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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-09-11
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BvJANE PHELPS

laughingly reply that he knew absolute
ly nothing of book or story technique
he only knew when they touched him
Father and mother were delighted
that L was to marry Bob. Not that they
were anxious to be rid of me, but year,
before when l was eighteen 1 haC
thought myself in love with a handsome
goOd-for-nothing fellow and father had
to use all his tact and authority tc
keep me from marrying him. Now
was twenty-eight. l was rather settled
III many ways even for twenty-eight.
expect remaining at home with mother
helping her keep house, etc, had had
a subduing effect. Not that [ did moi
have young friends, for I did, but they
were my age; girls who had married
years ago, most of them now had small
families.
L haven't said a word about Bob's
looks. He wa not handsome. but had a
keen clever face with dark brown hair
and eyes. He was of medium height,
and an athlete. He played golf and ten.
mis- equally well. l cared nothing for
outdoor sports, but compelled myself to
appear interested as it often was the
means of being with Bob more than I
otherwise could.
We were TO be married early in the
spring. Such foolish thought enter one s
head at times, When Bob asked me tc
make it May, I eouldn t help being glad
he hadn't said June. Ny birthday was
the 2sth, of May, I should be twenty
nine years old. But as we were to be
married on the twelfth, I could still saw
L was twenty-eight when I was married.
l never shall forget what Elsie Bar
ton sad one day when she called. Elsie
and 1 had been great ehums when we
were younger, and were about the same
age She had been married nearly ten
years and had three lovely children and
a beautiful home on Washington
Heights.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-09-11

The American Alliance for Labor and Democracy went
on record recently as favoring universal suffrage. This
will in a measure offset the handicap the so-caned lead
ers back east are strenuously placing on the movement.
If that bunch could be controlled for a year, national suf-
frage would be a strong possibility.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-09-11

"Vorwaerts," a leading German paper, boldly says
"President Wilson has demanded nothing OF Germany
that Germans do not themselves demand" 1t points out
that her treaties will be observed she can make no treaties.
To reach this condition requires that the German people
be behind and responsible for any treaty made. The Ger
fore it will have any standing with the world. This is a
bold stand, and the Vorwaerts is practically alone in the
expression of this opinion. Most of the other leading
papers call it traitorous language, and work themselves
into q frenzy of Indignation over its position, and yet it
tells only the truth, and a truth that the others will in
time be forced to accept as such.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-09-11
Ripping Rhymes
by Walt Mason
SELF PRAISE

l may be loaded down with merit, but l am
foolish to declare it. If / go forth, my
worth expounding, and boosting it in tones
~resounding, my friends will mutter, soon or
later, "He is a fourth rate s~elling-plater.
His dome of thought is stuffed with saw
dust; the worth while man is ALWAYS mod
est" I often catch myself beginning to
boost myself in language winning; l tell of
big things I'm achieving, of how Compel
itors I'm leaving away back yonder in the
distance; / tell how I, without assistance,
climbed upward from the Stun and gutter
To HEIGHTS tnn Wonderful To inter- I fhrnw
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-09-11

Astoria was not visited by the gentle rain" The kind
that hit that seaport was far from broke 1t came down
in torrents, washed away part of a bridge, tore great gul-
lies in the streets and did damage to the extent OF $1,000.
Presumably the same storm hit the Chehalis country in
Washington, cutting a swath of half a mile through the
timber, and changing itself into a ~veritable water spout
after it crossed the Chehais river for it took most of the
water out of that stream and dropped it half a mile away.
The city certainly needs a real paving plant and If that
at Albany is in good shape, and worth the money it might
as we'll be bought as any. According to the showing made
at the council meeting it is cheaper to buy than to rent,
and there will be other paving to lay when that now laid
out is done. The city bought experience the last time, and
this time should get a paving plant.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-09-11

every n of whom join in extending
congratulations to the happy couple
Enterprise.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-09-11

myself all kinds of lilies, then find my hearers have the
willes. They look as though they'd like to take me to
some secluded spot and shake me. Then, mortified, humil-
lated, by self-disgust and anguish weighted, l fade away
and while Pm going | wonder why l do such blowino. The
most of us have sins b~esetting; the most of us are oft for
getting that it is foolish to unfold them, and flaunt them
where all men behold them.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-09-11

Sell it-Journal classified ad way.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-02-08
DISTANCE AND DIVISION.

The length of time to the Alaskan cleo ton object lesson in the size of the territory and may tend to bring the scheme divide it into territories to ocus
 From the viewpoint of local interests there distinct and natural divisions to Alaska the lying north other south of that greatest of ice outside the polar regions in the world Malaspna glacier extending southwest from Mount St. Elias. This fact alone the suggestion to provide different ceners of government for the and the glacier form impossible barrier to anything but water communication between the two sections Of msher make around the beach with portable canoe but construction the qucksand flats below the ice where glacial floods sweep from time to time is out of the question:
 The division of the territory may not during this ad mnistraon, but 1t IS evident that it will within few for with increased population the present plan of gov eng the greater section of Alaska from center population in the lesser where conditions wholly different from those in the greater, will become increasingly unpopular.
 Whether or not this unpopulary is based facts is neither here there the distance the thing Long dis tance government from Washington bad enough but added oca control anywhere from three days by boat to two months away by trail and boat is rather rubbing 1t in-Seward Gateway.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-02-08
THE PHILIPPINES AND DUTY.

