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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-12-25
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Miss Anna Lang has returned from
a brief visit with friends in Portland
Fred Hill is at home enjoying
Christmas with his parents. Mr. and
Mrs W. w, Hill of North Salem.
Fred has been mingling with the Eu-
gene citizens for the past few months
as an employe of the Barr plumbing
establishment in this city.
Sam Carter returned 10 his home
in Portland yesterday after few
days business visit here.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. H. George re-
turned home last night from "a
months visit with Mr.. Georges pa
rents in Salt Lake City
Oliver Peck left yesterday for his
home in Oak Grove to spend Christ
mas with his parents.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-12-25
All Salem Is Enjoying A Merry Christmas

made for the event; the interior of
the buildings and wards had all been
beautifully decorated; excellent pro-
ans had been prepared, and it was
orally agreed last night that the
ration surpassed all others held
il vious years. The inmates of
the 'itutions were all Of them
mao the recipient of some gift, and
they all entered gaily and joyously
into the festivities of the celebra-
ton.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-12-25
HARVESTER COMPANY
DISTRIBUTED $500,O00
UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE. |

Chicago, Dec 25.-All Of the Chi
cago corporations made many gifts
to their employees today. The In
ternational Harvester Company dis
tributed 100000. Forty thousand
checks were given by the GRANGE
foundry, the total amount being sew
eral million dollars.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-12-25
Feeble Minded Hospital.

Christmas eve was observed with
a service of song and music at the
Feeble Minded Hospital. The cele-
bration was held in the administra-
ton building, in the midst of decora~
tions whose crowning effect was a
handsome and brilliantly Illuminated
Christmas tree, bearing a present for
each inmate. The program was ex~
cellent and effectively rendered by all
those participating, and enjoyed by
the inmates as a whole. Upon its
completion Santa Claus appeared up
on the scene and distributed the
many gifts. The day is. being OBJ
served as a holiday at the institution,
and a delicious dinner was served TO
the inmates this afternoon.
At the Asylum.
Christmas was celebrated at the
asylum yesterday afternoon, and the
feature of the celebration was a mu-
sical given at the chapel. Each ward
had been decorated for the occasion,
and the decorations of the chapel
were of both a beautiful and impress
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-12-25

With ceremonies and rites in har-
mony with and appropriate to the
spirit of the season, Christmas eve
was ushered in last night. at the state
institutions located in the city, and
today the inmates will be given hol-
iday, and will enjoy good Christ
mas dinner.
Elaborate preparations had been
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-12-25

CoOntinued on Page a.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-12-25

Billy Warner an honorary mem
Der Of the printing fraternity. was
remembered by The Journal gang
with a handsome meerschaum pipe.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-12-25
APPROPRIATE
30 - - .
CHRISTMAS
EXERCISES
All Inmates of the State InSti-
tutionS Are Made the Re-
CipientS of Gifts.
GOOD DINNER FOR ALL
WITH SONGS AND MUSIC

Spirit of the Christmas Season Pre-
dominated and Its Joys and Pleas
UresWill Long Be Remembered by
the Participants--The Day More
Generally Observed Than Ever
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-13
Vote and Make Your Vote Count

The bond referendum is set for next Saturday, and no good citizen of the county should fall to vote on that day, for at that time is to be decided the proper housing of the courts and their juries and the decent care of the coun- tvs numerous jailed inhabitants. The county Is large, rich and populous, and it should have commodious court houses and jail that the state au- thorities will not condemn as shame and disgrace.
 To make your vote count you should talk this important matter over with your neighbors. Ask them to aid you in getting out big vote on June 19. A big vote on the plain business propo- sition of the Board of Revenue is all that is needed to put the county's chief public buildings on footing to meet all demands upon them until 1905. AlQ OO uOL SOL IlC Juob hCCuo Ol Bessemer. The southern end of the county can at less travel and expense do it's legal business at Bessemer, and all who desire to keep the big county intact will vote to build a court house at Bessemer. Deal generously with the south end of the county, and propositions of division and discontent will disappear.
 The Age-Herald appeals for large vo.e next Saturday. In large vote l of earnest, thoughtful citizens there is always wisdom and good, common sense. Go to the polls and in the meanwhile dc your best to make your | vote cOunt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-13
High Schools and Universities

