Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-08-05

thC WhidihSbbV NdiiCy uOB MIL thO
billl Then with southernn and east
ern oregon antagonize1 watch Port
land or Eugene swipe the state capt.
tai!
The press wires were loaded yes
terday with the story of how Mrs.
Castle pulled her little 22 and shot
lawyer in the fountain pen.
A dispatch from Africa yester-
day says; Roosevelt laid a corner
stone" But that is no reason why
the special press correspondent,
Warrington Dawson, should cackle.
At Albany, Oregon. they tell
story about a prohibition candidate
who had a great deal of campaign
literature left over after the cleo
tion. He hated to destroy It, so he
stored Il in the barn. But one day
seven milk cows broke into the barn
ate the literature, and the entire
herd went dry.-The calves ditto.
The Portland Telegram has jump.
ed onto g. II. Flagg, OF the st. Hell
ems Mist, in an unmerciful manner
and intimated that IL Flagg and
some OF the county officials had what
was coming to them they would not
be living in st. Helen's. Mr.. Flagg
calls the Telegram man a dirty lib
eler and challenges him for the
proof
Umpqua Valley News: Col e.
Hofer announces that he is not
candidate for governor. He proba-
bly, thinks his continuance In office
for six years by appointment by Gov
ernor Benson. and the honor OF be-
ing Chief Rainmaker for Oregon is
glory enough for one man, and no
only an editor.
G. w. Humphrey in his paper, the
Jefferson Review: Coming down to
the office at an early hour the other
morning, tho Review man noticed
enc OF our most popular and highly
educated young ladies busily engag-
ed in carrying in and stacking the
winter supply OF wood. And she did
not seem to care a bit who stopped
and rubbered at the unusual sight.
The chap who gets that girl to trot
with him along life's stormy path
way will be In big luck.
T. T. Geer and other shallow pol
itic'ans on whom the people have
passed judgment cannot make a pub
lie address without witticisms as
they think at the expense of The
Journal editor because he thought In
a time OF great drouth that II would
be a good thing II the properly auth
orized representatives OF the Most
High would do a little judiclous
praying. These light-brained and
frivolous agnostocs cannot conceive
OF nature deep enough to acknow-
lodge that there Is a God or that
anyone should ever turn to him for
help. Their m!nds are OF too shall
low a calibre TO pray seriously for
anything. But the Lord made them
and the people size them at their
due weight and pass them up. The
great mass of the people still believe
In God and in prayer far more than
they do In the vaporings OF political
upstarts who have accidentally at
come time been clothed with a little
office long enough for the people to
take there dimensions and return
them where they may still seek no.
tor'ety but only from the noisy petn-
liant attitude OF a Once-Was or n
Has-Been. The people will not be
Influenced against real manhood or
womanhood that rests It's relation
ship to this world upon a belief In
Divine Mind and the efficacy OF pray
er whom necessary 10 overcome un-
favorable conditions. The agnostic
Is moral delinquent when he as
sails the power of prayer