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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-06-28
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name for lily, and Ben Bolt for the
phlox. And the digging, and the sow.
ing and the planting go merrily on.
Will they ever come up out of the
brown earth, those seeds so bravely
plantedl wouldn t risk much on them
planted so early, would you, and yet,
why tell the children so3 Why not
let them have the fun of the planting
and the hoeing and the raking, and,
best of all, the expectation7 By the
time they begin to be disappointed
they'll be thinking of something else.
How much more clever children are
than grownups, after ALL They never
hold sorrows cup and drain the last
drop with tear-dimmed eyes and aching
hearts, not they.
What S done is done, what s over is
soon forgot; wise little creatures.
There's always something nice coming
tomorrow, maybe; something glorious.
You Can Never Tell, Little Boy.
Why, once a perfectly strange man
liked the looks of the Little Boy and
gave him bag of marbles, perfectly
good ones; all tied up in a glorious
bag, too.
And once on a rain.discouraging day,
just when the little boy thought the
world really was good deal Of mis-.
take, somebody went into the kitchen
and made fudge-iust as easy.
Oh, you never can tell, can you, Lit.
tie Boy, never, and it's always best
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-06-28
Character Basis Of Success


realize that those who employ you need
your efficient aid, and that unless you
can take all mental anxiety about your
work from them you are only half earn.
ing your salary or wages, and are guilty
of a species of dishonesty when you
take your pay in full.
If you are paid for carrying mortar
up ladder and your employer has to
go along behind you each trip to see
that you carry it, you should share your
wages with him.
1t is exactly so in every other de.
partment. If you make your employer
do half your thinking for you, you only
earn half your money.
Your life may seem a hard one and
his easy; yet you will never make your
lot better by shifting the duties he
pays you to do upon his shoulders.
Even if you are working for an un.
appreCiative employer, you are not los.
ing anything by doing all your duty,
mentally and physically; you are build.
ing your own character, and that will
lead to better positions for you by and
by.
Think about whatever you are doing,
and if You are merely sent upon an
errand, let nothing prevent your ac.
cOmplishing it short of an earthquake
or tidal wave.
And every morning of your life say
a little prayer of gratitude to the Invi.
sible Power for giving you something
to do. No matter how distasteful the
work, how inferior to the employment
of your imagination, be thankful for
it; and know by this sense of gratitude
that you are preparing your mental
ground for better things.
Horticulturists and tillers of the
ground fish in the salt water for sea.
weed and cast it on the earh to fertil.
ize it.
Cast your net into the ocen of infin.
ity, and bring up the seaweed Of
thanks for what you have; and from
the soil Of your soul win grow rich new
harvests.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-06-28
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

The very first step toward getting
on in life is to do the work before you
today in the best manner and with as
much perfection as is possible for you.
1t may be work you feel is beneath
you; work which is uncongenial and
distasteful; but the only way to reach
better employment is to do the thing
you know must be done and rise by the
accomplished task to something be,
yond it.
You who are employed in any kind
of work no doubt consider your life
full of hardships.
But stop and examine yourelf, and
think whether you are doing "cry much
to make your employer happy.
Are you studying your especial order
of work and mastering it in such a way
as to be real assistant7
Now, whatever you are doing do
with all your mind and force and en-.
ergy. ea
Do not despise your oeupation and
wish you had a higher calling and
rush through what you are doing in
slipshod manner, nor shift it upon other
shoulders. If you are a clerk, or a
housemaid, or a secretary, or a cook,
or a stenographer, or a governess, or a
man or woman Of all work, find out in
the beginning what your duties are to
be,and get at them and get through
with them without bothering anybody.
Consider your duties the important
ones of the world until you have them
accomplished.
No matter il you are a bootblack
or floor scrubber go about the shoes
and the floor in dead earnest.
Do not ask anybody to find your
shoe brush or your floor mon for you.
find it for yourself. Do your own work
and do it well, and if you have ambi-
tions for higher employment, expect
it. 1t will never come to you if you
half do what you are now attempting
Try to be broad.minded enough to
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-06-28
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By winnifred Black.

