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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-07-12
Life asSeen in the Movies The Hero

movie hero. No matter whom he en-
counters, he wins every battle in which
he engages. Bartenders, lOngshoremen,
lumbermen, mixed alers, bouneers,
chauffeurs, police grafters are all alike
to him in a skirmish. When necessary
he fights with chairs, or slice bars, or
coupling pins, or castings, but these
are only for use in emergency. At the
end Of any conflict he pulls from his
pocket a snowy handkerchief, daintily
flicks the dust from his shoes and su
perintends the removal of his enemies
to the ambulance that has just dashed
up.
The movie hero is also possessed of
remarkable hypnotic powers. With one
glance of his eye he can restore order
at picnic of the Thomas j. McManus
Association BY lifting his hand he can
quiet an /. W. W. open-air meeting. We
have seen him disperse a lynching par
ty at a time when the most reckless
life insurance agent on earth wouldn t
have underwritten the chief actor for
six buffalo nickels. We believe he
would almost undertake to preside over
the next Republican Progressive Natio-
nal convention.
He is equally at home in all nations
and in all strata of society. Whether
about to be burned at the stake By
early American Indians, to be popped
into the kettle of FIJI epicures, or to
walk the plank just ahead of the cut
lasses of Chinese pirates, his attitude
is the correct one for the particular oc-
casion. One would imagine that being
hurled over precipices, east into turbu-
lent whirlpools, dropped from the Wool.
worth building, and fed through man
Cling machines would crease his fscy
with lines Of care and silver his brown
locks; yet his face still wears the lus-
ty look of youth, and his spirits are
those of a sophomore right up to his
wedding day. The lines and the silver
threads may come after that, but he
ceafes to appear in public after the
ceremony.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-07-12
By James J. Montague.

He is six feet tall, and has square,
commanding jaw. Often he is very
wealthy and travels about in 1911 auto
mobiles, but sometimes he is the fire
man of a locomotive and the sole sup
port of his aged mother. As he reap
pears from week to week it is evident
that he is not employed on the New
York, New Haven and Hartford Rail
road.
TIC iooyie h--'. has no especial need
of brains, for he has only seven sen
tences in his vocabulary. These are;
~ love you'll"
f'Leaye that lady alone!"
"Take that, you seoundrel!"
"Never fear, will protect you!"
"These two hands shall toll for
youl"
"You shall not dispossess this poor,
old womanl"
Unworthy though am, hothlng
shall daunt my Devotion" "
These seven sentences, of course, are
not all addressed to the same person.
BY judicious scattering through the
hero's activities they meet any situa-
ton likely to arise in a motion drama.
a glance at them shows that before
the invention of the exclamation point
a movie hero would have been impos-
sible.
In the days Of his prosperity the
hero is a snappy DRESSER with a new
straw hat adorned with tussy little
bow; a semi.fitting sack coat and care
fully cerased trousers. For evening
wear he has sometimes a clawhammer--
and at his own wedding he invariably
wears gardenia in the buttOnhole of
trock coat.
He is also natty when firing the To-
comOtiye, and even when returning from
4 run through Western Pennsylvania
his overalls are spOtless as he emerges
from the cab.
II we were a prizefight manager,
cooking for a white hope, we should
make haste to get in touch with the
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-07-12
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Grain. Flour. Feed, Etc.

