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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-21
BRUTAL CUSTOMS MEN.

Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, at
a dinner in New York, defended the
ezstoms officials of the port.
"These intelligent young men," he
said, Gin a difficult position condaet
themselves adroitly. The stories are
fslse that make them out to be brutal
and indelicate. If it were Turkey now!
In the days before Batoum fell to
Russia" he resumed, ga sailor on an
English ship lying in Batoum harbor
went ashore and bought himself a pair
of trousers. He put the trousers on. His
old ones were quite worn out, and he
told the dealer to throw them away.
Then he started forth into the street
proudly.
f'Soou he met a group of customs
officials. They stopped him and their
chief said:
Those are new trousers you've got
or9'
!" Yes said the sailor. Il just
bought them.
"E'Then,' said the customs chief,
'you must pay duty on them
But I've got no money left, said
the sailor. And this was true. His last
copper had gone te pay the shopman s
bill.
mo money! cried the chief
That s very bad for you, then. You II
have to leave the trousers with us in
that case.
g But 1 We got nothing under them,'
objected the sailor.
90 Never mind; we won t look, and
the chief and his men all repeated that
there was no fear-they would none
of them look.
"'But other people may look!'
shouted the desperate sailor.
"The officials shrugged their shoul
ders.
g That they said, lis no concern
of ours.
''And so the poor sailor was forced,
willy nilly, to leave his new purchase
behind, and to gallop to his ship as
best he could, making up in speed for
what he lacked in drapery."
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-21

NEW YORK, November 2.-The Ma
tional league for the protection OF the
family has issued a summary OF the
marriage and divorce reports OF the
Tinted States. According to these
statistics it is the fifth year of married
life in which most divorces take place
An average length of married life be-
fore divorce or separation is nine and
nineteenth years.
The total number of marriages IN the
United States in the years 1SS7-l900
was 1882, 044, according to the sum-
mary. In the first year of the period
there were 483,096, and in the last year
s53, 953. The marriage rate responds
auickly to changes in economic eondl-
tions, rising in periods of prosperity and
declining after commercial eris1s or
panic and during hard times. This deti-
cheney of marriage in hard times, says
the report, suggests loss to the com
ynunity not ordinarily thought of IN
considering the effects of periods OF
financial depression.
Rate Highest in Nevada.
The inequalities of the States appear
when studied separately. Nevada in
1906 had the highest marriage rate with
1874. The rate in Arkansas was 1872,
and the District of Columbia, Indiana
and most of the southern states ran
above 10 On the other hand New
Mexico had the lowest rate, being only
ST. Delaware stands next with 70 and
ID closely followed by Connecticut,
Maine and California. But imperfect
returns may account for the relative
place of California. Maine, Pennsyl
vania and Minnesota also have low
marriage rate.
Comparisons of divorce statistics be-
tween the States are of value because of
their character. But the change of en-
pflasis in their use in the forty years is
OF notice.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-21
OH. YOU FRISCO!

$50 Spencer Eddy has resigned from
the diplomatic service, eha It will be
interesting to see his wardrobe on his
return home. He is considered, you
know, the best dressed American. -
The speaker. member Of the Knick-
erbocker Club of New York, smiled
and resumed:
eddy is as clever as he is elegant.
Once, in London, he had to show a
millionaire San Franciscan about the
town. Before discovering how very
crude this San Franciscan was, Eddy
got him an invitation to a dinner at
a Park Lane promoter There s
where you meet all the tip-toppers-
at the Park Lane city mems.
"Well, this dinner was a brilliant
stag affair. There were dukes, mar
quises and baronets ad lib. Eddy and
the San Franciscan sat side by side,
and Eddy saw with horror that his
friend ate with his knife.
"Quick as a flash Eddy bent for
ward and whispered before any of the
aristocracy had time to notice the
gaucherie:
Say, George, get on to all these
chumps eating their peas with their
forks!'
George, whose peas hadn't been
balancing as we'll as usual on his knife
blade, watched his fellow diners for a
minute curiously. Then he said:
BY jingo, let's try it!'
'THe tried it, and it was success.
3" Eddy he said, cts a good
wrinkle, this fork feedin'. I'll inter
duee it in Frisco when 1 git back. +"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-21
MOST DIVORCES IN FIFTH
YEAR OF COMMUNAL LIFE

