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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-09-14

of 1880 miles. 1t can voyage that
far without stopping and it can 90 un-
der water 275 miles without coming to
the surface. 1t carries 90 torpedoes and
l20 mines. This mighty engine of death
is planned to dive while it is far out of
sight of fleet, SOW the water with
mines all around the vessels Of the
enemy and then hurry away, and when
it is at safe distance explode the
mines by electricity and blow tle whole
fleet into the air.
The British navy has torpedo, in
vented by Lieutenant Hardcastle, which
weighs 1900 pounds and is charged with
250 pounds of guncotton, enough to
blow the whole side out of battle.
ship. This torpedo can be placed in
the water four miles away and steered
accurately from the ship SO as TO nit the
smallest target.
The floating mine is one of the mod
ern horrors of war; and already one
British warship, the Amphion, and sew
erq merchant ships of other nations
have been sunk by them. The crew of
any vessel afloat in the northern wa
ters of the North Sea is in deadly peril
of them. 1t may be in the dead of
night the crew asleep, a wave dashes
one OF the floating mines against the
bow or sides of the ship, there is
terrific explosion, burst of flame, and
the vessel goes to the bottom.
Hand grenades are being used on
land. One of these contains 100 small
bullets which fly in all directions when
the grenade explodes. Tais grenade is
thrown from cover. Another is thrown
from gun that weighs only "a pounds
and is carried in case, like rifle.
This grenade weighs two pounds, is
thrown 300 yards and scatters 215 bull
lets over an area of 100 square yards.
The machine gun is one of the inven-
tions of the last half century. 1t has
been repeatedly used in this war with
deadly effect. Hardly a day goes by
without an account of charge against
machine guns that left the dead piled
high in the path Of the storm.
In the Middle Ages men fought hand
to hand and the destruction of war was
limited to what the combatants could !
do with their own physical strength.
Science and invention have provided |
the contending forces with the re-en-
forcement of steam, electricity and dy-
Mantle. The destruetiveness of the /
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-09-14
MODERN WARFARE NO MORE
HUMANE THAN FORMERLY Y

Reports from the European battl,
fields and naval engagements do moi
snow that war is more "humane" now
than il has ever been. Modern method.
have not shorn war of any of its hor
rors.
War is waged now in the air, and
beneath the water, and numerous de.
vices never used before are employed
to slay and MAIN not only the men of
opposing armies, but noneombatants
In this war bombs are dropped from the
air at night upon sleeping cities, killing
and wOunding women and babies: the
sea is sown with mines that blow up
the ships of noncombatants, making
widows and orphans in lands far re.
moved from the countries at war; wire
entanglements are laid into which sol
diers are lured and then are killed by
powerful electrical currents; search
lights hunt out groups of sleeping sol
diers and the shrapne from heavy
guns is turned upon them before they
can escape; mine grenades are planted
a few inches below the soil and as a
troop crosses them the pressure of an
electric button causes the erenades TO
jump yard into air and when chain
halts and explodes them, scattering bul-
lets in all directions and moving down
the marching men; torpedoes of great
power 90 miles beneath the water.
straight to the mark, exploding with
force sufficient to tear out the whole
side of the biggest dreadnaught: bombs
tnat explode and give all poisonous
rumes are thrown, and we have even
read of the retreating army poisoning
the food supplies left behind for the adj.
vancing foe.
Inventive genius has been engaged
Tor years past in creating devices to
Kill great numbers than ever before.
and the efficiency of these death.deal.
ing eontrivances has been increased
wonderfully by the mobility of the
modern army, which is enabled to move
with a quickness beyond tine widest
dreams of the strategists of a former
generation. In the old days. even in
the NapoleOnie campaign, armies in the
field moved in leisureiy way compar.
ed with the hghtning-like rapidity with
which they strike now. Then the
armies had to march either on foot or
horseback. Now they go to the front
in express trains, and there the bicycle
and the motor car give them mobility
never before known. There are whole
advance squads on motorcycles, and
whole batteries on motor trucks.
The aerial fleet of the Germans,
dropping bombs, already has attacked
Antwerp and Paris, and London is
awaiting a similar visitation. AT sea
the submarines are lying in wait. Great
Britain has 64 of them, France 81, Rus.
sla 20, Germany is and Austria Hun.
gary six.
Russia is credited with the greatest
submarine of all. II is 4SO feet long. !
IL times larger than the next biggest
in tae world 1t has a cruising radius
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-09-14
THE ROUNDUP