They are busy in the garden today,
the little tykes. What a hurry of hoes,
what an array of shovels and rakes,
what digging, what a scurrying, what
planting.
Beans here, peas there, lettuce over
yonder, onions next and then hills for
tomatoes and cucumbers, and along the
edge of the garden there are to be
sweet peas and gilly flowers and sweet
alyssum.
Dear, dear, what a beautiful gar
den, as fine as the garden of the en-.
peror of China in the fairy tale where
all the lilies were hung with silver
bells, and where all the roses wore
tiny golden collars about their green
stalks, and each collar bore the rose IS
own particular name.
I'll suggest that to these little gar.
deners. Yes, name each flower-you
can write them on slips Of paper and
tie them on after the plants get start.
ed. Oh, joyl the very thingl
The First Rose.
What' Princess Khan is your first
rose, little girl with the dreams brim.
ming your soft eyes, and Steamboat
Bill is the name of your first gilly
liower. Oh, sturdy, little five.year.
old with the daredevil cowboy chaps
and the wide hat with the rope around
it. Sweet Alice9 yes, that's good
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-06-28
CONCERNING SEX PROBLEM.

In your paper of June 10th you de.
voted considerable space to two editor.
ials entitled "Social Diseases With No
Known Remedies" and "Spectacular
But Useless"
In the first named article You set
forth the evils Of immortality and the
white save traffic, but at the same time
you prove, to your own satisfaction, at
least, that we should allow this form Of
vice to be carried on in a restricted
district that is licensed, and regulate
them, as you call it. You say that
those who are opposed to this method,
shout that the people are to be made a
party to these practices. Well, what
else can you call itl If we admit, as
every good citizen must, that vice in
any form is an evil, is s,entirely wrong in
accordance with the doctrines Of Christ
and higher civilization; if we admit all
this, and proceed to license and legal.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-06-28
More Careful English

the moment lie in the sunshine of her
approval-her gown the sermon, the
character of new acquaintance, the
look of the skies all a.star with glory.
and the joy of getting home again.
And probably to her natty new cravat
she will apply the word elegant or
splendid, when dandy might perhaps
really characterize it, granting the
word right use as an adjective.
Coined Words Not Slang.
What makes phrase slang is its
Flaek of particularly. 1t means too
much and too little. A word coined for
the moment does not become slang 1t
has no meaning to any but the user
and this alone is a reason for not coin
ing words. They are not words at all
in the true sense. Slang, on the other
hand, is unintelligible because it is a
word or phrase applied to so many
things, usel by so many people. This
is the simple and logical reason for
insisting upon pure English. Some.
times a coined word gains currency be-
cause it really fills need of the lang
uage. Then it has a definite meaning
Slang is still slang, however, until gen.
eral consent adopts it into good stand
ing.
The misuse of good words is another
form of carelessness in modern speech.
Everything nowadays is called "at:
tractive"; and "nice" has long been
tabooed Of the school rooms because
though it has its own defined meaning
it is misapplied a dozen ways. This
word has indeed almost come to be syn.
onymous with pleasant or agreeable or
pretty or comfortable. In general it
is a catch.all of opinions and connates
that which is approved by the speaker
AS a nice day a nice person, nice
manners, nice books, a nice house, nice
ice cream.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-06-28
any Form is wrong and should be pro.

any form is wrong and should be pro-
hibited to the best Of our ability.
Regarding the woman you write Of
in a later paper who wanted to reform
but was not permitted to do so, it is
self evident that the people, as set
forth in the story, did a grave wrong.
However, this woman did not reform
in the right spirit, as she was looking
for the honor given her by the world,
and was not working for a higher pur-
pose. Had she reformed in all sincerity
and humility, she would not have fallen
back into her old ways even though the
neighbOrhood mistreated and Tilted her.
JOSEPH RIPP.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-06-28
Most children raro Worms.