Wheat-Track prices: Club 9O@92c;
Bluestem, 94@95c; FOrtyfold, 92cj Red
Russian, soc; Valley, Ole.
Millstuffs-Bran s24@25 per ton;
shorts, $26@27; middlings, $3l.
Flour-Patents, $40 per barrel;
straights, $40; exports, $3.85@3'95;
valley, $40; graham, $3.50; whole
wheat, $3.50.
Whole, $3.50; cracked, $29.5O
per ton.
Hay-Eastern Oregon timothy, choice
$1S@19; alfalfa, $13@14; straw, $6@L
Oats-No. l, white, $4,000
Barley-Feed, $23@23.5O per ton;
brewing, nominal; rolled, $27@2S.
Groceries, Dried Fruits, Etc.
Dried Frults-Apples. 1Oc per lb.;
currants, 1Oc; spricots, 100 lac;
peaches, S911c; prunes, Italian, SO
1Oc, 1ilver, 1Sc; figs, white and black,
Sh@7hc; currents, shc; raisinS,
loose Muscatel 6A@7hc; bleGched
Thompson, 11hc, unbleached Sultan
az. 8hc; seeded, IN @Shc.
Coffee-Roasted, in drums, 19@35c
per lb.
Nuts - walnuts. 17h@1sc per 10;
Brazil nuts, 12hc; tilberts, 15c; al
monds. 16@1Sc: pscans, 17c; cocoa.
nuts, 90c@S1 per dozen.
salt-GranuIat ], S14 per ton; half
ground, zoos, $40 per ton; sos, $lO.75
per ton
Beans-small white, $6.75; large
White, $500; Lima, $3.50; pink, $4.25;
red Me1icans, Sc; bayou, $500.
sugar-Dry granulated, $5.35; fruit
and berry, $5.35; beet, $5.15; Extra C,
$4S5; powdered, barrels, $500; cubes,
barrels, $5.7O.
Rice-NO. Japan, $@51ac; cheaper
| grades, f12cj southern mead, 0A(00c.
Honey-Choice, $3.25@3.75 per case
Fruits and Vegetables.
Apples, new, $1.25 per box; old, nom.
inal; strawberries, 60c@$1.25 per crate;
cherries, 40l0c per h.; gooseberries
4@5c per lb.; apricats, $l,25@1.5O per
box; cantaloupes, $1.75@2.5O per crate;
peaches, 65c@$l.25 per box; watermel
ons, l%@2c per lb.; blackberries, $l.75;
loganberries, $l.5O per crate; plums
$3.50 per box.
Tropical Fruits.-Oranges, Valencia
81; navels, $45O@5,5O; Florida grape.
fruit, $5.5O@7; lemons, $S5O@lO per
box; pineapples, 7c per lb.
Vegetables. 75c per doz.
en-; asparagus, Oregon, 50c@$l per doz
en-; beans, 4@6c per lb.; cabbage, 11k@
21ac per lb.; cauliflower, so per crate;
eggplant, 25c per lb.; head lettuce, $3.50
per crate; peas, 3@5c per lb.; peppers
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-07-12
Little BObbie'sPa
By William F. Kirk.

Wife, sed Pa to Ma last evening, we
are going to real old fashioned dance,
you & me & little Bobbie. Eddie
Crowley invited me, 1t is at Tenany
Lake, & it will talk us back to the
sweet days Of \hildhood. That is why
I always like to go to a old fashioned
dance, sed Pa. No frills, no social obi.
gashuns, no form. Just plain fun, sed
Pa. Natural peepul acting natural, &
fergitting for the fleeting hours of the
dance the cares & sorrows of their
workday lives, sed Pa.
You seem to be vary enthusiastic
about this country dance, sed Ma.
WHARF was you & Mister Crowley wen
you made this appointment for tOnite' ?
You are the gratest hand, sed Ma, for
meeting friend at 4 in the afternoon
& having an eevning arranged for with.
out consulting yure wife. You mite at
least have Toned me, Ma sed. Besides,
| haven't thing to ware up here.
left all my good clothes in the city.
Very Innocent, Sed Pa.
Bless yure hart, sed Pa, this isent
going to be dress up affare. l am
going in my blue suite that l use to 90
fishing in, Pa sed, & my blue flannel
shirt. l aint eeven going to shave, Pa
sed. / am going up to that dance &
be one Of Nature s nOabelmen, like the
rest of them honest farmers. Ware the
frock you have on, sed Pa & let Bob.
bic go the way he is.
Mo 1i1ank 1,Lro Aka ,lon
the country dance vary much, beekaus
moast of the plans that Pa maiks on
short notis always turns out wrong,
but wen she sen that Pa was bound to
go < bound to go unshaved she sed
vary well. So we went.
On the way to the dance Pa was tell.
ing us how he liked to be one of the
sturdy men that lives away from cities.
| guess | was always intended to be
a ruff, plain man, sed Pa. Sumhow life
in the big cities newer changed me
much.
Ma dident say anything. She & |
has herd Pa talk so often about bee.
ing a ruff, plain man that we are used
to it, Pa isent ruff like the men that
does hard & dangerous work at all.
The only way he is ruff is wen he has
on blue flannel shirt like the other
men that is used to them, & Pas blue
flannel shirt always itches him.
We had good ioak on Pa wen we
got to the dance. Ma & me thot from
the way Pa had ben talking taht the
dance was going to be in barn sum.
ware, btu instead it was in nice hall
called Fred Gales Pavilyun. Thare
was swell band & lot of nice look.
ing peepul, Mister Crowley met us
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-07-12