The senate committee Saturday
agreed on a modified river and harbor
bill under when the mouth of the Co.
mmbia will get sl,OOOOOO and con.
tinuiHg contract authorization of 81.
100000 additional. If passed in its
present form there will he ample funds
for work on the nortn jetty until the
end of fiscal year.
The city of MedfOrd and the Califor.
MIA Power company have locked horns
over the city lighting contract, the com.
paHy suing the city for back payments.
Thomas Terrill was fined 5000 by
Judge Kelly, Saturday, for selling so
cents worth of beer in Albany.
Harry f. Caldwell, of Hood River.
mas stamps of several railroads and ho
tells which ne places on his Spitzenberg
apples, pressing the name on in blue
ink. When the apples are ripe the ink
IS washed off, leaving the names of the
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-09-14
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hotel or railroad in yellow on the red
fruit. The apples sell for 80 per box.
George o. Adams was given Judgment
for $1,000 against the Corvallis & East
ern railroad at Albany, Saturday, for
injuries received while unloading car
at Albany April %, 1918. He sued for
10000.
E. c. Hills, deputy game warden,
dynamited the dam in the Willamette
at Eugene, Saturday, because a fish
ladder had not been provided Only
a portion of the dam was destroyed.
Marshfield claims robbers working
that section drugged their victims by
giving them drink of waisky from a
bottle. One man is reported TO have
been robbed of 5000.
The fourth annual Polk county fair
opens at Dallas Thursday and closes
Saturday night.
The report in MultnOmah county of
the operation of the widows pension
law shows that in the II months it has
been in effect 1856 widows have been
granted pensions and S3l,372 paid them.
Saturday at the public market in
Portland sales amounted to more than
$4,000. 1t was the record day.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-09-14
.ampaign argument enough.

campaign argument enough.
No matter how able the candidate. it
will take years before another senator
can attain the commanding position the
senior senator now oecupies-and it
would be rankest folly for Oregon not
to Fe-elect Chamberlain.
The people Of Oregon should not re-
peat the mistake of two years ago waen
an untried, inexperienced man was
elected to replace Bourne.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-09-14

One of the twists possible to the English language on
account of words of similar sound is shown in an adver
sement of a sale appearing in the Stayton Mail After
mentioning number of other things that would be auc
toned the ad reads: six all giving milk and bred"
That kind of would be dandy in baby home eS-
pecay If the sentence turned around so would read
"bread and milk"
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-09-14

Some of the newspapers of the Northwest are clamor
ing for the restoration of the tariff sugar With that
commodity out of sight at least about out of reach
would think the tender sympathy of the editorial fra
elnty for the sugar barOns might take few days rest
The consumer and that is everybody finds sugar plenty
high enough and this is something the refines would
never do, even if it went to dollar pound
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-09-14

The proposed eghthour law has so many bad features
on the face of it that is hardly worth while commenting
ON it, for no sane who has the interest of the state
at would even think of voting for it. There are plenty
Of pursuits where eght-hour day is long enough but
not when is made to apply to farms and the day to be-
81 when the hired man goes out to feed the horses
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-09-14
SOME OLD MEN LACK MoNIED FRIENDS.

