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and a resolution wac passed demand.
ing that slavery be permitted to exist
in territory north of the Missouri com
promise boundary and instruct1ng the
senators to vote accordingly Benton
denounced this resolution as treason
able and refused to obey 1t. He said
1t did not represent the sentiment OF
the people of the state and he appealed
from the Missouri legislature to the
Missouri people. The struggle was bit
ter and intense. AS Benton was up
for reelection, it being the close of
his fifth term as senator, the effort
was to control the legislature which
was to elect the senator for the fol-
lowing term. Neither side obtained a
majority of the members and dead
lock resulted to be broken by the anti
Benton Democrats combining with the
Wings and bringing about Benton's
defeat.
The old warrior was not dismayed
and kept up the fight. In 1852 he was
sent to the lower house Of congress
from St. Louis as Union Democrat.
For thirty years he had been absolute
dictator in the politics of Missouri.
His word was final, and his wishes
law, but the tide had turned, and for
the remaining years Of his life set
steadily against him. Yet at no time
In his career does Benton present a
more inspiring figure than when, with
his back to the wall, crowded on every
side by foes, he continued to battle for
the principles he believed in. By COM
promising and by trucking to the pub
lie sentiment of his state he could
have regained his seat in the senate,
but he would have lost the love and
admiration due the brave man who
prefers defeat with the right to vic
tory with what he considers wrong.
Benton's mannerisms were marked
and did not tend to make him popular
with the masses. He seemed egotis-
teal to the point Of absurdity, yet in
respect. To the casual observer stern
and pompous, he was gentle and ten
der-hearted to those who knew him
we'll His public and private life were
above reproach. His high sense of
honor as public servant, his incor-
ruptible integrity, his unwavering adj
herence at whatever cost to the prin-
ciples he believed in, his powerful in
tellect and his aggressive energy COM
bined to make him a fighter eminently
qualified to lead and represent the
militant people Of the West in the first
half of the last century.
He was defeated for reelection to
the house in 1854, and In 1855 became
the candidate of the Union Democrats
for governor, and ran third in the
race. He was now "a years old, but as
vigorous and robust as ever. Without
lamenting his fate or the peoples in
gratitude, he cheerfully took ur the
completion Of his Thirty Years
View" giving a mental picture of the
important events in the history of our
country with which he had been con-
nected. In 1858 he died in Washing
ton, undismayed by the storm Of pub
lie misunderstanding that had wreck
ed his political life He looked into
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-29
Made His Yard a Garden.

Rather a remarkable case has been
before the Washington police depart
ment recently, when one of its own
number, George Winnie, had been az
rested because he was raising vege-
tables in his front yard. He had corn
and tomatoes and several other kinds
of vegetables. The policeman who
arrested him said that it was against
good order and neatness to try to
grow vegetables in ones front yard.
This in spite of the fact that one of
the principal features of some Of the
italian gardens in the old world is
our Indian corn, which is tended and
cared for like an orchid. Many of
the weeds which we detest and cut
down with energy are treated as ex-
otics. And SO the world ways.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-29

place to pennies and marks, the latter
being equal to French franc. The
contrast Is especially noticeable as
regards towns and their inhabitants.
Thus there are few cities In European
Russia which do not appear dreary
and depressing to stranger. Moscow
and Odessa are exceptions, for the
first named is undoubtedly pictures
que, while the gardens, boulevards
and well-paved thoreughfares of the
other present d striking contrast, to,
say, Kharkoff, with its general i'm
preston of gloom, and even squalor.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-29

of life and animation are indeed pleas
ant to contemplate after the drab,
dreary streets of the Russian capital.
Viborg Is, perhaps, the least imposing
of all Finnish towns, for many Of its
dwellings are built of wood, which,
however, is generally stained a dark
red color. cleaner and more cheerful
looking than rough, weather-bleached
logs.
pleasant also Is 1t to saunter
through the picturesque old streets, to
ransack the silver shops and come
suddenly upon a market place lying In
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-29

Vfborg is barely eighty miles from
Petersburg and yet I awaken today in
another world in a cozy hotel bed
room. It's windows overlook a scene
more suggestive Of sunny Spain or
Italy than the frozen north
1.-THE picturesque town nesting
against a background of pine forest
and blue waters Of the harbor spar
king under cloudless sky, the wood
ed tslets with their pretty villas, the
ruined castle of Viborg, with its crum-
bling thirteenth-century batt1ements,
and last but not least the general air
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-29
BRIGHT SCENES IN FINLAND
pleasant Change for Traveller After
the Dreary Cities of European
Russia.