thare & he was all dressed up fine &
the gurl he had with him was dressed
fine too. Ma dident care, beekaus the
dress she had on was nice like all her
dresses is, & | was dolled up too, but
| saw Mister Crowley look at Pa q
fishing clothes & blue flannel shirt. He
dident say anything tho. Thare was
only two or three ruff looking men
thare, & wen Pa got to talking to them
he found out that they was liverymen
which had drove peepul to the dance.
Thay only had two square dances all
the eevning & wen Pa got in one of
the sets herd sum ladies say: The
nerve Of that jasper butting into nice
crowd. Wen thay was going around
grand rite & left the other ladies in
Pas set wuddent give him thare rite
hands or thare left hand eether. Pa had
miserbl time but the worst cain wen
we sat down to the big supper at mid.
mite & a man cain oaver & toald Pa
that thare was separate labels for the
help. Ma calls Pa her Nature s noabel.
man now.
1t is hard to laugh at misfortune,
after you have run into a rocking chair
in the dark
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-07-12
BY Edgar Lucien Larkin.

Q.-"W Will you kindly give list in
the Examiner of all the stars whose
distances have been determined (about
l5), together with their distances and
times for the transmission of light
therefromi"-H. +, Fairfield, Cal,
March 90, 1912.
A.-The list is no longer 45 or so
stars whose distances are thought to
be known with any near degree Of ac-
curacy. Modern celestial photography
has brought the list down to II whose
parallaxes are greater than l.5 of =
second Of arc,
The word paralax must first be ex-
planned. A circle contains l,206,0OO
seconds; 81, 900 minutes or $50 degrees.
Go out to a flat plain free from OBJ
structions such as trees and houses and
draw an accurate circle whose circum-
ference is in length l,296,OOO inches,
almost 20la miles. Make marks inch
apart, then each division would be |
second of are. Then stand in the cen
ter Of this circle, and the divisions
could not he seen without a powerful
telescope,
Go into space deeps to the nearest
star, take along the great telescope
from up here, turn around and look
back toward the sun and earth, Of
course the earth would be invisible.
Then the distance from the earth to the
sun, 09,ss2, 900 miles, would be just
equal to y of an inch on the circle.
The distance from the earth to the
sun as seen from any star expressed in
seconds of are is called the parallax
of the given star, From the center,
distant ~ miles, try to measure with
a surveyors instruments Y, u, l'5,
l.l0, hoo, 1900 of division ON the
distant circle, with accuracy, then the
task would be less than the herculean
work of astronomers since the inven'
tion Of the telescope in A. D. 1910.
No two surveyors could agree in
their measures Of these minute angles;
but to measure the distances from the
eartn to even the nearer stars, and
nearer star clusters and nebuaes, al
ways requires this degree of accuracy.
The longest possible base line is the
sun 3 distance, as,SSs,OOO miles; but
from remote, faint stars such as those
in che Milky Way this great distance
shrinks to almost zero or nothing, 40
small that no instruments can be made
that will detect 1t. Therefore the dis
tances Of these stars cannot be meas.
lurcd,
Astronomers during the 800 years
measured the positions Of many stars
with cxtreme accuracy aud again in six
months, Meanwhile the earth has
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-07-12

