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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-05-29

findings and recommendations. That
committee is composed of Aldermen
Elliott, Eldridge and Millard. The
finance committee, OF which Mr..
Chas. X. Spaulding is chairman, will
pass on the reports submitted TO
them, and make a final recommenda-
ton to the city and the state, upon
which action will have to be taken
and the whole matter submitted to
vote OF the people TO accept or re-
iect. II is expected that a vote will
be reached in July, and the contracts
let for bringing in mountain water
this fall.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-05-29

These home industries should be Loyalty support
They are just as good as those shipped in
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-05-29

oOnb ss....s....
Mary Albert, Pearlie Brown
stein, Helen Heyser, Grace Bah
cock, Gertrude West.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-05-29

Every boy. girl, man, woman. child
must have an anglers license. even
to catch minnows and chubs. suckers
and catfish. Great scheme to get
money for the grafters.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-05-29
er. Rachel Forrest.

er. Rachel Forrest.
Mary Albert, Pearlie Brown
stein. Helen Heyser, Grace Bah
cock, Gertrude West.
8. THE New Memorial Day.
................ Efhe Lakin
............... Robert Brooks
Z. Song-"Battle Hymn" School
s. Recitation-Brlng Your Sweet
est Flowers 80. Estella Wilson
3. Recltation-"our Flag" 80.
....... Kenneth Smith
10. Song-"Flag OF Our Nation"
Allie May McMinn, Gussle
Brownsteln. Arnetta Bartlett.
Helen Rose.
II. Recitatlon-"The Blue. the
12. ReeItatlonE"Flowers for the
Loyal and Brave. Hazel Haslett
lS. song-'Marching Thro' Geor-
gla .''.' .':'''.'.. Schooi
"a. Natures Color Bearers.
.............T Twelve Pupils la
10. Violin Solo. . Frank McMinn
16. Recitation-Grandson OF a
Veteran ......,. Wolcott Barren
II Addresses by Members OF G. A.
X.
The @. A. II. men who addressed
the pupils were ID. w. Matthews and
r. NJ. Kirby. Judge =. II. darcy
also gave a fne talk. The speeches
were all eloquent and the speakers
stated they were much pleased with
the pupils exercises.
Is. SOng-"Amerlca" .... School
There were many visitors present.
Last week the Central school re-
cciyed the beautiful banner given by
the board OF trade 20 the school
having the largest per cent OF at
tendance IA the parade last June.
The banner Is made OF blue silk with
gold cord and tassels and gold lin-
ing, and the word "Central'in gold
leaf on the blue background
The teachers and pupils are just
ly proud OF this banner, as Il was
wen In competition with all the 9TH
or Salem schools.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-05-29

n. Rose. assistant engineer s. r.,
was looking over depot grounds to-
day and said work would begin at
once.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-05-29

Homer Davenport aud wife have /
separated-incompatibillty.
New-York tribune., 1909-12-05

over, and dare say that the statement
am about to make viii be revelation 10 a
good many persons. 50 per cent of the manu-
facturers in the United States get all OF
their mail by means OF the rural service"
From which postoffice is the largest
quantity OF rural mail delivered?'
1T is a nip-and-tuck race between West
Chester. Penn. which is the centre OF a
community OF manufacturers and Los An
geles. where there are great many fruit
growers"
Country mail is collected as well as
delivered?'
"Oh. yes. The carrier is a travelling post
master, and his vehicle is a moving post
office. He issues money orders. registers
letters. and sells stamps and stamped en-
yelopes."
Has rural service increased the circula-
tion OF daily Newspapers
Tremendously. I am engaged in getting
Information on that very subject. SO far,
my inquiries have been confined to tho
South In Atlanta and several other cities
20 per cent OF the recent gain in the cir
culatlon OF newspapers, so the publishers
say. can be traced directly to the rural SER
vice.
Copyright. 1863. by James p. Morrow
New-York tribune., 1909-12-05
HANDICAPS OF JOHNSON.