For the entire country in the five
wears. 1867-l871, divorces granted for
statutory causes were 25.6 per cent OF
the whole number, but in 1902-19O6
thew were only 15.3 per cent.
The change in those for desertion was
less marked. being from 35.7 to 3S.5.
For drunkenness as the chief cause the
change was from 81 per cent in the
earlier period to 80 in the latter.
Divorces for neglect to provide rose
from II to 3.S.
In 1s67-1886 intemperance was an
indirect cause in POI per cent Of eases
investigated on that point, and in the
last twenty years in 1919 per cent. But
in this as in other causes, the condl-
tions Of the law, ease of proof, etc,
modify the results.
The shifting from the statutory to
other causes does not point so much to
another lessening of that offense as to
change in attitude toward the grounds
of divorce and the growing willingness
to resort to what were formerly con-
sidered slight grounds for breaking the
marriage relation.
Actors Divorced Most often.
Children are affected in about two
divorces out of FIVE. Childrea appear
more frequently in divorces granted on
the application of the wife where
drunkenness is the cause alleged.
The court records gave the occupa-
tions of the men divorced in about one
fourth of the eases, but the percentages
of persons III the various occupations
are needed to complete the data and
these are still too imperfect for com
parison. But, according to the results
obtained, actors and professional show
men give the largest ratios of divorces
in proportion to their numbers. Then
come musicians and teachers of music.
Commercial travellers, manufacturers,
officials, miners quarrymen, carpenters,
farmers, blacksmiths, clergymen and
agricultural laborers follow in the or
der named, with those of many other
callings between.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-21
STORY BY LIEUT.. sHAcKLEToN

Lieutenant Shackleton, in speech
he made in reply to the toast of his
health at the dinner given at the Savoy
Hotel, told an interesting story of
politeness in the untrodden regions of
the Antarctic. His party, he said,
were always extremely good humored
and polite, and one professor in partic-
ular attained degree of politeness
unusual under such trying eircum-
stances.
care you busy, Mawson?" he called
out one night to another member of the
party who was in the tent.
81 am,' said Mawson.
every busy2" said the professor.
eyes, very busy
eff you are not too busy, Mawson, I
am down creyasse. "
The professor was found hanging
down a crevasse by four fingers, a
position which he could not have oc-
cupied for any length of time.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-21

"Why did that picture cost so
mpeh9'' ''Well,' - answered Mr.. Cum
rox, ''to tell you the truth, have an
idea it because the dealer who sold
it to me is a good business man. -
Washington Evening Star.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-21

GA man, according to Shakespeare,
may smile and smile and be a villain. -
'%That was all very well in Shakes
peare s time, but the hallmarlts today
are an Inverness overeoat and a cigar
cite. louisville Courier-Journal.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-21

Howard-Mrs. Holmes gets on much
better with her husband than she used
ia. Coward-Same husband Life.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-21

''He's got no license to talk the way
he does. F." son, he s got license, all
right. What he lacks is a muzzle! ''-
Cleveland Leader.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-11-18
HIDDEN DANGERS.
Nature Gives Timely Warnings That
No Salem Citizen Can Afford
to Ignore.

DANGER SIGNAL NO. / comes
from the kidney secretions. They
wfll warn you when the kidneys are
sick. Well kidneys sxorete clear,
amber fluid. Sick kidneys send out
thin, pale and foamy, or smelling
urine, full of sediment and irregular
of passage.
DANGER SIGNAL NO 2 comes
from the back Back pains, dull and
heavy, or sharp and acute tell you
of sick kidneys and warn you of the
approach of disease. Doan's Kidney
Pills cure sick kidneys and cure
them permanently Here's Salem
proof.
William Baumgartner, retired,
525 Winter street, Salem, Ore, says:
Il speak from personal experience
when l say that Doan's Kidney pills
do all that is claimed for them in
curing kidney complaint and back
ache. had felt the need of a kid
ney remedy for a long time, but
found many of the medicines / used
worthless. When / read of Doan's
Kidney Pills, ] was induced to pro-
cure supply at Dr. Stones drug
store. The backache and weakness
of the kidneys, which had annoyed
nae were quickly removed, and was
restored to good health can rec
ommend Doan's Kidney Pills to any
one in need of kidney medicine -
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo.
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name Doan's--
md take no other.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-11-18