ting me started rright-with the proper
amount of teeth, and the right sort Of
nails, and the appetite that would
make me grow She stayed at home
from church socials when | had whoop.
ing cough. She gave up visit to her
home folks back east when / had the
Group. She never thought Of leaving
home for an hour when / had the meas
les, and whenever | didn t act as if |
had just come back from the frozen
north, with the hunger of an exiled sea
captain, she said; "Tk! tiki" with a
gentle, clicking sound, and went and
had something special made for me in
the kitchen.
She bought me hat with red wings,
when cheaper one without the wings
would have done, and she saw that
had bronze shoes when they cost a lot
more than black ones; and didn t no.
tice her buying any fancy shoes for
herself along about that time, either.
She made me stay in after school
and sew a seam, and snapped me on the
head with her thimble when / ddn t
sew right; and she tried her best to
teach me how to make butonholes-
not that she liked to do it, but because
she thought some day I'd wish | knew.
And she told me stores when she was
tired, and when her head ached, and
when she was worried about things L d
never even heard Of.
That's why | ought to be good to
her-and why would be good to any
one on earth who had done those
things for me, even If they were red
Indians and was as white as Snow
Drop, the Queen Of the Fairies, herself.
| ought to be good to my mother
because | love her. I couldn 7 help
loving her to save my life. She's the
same blood as am, for that matter,
and we shall never be "civilized and
scientific" enough to cease to feel the
tie Of that blood bond.
| ought to be good to her because
she's good woman, and I'm the one
she likes best in the world. But the
mere fact that she brought me here
is not the least sort of reason for me
to "owe her" thing on earth, SO
far as I can see
She didn't bring me here to obHge
mo or to give me a chance to live. I
10 not bring my children here for any
such reason, either-and l don't ex.
pcct them to believe that did l love
my children because they are mine and
because they are the greatest Joy in
the world to me, Where does the duty
business come in there, pray ten'
Is it my "duty" to laugh, my
"duty" to breathe, my "duty" to see
the glory and the joy Of living as no
one but a mother ever can family hope
to see it' II is my privilege to do
these things-yes, My dutyi l can.
not see 1t that way.
Are children duty' Come here
chubby cheeks Look straight at me.
What clear depths your eyes arel How
they mirror the truth
How long win they stay SO, won.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-07-12

The demand for old hops is stronger
and prices show a slight advance Re
ports from all hop-growing sections in
dicate that prices will be somewhat
higher, though there is still time for
conditions to change. Wheat is dull
and prices unchanged. Fruit receipts
have been light, but the market is well
supplied, the cool and changeable
weather reducing the demand. Country
produce is in demand and prices strong
Eggs are in demand, the market being
somewhat shy. Prices along all lines,
however, show but little, if any change
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-07-12
FOR THE PORK BARREL.
(ohio State Journal.)

The budget bill advocated by Oh
man Underwood in the house wn
feated by a vote of so to 50. Thhi
was supposed to eliminate the "
barrel" Mr.. Underwood supports
in an hours speech. He is oppOa
the "pOrk barrel" style of polita
thing that is the sum of politics
lainies. But he didn't win. The DH
cratic majority was against him. .
party is getting a good deal of I'd
because of Underwood's 3 manly pod
But it won't follow him for his il
You cannot Judge the Democratic q
by its leaders, whether it is for Vtl
wood or Wilson. The idea of a y
keeping up that old hOg.stealing .
is revolving. The Republicans y
cursed for it; and so will be the De
Gratis.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-07-12
The Markets

-t++++++++++++++++4+.