Johnson labored all his life under
heavy handicaps. which have been de-
seribed as follows:
In the child the physical Intellectual
anu moral peeuliarities which afterwards
distinguished the man were plainly dis
cernible: great muscular strength accom-
panied oy much awkwardness and MANY
ihnrihities; great quickness OF parts. with
morbid propensity TO sIoth and pro-
erastination: kind and generous heart
win gloomy and irritable temper. lie
had inherited from his ancestors a
sefoicious taint, which was beyond ire
power OF medicine To remove. The bows
features. which were originally noble ana
not irregular. were distorted by his mai
aay. ms checks We're deeply Scared.
lie lost FOR time the sight OF one eve.
and ne saw but very imperfeetly with the
other ~
before the young man left the univer-
sity his hereditary maIady had broken
New-York tribune., 1909-12-05
Free Rural Mail Delivery Did 1t, Say Experts-Circu-
Iation of Newspapers Also Benefited:

isolated vicinity has cut down the cases OF
suicide and insanity among farmers wives
fully 80 per cent"
Il am only telling you" Mr.. De Graw
explained had asked him what effect
the rural delivery OF mail matter had had
on country life in Amerfca-''what the land
lord IN Vermont told me. do not assert
that rural delivery is sure cure for all
the ills of agriculture. IL any there be IN
these days OF dear wheat, corn. cotton,
eggs. butter and pork. but II has certainly
taken cheer. contact and impulse into many
dreary and unprosperous households all
over the United States"
Some surprising facts were brought out
by my inquiries. I learned. for instance,
that so per cent OF the manufacturing es-
tablishments in the United States are To-
Gated outside Of towns and cities and in
the country. They get their mail. there
tore. from rural carriers. Continuing his
reply TO my questions concerning the bene-
fits derived from the delivery OF mail In
agricultural communities. Mr.. De Graw
said:
The postmaster AZ Phoenix, Ariz-Mr.
J. H. McClintock-sends out carriers ON
four different routes and they distribute
mail among SO farmers in the fruitful
Salt River Valley. He says that q man
and a pair OF horses are worth 81 a day
in that particular part OF the country
Indeed. driver and two horses are worth
just IS much anywhere. according 10 the
best obtainable information.
The average farmer. Ar. McClintock
declares, formerly lost half day every
week in going 10 Phoenix for his letters
and newspapers. While In town he spent
at least % cents for cigars or something
else that he would have done without had
he remained al home Consequently. rural
delivery. Mr.. Mcclintock says. has saved
each farmer In his Immediate vicinity the
sum OF sll7 annually. which is equivalent
70 sl0i. .7so on the four routes.
II see nothing fancttul about the figures"
New-York tribune., 1909-12-05
ny James VI. Morrow.

Washington, Dec 4-The plain little cot
-sge was painted white. lace curtains were
at the windows. flowers were growing In
che yard. and an atmosphere OF order. COM
sort industry ana self-respect enveloped
she pastoral picture. low hung against the
eide Of a wooded mountain In Vermont
Two men Grove past the house. stopped
snd looked back. One OF them was the
landlord of a village inn higher up the
green and broken slopes. His burly and
agreeable companion. Peter Voorhees, De
Gnaw, Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen
oral OF the United States. was seeking
rustic adventure in the way OF a vacation.
The farmer who lives in that house"
,he landlord said. pointing with his whale
hone H1lip, was a sodden and good-for-
nothing fellow i've years ago. lie wasn't
had, YOU understand, but dnowsy and un-
ambitious. Eid away IN a lonely road,
out OF touch with humanity. except OF his
own ouI kind. his fences were down, more
>yeeds were IN his fields than any other
crop. his children were IN rags. and they
1ierded with the lean. plough-snouted
rigs around their waliow near his front
door.
Then one cay a rural postrnsn. the trst
sn the sIeighborhood, passed the house. "a
trace OF animal curiosity got into the far
,ner's torpid and ignorant mind. Presently
DE became acquainted with the postman.
The great world OF action came triclding
40 him. little by little. by word OF mouth.
there by the roadside. ss he lszily leaned
against that tree by the gate.
He called his wife and she listened.
IN ak months they were reading q news
paper. They raw articles on agriculture
hzs
cons had built Man snd woman went 20
work, snd now, Mr.. De Graw. you behold
fhe reeult Why, SIR" the landlord said
ss he drove on. ''the daily delivery OF let
New-York tribune., 1909-12-05

