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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-03-11

girls, and that many of these received
only $3.50 and 81 a week, Hillman is
also, according to the common accept
ance Of the term, a good man. In fact
he modestly tcstifies that he Is. He
employed social workers (salary not
stated to go among his girl employees
and warn them that they must never,
never stray from simple virtues un-
seductive path, not If they expected to
hold their positions and carry off that
$3.50 or 81 per week. He also had a
woman doctor cher salary not stated,
either to attend them Now Hillman,
from this, would appear to be really
more thoughtful Of his employees than
most Of the other big houses, yet there
might be some balance to his goodness
for while he gave them more advice,
and furnished q doctor presumably
for such sudden sickness only as oc-
Cured in that store) he paid them less
wages than did the other places so far
investigated But Hillman is frank.
He testified that $S to SO a week he
thought, was sufficient to maintain a
girl, and this while admitting that he
paid many Of his girls less than half
that sum. However, he added that
most Of these girls drawing small pay,
boarded at home He did not seem to
realize that while he was paying them
such wages, he was doing q wrong.
Because, some one else was paying
their board hc felt that he had a right
to add tho price of that board to his
own profits. In other words, he was
taking tho entire services of girls for
less then they could live on, satisfy
ing his conscience with the very graft
flying knowledge that their folks pay
their board.
Hillman further frankly admits that
he believes a girl will surrender her
virtue rather than starve, though he
points with pride to the fact that he
started work at So a week, and despite
his surroundings, reached manhood
immaculate. This is his own story
and as his boyhood was spent in Chi
cago and not in Portland, it bears the
impress of truth
However that may be, and it is OF
little interest to us folks out this way
there is one phase of the situation that
1t strikes one, the business theories Of
these big employers intentionally over.
look, They all agree that from 81 tc
SO week is the least wage a girl car
exist on, and they seem to think that
if they pay the bare price Of existence
they have done enough. They do moi
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-03-11

pumping and other expenses OF that
kind should be eliminated, and the
city furnished with gravity system.
We do not pretend to know what the
company's income is, but it can hardly
be less than $4,000 a year, and is
probably more than that. But that
cuts no ice, either, for no matter
whether it is $1,000 or 100000, the
charge Of $24 year is entirely too
much, at least double what it should
be- True, the bill may be cut to $21. go
year by paying at stated times
monthly, but that is still double what
It should be. One dollar a month
would be a big charge and the city
can and must furnish it at not to ex-
coed that price. The city is moving in
the right direction, buy the old plant
If it can be done at a reasonable price
otherwise put in a gravity system.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-03-11

allow anything for Interest on the
investment" nothing in the way of
profit" or surplus on the human cap
ital, the blood and muscle, the brains
and time furnished by the employe
And at the same time insist that their
capital shall yield not less than a GER
tain per cent. When it does this it
means bankruptcy. 1t means financial
ruin, just as the same condition ap-
piled to labor means physical and
moral ruin. So much for the condi-
ton. Now the question comes, what
are you going to do about It? The an
swer is easy-nothing. That is why
we say we, the people are to blame,
for We have the remedy in our own
hands, but we not only fail to apply
it, but we will continue SO to fail. If
the American people would refuse to
buy from any Of these big department
stores, these mail order houses, until
the big firms could show they are pay
ing living wages-those wages would
be paid But this will not be done, for
the reason that we the buyers are just
as cold-blooded, just as mercenary and
greedy as are the owners of the big
department stores, for we will con-
tinue to patronize them, If we think
we can get better bargain than we
can from our local merchants. We do
not stop to think that by patronizilg
these stores we not only endorse their
methods, but we actually become a
party to their crimes-for they are
that. Besides we take from the local
merchant who pays living wages, and
pays 1t in our own community, the
power to maintain high standard Of
wages.
1t is not expected that this sugges-
tion will deter any one from patroni2-
ing any of the big mail order houses,
but it is hoped that it will at least
make those so patronizing them real
ize that they are assisting in the crime
Of white slavery, and doing all they
can to cause the downfall of some
other persons daughter. 1t might pos
sibly influence some man, but men are
not the big patrons of department
stores. Women are the patrons and II
there is anything in the world that is
Of little or no interest whatever to wo,
men generally, is the immortality Of
other women, unless, indeed, it is Of
some friend or acquaintance, and ir
these cases it is more of rich morse
for gossip than a subject for regret
and hence We say, nothing that coult
be said or shown as to conditions sur.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-03-11
A Message to Railroad Men.

E, S. Bacon, II Bath St, Bath, Me-,
sends out this warning to railroaders
everywhere. my work as conductor
caused a chronic inflammation Of the
kidneys and / was miserable and all
played out. | was weak and had dizzy
spells, and a friend recommended Fo-
ley Kidney Pills, From the day l be-
gan taking them, commenced to re-
gain my strength. The inflammation
is gone and | feel better now than |
have in twenty years" Try them. DR..
Stone Drug Store.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-03-11
WATER IS TOO HIGH.