zoe per lb.; radishes, 1O@12c per a,
rhubarb, I@2c per lb.; spinach, IL,
per box; tomatoes $1.25@1.5O Der
lie, 7@sc per lb.
Sack Vegetables.-Turnips $lOO !.
sack; beets, 81; rutabagas, 81, carI'
81.
Sweet Potatoes.-2Ac per lb.
Potatoes Burbank, 40@5Oc De, i,
new, So per sack.
Onions.-0regon, $1.25 per sack
Dairy and Country Produce,
Butter.-0regon creamery, solid N.
SOC per lb.; prints, box lots, 32c.
Eggs-oregOn ranch, 25c per do,s
Cheese. Oregon Triplets, 16bc, n
sizes, lie; Young America, 1sc. 4
Poultry.-Hens, lac; springs, 1904
ducks, young, 24@25c; geese, l4Sll
turkeys, live, zoe, dressed, 25c.
Veal.-Fancy (S5 to 1875 lbs.) IN !.
pound. "
Pork.-Fancy, 10@11c per lb.
Provisions.
Hams-1o to 12 pounds, 21@2a,
to IA pounds, 21@22c; picnics, yil
cottage roll, 171ac.
Bacon-Fancy, 3O@31c; standaa
@26c; English, 21@22c.
Lard-In tierces, choice, 141sc;m
pound, 3-4c.
Dry Salt Meats-Backs, dry SAIL
G14c; backs, smoked. 14h @BY,
bellies, dry salt. 14hc; smoked h
Smoked Meats-Beef tongues h
dried beef sets, 22c; outsides, 2Oti
sides, 23c; knuckles, 21c.
Picked Goods-Barrels, pigs N
$14; regular tripe, $40; honey N
trlpe, $12: lunch tongues, $22; IsuI
tongues. $40.
Hops, Wool, Hides, Etc.
Hops-1912 crop, 12@16e, aCCs,a,
quality, 1918 contracts, 15e.
Wool-Eastern Oregon, 10@1N !
pound; valley, 1S@19c.
Mohair-ChOice, 5O@31c.
Hides--saltcd, 12c per 10; ah
calf, 16@17c; salted kip, 100; Rh
stag, SIC; green hides, 11hG /
hides, 21c; dry calf, No. l, 95t /
stays, 12@l315c.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-07-12
The Joy, Not Duty, Of Children

privileges, joys foreverl But duties ?
Who dares to say so in thisday and
agei owe my duty to my mother
not because she brought me into this
world Of woe, but because she was
good to me after | got here.
She could have let me starve, or
frecze, or die Of yawuiug, or just fade
away, II she had thought of her own
comfort instead of me-but she didn T..
She took care of me, no matter
whether she felt like doing it or not.
She gave up the best of two years
in the very best part of her life to get.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-07-12
BY Annie Laurie.

Are children dutyi
Ooay mo, it is possible that there Is
still alive any one who declares that
children are duties, aud that no woman
who has children or not, as she thinks
best, will call herself good womani
Well, Welt suppose there's some.
one, somewhere, reading by candle
light and sewing by haud because a
machine is wicked invention Of the
Evil One to encourage idleuess,
Children a dutyl Why, bless their
hearts, they are comforts, blessings,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-07-12
TheStars Whose Distances WeKnow

moved to the opposite side of the sun
a straight line distance of lS5,764,O00
miles. They were filled with astonish.
ment to find that in many cases this
distance vanished or appeared to lie
exactly zero or naught
Finally after 2A centuries of in
creased accuracy in instruments, and of
arduous labor, they found that star,
Alpha Centauri, had parallax, dis.
placement in space due to the annual
motion of the earth of " second, or 3.4
inch on our circle on the plain. Then
by simple rules of trigonometry it was
at once found that this nearest neigh.
Dor our sun has, is 275,O2O times more
distant than the sun, or in round num-
bers, 25 trillion miles, now used as
yardstick to measure stars vastly more
distant.
Thus 40 or 80 stellar distances were
mohnuTbu uHuoF eAVIelnb NllllCulJg'
Then came photography. The entire
celestial vault was photographed on 25,.
S7S plates on the same scale. Millions
upon millions of minute dots, all images
Of stars-suns-wer developed on the
negatives. These excessively minute
dots can be measured over and over in
high power microscopes.
From many measures it was found
that no high degree of accuracy had
been secured by former methods of
paralaxes of stars of less than l-5 sec.
ond or l-5 inch on the circle on the
plain,
Here is a table Of stars whose paral.
lakes have been obtained by the photo.
graphic method, of more than Is see.
ond. All others are less, some far less
and are best with errors, and are con
sdered tentative only, But they near.
ly all reveal that these stars are far.
ther away than at first determined.
Names Of Parallaxes in sec.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-07-12
Tho King OF Am r,axatlvea,