The Birmingham High school gradu-
 ated this year the largest class in it's history. Yet in that class of nearly
 70 students there were but eight boys. We'll may one wonder over the where abouts of our boys when only one is graduated in the home school with ten girls.
 The teachers in the high school are ready to say that some of the boys left in their second and third year to enter college. And here is a long, standing trouble. The competition among colleges for students is so keen that boys are lured away even from the best high school in the south to enter college before they are suffi- ciently prepared for it. In other words, instead of taking up the work where the high school leaves off, some col leges seize the boy before he has well begun his preparatory study,
 The remedy lies in an advance of standards in the universities and col ieges and a rigid enforcement of the entrance requirements. It was for this reason that the University of Alabama advanced it's entrance requirements to the standard set. by the great uni versailles, and the announcement is made that they will be carried out to the letter. A successful fight, for a like reason, was made for the aboli- tion of the sub-freshman class at Au- burn. It was possible for a student to enter that institution directly from the grammar schools.
 President Abercrombie of the Uni versity of Alabama is making cam paign for the closer articulation of the secondary schools with the universities and colleges, with a view to the keep Ing or DOy III tne hlSH seHoOl Aou' years until he is prepared to take up real college work On the recom- of the University of Ala bama, through it's department of secon- dary education, many of the high schools of the state have added year To thair- oo,1rcac t0 moot the advanced of the colleges.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-13
MISTAKES MANY WOMEN MAKE.

From the Kansas City Star.
 In their treatment of men in their con jugal affairs women are prone to fall into mistakes of two kinds which are wholly diametrical in their nature. There are wives who nag their husbands, which, of course, is ruinous to domestic peace; then there are wives who indulge their husbands in the practice of serious faults and this, if possible, is worse than con tinually upbraiding them. Between these two dangerous extremes lies the safe and quiet path of conjugal tranquility and restful composure.
 A man who will allow a woman to browbeat and lampoon him without cause and stay good is quite worthy of the contempt with which viragoes are cer- tain to regard such supine creatures. AL most equally undeserving of sympathy are those meek and docile women who suffer tyranny and injustice at the hands of their lords without lifting their voices in protest
 In New York a few days ago a hypo- critical preacher deserted a faithful wife for another woman. His pecadiloes had been known to his wife for quite a pe- riod of time, but out of respect to his calling she remained silent. 'It takes so little to spoil the work of a church, argued the misguided woman. Everyone will say, Another minister gone wrong. 2 And so until this wolf in sheep's cloth ing took all the valuables around the house he could lay his thievish hands on and made off with his paramour, the vic- tim of his baseness endured without open remonstrance the indignities he placed up- on her.
 Now, this injured wife, with all her ex- alted ideas of sacrifice really committed a distinct wrong. She allowed, for the sake of what she thought was wise and ex- pedient, the practice of sin which she might have checked When a man preacher or layman-begins to show his hand in that sort of deal, the moment has arrived for his wife to raise clamor that is, if moral suasion fails to reach the situation. No dutiful wife should feel called upon to submit to indignities from her husband without making call upon the sympathy of the world. No man given to that sort of dereliction is go-
 
 treatment is what he needs, and if that doesn't save him the wife at least per- forms her duty when she unmasks his real character.
 A bit of advice to women that is worthy of all acceptation is, Don't nag you husbands" and equally important to the 1 success of the marriage relation is the 1 admonition: Don't wink at excuse in 1 your husband faults and lapses of con- duct that they would never dream of combining or tolerating if the shoe were i on the other foot" When you see a case of matrimony that is not a failure you | can guess with a very close approxima- tion to certainty that you have under ob- servation a man and a woman who make a rule of holding each other to very | strict standard of responsibility.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-13
ILLNESS OF GREAT MEN.