THE move on the part Of the city
authorities to purchase the local
water plant is in the right dlrec-
tion. The city should have its own
water plant, and should supply its cit
izens at moderate price. Twenty
four dollars year for a family is toe
big water bill. We have no means
of knowing the amount of money in
vested in the plant, or the amount of
revenue the company gets, but that
cuts no ice, for the fact remains that
the bill is more than the people should
be called upon to pay There are fam
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-03-11

lilies in the community that can scarce
ly afford to pay more than that sum
yearly to the butcher. 1t is out of all
proportion to the other things that
go to make up the high cost Of living.
1t is as much as the bill for flour
would be for a good-sized family for
a year. Next to air, water is the most
abundant thing in the world, and it is
something every man is entitled to,
just as he is to the amount Of air nee
essary to him. All he should pay for
is the having the water delivered to
him, and, as it will run down hill
through pipes, without cost, a system
should be inaugurated where all
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-03-11
Are You COnstipnted!

If so, get a box of DR.. Kings New
Life Pills, take them regularly and
your trouble will quickly disappear.
They will stimulate the liver, improve
your digestion and get rid of all the
poisons from your system. They will
surely get you well again. 25c at ].
Q. Perry,s.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-03-11
rounding the working girls in the big
mail order houses will ever have any
effect on their patrons.
Downs and Outs.


Augusta, Ca, March S.-Dr. Nichols
Murray Butler, president of Columbia
University, has Joined the party of
former President Taft here today
John Hays Hammond is expected in a
few days,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-03-11
Weather Forecast.

Portland, Ore, March 1O.-Weather
forecast, Oregon: Generally fair to-
night and Tuesday except occasional
rain in extreme northwestern portion
tonight For Tuesday; winds mostly
westerly.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-03-11

The Capital Journal than anxious give its
carrier service possible don't paper me
Main SO and copy will be you by special
Capital all It's subscribers prompt
and efficient serVIceyOur complaints registered this
careful attention.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1913-09-11
Get Away from Monot-
onous Grind
By E W. Riehszd.. KAasus Gry. Me.

b cottage All summer long connected with
AGING servants preparing Of family
and the daily ordering and preparing Of meals having little vacation
though the cottage the hills the border Of the
wide
So the butterfly still butterfly all and come up
to her reputation fitting gayy from of M sweets to another
finding and relaxation in her summer vacation
The real vacation unusuae vacation in which you
get away from yourself
For trip nearby place Of interest In the winter
is often than the family outing the summer
week passed big city, where she shop eater opera and
hotels CONTEMPLATING for granted OF course
that small short summer boat trip when she
realizes that she away from home and its obligations
probably than three months the mistress of seaside
cottage
For the business the country the seaside
is generally refreshing frets if he normal at having nothing
to do wonders either to himself audb how women
ever manage themselves busy home But nevertheless he rests
and his enforced ene refreshed body and mind
camping really ideal vacation 1t provides relief from
M psua duties both for the society the active housewife
1t provides for the of the family They must work
10 live and the delightful and nvgoatng 1t is vacation in
itself
The vacation hard to plan In the
short two weeks allotted her she does not find stay at
country mountain hotel very pleasant The other vaoner
most for the month the BY the time she
has got feeling herself and just beginning to make
acquaintance she must return to work
A visit to friend often pleasant although she has only
two weeks out of the Gy-two which follow her WILL she must
choose vacation passed amid unpleasant surround
ing a vacation wasted
The business woman she lives at home, generally unconousy
takes household shoulders if she spends the vacation her
own home She likes household doubtless she tempted to
mend little and few desserts and puter about
Perhaps she enjoys vacation but she does not get all the benefit
from it that she passes this for she does not get
away from herself
For her greatest the vacation unusual essential
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1913-09-11
ALL WANT TO NAME THE BABY
Advice Hsapec in Profusion on Keep
ers Of Big city's Geological
Gardens.

The arrival Of a baby animal or
bird Of any kind from a hippOpotamus
TO a canary at either OF the city zoos
gives people all over town chance
TO spread themselves in the matter or
names" said a New York park keeper.
Everybody wants the honor or
naming the baby. Letters come from
all parts OF the city, and from the sur
rounding country suggesting names.
that the writer's think appropriate.
Patriotism runs high among our cor
respondents. II they had their way
half the animals in the park would be
called Abe Lincoln, and a large part
of the other half Teddy Roosevelt
Regardless OF the sex of the youngster,
these two presidential applications are.
urged upon us.
Classical and Scriptural names also
have their advocates. Hercules ano
Plato in particular are proposed.
"Of all the ladies of antiquity Niobe
seems to have first call. Once in a
while a writer of a sentimental turn
of mind suggests a more modern ro-
mantle name. Out of consideration for
the animal fancy names are taboo to
start with To call a beast of the
Jungle Violet or Queenie is enough to
shame the most docile of infants into
a reversion to type"
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1913-09-11
RELEASED TO VISIT DENTIST
Plea of Sufferer Softened Heart OF
Justice-Similar Circumstances
Recorded in History.

