehouses on the Strand
and efforts were made to identify the
victims and to keep tally Of their num-
bers. But soon it was found that to
save the living the dead would have to be
disposed Of at once. kirwin wrote an
order and took 1t to the county judge,
Morgan NJ. Mann, who signed it. 1t di-
rected that all bodies found east of 33d
street be taken to the foot of 23d street
for burial With Martin P. Morrissey. a
shipping agent. kirwin took charge Of the
disposal of the dead. He seized such
barges of the Galveston Wharf Company
as had not been wrecked. He managed
to get hold Of a tug that was seaworthy.
He gathered about him body Of Irish
cotton TANNERS" and negro stevedores
and began loading the dead on the
barges. The work had not been under
way very long before the laborers struck.
You could not blame them As they
carried bodies along on litters they fell
in their tracks. sick and weak 1t was
a horrible thing. and the horror grew
worse every minute.
longer kirwin tried the force Of example
With Morrissey to assist him he took up
litter himself and began moving the
dead from the morgue to the barges.
They had carried but a few when big
Irishman came over and said:
Get out of that, father. This IS no
place for you. I'll take your place"
The priest told him no; that he would
continue at it until all the Irish in the
party returned or until they forced the
negroes to resume their labor. He added
that he knew it was terrible work. but
that it was necessary IN order to save
the living.
The Irish gang quickly overawed the
negro force and soon the task of carrying
the dead to the barges was under way
again. Kirwin hates liquor, but he stood
at the head of the line, and as each
man came back after delivering his
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suddenly In few days thousands We're
stricken. Within a week 10000 were
down. Dread rumors were afloat. AT
the first suggestion that the visitation was
yellow fever the general officers of the
principal railroad into the city fed with
all their forces. Then town after town
quarantined against Galveston and the
city was cut off from the outside world
The national government sent its greatest
experts. headed by DR.. Guiteras. the
worlds leading authority on yellow fever,
TO examine into the situation and report.
Guiteras, within twenty-four hours of his
arrival, officially declared the epidemic
was one of yellow fever.
:. x
No one was buster those days than the
young priest from Ohio. With nearly
half of his parishioners i'll and the re-
mainder in need of consolation. he had
every hour employed. There We're not
enough physicians or nurses to attend
the stricken, so he had to play the part
of physician, if not nurse, in many cases
1t was early in the epidemic that he re-
ceived a call to visit a man i'll in one or
the lodging houses in West Market street
The part of Market street to which ne
was summoned bears the same relation to
Galveston that the Bowery in its old days
did to New York, and which portion or
it does today.
Only a person who has been In fever
stricken place can understand its at
mosphere. its dread stiffness. its air of
impending disaster. the terror of its de-
serted streets. the haunting fear that pos
sesses even the dogs. Man seems afraid
of his kind and goes out into the roadway
to avoid a person he sees approaching
blocks away No one is fearless of dan
ger then. The brave are those who over
come their fear.
Down Market street in blstering sun.
out in the middle of the road, went Father
kirwin until he got to the shabby lodging
house. From the frightened landlord he
got the informa ton that the sufferer was
in room above. In a dark. foul cubby-
hole Kirwin found a man In high fever.
The sufferer was in stupor. The priest.
soon as he was able to open the blinds OF
the one wee window of the little room,
was horror stricken by what he saw. The
sheets and bedclothes were stained with
black In yellow fever, the black vonlit
means death within a few hours.
The stencil OF the place, the repulsive-
ness of the sight before him and the
physical loathing that comes upon persons
at certain times combined just then to
spur the young Clergyman to flight. He
turned and started out of the room his
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a man who is dying Of the black vonait.
| have high fever myself"
The callers Shuddered and hocked into
4 side room. With the way clear the
priest went to his study and rang his
bell. When the housekeeper responded
he called to her TO get fresh clothes for
him and leave them outside the door.
After bathing and dressing himself anew
ne went to the churchyard. dug hole
and buried his old clothes there. Maybe
1t was the cool bath after the terrible
heat that soothed him, but suddenly the
fever seemed to subside. And then there
came a knocking at his door. Some of
the callers insisted on seeing the priest,
even if he had been W It'll dying patient.
He tried to dissuade them, but 1t was
no use, and see them he did. After
He had much to do. There were affairs
OF the parish to straighten out before the
fever overcame him. There were letters
to relatives and friends to write-letters
Ii was nearly m dnight when he finished.
Then he went into the church he loved.
and there on the altar he offered up his
prayers. It was long after midnight when
ne left the altar. and went back to his
study He felt his brow. Yes. the fever
was returning. He wondered If he would
I've until dawn. In the big chair in his
study he thought he would sit for fifteen
minutes or so. reading one Of the books
of his beloved cardinal. and then-and
never to awake again.
The book Of the cardinal was on the
floor and the suns rays were lighting
st. Marys spires when the young priests
eyes opened. He felt stiff and cramped.
but that was owing to the position he
had slept in in the chair. Fever? He
felt his brow. 1t was cool. He opened
the French windows and stepped out
into the churchyard. He had been per-
mitted to see another day. and his heart
rejoiced in prayer. Out among the tombs
he wandered, and then, his period of
morning prayer and contemplation over.
he thought of the poor sufferer he had
left in the dreadful howell In West Mar
ket street.