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
 MT. Hartman now says that the re- ports of his illness were ''all nonsense"
 It was only the other day that Sena- tor Penrose said of Senator LaFollette's reported illness that it was "all non- sense."
 We may we'll believe that the illness of these two eminent men was not real ly illness, but we may be sure that it was not nonsense. Cynical persons will say that in MT. Harriman's care The needed 1t in his business" and probably this will explain MT. LaFolette's aches and pains with equal yeracity.
 Ever since the beginning of recorded time sickness has been one of the useful expedients in business policies of all kinds. In diplomacy, statesmanship money getting, love making, sickness has played an important part And the man who can't fall sick when sickness is the best card to play at the moment does not know how to play the game.
 Of course. MT. Hartman was not i'll. Neither was Mir. LaFollette. But the ill., ness was not nonsense in either case It was a stroke of good sense, we may be sure. although we may never know whether 1t effected its object Of course, great men do, in fact. get sick, like lt- tie men, but with them you never can tell. It may be, and probably is, purely Pickwickian.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-13
Aldrlch and Payne Before the P tOple

All pretense that the Aldrich bill Is a revision downward has been aban- doned. Senators Lodge and Aldrich now say that the republican party is not pledged to revise the Dingley tariff downward.
 Senator Clay of Georgia shows that Dingleyism stands practically un- changed in the Aldrich bill. Out of 420O items in it 39OO are taken from the Dingley bill without any change whatever, and 300 have been revised, some upward, some downward, and all with an eye to special interests, and none for the benefit of the ulti- mate consumer. Not more than 150 items, says Senator Clay, will be con- sidered in conference where the final juggling over rates and jokers is to take place.
 The Aldrich-Payne bill will increase the cost of living. It will not produce needed revenue because "theainterests" have demanded and secured numerous prohibitive rates in order to let them go on exploiting their fellow country men. On top of all this the repub- licans are getting ready to refuse to tax incomes above $5000 per cent. The situation will be complete pro- vided a direct and square vote can be had on the income tax amendment of Senator Cummins.
 The democrats will then take an appeal to the country on four propo- sitions, namely:
 1. Refusal to reduce the cost of living.
 g. Promotion of monopolies in the adoption of prohibitive rate.
 8. Taxation of poverty instead of wealth through the defeat of the Cum mins income tax amendment
 4. Lack of revenue, and a resultant bond issue.
 The democrats do not need any bet ter platform upon which to elect a House of Representatives next fall when the effects of the near tariff bill will have been felt and measured, and the disappointment over it will be acute
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-13

chronic disorders. Its best field re- lates to nervous diseases and troubles of the mind. It seeks to bring repose to the nervous by suggestion, by coun- sel, by prayer, by influences of one kind or another, always, however, in cooperation with a praeticing phy- sieian. It offers in short a psycho- physical treatment.
 Such treatment is at present large ly confined to the rich or well-to'do, but no doubt it will in time be ex- tended to the poor No one can be treated in accordance with the Elm manuel movement who lacks faith in the essentials at least of the Christian religion. It is not, however, the fad of any particular church. Any Christian is welcomed and there is no proselyt- ing. The Emmanuel movement Is at present a boon to the leisure class who have become morbid or depressed, or nervous, or hysterical, or hypo- chondriacal, and so long as it keeps in touch with the physician 1t can work no harm and may accomplish much good. The effect of mind upon mind should never be underestimated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-13
WONDERS OF MEMORY.
from the Boston Globe.

From the Boston GlODo.
 Senator Gore of Oklahoma, who is blind, is gifted with a remarkable memory. The other day in replying to MT. Lodge. he rattled off statistics about Massachusetts manufactures after fashion that sur prised his colleagues. While other sem ators depend upon printed tables for facts and figures, Senator Gore trusts entirely to his splendid memory.
 Gladstone was similarly gifted. Al though literary man by studies and in clination, he could, when chancellor of the exchequer, recite statistical informa- tion without the aid of notes or pamphlet. He could recall a Greek quotation In the original without making the semblcnce of an error, and could correct archaeolo- gists who presumed to know all about the pyramids of Egypt or the round towers of Ireland.
 Macauleys memory was even more prodigious. It is well known how rapidly he could tell the names of the archbisnops of Canterbury backward, and 1t is said that after reading copy of the London Times he could repeat its contents ver- hatim, advertisements and all. The latter assertion will, no doubt, test the credulity of the marines, even.
 Blaine and Conlxling both prided them eelves on their memories. On one oc- casion Conkling quoted the celebrated lines, NO pent-up Utica confines our powers" etc., adding that they were from Addison's Cato. Blaine wagered a basket of champagne that they were not Conking was much humiliated when 1t was shown to him that the quotation was from an epilogue to Addison's Cota, writ ten by a citizen of Portsmouth, Nc H.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-13