Recently Theodore Roberts, the
|'Actor, was released temporarily from
Ludlow street jail, New York, in or
der that he might call upon his den
list during five different days and
have his teeth fixed. Roberts was
serving out a commitment because ne
had failed to pay alimony to his Wl1e
under a decree of separation. before
he could be permitted to go to the
dentist an affidavit had to be submit
ted in which DR.. Frank E. Seely, the
dentist, declared Roberts had riggs
disease and would lose all his teeth
il not attended to Immediately. Inc
court granted permission because the
dentist could not make use OF his cleo
trical instruments at the jail.
From the time of the story OF Da-
mon and Pythias various reasons LOT
temporary release from jail have been
given. 1t is related that in the Napo-
leonic era a soldier confined in a mill
tary prison for a minor onense
against the service during q brief time
of peace was released in order tnat
he might be present at the chrlsten-
ing of his infant son, born during his
Imprisonment. But Napoleon, in or
der. to test the intensity of the mans
desire made him agree to serve year
longer fol the privilege of three-day
furlough. The soldier gladly did II
and when he returned found pardon
ord cornoral's warrant for his in
FAINT son, to be valid when the son
had served with credit six months IN
the emperor's army of the future.
Frederick the Great released an auda
cious captain under sentence of death
so that the captain might tell him a
few beneficial things about himself
The things told face to face influenced
the great king to pardon the blum
death-defying soldier.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1913-09-11

Bohemian archbishop sailed from here
to preach to the heather Prussians
farther east, a long time before the
more direct evangelistic methods OF
the Teutonic order were applied. It's
political allegiance was often shifted,
and one feels sure that no merely ideal
considerations of loyalty were ever al
lowed to stand in the way of the inter
ests of its trade.
After the rise of the Teutonic order
Danzig became a part of its great ter
ritory, though reserving large share
of self-government; it was at the same
time an independent member OF the
powerful Hansa league-that supreme
example of civic and commercial pow
er. 1t Joined it's sister cities OF the
league very effectively in fighting for
eign nations and pirates against its
commerce. When it tired OF subJec-
ton to the waning Teutonic order, II
entered into a sort of protectorate I'M
der the kings of Poland, who annexed
it in 1869. Only as late as 1898 was 1t
taken into Prussia, and it is now the
capital of the west Prussian region.
The town is very compact and prac-
teal in it's plan, making an almost per-
feet oval fretted by many waterways,
SO as to have distinctly Venetian tea-
lures. 1t reaches to the Vistula and IS
traversed by several branches OF the
River Motilau, while the little stream
Radaune makes a useful canal in
long half circle through the city. one
large island is given up entirely 10
grain elevators, affectionately named
'tVesta," 1.-THE Red One" and SO on.
Opposite this island is the swarming
Long bridge''-not bridge at all, but
a dock, where freights are Landed,
and from which the smartest OF steam
ers are leaving at all hours for ada
cent points on the Baltic, particularly
for the popular bathing beaches Oh
Zoppot and Hela. In the moving
panorama of this water front one gets
the best epitome of the life of the city.
All around it's edge, Danzlg is a
citadel rather than town. Mountain
Gus grass covered modern forts rise
on the west, and on the east the oval
is continuously fringed by radiating
bastions, completely bordered by deep
double moats filled from the waters OF
the Mottlau. Each of these bastions
has it's own personal name-"the
brown horse" "the unicorn" Ger
trude." 1.-THE rabbit" "jumpout."
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1913-09-11
Women S Adomment and
Cruelty to Birds
By ANNA GOLDBERG. Chicago

Happily this subject has received more attention III recent ~ H.
formerly but the placing blame IL Is put upon
wrong person course poness to blame those VINO
market these commodities for while can be found VINO w" P
woen bodies for money would surely be lole 70 MANI
annea TO collectors of skins feathers which IS certainty " less
degrading. - ~
The purchaser ultimately the real producer ms orngS W
responsibility to the the question OF why sne
ber hat with aigretes for exactly and precisely e %
s ot tho heron grows them body purely as sex lure ii
70 be admitted she not always conscious OF ths Pp
decoration in dress has been directed to this one END E
at f sex nvchology clearly the bearing of personal decoration
-Sf men and the opposite sex
II men could me by less cruel methods women wouu g
adopt them naturally less cruel than man. AS the
and much emancipation of woman progresses sne VIII
ndenenden control the possession OF he po!
bn she has now this will place her in less need oil extreme sex
adornmen than she is today
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1913-09-11
Nightmare Law.

