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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-02-18
MORE SCARED TO DEATH
PERCENTAGE DYING FROM DIS.
EASE LESS THAN FROM FEAR
AND THERE IS POINT.

In day almost tho central attitude
Of tho business community is changed.
Where there existed doubt and appre.
hension confidence is now becoming
apparent.
Things are not notably different
from what they were before the first
Of the year, but the rays of the psychic
logical sunshine have apparently scat.
tered tho cold fog of worry and fear,
The sudden change demonstrates
anew the fact that our panics and near.
panics are really mental phenomena,
An epidemic Of timidity starts like an
epidemic Of grippe, One or two men
begin to sueezc and snuffle, and before
wo know Il the eyes Of the whole ma.
tion are watery and tho noses are red.
Thore is just as much money in The
country as there ever was. There has
been no failure Of crops; no great dis.
aster to compel the withdrawal of
money from the general current OF trade
to repair any particular loss.
There were just as many mouths to
feed and bodies to clotbe, and women
to court and souls to save, as ever
and the profits Of attending to these
wants were just as great--yet a month
or so ago many Of us were wondering
and shivering and that wondering and
shiycriug produced an effect that was
moro than mental
Confidence is tho life blood az com.
mercc, sudden scare will make the
heart Of nation stand still, just az
Il win the heart Of an individual, and
an arrested circulation is not conducive
60 health.
Because the hair Of some Of us was
standing on ond some considerable
firms found Il impossible to got the
money necessary TO carry on their bus.
mess and went to the wall,
II was not that these firms failed
either as TO assets or as to business
wisdom. There was simply scare that
temporarily shut OFF their supplies, and
their creditors, naturally catching tho
contagiOn, suspended their credits, aud
then we had a real, physical, definite
aud depressing result Of an impalpOblc
immaterial mental flutter
Tho worst OF these things ia that
thore is no telling whore they are 90
ing to stop. II one man, or thou
sand men and women, suddenly begin
J to hoard their money away from the
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-02-18

banks, which are the natural reser-
voirs, it makes no particular difference.
If million people do the same thing
there is likely to be trouble.
Such an epidemic of timidity spreads
from individuals to banks in one direc-
tion and to the railroads and manufac-
turing plants in the other.
When masses of people begin to cur
tail their expenditures, stores cut down
their orders and factories diminish
their output; men are discharged, and
what began as little more than a mental
vapor becomes a cold, black, dangerous
cloud, some of the concomitants of
which are soup houses, municipal EN-.
ployment and all around suffering.
We are Of course, more interested in
the cure of disease-whether physical
disease or financial disease-than in
the history of the same.
In confidence, in a refusal to be
scared into a blue funk, in the exercise
Of common sense and courageous intel.
lienee, we have an absolute specific
against these periods of business depres-
sion.
This country Is so big, 30 rich, the
spirit of the people is SO independent,
so valorous, that long-continued com
mercial disorder is unthinkable.
Enactions of government sometimes
cause these scares, but the spirit of our
people from top to bottom is so san
guine and so efficient that the worst
of these interferences become only hur.
dies in the path of financial progress
instead of barriers.
Naturally our money makers aim at
the biggest game in sight. Hence the
stupendous fortunes of Standard Oil,
Steel, railroads, etc.
When checks are introduced so as
to make the rules little bit more
against those who have the start and
the power, the same class of men will
60 after the best in sight.
If they cannot make the hundred per
cent they will go after the twenty-five
per cent. If the iules are changed
they may complain a bit, but ten per
cent profits will be pursued just as
sharply as ten times that per cent was
followed before.
The lifting of the clouds is, of course,
great relief, just as the coming dawn
is after a disturbed and stormy night,
One thing that our leading pessimists
fail to note is that the end of any period
of depression is as bound to come as is
the dawn.
The main thing is to avoid being so
badly scared during the hours of dark.
ness and tempest that even the warmth
and the light of daybreak cannot
promptly restore the circulation or
cure the chill.-Chicago Tribune.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-02-18