uNes-he rs Democrat and an intelligent
and careful manifold me recently. having
gone into the subject Of land values at
great length. that the delivery OF rural
mail had caused an advance in the selling
prices OF American farms of at least SEQ
oe.0oc. Ny own opinion is that agricultural
lands in rural delivery regions have in
creased from % 10 A. per cent in actual and
obtainable value OF course. other causes
have operated to make land dear. and I
have not overlooked them I'm my investiga-
tions Of the subject"
How much does the rural service cost
the people OF the United statesT'
There has been appropriated and we
shall spend s37.Oo0co0 during the present
fiscal year. So far A.cco carrier routes
have been established"
But what will be the cost OF the servica
when It finally covers the whole countryc''
i asked.
1T would be impossible to make an esti-
mate at this time
"Will ,37,ooo,ooc. the present cost. be mul-
tiplied by two?'
II hardly think So"
can the deficiency I'm revenues to meet
the running expenses of the Postoffiee De-
partment be attributed TO the cost Of main
tanning furdl ueHNery!
mo. In 1895. the year before the service
was established. the deficit amounted to
ss.scoco. Two years later, when only si4 500
was spent on rural delivery, the deficit was
s1.icoco. In 1907. rural delivery costing
sZtccooo. the deficit dropped 10 s6.SeoOcO
Occasionally complaint is made that rural
delivery is costing an enormous sum OF
money. But II should be remembered that
nearly 60 per cent OF our people live In
rural districts. 1t was shown by the last
census that there were. more than 5.7oo.Ooo
farm homes in the United States and only
$1,000 manufacturing establishments About
100000 Americans. SO the census Informed
US. were engaged In agricultural pursuits.
as against 100000 in manufacturing and
$4,000 In trade and transportation.
The rural carriers now travel more than
100000 miles a year and deliver mail TO
more than q. 90 OF our population. More-
New-York tribune., 1909-12-05
TRUTHFUL JAMES.

In one instance. at least. bad spelling
enabled an Office boy TO express the pre-
else fact His employer had Just reluctant
~ lett TO attend a meeting OF bank direc-
tors where the proceedings were sure 10
be long and prosy.
James he said TO the tow-headed lad
put up the sign saying that am ouI
James sought Tor II In vain. SO he in
scribed and posted the following truthful
announcement: "Out-Gono To Rored
Meetinx."-Lpp!ncctIA
New-York tribune., 1909-12-05
LePERs' HOME NEEDS eANpAess

K Daniel Wolterbeek. director of the
Bethesda Lepers' Home. has issued an ap-
peal for material for bandages. which
should be sent 10 his office. No / Ann
street Old linen. cotton. cheesecioth and
other fabrics without colorins are wanted
IL rolls Of bandages are sent they should
be from two TO three inches wide.
New-York tribune., 1909-12-05
HOW DEATH CAME.

His death has been described thus
In 1888 he had a paralytic stroke aaa
other maladies came thick upon him. III
asthma tormented him Gay and night LTop-
steal symptoms made their appea'an1e
That winter was his last. His legs sfe"
weaker. his breath grew shorter; tAe az.
water gathered fast. in spite OF ineiso",
which ne. courageous against pam -
tinid against death. urged his sn'ses ''-.
10 make deeper and deeper. Ihe 49,
physicians and surgeons attended MN az.
refused 10 accept fees from him 7a.
parted from him with deep sni0u
Windham sat much in the sickroe~'
ranged the pillows and sent his own
want 20 watch at night by the bed '-s',
Burney. whom the old man had eAs'- !,
with fatherly kindness. stood WeepNs
the door; while Iangton. whose pisS -,
nently Qualired him 20 be an adVis'. -,
comforter at such a time. received 'ns
pressure OF his friends hand Wi'AN-
when at length the moment. d'eA. ~.
through 50 many years, came el'9-. es,,,.
dark cloud passed away nom ,,-
mind. His temper became unusu@n' -,
tient and gentle. he ceased % thiilA -
terror OF death. and of that which Ae' ~.
yond death; and ne spoke mucn ~
mercy OF God and OF the prop hs
Christ. In this serene frame et A' -, A
died on December IS. 17SA lie was ''.aox
week later. I'm Westminster Abbey ~.
the eminent men Of whom he Aaa go e-'.,.,
historian-CowIey and Denham.
ana Conereve. Gay. Prior and AddiS0'
New-York tribune., 1909-12-05