and surrounding country has there
been anything in the contest line that
has caused the intense enthusiasm
that The Capital Journals great up
to-date voting contest is creating.
Wherever you go you will hear the
people talking about the different
contestants. Where does she stand
today-has she gained that much
and other like expressions. All this
goes to show that everyone is talk
ing about this contest and wondering
who will win.
The girl who is wise enough to
realize that a new subscriber will
bring her just double the amount
of votes that an old subscriber does
is the one who will stand far better
chance of winning the grand prize
at the close of the contest. "Ener-
getic and sure to win" is the way we
describe her, the girl who comes
in with the new subscribers.
The costest closes Saturday even
ing, Dec. 10th.
The costest department telephone
number is 80.
Old subscribers as well as new
are entitled to votes when paying
subscriptions to any contestant at this
office. Votes are issued on payments
TO the city carrier boys.
BE sure your name is on the bal
lots or count slip before putting them
in the ballot box.
The contest department is always
open. Call or telephone If you desire
information.
The Voting Heavy.
The voting OF the last few days
was very heavy indeed Every can
didate is working hard and straining
every nerve 10 win out. Contestants
are entrenching themselves for the
final struggle. You must work TO
win
The contest has been running Just
a little over three weeks and but
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-11-18
DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL
BY Mail or at Suburban Stores. !.
Subscription
GREAT SPECIAL OFFER

Days Only, beginning November
addition given subscrp
according the above schedule make the
borrowing offer:
We will each and contestant ballot
into the Journal office five
subscriptions Tuesday
urday November goth at IL m.
will give every contestant
opportunity great many by
subscriptions should
Only daily subscriptions
OF offer.
account will be the all
subscriptions
e mailed contestants after this offer Closes
Contest December 49, 1909.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-11-18
Closing of Special offer.

The special offer for new subscrib-
ers made to all contestants closes Sat
urday, Nov. 20 at il p. m. In order
to have subscriptions count on this
special offer all subscriptions must
be received at The Capital Journal
office by this hour. In order to give
the girls of the territory outside the
city the same amount of time to work
as those in the city, the management
will accept all subscriptions that are
mailed before IL p. m. Saturday
evening. but the envelope or package
in which these subscriptions are sent
must bear the postmark of the date
and hour mailed, together with the
postmaster's name and date and hour
mailed written on the outside Ow the
envelope.
Special Notice.
Each and every nomination blank
that is cut from The Capital Journal
will count twenty votes, and a oandi
date can be nominated as many times
as she can get blanks. After a can
didate has been nominated in the con-
test. II is not necessary to have the
nomination blanks signed.
Never In the history Of Salem
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-11-18
HOWTOWIN GRAND PRIZES
TO BE GIVEN AWAY BY
DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL

CAPITAY PRIZEOne 1910 Ford Automobile FvePaenger 20
Horse Power Touring display
F. j. Pres Manager.
$425 EILER PIANOS, Conservatory"
Hamtons Furniture Store
FOUR 500 DIAMOND RINGS On Display at C. H. Hinges Jew
Store
THREE BEAUTIFUL GOLD WATCHES On Display at
Store.
THREE SCHOLARSHIPS in Holmes Business College of Portland
Five Per Commission will paid candidates
ming prizes
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-11-18
Important Information
Regarding Special Offer

Sixty months new business
for the Capital Journal will
entitle you to a special ballot
of $4,000 votes. Each and
every month over the sixty
you may be able to secure,
will entitle you to the proper
proportion of another $4,000;
in other words, the larger the
number of new months, the
larger your special offer ball
lot will be.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-11-18
ST THAT LENGTH OF TIME IN WHICH TO SECURE THE EXTRA
VOTES OFFERED THIS WEEK--YOU CAN QUALIFY IF YOU
TRY--THAT 1910 FORD is WORTH A MOST SIREN
UOUS EFFORT ON ANYONES PART.
The COUNTRY CAMPAIGN is GETTING WARMER

+ You Want Valuable Prize Prove Your Wofth-Peope
Like to Help Those Who Help Themselves, and If You
Work You viii Wn-Get Busy and Stay BuSy-The Days
Are Fying-You Must Hurry.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-11-18

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Martha WOLF, e Salem 49,. 46,97O
Clara Foster. 567 N Sum 46,7OO
Edith Pierce, 6 & Hood 46,65O
Helen Winslow. Box A, cit 46,46O
lola DeLong, 46l Union 46,O4O
Fairy Mayors, Oak ........ 46,OAJ
Carrie Graves, city .. 45,9OO
Emma Muths. 834 N Front 45,87O
Mildred Lucas, Woods con 45,8BO|
Bertha Kllnger, Ch e. Ferry 45,66OI
Della Briggs. p s T Co 49,. 45,62O|
Floy Whitney, Fair ends 45,51OI
Margaret Ostrander, n g. A 45,28OI
Marg. Schwaf, 533 States 45,lOO|
Myrtle Montgomery. s High 45,Ol0|
Lily Siege, N ~ e. ID .... 44,99O|
! ThomasOn, 1881 State 44,95O|
Adelaine Flake, z & Oak 44,8IO|
Hazel Scott, Uni & Lee ... 44,33O|
Mable O'Flyn. Wilson & Fir 44,8OO
Elsie e. Dencer. 1895 Sag 1880
Ethel Mcdonald, city ..... 44,290|
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-11-18