the saim thing oaver, 6 nothing is so
tiresome as to see the saim sites oaver
& oaver aggenn.
l want to be a travelling man wen
l grow up, toald him.
No doubt you do, sed Mister Drum.
When 1 was yure age 1 wanted to be
railroad fireman wen I grew up.
thought if l could ever git that far
l wud be happy inded, & 1 used to
think 1 wud like to be elevator man,
too, running elevator up & down in
a tall bilding all day long. But we
change our idees as we grow calder.
! I always thought that wen 1 grew
up 1 wud like to be a poetess like Ella
Wheeler Wilcox, sed Ma.
| doant blame you, sed Mister Drum.
Thare a lot of ladies that wud like to
be in her place. 1 thought once that
| was going to be a poet, too, sed
Mister Drum. 1 rote two or three
poems & took them to friend of mine
that maiks his mummy riteing poetry.
He red them oaver & oaver, & then
he looked at me & shook his he'd. That
is all he did. He newer sed a word,
jest shook his he'd. So l toar them up
& newer tried aggenn.
They mite have mad real merit at
that sed Pa. l have ritten sum RELY
good poems myself & had them criti.
cised un.justly,
Ma looked at Mister Drum & laffed.
understand, sed Mister Drum. l
m afrade that neether of us wud ever
have made a reel poet. 1 did think
that one of the peeces 1 showed to my
friend possessed reel litery merit. L
called it A Fragment & 1 honestly
believe it is the shortest poem that was
evver rote. This how it went:
l seen
A queen.
That was certainly short enuff, sed
Ma, but the grammar is not rite.
Certainly not, said Pa. He shud
had sed
l have saw
A queen.
& then the ryhme wuddent be thare.
After all, Pa sed, thare are vary few
who have any idea how hard it is to
rite good poem. Lots of peepul
think they can rite them, but thay git
so sadly disappointed wen thay show
them to thare trends that thay keep
rite on selling pianos or practicing law,
or whatever it is thay were meant
to do for living.
Well, perhaps it is best that thare
are so few poets, sed Joe Drum. Even
the good ones rite lot Of tripe now
then, & the wurld is crammed with
bad poetry, much moar Of it bad than
good. l shall always think, however,
that my one effort of merit shud have
been printed.
Which one1 sed Ma.
The one / menshuned sed Joe Drum:
l seen
A queen.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-02-18
MUFFLED KNOCKS.

A man may be so low down and
ornery that he couldn't get another
man to stake him to nickle, But he
can always find some woman who will
take cachce and marry him.
Love is great stuff. Before he gets
her he cant live without her. After
he gets her he can't live with her.
If wishes were automobiles, gasoline
would be worth $oO,OOOOoO gallon.
Some men are so anxious to be driv.
en- to drink that they phone for a taxi.
Az soon as a girl discovers that &
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-02-18
Little Bobbie's Pa

Joe Drum cain to SEQ us yesterday.
He is friend Of Pa & he is bachelor
& he says he always gifts lonesome Sun
days so he calls on sum of his married
trends, espeshully if they have child.
ren. He is awful funny man, toald
me about a hundred stories & reesited
me sum potrey.
suppose you see CRATE many in
teresting things in yure travels up &
down the contry, sed Ma.
Sum intersing things, sed Joe Drum,
& a lot Of things that not interesting
at all. l get pritty tired Of travelling
around the world. SO much of it is
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-02-18
WICKED BANDIT CAUGHT
CASTILLO, WHO BURNED TUNNEL
AND DESTROYED MANY LIVES,
IN AMERICAN HANDS.
UNITED PRESS LEASED wIpn,l

I'll Paso, Texas, Feb. ls,-Maximo
Castillo, the Mexican bandit, charged
with responsibility for the Cumbre tun.
mel disaster, in which ten Americans
and Al others lost their lives, was cap.
tured 3s miles south Of Hachita, N. NJ,
yesterday by American troops, This in.
formation was conveyed by General
Hugh L. Scott, eommandant at Fort
Bliss, in an official telegram from Cap
tain White, Ninth United States cav
airy
With the bandit were six Of his fol.
lowers. According to Captain Whites
brief dispatch they surrendered with.
out fight. They win be brought here,
Castillo, to avoid range Of noun.
tains on the Mexican side, made de.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-02-18
MEAN BRUTE,

Whom Mr.. Gabb came home he had
n broad band of black crepe around
his hat.
"What arc you wearing that thing
fort" asked Mrs. Gabb,
"For your first husband, - replied
Mr.. Gabb, "I'm sorry he died, -
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-02-18
dition for several hours, was much bet
ter today.