This pleasant picture of Viborg, Fin
land, is from a recent book by Harry
he Windt: There are few countries
40 absolutely dissimilar (saye cllmatl-
caIly) as Russia proper and Finland.
Everything is different, commencing
with the currency, for rubles and ko-
ueks have now disappeared to give
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-29
The Mystery Of a Duel.

Having fought his duel and saved
his honor by firing shot In the air,
the editor of a French provincial
newspaper we mt back to his desk and
the incident had quite left his mind
when he felt something strange in
his thigh. He looked and found that
he was bleeding profusely.
doctor wass called, who discov-
cred that a bullet was embedded in
the editors thigh some two inches
deem and required extraction. why
was this not taken notice OF on the
snot where the \duel took placer"
he asked. The editor was as mucn
in the dark as the doctor. AT the mo-
ment of the duel ME had fired into
the air and his adversary also TOOK
a distracted sort Of aim. There had
evidently been no intention of doing
the slightest harm ON either side.
The editor felt nothing as he left
the field and had shaken hands with
his antagonist as sign or reconc1l1a-
ton. How q bullet cauhe to be lodged
In his thigh was simply one OF the
mysteries Of dueling.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-29

the shadow Of quaint old gabled
houses, where the rosy-cheeked peas
ants, carts and cobbles and can Eoas
booths packed with fruit and vegeta-
bles recall some old-world town In 4 ar
away Brittany. Everything has a
clearly, bright appearance, and the
fresh, pine-scented sea breeze is CRATE
full indeed after muggy, inodorous
Petersburg" ~
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-29

ward signs which give to this small
and unpretentious structure distinc-
tive character, and which, indeed, in
dictate that it is not a tool shed or
other like concern are two crosses,
formed simply of laths and painted
white, like the rest of the building, the
one above the entrance and the other
at the side facing the road above.
From the latter there can be dis
scriptien over the door, and wooden
lettered tablet, such as is to be seen
outside church buildings, adjoining the
front.
This curious little building, known
to the canal boat people, for whose
benefit it has been established. and to
the residents of the vicinity as the
"ToWpath mission" represents the life
work of one woman, Mrs. s. e. L. SAT-
fold.
Her Sunday school-attended by the
children of the boats-and her general
missionary labors throughout the
week are welcome features of the Gu
rious and somewhat clannish life of
the men, women and children who
live practically all their lives upon the
cumbersome craft that ply between
Washington and Cumberland, Md,
upon the sluggish waters of the canal.
Mrs. Saffold is lifelong Washing
tonian. A sculptress of unusual abil-
ity, she abandoned art a number of
years ago for work among the poor.
Her first educational labors were
among the children of the poor Ital-
ians of the city in the labyrinth be-
meath the shadow of the capitol dome,
known as Little Italy" Many an Ital-
ian boy and girl were saved from evil
ways through the efforts of Mrs SAT-
fold. Then she realized, after a
chance sight had led her to make an
Investigation, that the children of the
towpath people were uncared for from
an educational standpoint, and she de-
termined to devote her energies
toward their welfare in this connec-
ton.
Many have been the efforts of Mrs.
Saffold to have the children admitted
into the public schools of the district
during the more or less brief and un-
certain periods of their residence in
Washington, but all such attempts up
On her part have resulted in failure. In
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-29
Strategy.

strategy.
Bessie-But didn't you say II George
tried to kiss you, why, you wouldn't
stand for It?
Peggy-I didn't IL sat down IN
a hammock.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-29
Another Rom for

Another Boom for the Crops.
Not many delegates appeared at
the Esperantist congress that met In
Kansas"
"No. Most Of them stopped of and
hired out as harvest hands,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-29

Now that the comet has not killed
anybody, let us turn our attention to
July 4.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-29
A TOWPATH MISSION
WOMAN'S LIFE WORK WITH
JEWELLERS ON CANAL BOATS.
6culptress of Unusual Ability Aban-
doned Art to Work Among the
Poor-No Other School
of Its Kind.