Mr. De Graw continued. las a matter of
fact. i have used them as the basis for a
calculation or my own and find that the
rural delivery OF mail saves the American
farmers. as a whole. the immense yearly
sum OF s4Ss.oo.ooo- Furthermore. many
farmers now get daily reports OF the live
stock and other markets and are thus en-
abled 10 obtain the highest prices Tor their
beef. pork and grain. Besides. thousands
OF agriculturists receive predictions about
the weather. which not only cover the day
on which they are sent out. but the day
following "a Well. In seasons OF hay cut
ting and harvest. service of such a sort
is practical and valuable"
do you believe that the value of land
has been increased?"
"A member OF the House Of Representa-
New-York tribune., 1909-12-05

forth in a singularly cruel form. He had
become an incurable hypochondriac. Hs
said long after that he had been mad al
his life, OF at least not perfectly sane:
and. in truth. eccentricities less strange
than his have often been thought ground
sufficient for absOlving felons and f.r
setting aside wills His grimaces. his
gestures. his mutrerings sometimes d.
verted and sometimes terrified people who
did not know him. At a dinner table hs
would. in a fit OF absence. stOOp down
and twitch Off -lady's shoe He would
amaze drawing room by suddenly ejacu-
lating a clause OF the Lords Prayer. He
would conceive an unintelligibIe aversion
70 particularly alley. and perform a
great circuit rather than see the hateful
place. He would set his heart on touching
every post in the streets through which
he walked. II by any chance he missed
post. he would so back hundred yards
and repair the omission
Under the influence OF his disease his
senses became morbidly torpid and his
imagination morbidly active. At one tims
he would stand poring on the town clock
without being able TO tell the hour. AT an
other he would distinctly hear his mother.
name But this was not the worst. A deep
melancholy took possession OF him. and
gave dark tinge 70 all ais views Of hu-
man nature and OF human destiny. sucn
wretchedness as he endured has driven
many men 10 shoot themselves or drown
themselves. But he was under no tempIa-
tion TO commit suicide. He was sick OF me-
but he was afraid OF death. and he shua-
dered at every sight or sound which r.
minded him OF the inevitable hour. IN re-
hgion he found but little comfort during
his long and frequent fits OF detection ror
his relision partOok OF his own character
The light from Heaven shOne on him. m
deed. but not in a dirsct line or with Its
own pure splendor. The rays had 20 strus-
gle through a disturbing medium; tney
reached him refracted. dullsd, and dlscoi-
ored by the thick gloom winch had setuso
on his SOUL and. though they might -
sufficiently clear 10 guide him. were 'o'
IA IL
New-York tribune., 1909-12-05
An Attempt to Explain His Hold Upon Cultured
People After the Lapse of One Hundred
and Twenty-Five Years.

the authority 10 which all appealed. We
all remember il as Miss Pinkerton's prize
book in the first chapter OF Vanity Fair
-Qaughter)-but we do not often handle II
I'm these DAYS.
Il come then 70 this conclusion. speaking
always for myself alone. that his literary
fame substantially survives in the two
supreme poems. the Lives OF the Poets
and the dictionary. but that n these stood
alone. rens rkable as they are. we should
not be assembled here to-day. pass then
10 the most solid base, Boswell. and the
figure which remains eternally on Bos-
well"
New-York tribune., 1909-12-05