DR.. G. D. Marsh of the federal bu-
reau of plant industry is delivering a
series of illustrated lectures to stock
men in the west on the subject of
plant poisonous to stock.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-02-18
YOUNG MAN BELIEVED TO BE
DEAD RETURNS TO HIS HOME
[uNIrnp rRnss InAsEp wInr. ]

UNITED PREsS LEASED WIRE.l
Los Angeles, Feb. 1S.-Five months
after he was supposed to have fallen
from the deck Of the steamer Harvard
and drowned, Lucien A. Ganahl, son
of Los Angeles real estate man and
lumber dealer, has returned to his home
in this city.
A victim of aphasia, he wandered up
and down the coast and was found two
weeks ago in resort. Members of the
family believe that the condition of
the wanderer was due to an operation
he underwent in Oakland three months
before he started from San Francisco,
August 20, 1913, to go to Los Angeles
on the Harvard.
The family would not say whether
or not he ever went aboard the steam
or
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-02-18
FREE METHODIST TO
GATHER IN CONVENTION
Missionary Meeting Of Much Import
ance viii Continue Until Next
Sunday Evening.
CURIoS FROM MANY LANDS
WILL BE ON PROGRAM
Extensive Program Arranged and
Large Attendance From Western
Oregon Expected Here.

Tomorrow evening at 1880 O'Clock
a missionary convention of western
Oregon for the Free Methodist church
will open and will continue until Sun
day evening. An extensive program
has been arranged for the occasion
The following is the program:
Thursday Evening, February 10,
Devotionals, REV. Roy E, Nichols.
Address Of Welcome, Rev. J. F. Lewis
Response, Mrs. Clara II. Upton.
The Political Unrest in British India
and Its Relation to Missionary Work
Rev. M. G. Clarke.
Friday.
Devotionals, Rev. j. +. Lewis.
Missionary Work in San Domingo
Rev. Roy E. Nichols.
Devotionals, Rev. E. D. Blackman.
City Mission Work, Rev. w. G. Mac
Laren.
Our Duty to New Americans, Mrs
Mary f. Coffee.
Devotionals, Rev. N. Welter.
India Famine Revival, Rev. NJ. c
Clarke.
Saturday.
Devotionals, Mrs. Charlotte Johnson
Workers Conference.
Question Box.
Devotionals.
Junior Rally, led by Mrs. Clara II
Upton.
DevotiOnals,
"reminiscences Of Missionary Life in
India, Mrs. Ethel Ii. Clarke.
Sunday.
Devotionals.
Our Missionary Heritage in the
Heart of India, Rev. NJ. g. Clarke.
Devotionals.
The Women Of India, Mrs, Ethel H
larke.
Devotionals.
midas Great Need Illustrated From
Experiences, Rev. M c. Clarke
Returned missionaries Curios from
India, Thibet and San Domingo will be
on exhibition illustrating the religions
and customs Of those lands Songs in
Marathi and Spanish will be sung.
Rov, Jas. F. Lewis, pastor of the To-
cal church is busy making arrange
ments.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-02-18
WOULD ANNUUL MARR1AeE.

UNITED FNEHb LEAbED WIIH.I
San Francisco, Feb. lS.--Suit to annul
the marriage Of Winnifred Webb to
Paul Collisihson, parties to a double
elopement, last Friday, was filed today
in the superior court by AttOrney.Gen-
eral U. s. Webb, father of the girl,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-02-18
MRS. LOGAN IMPROVES.
UNITED pREss 1MAsEp w1nn. l

Washington, Feb. 1S.-Mrs John A.
Logan, the famous Civil war veteran S
widow, who mistook' poisonous prepa-
ration for cough medicine last night,
swallowed it and was in a critical con-
Evening star., 1914-06-09
TIES SHIPPED BY RAIL.
Transportation North by Water Is
Apparently Abandoned.

While the shipment of railroad ties
from the Potomac river to Boston and
other northern ports In large vessels
has been "ery light this season, guam
titles Of ties are being sent north by
rail- and a large fleet of small craft has
entered the tie-running trade. Usually at
this season of the year barses have
loaded at Alexandria for a north At
lantic port. and others are under charter,
but SO far this year not barge has
taken a cargo from Alexandria. and
there is but little prospect just now of
any loading. as the railroad companies
are making but few new contracts for
ties.
1t is said that those now being sent
from this city are to fill outstanding or
ders. Between Sunday morning and yes
terday noon, ten vessels laden with rail-
road ties arrived at this city and Alex
andria, consigned to Washington dealers.
and the wharves here and at Alexandria
are piled high with the construction ma
terial In addition to the big fleet OF
tie-laden boats. several laden with lum-
Der and wood also arrived and berthed
at the local wharves.
Evening star., 1914-06-09
ITALIAN STRIKE SPREADS
Cavalry Repeatedly Charges Crowds
of Stone Throwers
in Rome.