District No. 2-WilI include
all territory outside city in Ma
riOn County, including Salem II.
f. ID. routes.
The Detroit times., 1909-12-21
DAMASCUS C0MMANDERY
TO BE HOSTS, CHRISTMAS
VIII Entertain Members OF Detroit
Body and All unanillated Knights
-Toasts to Be Drunk.

Damascus commandery Knights
Templar, will hold unique Christmas
service Ia the Masonic temple Christ
mas morning at lO;45 o'clock. when
Detroit commandery, members. fam
lies and all unafiiliated knights will
be special guests OF Damascus
Promptly al a given hour, according
TO long established custom, knights
Templar throughout America will
drink toast To the Most Eminent
Grand Master Henry Warren Rugg,
OF Boston. the hour in Detroit 10 be
II O'Clock. This toast viii be re-
sponded 20 by Or. A. G.. Studer, and
will be followed by toast TO Right
Eminent Grand Commander OF Michi-
gan Howard L. Taylor. responded To
10y c. w. Pickell: toast 10 sister com.
manderies responded 70 by Ormond r.
Hunt; address b. Frederic B. Stevens
on Modern chivalry;" address and
prayer by Chaplain, the Rev. w. r.
Sayres; greetings from unaffiliated
knights by the Rev Alexander Urqp-
hart Of Wyandotte Music will be
provided by a quartet composed OF
Mrs. Lottle Baier Nelson. Miss Minnie
Well, Fred Fraser and William Bar
tells
The Detroit times., 1909-12-21
By II. II. MACK.

TO secure COWS that are desirable.
Cows readily bring 500 now that
formerly sold for $40 TO $50 each.
The sheep and lamb market CON
tinues on its upward way without In
terruption, new record being made
in all markets last week. One or the
influences contributing TO the general
activity OF the market Is the difficulty
which feeders are having In securing
suitable stock. The scab has been
prevalent in many localities during
the past year and the government.
by rlgidly enforcing dipping regulh-
tions. is working a serious hardship
both TO the lambs and their new
owners. " is reported that 'the in
human methods practiced in connec-
ton with sheep dipping during the
current period OF cold weather, has
resulted not only i'm the loss OF hun
dreds OF valuable lambs through chill
ing but has also caused untold suffer
Ing, all OF which might have been
avoided had the sheep been Kept IN
warm quarters until the wool was dry.
II begins 10 be quite generally under
stood that the number OF lambs on
feed in Michigan. this winter. does
not equal one.half Of the usual mum
Der. and provisioners are already be-
ginning to look for something TO take
The Detroit times., 1909-12-21
HERE'S CHANCE FOR
BARGAIN IN HOUSE
Buildings on Michigan Central Sta
tion Tract Go at Sacrifce-0ne
Dwelling Brings Only $35.

The biggest bargain sale i'm houses
that Detroit has ever seen Is due to
arrive along about the time that good
weather becomes a settled thing next
spring Eighty houses will be auc-
toned on as fast as the bidders will
take them and there will be plenty
OF styles TO choose from In this bar
gain sale.
How would you like to buy house
for s35?
That is what one lucky man did at
the fall sale OF houses in the Mich gan
Central station tract on the west side
There were more than $50 buildings
ON the land acquired by the railroad
for the building OF this new station,
between Fifteenth and Twentieth-sts
OF these nearly half have already been
sold. some TO be moved TO other loca.
tions and others to be torn down for
the lumber and other materials.
These houses were sold singly and
in lunches. but the cold weather
caused "A slump in the house market
So the Union Trust Co. which has
charge of the property temporarily,
stopped selling houses and is now
renting them. with private watchman
in the neighborhood To see that hood
lums do not enter any house that may
be empty and wreck them.
The big sale will come next spring
Several thrifty persons bought lots In
the vicinity. then bought these con
demned houses, moved them onto the
lots and are collecting rents In happy
and carefree way. This was done by
one very wellknown citizen who had
some vacant property In that locality
and purchased more for the purpose
The house that sold for $40, this being
the lowest price received. was moved
and is now producing rent for it's new
owner
The largest buildings In the station
site tract were the Parker-Webb
slaughter house, the Caplis & Fay
Beef Co. plant. and the Drovers Hotel.
These are being torn down by wreck
The Detroit times., 1909-12-21