THE COTTAGE OF CONTENT. A little road that winds along,
 A little house beside it. The boughs of trees to oyerspread,
 A wealth of blooms to hide it. An ancient man before the door,
 With snowy beard down-sweeping And dreamy eyes and nodding head,
 A careless guard is keeping. A traveller. forspent with strife
 And toiling after glory, Alights to rest awhile and tells
 The gray old man his story. The wizard smiles and strokes his beard And speaks as one whose knowledge Has been acquired by other ways
 Than droning school or college. Tired Heart" he said and softly sighed, 'I followed once a vision, In youth, that promised worlds applause, But met with sneers-derlsion, The lying tongue, the traitor hand, A round of selfish scheming, And much that made me sick at heart And little worth redeeming. And all the ways were sordid ways,
 Where sorrows thralls were toiling. And some were mad for paltry things, With sobs and tears imbroiling; And some were wild with hate, to see How others passed before them And some reached out to touch the goal While death was bending o'er them. At last, grown wise, I turned away And built me here this cottage And swapped my dreams of glory for A simple mess of pottage. And have learned that happiness,
 Let vain ambition blind it, Can still be had in this old world,
 If one knows where to find it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-13
WILSON'S RAID.
Anonymous.

Anonymous A bugle call at Selmal Yes, Wilson is at Selma
 Bright, jaunty, gay, he spurs his gray And heads our van to Selma. Down, down the pike at Selma, Our charge sweeps4on to Selma.
 Mad shells now fly and soldiers die; Red is the road to Selma But Forrest is in Selma, Fierce Forrest is in Selma:
 Iris victory where'er he be, And hope Is high in Selma. Still Wilson leads to Selma, He cheers us on to Selma;
 The gray Is down and Wilson's down, Yet waves us on to Selma A cheer goes up from Selma, At Wilson's fall at Selma;
 He mounts again and spurs again His bloody gray toward Selma. Up to the gates of Selma, On through the gates of Selma!
 Our steel meets steel, the foemen wheel And Wilson sweeps through Selma. And Forrest fees from Selma All bleeding fees from Selma
 While Wilson's fame and Wilson's
 name Are writ in flame at Selma,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-13
Alabama'S Water Powers

In the June Hampton's John L. Mat thews warns the country against a trust which is buying water powers against the time when electrical energy generated by water power shall supplant coal MT. Matthews shows that our water powers are worth more than our coal mines today if they were developed even without careful con servation of water.
 The United States government esti- mates the value of water power at $33 per unit per year. It is not easy to say how much power there is in the streams of the chief river state of the union, but the chances are that a produc- ton of ,000 000 units would be easy and feasible. This would on the basis of the government estimtae be worth $33, 100000 a year.
 This vast energy is going to waste, but 1t will not long be wasted-at least it will not long go unowned The trust will soon gumshoe this splendid force into its possession and owner ship at ridiculously low figures No owner of water power in Alabama that would drive a turbine should sell it for song, for it is the coming power of the country, and it will within a decade be in demand at its him stlldy TallaSSee
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-13
MICHELANGELO
From the Washington Post.