Visible to the Washington autoists
who whirl along the road by the upper
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-10-29

Potomac In the VI
cinity Of the aque-
duct bridge is a
little white-paint-
ed wooden struc-
ture, which stands
upon the towpath
of the Chesapeake
and Ohio canal be-
low.
The only out
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81 JOSEPH g. BOW rs

INSIDE Of Missouri the
home of Thomas H. Ben
ton, United States sena-
tor from 1921 to 1851, Is
known only to the stu
dent of history. Web
ster, Clay and Calhoun
are familiar words
everywhere, yet Benton
served in the United
States senate longer
than any of these, and
was reSpOfiS1hla for
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-01-14

Governor Accepts Invitation
Governor Benson today accepted
the invitation of the republican club
at Baker City to attend banquet
to be given by the organization ON
Lincoln February -.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-01-14

A special dispatach to the Exami-
ner from Los Angeles of Jan. 10,
says; Mrs. Felitha Cumi Shortridge,
mother of Mrs. Clara Shortridge Foltz
of Los Angeles, Samuel M. Shortridge
of San Francisco and Charles NJ.
shortridge of San Jose, died tonight
at the home of Mrs. Foltz, 1929 West
Picostreet. She was So years old,
She had just returned from a two
months visit with her sons. Mrs
Shortridge was native of Indiana
and came to California in 1873. Fun
eral services will be held in San ose
and the body inferred in the family
burial plot.
The Shortridge family formerly re-
sided in Salem and will be remember
ed by many of the pioneers of this
vicinity.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-01-14
X * X X X * X X * , * X x X i:
X PERSONAL MENTION \
X X x X X X X X X X X X X * 4

Mrs. w. T. Anderson of Wash
burn, ~ OAK, leaves for her home
today. Her brother, Albert
Schwartz will accompany her to
Portland
Reuben Stanley left yesterday for
his home in Mill City after a short
business visit in Salem.
Miss Adella Westcott, of Oregon
City, is in the city visiting her IA
ther, VIM. .Westcott for a few days.
Frank Haas, more readily known
as King Hickey" left last night
for Los Angeles, Cal, to join his
mother in a months visit. Frank
will gather oranges and probably
visit the garden of love and pick a
lemon before he returns. In any
event, Salem's leading sportsman
and harness maker, will consume
gobs of sunshine and may take few
joy rides over some of California's
pike roads.
Leroy Weatherform, of Grants
Pass, was in the city yesterday at
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-01-14

tending to business matters for a
short time.
Miss Grace ,Moreland, of Stayton
visited friends in the city yesterday
for few hours.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Booker left
last night for Portland to visit their
oldest daughter, Mrs. George G.
Belknap, for a week.
J. F. Goode returned last night
from a business trip to Oregon City
and Portland.
Julius Wolfe, of Silverton, was
transacting business in the city yes
terday. Mr. Wolfe is a prominent
Marion county hop dealer.
Mrs. U. G. Boyer and Mrs. Baum
bach, the latter being Mrs. Boyer's
guest from the east, made a visit
to the Chemawa Indian Training
school yesterday.
Reverend Barr G. Lee, was a busi-
ness visitor in Portland yesterday.
Thomas r. Lake, of Junction
City, was in the city looking after
business matters.
Attorney earle S. Belle, of Port
land, was transacting business here
today.
Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Gouley, of
Chemeketa, was in the city last
night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oswald West re-
turned last night from a short visit
to Portland.
Judge Moreland, clerk of the su-
preme court, left yesterday for
Portland. He will return the first
of the week.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-01-14
PROVED TO Be
CROTON OIL
UNITED PRESS 1nAsnp w1nn.1