Many mothers think their children
are suffering from indigestion, head.
ache, nervousness, weakness, cOstive-
ness, when they are victims of that
most common of all childrens all
ments-worms. Peevish, ill.tempered,
fretful children, who toss and grind
their teeth, with bad breath and cOlicky
pains, have all the symptoms of having
worms and should be given Kickapoo
Worm Killer, pleasant candy lozenge.
which expels worms, regulates the bow,
els, tones up the system, and makes
children well and happy. KickapoO
Worm Killer is guaranteed. All drug.
gists or by mail. Price 25c. Kickapoo
Indian Medicine Co., Philadelphia and
st. Louis j. c. Perry.
The one perpetual thing about per.
petual motion is its failure.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-06-28

ize places where this is carried on, are
we not just as guilty as the women
who occupy these places or the men
who frequent theml We take their
money and protect them, and then wash
our hands as PLATE did when he allowed
the Jews tocrucify our Savios, declaring
that we are innocent of the crimes
about to be committed. II is true yon
say, if we do not allow them they viii
carry it on secretly and It will be only
so much worse. You say that this form
Of vice has been carried on as old as
the world is and can not be prevented,
therefor we should now allow and con.
troll it as a business. Vice has been
practiced as old as the world is but so
has every form Of murder, robbery, etc.
Would it therefor not be just as wise to
argue that we should allow the latter
crimes, since we can not prevent them
anyway immortality cannot be
stopped but neither can any other
crime. Our penitentiaries are as full
today as they ever were. Laws are
made because they are transgressed or
they would not be necessary. The argu.
ment that immortality If carried on Sc.
cretly is worse than If carried on open.
ly is futile, What would you think
of a father who allowed his sons to
smoke, although he felt that IL was a
death poison to them and injured them
greatly, as they might do 10 secretly
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-06-28

The one perpetual thing about per.
petual motion is its failure.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-06-28

to look for the best, isn't it7 You
have the fun of looking, anyhow.
Think of the lost dog. A few days
ago the lost dog had no home at all,
and nothing to eat, and people kicked
at him and called him cur, and you
happened to meet him, and here he is
with bed of his own in the basement,
all the bones any reasonable dog could
ask, and you to play with all day long.
What a fool that lost dog would
have been to sit in corner and howl,
wouldn't hei
That's right, Little Boy, you have
the sensible point of view, and I for
one shall not try to discourage you in
it.
Come Rain, Come Shine.
Come rain, come shine, come storm,
come fair wind, the seeds are in the
brown earth now. You raked, you
hoed, you crumbled the moldy earth in
your little brown hands. All in brave
and orderly rows you planted them.
the seeds of promise, and if they do
not come up, why, there are more
somewhere and there is always brown
earth to spare.
So let's have the fun of it today
when the first spring winds stir the
blood, and when you wish you could
see a dandelion somewhere, and believe
the old winter was just a troubled
dream.
Ben Bolt, Sweet Alice, Steamboat
Bin, Pincess Kahn, they are calling to
you, the children, with their gay hap
py voices; don't you dare to lie there
in the ground and sleep forever, you
lazy things. Come up, come up. This
is a gay world, full of promises, and
most of them are fulfilled, if we keep
our side of the bargain.
Come up, Sweet Alice, there's a lit.
tie maid with eyes o'dream waiting
to love you. Arise, Ben Bolt, and be
as sturdy as your name. Princess Kahn
you II never do anything for the world
if you stay theer all spring.
Come up, come up Hope, come up
Faith, come up Joy and Love and Com.
fort; up, up, up out of the dark into
the sweet sunshine of smiling spring.
The children are calling; don't you
hear themi
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-06-28

When one is boy and sometimes
when one is a college girl, it is hard
to understand why parents and teach.
ers and even brilliant pronouncements
in admired magazines of literary ten
dency persist in their seemingly inef-
fectual stand against the enthusiastic
slang which to the young idea seems
to add snap to speech or twist to con
vulsing mirth the pages of some up.tO-
date fabulist.
But when one has overpast with time
number of things of human expert
ence one begins to understand the
beauty of dignity and the dignity of
beauty. The beauty of things consists
largely in their purity. Language
which is seasoned with slang is a mix.
ture; it is impure because it sacrifices
individuality to audacity as fashions
everywhere are wont to do. Audacious
fashions hide what they apparently ad.
vertise.
Phrases Do Not Point Thought.
The man or woman whose dress
strikes the behOlder as bizarre is be-
lied by the clothing. So phrases that
strike the air with amused or disap.
proving astOnishment do not tend to
point the way to thought One fingers
amused with the fireworks of way.
ward speech. Slang moreover, hides
individuality because it is always it.
self a "blanket" word, in the insur.
ance companies vernacular, word
that covers multitude of cases. Slang
does not render to each idea the re-
spect that is its due-a carefully
chosen company of words which could
not be put together to mean anything
but ust the specific idea then under
consideration. The girl who says that
tennis is a dandy game uses her ad.
jective for everything that may for
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-06-28
THE OPEN FORUM