The Oregon Journal had an editorial Saturday com
mentng on the theory that "a is no older than he
fees, and pointing out the of man in Kansas u
years Old who three years ago induced of his friends
to stake him in renting 1900 acres of raw land He cut
waited 2OO acres the first year. growing wheat Last year
ne had O acres and this year 1900 of wheat which
ne sold for $4,000 The Journal says TT all goes to
show that man is as old he feels and that man has
great possibilities as long he lives 1t all depends on
the man."
Our contemporary may be right but at first glance it
strikes us the right conclusion from the premises stated
that 1t all depends mans friends" OF course much
It must have been good one to get the stake
Another inference can very properly be drawn from
the story and that is that to be convincing aker is as
important as to be good worker Still another is that
It necessary to select your friends from among those
who have money to loan and who are willing to lend it,
There is quite difference between tacklng fate with
plenty OF moned friends behind you and undertaking the
same thing in the Joe Knowles condition
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-09-14

modern army is as superior to the ds.
structiveness of the army as a century
ago as the efficiency of the modern
power factory is superior to the eff
cheney Of the old hand looml-K. 8
Star.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-09-14

The Oregon Journal wants to know if Portland ertc!
prise cannot solve the problem of marketing fish caught
Ill Oregon waters. No doubt it can The first thing re-
qured however is to locate the Portland enterprise Like
tho habut the Journal speaks Of it would probably have
to be imported from the Sound
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-09-14

tnat Is Wndt we y
living for,to talk d
Vital Taings. We'll
talk until our
throats are hoaEs
we II iabber day bI
day, but let us ia
our brave diseOurs,
be careful what Vs
say. Why sit uP9H
the grocer s bentA
or stand along ths
curbs, and roast the
Germans or the
French, the Aus
trians or the SeTbsl
The Justice OF each
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-09-14

Some two weeks ago there was dispatch to the eff.
feet that Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria was very
sick Since that time there has never been word in the
dispatches concerning him. This gives some force to the
rumor that he is dead
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-09-14

The democrats of Illinois at least kept even with the
republicans so far as progressveness was concerned
The latter nominated Uncle Joe Cannon and they matched
it by raining Roger Sullivan for senator.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-09-14

The Oregonian is writing heavy editorials, many of
them, and its cartoonst filling the papers front pages
with pictures illustrating the wckedness Of the demo
cratic tariff bill that has according to it. flooded the con
try with eggs from China butter from New Zealand and
beef from Argentina all of which it declares are so cheap
they running the Oregon farmer This is SO palpaby
untrue and absurdy ridiculous that serious answer
would in itself be ridiculous. The 0regonans market
report Saturday when of these cartoons appeared
the most conclusive answer that be made and the
most thorough refutation and this gave the following
prices on that day in the Portland markets. Butter IS
cents eggs 30 cents canded 33 to So cents steers
per hundredweght If this is reduction caused by for
egn mportatons and the removal Of the tariff would
like the Oregonan to tell its readers how much they would
have had to pay for these three commodities the tariff
had been left them We would also like it to saw how
high these thngsshoud be in order to make Oregon bios
som like a rose.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-09-14
Careful Talk

OF course, Wen talk about the war
that can't be helped, by iingsi i@
u
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-09-14

nation S cause cant settled be BY you
so you d be wise to shelve your laEs
and cease your howdodo. The feeling
now is too intense; why make it douog
deep 'Twere better far to paint YOU
fence, or else dehorn your sheep. lns
combat gives my soul a wrench, ana
starts the scalding brine; for | nave
friends among the French, and German
friends are mine; and there are BIll'
ishers l love, and Russians | admi',
and, oh, hate to see them snove eas,
other in the tire! How | look tOrWaia
to the dayAGod grant it soon may
eome-when all of them will cease =
slay and sound the martial drum. Ana
meanwhile / can do no good by sPrIng
ing foolish talk, so ! shall saw my Pm
of wood and get my corn in shoes.
.,.:; .s,.sTl;as: s........ e: r .,..,.. Ms.1Msss
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-09-14

Uncle Joe Cannon has been nominated for congress in
his old Danve district If Joe can come back there is
no use hereafter ever talking about the age limit
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-09-14

That new date line, "Petrograd'
now appearing in the war news, !
likely to make some readers 'nAs
that one of George Barr MeCutche0n'
kingdoms has got into the fraess.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-03-24
DAVIDSON ROAD !
TO Be SURVEYED
Postoffice Department viii
Consider Warmers Road
Project
(By W. r. r