Payette, Ida, Jan. 14.-Twenty.
five women who partook of a ban
quet given by the Royal Neighborz
lodge are in a serious condition to-
day from poison. Although no fa-
talities resulted, many of the wo-
men required the services of physi-
clans and are still very sick. A
number became i'll before the ban
quet was over and all were in agony
before the night passed.
At first it was believed that the
symptoms pointed to croton oil.
A rigid investigation will be
made.
Inquiry at a local drugstore re-
vealed the fact that a girl who was
present at the banquet had pur-
chased a quantity of croton oil yes
terday without the knowledge of
her parents. Her mother was one of
the victims.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-01-14
OREGON PERSONALS
FROM LOS ANGELES

Howard H. Markell, formerly a
student of Willamette University, re-
Gently underwent an operation in San
Francisco for appendicitis. Mr.. Mar
kel has recovered sufficiently from
the effects of the operation to re-
sumo his studies in the medical de-
partment Of the University of Cali
fornia.
Mrs. Albert Salb, who has been
visiting relatives in Portland for the
past several weeks, has gone to Los
angeles, where she will join her
husband. Mr.. and Mrs. Salg form
erly resided in this city, where they
conducted a photograph studio.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-01-14

NJ b, A. Lodge Masquerade Ball
Wednesday evening, January 10.
Everybody welcome. 1-14-1t
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-01-14

Biggest Shipment Collars
Ever seen in Salem at the Shafer
Shafer, the harness man. 1-S-tt
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-01-14
PonltrY Wanted--

Poultry WunteU-~
Highest cash price paid for poul-
try by Hop Lee, Chinese laundry.
12-22-tf
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-01-14
OIL Your Harness--

This is the time OF year to save
money by caring for leather. See
Shaffer, the harness man. 1-S-ti
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-01-14

A little boy, the son OF Chris ID.
Peterson, well known resident OF
the village OF Jacksonville. Iowa.
had a sudden and violent attack OF
Group. Much thick stringy phlegm
came up after giving Chamberlain's IS
Cough Remedy. Mr.. Peterson says
Il think he would have chokod 10
death had We not given him this
remedy" For sale by all good drug.
gists.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-01-14

Cottage Undertaking ParlOrs-
Cottage and Chemeketa SITS. Calls
day or night. ]. C. Sill. Phone 724.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-01-14
Able to BE About Again.

State Engineer Lewis Is moving
today from his present residence
and win hereafter be located be-
tween State and Court street on
Thirteenth street. Mr. Lewis was
able TO be down town for the first
time yesterday since ne was taken
IN with typhoid fever In November.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-01-14

Catalogue of Music Completed
State Printer Duniway has just
completed the catalogue Of music
for the Oregon university. The cat
alogue presents a neat and attrac-
tive appearance, and shows the best
of workmanship.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-01-14
WEATHER FORECASTS

WEATHER FORECASTS
Occasional rain or snow tonight
and Saturday.
Brings Trustee Back
Trustee La Mere, who escaped
from the penitentiary during the
fore part of the week, was appre-
hended yesterday at Hubbard and
returned to the institution by the
authorities.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-01-14
X X * X X 4 X X X X X X \ \ =
4 CITY NE WS
IETS. VIOLETs.
4 4 4 4 \ 4 \ 4: \ x \ \ 4 4