The Capital Journal invites pub
lie discussion in this department
Let both sides of all matters
be fully brought Quit is not
the purpose OF this newspaper to
do the thinking for its readers.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-06-28

The quickest way for a fool man to
acquire chest expansion is to put on
fancy vest.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-06-21

Of Colfax, Wis, has triumphed over
blindness, deafness and dumbness, as
Miss Keller did. And more than that,
she has trumphed over poverty and
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-06-21

with welI-furnished mind and tire
less eagerness for knowledge.
That was strange conversation
we had, in that strangely silent place
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-06-21
STARS AS A
BY w. H. Album.

By w. 4. Album.
DeIaVan, Wis.,, June n.
"A second Helen Keller
has just appeared, grad
uating with high honors
at the Wisconsin School
for the Deaf.
Anna Pauline Johnson
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-06-21
'SWEET GIRL GRADUATE''

illness which left her a
helpless cripple.
Now, nearly %,
after nine years of the
hardest toll that can
fall to the lot of a stu
dent, she is a bright,
CHEEKY, womanly girl,
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-10-03
PIMPLES ON FACE AND ARMS

All Howard st., Dayton, Ohio
About year ago my face. neck, arms
and back were beginning to become
Afflicted with pimples and blackheads,
My pimples would get very large and
appear to come to a head. If ! tried
to open them the pain would be terri
BILE, but nothing could be taken from
them. They itched very badly; ] suf-
fered terribly from itching. After
scratching, the pimples would swell
and after the swelling was gone my
face would become very red and re-
main 80 for some time. My clothing
caused the itching to be worse. When
1t was warm 1t was utterly impossible
to sleep.
'T used a cream and the more l
used the worse they got Shortly after,
| read the advertisement OF Cuticura
Soap and Ointment and determined to
use them. The itching stopped almost
Immediately. This was about three
months ago and l am entirely cured
now" (Signed) Miss Marguerite z.
Jacobs, Jan. 13, 1918.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample Of each
free, with 92-p. Skin Book. Address post
card "Cuticura. Dept. L, Boston. ADV.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-10-03
VALUABLE QUALITY TO HAVE
Man Who Can See the True Posslblli'
ties Of other Men ls the One
That Succeeds.

Seeing" men is an art. II amounts
almost 10 second sight Often, 10 a
business Zine" some man makes his
way mysteriously and rapidly 70 the
top, or near 10 H. He does not seem
to have greater, trading ability than
many others, nor has he been favored
by a larger capital or a more mag
netic personality But he rises His
faculty OF seeing" men has been the
magical force.
Il is no trick at all TO discover the
man who has triumphantly made a
record, who is already a personality
In this trade or that. Unfortunately,
such a man is unfailingly costly.
What he has done, moreover, Is no
positive guarantee as to his future ex.
ploits Men OF great reputation as
lieutenants many times prove great
disappointments when they shift. The
chief who sees" picks a man whose
reputation is yet to be made, and
thereby gets the profit himself-Har-
per's Weekly.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-10-03
BY NO MEANS ORIGINAL IDEAS
eossamer Skirt and cobweb Waist OF
Today Are limitations Of Those
Of Many Centuries Ago.

II learned sayants are seeking the
origin OF gossamer skirt and cobweb
waist they need not stop with
Scotch professor and a petty two cen
turtles of antiquity.
Snefru. who was king OF Egypt
more than 1000 years ago. before the
great pyramid was built, had his
royal barge on the Nile rowed by
girls instead of men. These chosen
oarswomen were dressed In linen 80
fine and diaphanous that II was no
more than a filmy mist. accentuating
rather than hiding the brown young
bodies underneath. In short, the row.
ing costume designed by Snefru was
much like the dancing costume worn
by some beauties who have managed
to kick their way into the good
graces OF Pittsburgh millionaires.
Solomon had considerable expert
ence with the fair sex, and he wrote
that there is nothing new under the
sun. Perhaps he was thinking Of the
newest Creations" OF some modiste
In erusalem.-Chicago Tribune.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-10-03
VeaI's Too Hluh.