ROME. June 9.-Partial success has at
tended the general strike proclaimed yes.
terday as a protest against the govern
ment's repression of workmen's demon
strations at Ancona Sunday. when sew.
eral men were killed. The movement
has extended to Bologna, Venice. Flor.
ence. Genoa, Milan, Turin. Bergamo
Brescia and numerous other cities OF
Italy.
Little disorder has been reported, but
in this city there have been some stone
throwing and window breaking. and the
cavalry has made occasional charges te
dsperse the crowds Official circles are
somewhat anxious about the situation al
Ancona. where the most bitter feeling ex.
lists between the populace and the au'
thorities Several attempts at riotine
have been promptly suppressed. 1t Is
thought possible martial law may be de.
clared in that region.
None of the Roman newspapers ap-
peared today except the Popolo Romano
which was printed by non-union work.
men.
ANCONA, June 9.-Strikers today tore
I'D the railroad tracks for a short dis
tance outside this city. but the army
engineer corps quickly repaired the
damage. 1t Is supposed the workmen IN,
tended to prevent reinforcements o1
troops reaching here rapidly.
Evening star., 1914-06-09
| OFF FOR STERNER, TRIAL
Cup Defense Fleet Begin Three
Thirty-Mile Racing Tests
Tomorrow.

NEW YORK. June 9-Led by the re-
rigged Defiance. the Americas cup de-
fense fleet left upper Long Island sound
today for sterner trial conditions over
the cup course off Sandy Hook Before
noon the Defiance started from City
Island. The Resolute which had beef
moored at Glen Cove. followed few
minutes later. The Nanitie brought up
the rear All three yachts passed down
East river under tow, with topmasts
housed
All of the yachts were frequently
saluted as they ran down the river. 1t
was the first time in eleven years that
East river and lower New York had
seen cup defense yacht. In September.
1907: the Reliance returned up the river
after her sweeping victory over Sham
rock III
The yachts will have three thirty
mile races off Sandy Hook during the
next three days. beginning tomorrow
The starts all will be from the Am
brose channel lightship with the pre-
psratory signals at IL o'clock.
New Challenger Shows Excellent.
SOUTHAMPTON, June 9-Shamrock
". Sir Thomas Lipton's new chaI-
lenger. showed excellent today in her
first race sailed in the Solent. She out
paced the older Shamrock, leaving the
trial yacht far astern.
Only a light breeze was blowing and
both Shamrocks carried a full spread of
fairweather canvas. Beating to eastward.
the challenger quickly drew away. On
the run back, with jackyards and spin
makers set, the challenger took a still
more comma nding lead. gaining some
five minutes in four-mile stretch.
Evening star., 1914-06-09
THE BRITISH CRISIS
| XXIV.-The Ulster VoIun-
teerS.
By Frederic ]. Haskin.

BELFAST. May 2s.-Sometimes. when
there is threat of real trouble. 1t is worth
while to forsake the leaders of men and
20 to the men themselves If one would
accurately plumb the depth of a people s
feeling. 1t is only by so doing that the
true spirit of Ulster can now be gauged.
Sir Edward Carson may be as tragic
or as eloquent as he likes in the house
of commons. Lord Roberts and Lord Mil
ner may be never so grave and porten-
tous in their letters to the Times. but
there will still be those who are not con-
vinced, who believe that Ulster is bluff
fling.
Ask the riveter leaving the huge ship
yard in Belfast. ask the tramway con
ductor. ask the porter at the hotel door
ask the waiter at your table or the bar
maid There is but one answer: ''Tht
government must give in. We will not
have home rule
How will you help yourselves?" que
ries the innocent visitor who has respect
for the English parliament as we'll as
for the military prowess of Brita' J. Agar
there is but one answer: THE volun
teers!'
Evening star., 1914-06-09
Federal Yellowstone Park Guide.

y comprehensive circular giving detailed
information regarding the hotels. camps
transportation Hines and points of interest
in the Yellowstone National Park has just
been issued by direction of Secretary
Lane. Travel to the Yellowstone has
been developed to such a degree that
there are listed two lines for the trans
portation of tourists, hotel company
operating five hotels two camping COM
panies operating stage lines and perma-
nent camps and five firms or individuals
catering to special camping parties. There
are descriptions of the formations Of the
terraces at mammoth hot springs, the
geyser basins along Gibbon and Firehole
rivers. and the grand canyon of the Yel-
'owstone.
Evening star., 1914-06-09
Washington Boy Honored.