For constipation headaches, iudlges.
,ion and dyspepsia, use DR., Kings New
Life Pills. Paul Mathulka, Of Buffalo,
N. ", says they are the "King Of all
iaxRtives. They are blessing to all
my family and always keep box at
home. - Get a box and got we'll. Price
csc. Recommended by ]. Q. Perry
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-07-12
Case Of Mrs. Bertha M. Ross Is an In
teresting One for People Who Are
Growing Old.
CHAMPION SWIMMER BUT
DID NOT LEARN TILL As.
Later On She Joined Turner Societies
al Denver and She Is Able to Do
ANY Stunt.
, HOW A WOMAN OF 63
3 CAN BE AN ATHLETE.

= Devote yourself to swimming, =
= dancing, riding, running and walk =
= ing. ?
= Keep young "inside''r--be an OPP =
= .imist-refuse to worry over spill =
= ed milk. =
= Don't marry under 3O--and then =
= only when you are fit for moth =
y crhood. y
= Don t neglect your children, but +
= don I let them make you neglect =
= yourself =
= Don't think you must sit about =
= knitting just because you are =
= grandmother. =
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-07-12

Makers of scrapbooks, paste this in
for no more impressive figures are in
the possession Of man,--San Francisco
Examiner.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-07-12

No man is happy unless he thinks
he iS,
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1913-12-26

In connection with the agitation for
the establishment by law of mini
mum wage for women and child work
ers it is interesting to note that Fort
Worth, Tex, claims the distinction of
having established, by agreement be-
tween employing merchants and the
Retail Clerks International Protective
association, the first minimum wage
for women workers in stores. Ten
years ago this agreement fixed the
minimum wage at So per week; later
it was raised to Sc, and. doubtless due
at least in some measure to the agi-
tation carried on by the Retail Clerks
union, recently one of the merchants
of Fort Worth has raised the minimum
in his establishment to 50 per week,
not even beginners being put to work
at less than that rate.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1913-12-26
INDUSTRIAL WELFARE.
Conservation of the Worker Benefits
the Public at Large.

Conservation of the Worker Benefits
the Public at Large.
Governor Tener in welcoming the
delegates to Pennsylvania first indus
trial welfare and efficiency conference
said in part:
Until recently the rapid depletion of
the natural resources of the United
States had not become apparent
There was an abundance of raw ma
terial and of labor with which tC
manufacture into such various com
modities as the times demanded. Fur
thermore. the nations natural re-
sources were so rich and vast as seem
ingly to defy exhaustion: consequently
recklessness and extravaganza in the
use of this wealth followed. Now a
halt has been called Economy must
be practiced. Competent labor is no
longer plentiful. The loss of a few
skilled men through accident or i'll
health is a serious matter. Many raw
materials are scarce. and conditions are
more like those of some of the foreign
and older nations, where their survival
has absolutely depended upon con-
servatlon of energy and utilization Of
resources along true economic lines.
I have coveted for Pennsylvania
economics in industrial welfare affairs
comparable with the best accomplish
ments Of other nations. l would like
to see irregularity in times of employ.
ment all done away with. l would
like to see the physical capacity and
the skill of the worker enhanced all
along the line. This should mean not
only an increased wage, but an add.
ton to the wealth of the community
l would like to see the health of the
employee improved and his safety as
sured. Compensation for accident is
another economic consideration which
aids the worker and his household.
also the manufacturer, and not least
the public at large.
Few subjects could be more worthy
than those which during this meeting
you will discuss-in concluding how
best to stop waste of material and
energy, how to prevent the loss of life
limb or health and how to better all
of the conditions with which indus
trial life is surrounded