Il X 4 X X X X \. X X X X X X 4
VIOLETs. VIOLETS.-
At Thomas Floral Store next to
Capital Creamery, 3s7 Court st.
Phone O5S.
Poultry Wanted
Highest cash price paid for poul-
try by Hop Lee, Chinese laundry.
12-22-tf
Biggest Shipment Collars
Ever seen in Salem at the Shafer
Shafer, the harness man. 1-S-tt
Cottage Undertaking ParlOrs--
Cottage and Chemeketa SITS. Calls
day or night. J. C. Sill. Phone 794.
oil Your Harness
This is the time OF year to save
money by caring for leather. See
Shaffer. the harness man. 1-S-tf
From One Extreme 10 the Other
The weather forecaster was in "A
fiokle frame of mind last night whom
he brought a rain-storm down on
the unsuspectng heads of Salem
people and then turned off the water
and change the climate to dry
freeze. The thermometer did not
get below 80 degrees however, and
was just the right gauge to dry up
the water and dampness
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-01-14
birthday Party

hiilluHN IAltN-
Edith, the only daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. W. H. Pearce. entertained
number of her friends Thursday
evening in honor of her 18th birth
day Refreshments We're served and
a very enjoyable time was spent dur
In the evening Those present were
Mr.. and Mrs c. II. Bussey and sons,
Clifford, Virgil, Reginald; Mrs Mag
gle Wheeler, Gertrude Hoffman,
Edith Pearce. Grace Spong. Helen
Hoffman and W II. Pearce.
The Junior Kings Herald society
of the first NJ, E, church, will hold
their regular monthly meeting in
the primary room of the church
tomorrow, Saturday afternoon, at
$3.50.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-01-14

Try a Journal want ad
The citizen., 1910-09-02
Onr Decreasing Meat Supply.

If the statistics of the Department OF
Agriculture are correct we NAV as well
as not say goodby TO cheap meat, and we
NAV expect our grandchildren 10 Iool,
mon beeisteak as a luxury COMPARED to
tsrrapin in this era-supposing any one
does look on terrapln as a luxury. The
population is increasing rapidly, while the
supply of all kinds Of animals used for
foods is decreasing. There does not seem
10 be quite such crisis in the hog market
as existed six months ago but the beef
cattle situation is not satisfactory.
Two wears ago there were in this coun.
trv over twenty million head Of cattle of
ali kinds. or considerably more than one
10 each family Now there are less than
sixteen and one half millions, or less than
one "critter" to each family, Shipments
from the great packing centres have fallen
off rapidly, while our exports have de-
creased in two years from more than two
hundred million pounds to about seventy.
five million pounds per annum. Eyi.
IDENTITY. Europe IS not going to get much
more of our meat, and the great anxletv
is to know whether we are going to get
enough for ourselves.
AL Ol lllS 10 AANSANoAill% DCCduSc OF llg
recent statements, anent the price of milk.
that the farmer finds it more profitable ia
sell his heifer calves than to establish q
milk dairy. 1t is certain that the supply
is decreasing and the demand enlareing,
so that the prospect of cheaper meat may
as well be abandoned unless our farmers
get busy. They tell us corn is high be.
cause farmers prefer 10 feed it TO cattle
and hogs and then in the next breath an.
nounce that meat is high because corn is
so expensive. The one thing that is ap-
parent in the whole matter is that the cost
of living is increasing.
Secretary Wilson has been earnest in
the last few years in trying to get more
people on farms and to induce the farm.
ers to produce larger crops to the acre.
More power to his persuasive abilities.-
Philadelphia Inquirer
The citizen., 1910-09-02
An Easily Conquered Disease.

When cholera was last in Europe, moth
ing very definite had been learned as TO
its real nature. 1t was still regarded as
a contagious disease, which was-and OF
any disease still is-the same thing as
confessing ignorance as to how its infec-
ton passes from the sick to the well, and
against it there could be used only gen
eral measures of san tation and isolation.
Even these were enough TO keep the raw
ages of the epidemic, except in few
special centres of filth and ignorance.
within limits small indeed in comparison
with the dreadful mortality that used to
follQw the appearance of cholera any
where.
Now the malady is among those most
thoroughly understood and though not
much progress has been made as to the
curing of victims once stricken, then in
fection agent and the avenues of infec-
ton have been found and the latter can
all be asily and effectively closed by any,
body who knows and will use few sim
pie measures of prevention. He who eats
and drinks nothing that has not been
subjected for some time at least to the
heat at which water boils-and nothing
that has been contaminated between con-
sumption apd the application Of the heat
will not have the cholera, even though
people are dying of it all around him.