Word has been received here that Wall
ing E. Harvey. a graduate Of Central
High School in 1911, has been elected
manager of the varsity base ball team at
Wesleyan University at Middletown,
Conn. NJ. H. O'Brien. also a graduate of
Central. ~, was elected as assistant
manager. Among the teams which the
Wesleyan nine meets are those of Am
herst Brown. Columbia. Dartmouth and
Colgate.
Evening star., 1914-06-09

the case OF James Stewart. manager oe
the Spartan base ball team Of the Centyal
League. who was charged with assauits
ing Umpire Andrew R. Jenkins.
The umpire is paid by the league 70
conduct these base ball games and he had
full authority on the field. 1t Is all right
to question decision he might make, but
not in such a manner did the defend-
ant The umpires make mistakes, as all
of us do said the court. II I impose
a small fine the other players VIII believe
they can do the same thing and get away
with 1t; l will therefore impose a fne
of SOS
Evening star., 1914-06-09

organized them. financed them, may find
that Ulster volunteers are not to be con-
trolled by considerations OF political ex-
pediency.
The volunteers have been encouraged
by the aristocracy of their own country
and of England. by the Protestant
clergy. by the conservative press and
by their business and political leaders.
They have been organized by military
men, retired officers of the British army.
some of them, and by other men who can
always be found for work of that sort.
They have been financed by the com
hined aristocracy and plutocracy of Ire
land and of England. Foes of home rule
in ireland have ioined with enemies of
the liberal government in England to pro-
vide the money.
How much has been raised and spent
no one knows. but it must be a great
deal. 1t
Movement Has Cost CO :
About $50,OO0,Oo0 Already. to n,,v
arms for an army that is already bigger
than the standing army of the United
States. One Irish peer. a man engaged in
the brewing trade who was given a title
by the last unionist government, made
he might be called on for more The
most careful estimates are made that the
volunteer movement has already cost as
much as s5O,o0O.OOo. And this in spite of
the fact that the men have been paying
most of their own expenses even when on
''active duty in the country.
1t is almost unbelievable, from the
standpoint of the outsider, that the Brit
ish government as yet has done nothing
to stop this organization of an army-call
it rebel or call 1t ''loyar'-that Is act
ing in defiance of law, that announces its
intention of resisting the enforcement of
a certain act Of parliament, and that
boasts its superiority to the effective
forces of the government.
The volunteers have done nothing in the
dark. Their acknowledged leader sits in
the house of commons as the first lieu
tenant of the opposition party. He has
stood up in the house time and again and
acknowledged full responsibility for the
acts of the volunteers even for the gum
running. the cutting of government tele-
graph wires and the detention of govern
ment coast guards. The volunteers are
officered by men of title and wealth.
many of whom sit in the two houses of
parliament. The government several
times has threatened but it has done
nothing.
The man in the streets In Belfast says
it has done nothing because even a lib
eral government. with all its hideous
criminal traits, would not dare to shoot
down the most loyal subjects If the king.
The man in the streets in London says
the government has done nothing because
it requires an army to deal with an
army, and the government knows tina
the British army is much more in SYM
pathy with the Ulster volunteers than
with the present government of the en-
pire.
Nothing like it has been known since
| the closing days of Buchanan's admins
| tration in the United States but that pc
| riod of inaction at most lasted only three
months, while this in Ireland has con-
| tinued for two years.
Evening star., 1914-06-09
New Challenger Shows Excellent
BURWELL's BODY FOUND.
Remains of Young American Engi
neer on Way Here From Mexico.

Miss Bessie Burwell. 662 Maryland
avenue northeast. has been officially
notified through the Navy Department
that the body of her brother. Weston
Burwell. the young American engineer
and friend of Secretary Daniels. who
Evening star., 1914-06-09
An Ideal Vacation Awaits You
in Estes Park, Colorado

I Wouldn't you like to spend your va
( cation this year in a place where you
{ can climb mountains, play golf or ten
( mis-, ride. drive or motor. fish or camp
I out, with a climate of a wonderful
! quality and an air that is crisp and
} sweet and will make your cheeks glow
J and refresh you? Wouldn't you?
J Estes Park, with its streams abund- !
ant with gamey trout: its beautiful and
rare wild flowers; its stupendously
{ high Longs Peak: its drives through
( wonderful mountain scenery; its living
( glacier: its fine hotel and boarding ac-
} commodations: will do all this for you.
} Truly, it is the ideal vacation place.
} Let me send you our Estes Park
\ folder with many pictures and fine
( colored map Of the Park and every
thing about its high-class hotels and
( comfortable ranch houses. where you
can live at very moderate cost. Let
me tell you the best way to go and all
J about the low excursion fares. I'll be
very glad to attend to all the details.
Call or write for an Estes Park folder
today before you forget.
WIN. AUSTIN. General Agent. Pas
senger Dept, c.. B. & Q. R. r. Co..
sS6 Chestnut st., Philadelphia.