tend 10 feel the distress Of others as much
as they do themselves. II is equally so,
as If one should pretend TO feel as much
pain while a friends leg is cutting off as
he does
After dinner DR.. johnson wrote a letter
10 Mrs Thrale on the death Of her son, I
but she would soon forget it., as she had
so many things 10 think Of Johnson:
mo, sir; Thrale will forget IL first She
has many things she may think of. he
has many things that he must think OF.
This was very just remark upon the diff
occupy vacant and easy mind. and those
serious engagements which arrest atten-
zion and keep US from brooding over grief
e true poetical genius, the power Of view
ing everything in a poetical light His
fault is such a cloud of words sometimes
that the sense can hardly. peep through:
the Poets was one day sitting with me.
] took down Thomson end read aloud a.
ot aass s he Of s @ saSn saS SEe9 ase ths
highest admiration. Well sir said I, I
have omitted every other line
with what truth, that q certain female
political writer (AIrs. Macaulay), whose
doctrines he disliked. had OF late become
her toilet and even put on rouge. John
son: '.She is better employed al her toilet
than using her pen II is better she should
be reddening her own cheeks than black
ening other peoples characters"
A gentleman whom found sitting with
him one morning said that in his opinion
the character OF an infidel was more de-
testable than that OF a man more notori-
ously guilty OF an atroctous crime. j diff
fered with him. because We are surer OF
OF the other. Johnson: Sir, ] agree with
him; for the infidel would be guilty OF
any crime If he would be inclined 10 IT,"
When I complained OF having dined at
a splendid table without hearing one SEN
membered. he said: ''Sir. there seldom is
then meet az table?" johnson: why, 10
eat and drink together. and TO promote
where there IS no solid conversation; for.
when there is, people differ in opinion, and
get into bad humor; or some OF the com
pany, who are not capable of such conver-
sation. are left out, and feel themselves
uneasy II was for this reason Sir Robert
Walpole said he always talked bawdy at
his table. because in that all could join"
Mr.. Arthur Lee mentioned some Scotch
who had taken possession OF a barren part
choose H. Johnson: why, sir, all barren
ness is comparative. The Scotch would not
know IL to be barren" Boswell: Come,
come, he is fattering the English. You
you did not see meat and drink enough
there" Johnson: why, yes, sir: meat
and drink enough TO give the Inhabitants
sufficient strength run away from home"
talked a good deal TO him OF the cele-
ina t1Ad r
New-York tribune., 1909-12-05
FINE KIDS.

..your children are pretty wei 'iA''''
SYes. 4 tiatter myself that they are, ss,orrsct
got 'em 80 they don't even n-,.-,s,snd
my grammar fsrore company
Leader
New-York tribune., 1909-12-05
A REMARKABLE BIOGRAPHER.

And 90 Boswell that queer mixture OF
childish vanity. faulty and insensi-
bnjtv TO ridicule, the world owes the
record Of Johnson's great conversa-
tional powers. The influence which
johnson exercised by this means directly
upon those with whom he lived and in
directly upon the whole literary world
was probably without a parallel
writer in the Encyclopedia Brittanica
says:
His colloquiaI talents were indeed Of the
highest order. He had strong sense. quick
discernment. wit, humor. immense knowl-
edge OF literature and Of life. and an in
finite store OF curious anecdotes. AS re-
spected style. he spoke far better than he
wrote. Every sentence which dropped from
his lips was es correct in structure as the
most nicely balanced period OF the Ram
bier But in his talk there were no pom
pous triads, and little more than {. fair pro-
portion OF words IN -osity and -ation. All
was simplicity. ease and vigor. He ut
tered his short, weighty and pointed SEN
tences with q power OF voice and just
ness and energy OF emphasis OF which the
effect was rather increased than diminished
by the rollings OF his huge form and by
the asthmatic gaspipgs and puftings in
which the peals OF his eloouence generally
ended.
Nor did the lsziness which made him
unwilling 10 sit down TO his desk prevent
him from giving instruction or entertain
melt orally. To discuss questions Of taste,
OF learning, Of casuistry, in language so
exact and SO forcible that it might have
been printed without the alteration OF a
word was 10 him no exertion. but pleas
ure. He loved, as ne said, TO fold his legs
and have his talk out He was ready 10
bestow the overfowings OF his full mind
on anybody who would start subject-on
q fellow passenger in a stage coach, or on
the person who sat az the same table with
him in an eating house But his converse
tion was nowhere so brilliant and striking
as when he was surrounded by a few
friends whose abilities and knowledge en-
abled them, as he once expressed Il, TO
send him back every bah that he threw"
New-York tribune., 1909-12-05

1 talked a good deal to him OF the cele-
brated Margaret Caroline Rudd. whom I
had visited. induced by the fame of her
talents. address and irresistible power OF
fascination. To a lady who disapproved OF
my visiting her. he said on a former oc-
casion: Nay. Madam. Boswell is in the
right: I should have visited her myself
New-York tribune., 1909-12-05

Talking of very respectable author he
told US "A curious circumstance in his life.
which was that he had married printers
devil Reynolds: "A printers devil, sir!
creature with a black face and in rags"
Johnson: Yes, sir; but L suppose he had
her face washed. and put clean clothes on
her (then looking very serious and very