Larger receipts OF common cattle
Than were looked for have made their
anpearance in the markets or the
country of late, and prices have felt
tho burden OF the over-supply. IL
is unfortunate that receipts should run
so largely to common cattle. just be
fore the holiday season, when gooa
cattle are so badly needed The sup
nlv OF handy cattle and prime steers
has been much below the needs OF
the situation in all markets and the
supplv OF choice and medium beef 10
not plentiful. Locally. the dressed
beef situation is on an easy basis ke-
cent arrivals of cattle have been large
and local coolers are fairly well NIL
ed although the quality is not all that
could be desired. The demand Tor
stockers and feeders remains active
with not nearly enough cattle OF the
right kind coming to meet the neeus
of the trade.
Recent runs OF veal calves have
been larger than usual but everything
has been promptly taken without the
necessity OF shading prices. High
prices for milk and butter contribute
greatly 20 the activity OF mich cows
and buyers find it extremely difficult
The Detroit times., 1909-12-21
DRIVER AND HORSES KILLED,
BUT PASSENGER ESCAPES
James ]. Walsh. Veteran "Cabby,'
Victim Of Train at Buehan-
sn-st. Crossing.

James !. Walsh. hackman. OF No.
20S Plum.st was fatally injured when
Grand Trunk train crashed into his
hack at the TiuChanan-st. crossing
Monday afternoon, but although the
rig was demolished. both horses In
stantly killed, and tho driver so badly
hurt that he died within an hour In
Harper hospital n passenger riding
inside the hack escaped with only a
slight cut on The head The passen-
ger was Constanto Prokopes, No. 1S'
Thirtv-fourth-st.. and he was on his
way to a wedding party, in the hack
when the accident occurred How he
escaped was a miracle which he him-
self was unable TO explain.
Walsh. one OF the Oldest "cabbies
in Detroit. was thrown headlong from
his wrecked vehicle. fracturins his
skull. He leaves four daughters
Coroner burgess is investigating. 1t
Is alleged that though the railroad has
n watchman stationed at the crossing.
Walsh was given no warning OF the
trains approach.
The Detroit times., 1909-12-21
SAYS HE'S FORGER.
Alleged Pitsbure Criminal Gives Self
Up 70 police.

Rather scantily dressed, a man who
gave his name as Arthur HerskovitZ,
40 years old. OF Pittsburg. walked In
10 Capt. Alphonse Bakers Office in
police headquarters. Tuesday morning.
10 give himself up He was wanted
In Pittsburg for forgery he said. and
asked the police to wire that city for
confirmation. The man had been
drinking. apparently. and Capt. Baker
ordered him locked up until he re-
gained his proper senses Then. II he
tells the same story. he will be in
yestigated.
Herskovitz said that he was for
merly first assistant cashier Of bank
in Waynesburg, a suburb OF Pittsburg;
that he and the cashier embezzled
SJ2 900 and that each served 10 years
for il. After is release three months
ago, he forged a check for $3.50 and
skipped out. he said Now he Is down
and out and at the end OF his rope.
A warrant for his arrest Is In the
hands OF the chief Of detectives IN
Pittsburg. he said.
The police have had experience with
several similar cases lately, but all
OF them turned out TO be fakes. >"
they are inclined to be trite skep-
tical about the latest tale.
The Detroit times., 1909-12-21
Sheeb and Lamb Market Still Scars,
Common Cattle Plentiful: Prices Drop

the place OF lamb and mutton on the
hotel bill-offare
Hogs. like sheep and lambs, are
holding their own on the market and
bid fair 20 sell higher before the sea-
son Is over. Recent arrivals. In some
OF the larger markets. have been un-
expectedly large but the promptness
with which everything has been alb
sorbed. makes IL appear that It would
he rather difficult 10 overload the mar
ket while present conditions prevail.
The speculative market is hating,
showing unmistakablel signs or top
heaviness II is quite generally be-
lieVed that the commodity has been
over-bought by enthusiastiCs bulls
who could see only one side -
market tp~which so few live hogs
were coming. For this reason, 1t is
probable that the cured meat trade
will be n drag on the market rather
than help to II from this time out.
IL would hardly seem TO be the part OF
good Judgment 10 bank on live hogs
selling much higher this year and
feeders. who have hogs nearly finish
cd, will do we'll 10 send them forward
promptly. as the present range OF quo
tations should be regarded as highly
satisfactory under any and all con
ditions.