Washington. d. G.. March 22.-Ihe
PoS%oI!ice Department today request
ed the director of public roads TO have
Il survey made OF the Davidson county
project with a view to having the
\ amer road designated as beneficiary
Of the governments $4,000 appro-
Driation.
Secretary Josephus Daniels VIII
leave for New ork Monday. where
he will preside at the launching Of the
hattleship Oklahoma, the newest and
best of Uncle Sans The
vessel viii be launched at Camden.
n. j., just out Of New York.
Secretary Daniels will return on tho
same day and Monday night will ad-
Department.
Lieutenant Winston Gets Place.
Lieutenant T. Winston, son Of Hon.
George Winston, is here after an as
signment with the Pacific fleet and
has been assigned in Washington in
the engineering department OF the
navy. Lieutenant Winston is re-
proficient as an officer and
was chosen for the important detail
here because OF his efficiency.
Josephus Daniels. Jr., is here on
a weeks vacation from school.
DR.. Sandifer Removed.
The POstOf1ice Department today
removed Postmaster Sandifer at
C~reedrnOor, after charges against him
had been investigated by q postoffcs
inspector. Representative Pou has al
ready recommended DR.. Sandifer's
successor.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-03-24
SELF-CONFESSED STORE
BREAKER GETS 2 YEARS
Must Pay s., Month IL
Wlfc-Wonldn't Believe
Turn Up"
Especial TO The News and ohs.-va

AsheviiIe, March e1.-Roy West.
found . few days with a. suit.
case full OF stolen articles, YESTERDAY
pleaded guilty to house breaking anc
larceny IN the B~unconbe county Supe-
iioi court for the trial Of crimina,
cases and was sentenced to = tern,
OF two years on the county roads. Tha
end admitted that he had en-
tered the stores Of Melvin Nancy an.
A H. Brooks q fev days before fni.
cartUre.
j. 9. Johnson who recently was con.
E!cted Of abandonment upon the tas.
llHiony Of his wife that he had qor-
sa Ken her and had paid nothing i.
hcr support = pay $50 per month
70 the clerk II the Superior corl.-
NO IS instructed 10 turn the none.
oFei to Mrs. Johnson.
y K Crook, OF Leicester. YESTERDAY
u'cl1red that ne would not heliey,
Ct.t unsupported TESTIMONY OF q Wit
ness employed to turn up" hind
u3efa and Was excused from inr-
o"tE. IN the formal court n
IooG Easi asked If hr could pass ~,
u. case IN tho light 81 the eyiderc.
and he replied ne wo,,n
.ot oAheEe G. u. Hall unless hi. tee-
''n2o!J W. corrcho-ated.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-03-24

who daily Conuuers them anew.
Goethe.
He who does something at the head
OF one regiment. him who
does nothing at the head Of i hum
dred.-Lincoln.
Be true TO your word and your work
and Your friend.-o'Rei1ly.
And heaven wants souis-freSh ana
CapaCiouS souls,
To taste its raptures and expand like
flowers
Beneath the glory of its Central sun.
1t wants fresh souls. lot lean ana
shriveled ones
It wants fresh souls, my brother, el,o
il thine.
Arson G.. Chester.
. =
No great nation can ever survive
its own temptations and its own fol
lies that does not indoctTinate its chill
dren in the World OF God Tor
he righteousness OF nations, like the
righteousness of men. must take its
sources from these foundations OF in
spiration.-Woodrow Wilson.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-03-24

OF Acts. are the most vivid writings
in the canon. He had an eye for lie.
His stories are the most realistic OF
all in the New Testament. Ills &C
count OF a storm at ed. IT the BOOK
o. Acts. is the best description OF
ancient s~eafaring that has come
down to us from ~antiduity.
This is the man from whose pen
come all except one Of the luminous
stories which have held the interest
Of millions OF Sunday School mem
her throughout the past quarter. The
teacher who would keep q class at
teution. should look VCll 10 I.uke's
methods.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-03-24

After al other aspects OF missions
have been recounted. it still remains
true that not the vast e~duCations or
medical "a literary or industrial or
exploration OF political achievements
OF missions are the greatest work OF
Christia aity's foreign propag3ada. The
work OF works. the crown Of crowns
OF Christian missions has been in
leading niEriads of Individual men.
women n children INTO the new life
thai is in Jesus Christ. Missions hoo
10 the n~on-ChrisJian world the ,;ft a.
salvation. The preach the gosDel -
REDEMPTION. All else that they have
done for the world pales into na4ti-
ness alongside OF the fact that the,
have led multitudas into a knou-fedr -
Of the Saviour.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-03-24