"All our food except sugar has ad-
vanced two-thirds in price since 1899,
said H. Wallace Corson, the Denver
statistician. THE bureau of labor
statistics back me up in this"
"The men responsible for these ad-
vances are begging for another chance
to serve us. They are begging our
pardon. They are prodigal sons
cant we forgive them?
mo, l say no!
"And I'd politely inform those fel-
lows that the supply of fatted calves
is not as large as the number Of prod
igal sons"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-10-03
Got Out Just In Time.

At Fredericksburg some Of our boys
we're sharpshooting from an old out
building one evening, when the rebs
got line on the position and dropped
a shell inside. 1t exploded, and the
tremendous concussion sent German
soldier out through the window. He
landed about 20 feet away, and when
he came to his senses sat gazing at the
building, which was fired by the shell.
A comrade came up and asked him
II he was hurt.
No; amt hurt" said he; but l
got oudt in time, didn't II"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-10-03
HAPPY OLD AGE
Most Likely to Follow Proper Eating
AS old age advances we REQUIRE lie

AS old age advances we require less
food to replace waste, and food thai
will not overtax the digestive organs
while supplying true nourishment.
Such an ideal food is found in Grape
Nuts, made of whole wheat and barley
by long baking and action of diastase
in the barley which changes the starch
into most digestible sugar.
The phosphates also, placed up un-
der the outer-coat of the wheat, are
included in Grape-Nuts, but are lack
ing In white -four because the outer
coat of the wheat darkens the -four
and is left out by the miller. These
natural phosphates are necessary to
the well-balanced building of muscle,
brain and nerve cells.
II have used Grape-Nuts," writes an
Iowa man, "for 8 years and feel as
good and am stronger than was ten
years ago.
"Among my customers l meet a man
every day who Is well along in years
and attributes his good health to
Grape-Nuts and Postum which he has
used for the last 5 years. He mixes
Grape-Nuts with Postum and says
they go fne together.
For many years before | began to
eat Grape-Nuts, could not say that l
enjoyed life or knew what it was to be
able to say I am we'll / suffered
greatly with constipation, but now my
habits are as regular as ever in my
life.
Whenever l make extra effort /
depend on Grape-Nuts food and 1t just
oils the bill. can think and write
great deal easier"
There's Reason" Name given by
Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read
"The Road to Wellville," in pkgs.
Ever read the above IetterR A sew
one appears from time to time. ThSy
are genaine, true and fun Of human
Interest.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-10-03
New Aruument.

Mrs. PATTERSON ian ardent suffra.
gette)-Well. l see by the paper this
morning that the new banking and
currency bill will add about $5O0,000,'
900 to our currency.
Hatterson (pleasantly)-Yes. Wish
we might come in for some of It,
don't you?
Mrs. Hatterson (savagely)-That's
just the point. We would II women
had the vote.-Life.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-10-03
Not His Name.

In getting out Of the way Of Wheel
er's cavalry the pay roll of western
regiment was dropped in crossing a
stream, and though recovered, some
Of the names were blurred by the
water. When they were to be paid
of, the boys got in line in regular
order, and when the clerk came to the
name of an Irishman. he said
Il observe" said the pompous one.
that your name Is o-bliterated."
"Then you're wrong" said the
Irishman, bristling up. me names
O'Flahertv."
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-10-03

charged, and 6391 recovered. But as
the 1,1S6 patients discharged included
many who were mustered out on ex-
piration of their service, or who failed
to return from furlough, or who de-
serted, nearer approximation to ex-
act truth is the statement that 1852
died, 522 were discharged on certifi-
Gates Of physical disability and 1865
probably recovered. The death rate
Of gunshot wounds Of the integuments
Of the Uranium during the late war
was therefore. about zoe, or nearly
one fatal case IN g.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-10-03
Mlsled by Rautlme.

THE band is going to play our ma
tional air." remarked the host TO the
distinguished foreign visitor. "of
course you have heard it?"
"Er-yes." answered the distin-
guished foreign visitor II don't re-
member exactly how the music goes,
but the words, | believe, are TO the
effect that somebody or other is wait
ing for a steamboat"