From the Washington Post
 "Michelangelo undoubtedly was the greatest man of his age, and in sculp- ture, painting, architecture and literature probably the greatest man in history said Charles H. Niehaus, sculptor, of New York, at the Arlington.
 Not only was he great sculptor, painter, architect and writer, but he was a famous engineer; yet take him as a sculptor, for instance, and he was not SO great as Donatello in my opinion. The latter I regard as the most wonderful sculptor. not only of his age. but of all time, but he could not paint, nor could he write, and he was not great archi- tect.
 "Holbein was far better painter than Michelangelo. He was, in my opinion. the greatest portrait painter the world
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-13

the tariff. and should the schedules be sufficiently high to regulate foreign com petition, the Birmingham district will without doubt get its share of the bene- fits of the large volume of business which is expected. With the rail mill and fur naces in full operation, and with the ore and coal mines supplying them, again showing their wonted activity, the whole state of Alabama will experience return of prosperity which disappeared so sud denly nearly two years ago.
 Our senators and representatives have always endeavored to secure for the peo- pie of their state a fair share of the favors in the way of appropriations and otherwise which the general government had to bestow and it is believed they now have an opportunity of rendering Alabama a greater service than ever in preventing any unfair discrimination against her in dustries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-13
What the Emmanuel Movement Is

The Emmanuel movement was \ tarted about three years ago and it is
 hking considerable progress. This
 '5vement does not deny the existence
 disease. It seeks, however, to unite religion and medicine. It aims to aid, not to banish, the physician. It's inde- pendence is largely on regime of simple living, suitable diet and an abundance of sunlight and fresh air. It does not claim it can cope with, such diseases as consumption, pneumonia, Bright's disease or other deeply-seated
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-13
IN HOTEL LOBBlES
New Market For Alabama Fuel.

NeW Market For Alabama fuel.
 4 new market for Alabama coal has just been opened which promises much for the Birmingham district. It is author itatively announced that the Ocean Steamship company. owned by the Gen. tral of Georgia railroad, will in future draw its fuel supply from the Birming- ham district. It has already contracted for something like so.00O tons of Alabama coal for delivery at Savannah during the next 12 months
 The Ocean Steamship company runs line between Savannah and New York and line between Savannah and Bos- ton. It is a new customer for Alabama fuel but 1t has been making tests re- gently and these tests having proved thoroughly satisfactory, the management has decided to use coal from no other section. In discussing this matter yes terday citizen familiar with the Cens tral of Georgia policy said:
 '"rhe contract for Alabama coal which the Ocean Steamship company has closed means not only an immediate gain for the Birmingham district, but 1t opens up an outlet as permanent as it is new for the product of Alabama mines. This beginning will be developed in a large way. The fact is that the Berg line, which plies between Savannah and Eu- ropean ports, is already arranging to use Alabama coal. Extensive improvements are now being made at Savannah for shipside delivery and it is safe to say that in the first year fully 100,J-9 tons of Alabama fuel will be used by ships coal ing at that port which had been mined formerly in other fields. It will give new traffic to the Central of Georgia and will help business hereabouts in seY- eral directions. Moreover, this new coal trade will have far-reaching benefit as an advertisement for the Birmingham district.
 "The Ocean Steamship company has just placed an order for two large and costly modern vessels. It is branching out generally and so is the Central of Georgia line. Tn this connection it is of interest to know that MT Hartman. who owns the control of the Illinois Gen. tral and the Central of Georgia, will leave the respective organizations as they are Major Hanson, as the president of the Central of Georgia, will cooperate, of course, with President Harahan of the Illinois FCentral, but further than close relations in exchange of traf- fc they will be operated as separate properties. MT Hartman only outlines a general policy. leaving all local poll ices to the heads of the two companies. Included in the contract for rails which the Tennessee company is about to roll at Ensley is an order for 5000 tons for the Central of Georgia"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-13
The Iron Market.

The pig iron market. while it may not be quite so active as it was in April, is by no means sluggish. All the furnace companies here are selling iron. Some are selling their make and most of those that are not prefer to go slow and catch bet ter prices later on.
 As an evidence of the healthy condition of the market the Alabama Consolidated Coal and Iron company sold 50O0 tons in small lots for-shipment in many direc- tions, and all the iron thus contracted for is said to be for delivery within 30 days. In other words consumers need the pig metal