Each lesson of the quarter is cast
il the form Of a story by or about
Jesus. Therein is a message for all
prosy teachers and speakers. With
u u parable Ga story spakc He not
unto them" Not to be interesting
is TO be reCreant TO the example Of
Christ.
An admirable rephrasing Of the
titles OF the twelve lessons is made
~ Peloubet's Notes, as follows:
The Story Of Jesus and the Chill
dren.
The Story OF some Missionaries.
The Story of the Good Samaritan.
The Story OF the MiniSterine WO-
The story Of Jesus in the Home a.
Bethany.
The story OF the lar Who Walked
Up His Neiehbor at Midnight.
The Story of the Haunted House.
The Story OF the Table Talk oI
Jesus at d Dinner.
The Story Of the Teaching Birds.
The Story OF the Poor Rich Man.
The Story Of Two Officers.
The story Of How Jesus Kept th<
sabbath.
The Story Of a Seed.
The Story of a Piece Of DOUGH.
The World Waking Up To jesus.
Some uniformed persons sheer q
soUnCdy oCnOOl lessons. Little tne'
know about the fundamental ant
timely character OF the truth taught
Ar alert read finds iii these Scrip
lures selections the basic philosoph,
Of our own time. and in It's modern
expression.
Consider. Here are twelve lessons
Each might appropriately have bee.
the theme OF an editorial in any o
the great daily newspapers in III
year OF our Lord, 1914. OF If a dis
cusSion before a woman'S club. Their
was a lesson. the children and thei
rights. Another treated the subjet
of the home. Another dealt wit
democracy. Another expounded tn
ageS-old and ever new theme {
mans access TO a Supreme Being. Al
other discussed sincerity. Anothe
' talked about q rest day for the Worlt
g., Another dweit upon tina attitude {
vigilance which is the price Of lii
erty. and Of everything else wort
. while. Another was an exposition {
: wioer O~utreach. sometimes called il
ternatiOnaliSm n sometimes name
= missions. Another taught helpful
. ness, 1.-THE art Of being kind
. Well has President Wilson sal
. The Sunday School lesson Of toda
Il the code OF morals Of tomorrow"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-03-24

strong. The best friends the East
has had in the West have been the
Christian missionaries. who nave
sympathetically Interpreted the OIL
entail point of view and character.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-03-24
TEACHER WHO KNEW HOW

International sunday school Les
son for March % il 'Review-
Jesus tho Great Tcachcr."-Natt.
-.sf-Op
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-03-24

c''HetiiaeS o EeIy good wa a
ieit others IS by ize-oing OFT nr rn.ir
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-03-24

Subtly and silently, missions are
imposing a lev standard OF ideals
the nations. They represent
the verities OF brotherhood. and go
bear witness against selfish exploit
alton OF the weak nations by the
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-03-24

Not all the achievements Of mis-
sions are credited to missions; but
nobody complains Of this. so long as
humanity IL benefited.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-03-24
(By WILLIAM r.. E:LIIS.)

Nothing is good for the bee thai
Is not also good for the hive" says
the ancient episram. The idea ~
was SO popular as it Is now, when
u conception Of the hive is large
than ever before. The days best
thought is Of world welfare. Our nev:
social unit is all mankind. It is TO
fanciful and empty phrase to say that
the forces of human uplift at work
today are affecting the whole earth.
That is literally SO. And of the mod
en- World-novenlents, none has had
SO direct and perceptible :n influence
as Christian missions. The mission
al ties have been the pioneers in car
rying intellectual enlightenment and
material progress both 10 govern
ments and TO individuals. The have
permcated the n0n-ChriStian lands
with their influence. The advent OF
tn missionary has always mean
change.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-03-24

Scores o1 alien languages have
been to the western world
Christian missionaries.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-03-24

The critics Of missions axe not the
persons who are Possessed OF the
:1cst facts about missions.