The city was not awake when the
priest started and no one was up in the
shabby old building, but he heard d STIR
ring in the room of the fever pat. ent.
Strange. he thought, that the man had
survived the night. AS kirWin opened
the door the man on the bed groaned
and thrashed about. The priest saw that
the patient was fully conscious.
How do YOU feel, my poor fellow" the
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hands twitching. his knees shaking and
his face ashen. The perspiration was drip
ping from him and his heart was beatin g
SO hard and fast that he hardly could
breathe
When almost out the door his courage
returned in part. And with the first re-
turn of courage came the voice of con-
science telling him that he had conse-
Grated his life to God and man. Trem-
plfngly he stepped back into the room.
There We're few moments OF struggle
and then he was master of himself. And
when the struggle ended he sank on his
knees beside that foul bed and prayed as
he never prayed before. He loved life
loved 1t as only young, vigorous man
could, but his prayer was one of thanks
giving for being saved from the sin of
unfalthfulness to duty and coWardice.
And then, thinking the unconscious man
might die at any moment. he administered
the last rites of the church. That done.
he began to clean the foul room as well
as he could. He stripped the soied sheets
from the bed and washed the fevered head
OF the man. From another room he got
q clean pillow and this he put under the
stricken man S head. For ten or fifteen
minutes he labored cleansing the place
and at last had It a little purer Weak
and trembling, but with head erect. he
went down stairs
10 expose other persons to contagion
now that he had been SO near to a case
OF the dreaded black vont his apprecia-
ton was little short OF criminal so he
took to the middle OF Market street. be-
tween the car tracks. The sun beat down
no less piteously than half an hour be-
fore, and to the weak and trembling
young man that long walk through the
silent street was agoniZing. One or two
persons met him on the way and saluted
HIM. and that was all. When he reached
Center street, on which his church was
situated, he continued in the middle of
the road, but now he had to walk through
the sand, and walking through deep sand
in the subtropics at such a time IS not
soothing to one suffering physically and
mentally.
As he opened the side door of the
church several persons who had been
awaiting his return, ether to make con-
fession. to seek advice or to get him to
so to stricken relatives, started forward
to greet him.
Don't come near me-" he commanded.
N is dangerous. / just have been with
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terrors? Some men are brave under one
condition and almost cowardly under an
other. Some men may be magnihcentiy
brave one day and full of fear the next
Ii is matter of official record that one
of the finest regiments in the Confederate
army. a regiment that was the pride OF
Stonewan Jackson. fled panic-stricken
from its camp at night, barefooted. bare
legged and without their arms. \ COW
had gotten loose in the suffers quarters
and had stumbled among the tin pans.
Once, In Cincinnati l saw a disorganized
mob of few hundred men put half
regiment of militia TO flight, but few
DAYS later few companies of the same
regiment were sufficient TO control the
city. The militiamen, in their first en-
counter, did not have the moral courage
10 shoot. The mob knew it. Later the
situation was changed. The mob knew
II. Possibly bravery under such eondi-
tons is a state of mind. Once / saw
Edward ]. Geehan. a reporter, take adj
vantage of a temporary lull in the firing
in sanguinary battle between 800 negro
strikers and a posse com tatuS. to walk
leiSurely from the ranks of the posse
straight across the battlefield TO where
the strikers were intrenched. He wanted
to interview the leader of the strikers
and write the story of the battle as seen
from tie two camps. And he did.
According to the leXlc0grapherS 0ennl-
ton that was bravery. AS a fact 1t was
rank folly.
: There went to Texas In the middle
nineties, young man of whom the out
side world has heard nothing, but who. in
the judgment of not few persons, is one
OF the bravest of the brave. He served as
chaplain of the LIST Infantry Volunteers
in the war with Spain, and now is in
charge of a par sh church in Galveston.
He knows what fear is, but has the moral
courage to overcome it. If 1T had not been
for his bravery the storm which almost
destroyed Galveston would have been fol-
lowed by plague perhaps more costly in
human life than the Storm itself.
y few years before the storm he had
test such as was to make or mar him. He
was little more than youth, just ad-
United to the priesthood and had been
sent from his home in Ohio to Galveston
There was nothing of the aSce.ic about
him. But for his Roman col ar he never
would be taken for a clergyman. Strict
churchmen were somewhat astonished to
see him marching through the streets with
pipe or cigar in mouth. At the ball games
he rooted harder and louder than any one
else. There was nothing sanctimonious
about James kirwin then, and there is
not now. Some persons criticised him
openly.
But one day a visitation came upon the
city. Hundreds OF persons became i'll
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RAVERY, say the
photographers. is
fearlessn IS in dan
ger. Maybe it is
What, then. of the
men who are fear
full of danger but
have the moral
courage TO over
come physical fear
and who meet dan
ger despite all its
real and imagined
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hands twitching. his knees shaking and
his face ashen. The perspiration was drip
so hard and fast that he hardly could
breathe.