The effect of mans declarations
In his sleep when offered as evidence
was involved in Martineux VS.. people,
before the supreme court in Colorado
in which the court held that night
mare utterances in the nature OF ad-
missions or declarations are not COM
petent evidence against a defendant
The court held also that where a wit
ness testifying to such declarations
said he didn't know whether the man
was asleep or awake, but thought ne
was asleep when he spoke, an In
struction that the jury might con-
slider such declarations was enron
eous. The court ruled:
1T is the voluntary statements Oh
n party that may be used against
him. One is not responsible for what
he says in his sleep, because he is
unconscious and II is not voluntary
In 12 eye. 432, It is said: Words al
tered by the accused while asleep are
not competent evidence against him.
since he is unconscious of what ne
saws and Il is for the jury to deter
mine whether the accused was awake
or asleep when he npoke"
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1913-09-11
is MEDIEVAL CITY.
Architecture in Danzig Is Of the
Middle Ages.
West Prussian Town Is Perfect
Architectural Type Of Ancient
Period and Its Newest Buildings
Conform TO This Character.

Berlin.-Danzig, West Prussia, is the
perfect architectural type Of a me
dieyal city, showing historic integrity
with which the stormy fates OF many
centuries have dealt most kindly. Even
its newest buildings are made to con-
form to this character so as not to dis
turb the impression of unity. One feels
the pride which these energetic and
prosperous burghers of the thirteenth
and fourteenth century had in all the
appointments and arrangements OF
their famous town.
We hear of it first in 997, when a
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1913-09-11
ECZEMA ON HEAD AND FACE.

Reedy, w. Va.-"My baby boy
when three weeks old took the ecze-
ma on the head and face. 1t broke
out in pimples and first they looked
like blisters and yellow water would
run from them. His head was per
fectly raw and his hair was all gone.
Everybody said he would never have
any more hair. AS the sores spread
his hair came out. The breaking out
itched SO badly that we had to keep
gloves on his hands to keep him from
scratching his head and face. 1t
caused Disagreement. He couldn't
rest at night it burned and itched
so badly.
He was treated for eight months.
and he got worse all the time. So
l decided to try Cuticura Soap and
Ointment. In two months he was COM
pletely cured after using the Cuticura
Soap and two boxes of Cuticura Oint-
ment." (Signed) G. A. Dye, Jan. y,
1912.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
free, with 32-p Skin Book. Address post
card "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston. ADV
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1913-09-11


ity shook their heads at the appalling
break of model young man. Inc
lively youth of the village rather adj
mired this exponent of finished edu-
cation In the traps and glor1es or a
great city.
Vernon had indeed quieted down.
He acted as though he had something
on his mind, but he carried himself
as erect as ever, as handsome and
manly as ever and looked every
body squarely in the eye. When ne
went one evening to call upon Eva
Cross he was a trifle embarrassed at
the rather cool reception of her moth
er but that soon wore away as ne
sat in the rose bower with the daugh-
ter.
Eva" he said after time, Il have
brought letter to you from my
brother, Paul"
His lips twitched as he noted the
expression of glad delight that came
into her beautiful face. In fact she
reached so eagerly for the prohered
pissive that it slipped from her hand.
In STOPPING to recover it rose fell
from her bosom. Unnoticed by her
Vernon secured the flower and con-
cealed it in his pocket.
Then in a few minutes he went
away. Once alone he pressed the
prized flower to his lips, then care
fully placed it between two leaves
of his memorandum book.
and now to forget" he said grim
" as he returned to his cheerless
home-"for Paul's sake"
II was a humdrum life with miserly,
mean spirited old Seth Ramsey, but
Vernon shared 1t without C murmur.
He gave up all social pleasures and
Clifden viewed his penitent behavior
of the restored outcast approvingly.
One night dark and stormy, YER
non sat reading In his room when
there came a sudden rat-tat-tat at the
window. At first he fancied 1t was
the wind blowing the tree branches
against the panes. Then peering out
he discovered reckoning form near
some bushes.
1T is Paul." he said, and was quick
ly down in the yard to greet his
brother. Come into the house" ne
invited.
NO." responded Paul definitely, !
will never cross the threshold OF the
misery old man who refused me help
when | needed 1t so sorely. You
good dear brotherl" and the speaker
passed an affectionate arm through
that Of Vernon, only for you who
have been 30 good, 80 loyal to me-