There people, may call them superstitious and tmena who believe that higher than mortal power directs the desnies of naon and interpret when page of history IS forged out why that stage set and why the eliminating acts were called to make the history.
 Such people read the history of what done Manila bay and what little later accomplished off Santiago but the Infinite to the prayers of people that for years had vexed the of the nnte noting torious almost without loss the part of United States carrying with them obligation the part of our people to accept the trust those victories had placed upon u to place those islands basis such that the darkened distressed people nhabtng them might grow up into the light of liberty and civilization.
 Our country did it's duty toward Cuba and that story makes altogether one of the illuminated pages of history.
 Our country's work in the Philippines date has been equally brilliant We wonder if the politicians who have been trying hard to have country hr its trust in those s and they look while the ashes of the great being laid to rest close by those of Porter and Sheridan other heroes in Arlington will not be reminded that nothing to either nations by negecng manifest duty.
 Admiral Dewey mighty prestige for the great public in the Philippines He lifted the standard of the public close beside the shores of Asia What American would that standard until oppressed peo pie there finally freed?
The Cordova daily times., 1917-02-08
MILITARY TRAINING.

When the of the battle of New Orleans reached France Napoleon sent expert examine and report kind of guns the Americans used in the battle He reported back that they simply the old long barreed rifles said Napoleon, it was the men behind the guns'
 Admiral Dewey wanted West Point education There vacancy at the military academy he elected accomplished sailor He went under Faragut almost he out of school and had wonderful post graduate under that master Then for years he followed by and and the routine of his duties until the opportunity and then short hour he immortality
 These two incidents ought to supply good arguments show that the strength of nation its people, and hence that all it's people should be trained to be capable defenders
 The preliminary training should be in the public schools then perfect training should be in the high schools and universities Through that the needed training would ob aned through that the natural soldiers would be dscovered the needed found to train the call such Thus would the whole nation in few have the necessary preliminary training for any The knowledge of this world make the strongest foreign hesitate before engaging with the United States
 It is difficult to understand why any should object to the education of boy in the preliminary duties of soldier We suspect it is the objection that mother gec teach her daughter cooking housekeeping the sonng being that she is always going to be lady and such training unnecessary and besides liable hands.
 net nfrequently is that the girl is liable to be taken advantage of ignorant and malicious all her constant heartaches.
 No regretted having learned one useful plishment
The Cordova daily times., 1917-02-08

Have your Job printing done at the Times office.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-02-08

Some of the Democratic papers of the territory making
 great deal of fuss about the integrity of the wasting board and assuring the public that the candidate cevng the greatest number of for delegate will the certificate of election regardless of who he be- Nobody doubted for moment that such Gov Strong Surveyor General Davidson and Collector of Gus toms Pugh would render fair count As consequence
 many the bets made Wckersham have already been paid notwithstanding the fact that of the leaders of the Demo- cratic party have limited pretty strongly that there chance for their candidate to lose with the vote close
 s Possibly not if these individuals determining the of the candidates but fortunately for the fair of the ritory they not. .~.~.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-02-08
UNSATISFACTORY

cordova's Progressive Merchants and
 Professional Men.
 HOTELS. Alaskan Hotel. Windsor Hotel Cordova House. Manhattan Hotel.
 GROCERIES. The Blum, O'Neill Go.
 CLOTHING. w. Clayson. The Blum, O'Neill Go. Finkelstein & Sapiro.
 RAILROADS. Copper River & N. w. Ky. LIGHTS, WATER AND PHONES. Cordova Power Co.
 AUTO SERVICE. City Express. Alaska Transfer Company. Sheldon Auto Stage.
 RESTAURANTS. Skaters Restaurant.
 THEATRE. Empress Theatre.
 HARDWARE. Northwestern Hardware Co. The Blum, O'Neil Go. First Bank of Cordova. PLUMBERS AND sTEAMFITTERs. Fuqua & McConaghy.
 DRUG STORE. Northern Drug Go.
 TRANSFER COMPANY. City Express. Alaska Transfer Company.
 SALOONS. The Horseshoe. The Mecca. The Northern. CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Howard & Lund.
 STEAMSHIP LINES. Alaska Steamship Co. Pacific-Alaska Nav. Co.
 BAKERY. Boss Bakery and Coffee House. ..
 LAUNDRY. Modern Steam Laundry. City Laundry.
 PHOTOGRAPHER. E. A. Hegg.
 MACHINERY, &c. Harmon Machinery Co.,, Inc.
 MEAT MARKET. Northern Meat Market.
 INSURANCE. Northwestern Trust & Realty Go.
 PROFESSIONAL. Dr. W. H. Chase. Physician. Dr. w. w. Council, Physician. Dr. c. l.. Hale, Dentist. Dr. Charles Dagget, Dentist. E. F. Medley, Attorney. w. A. Hesse, Mining Engineer. Asa c. Baldwin, Civil Eng, Valdez. Leone Langdon, Piano Lessons. Dr. Robert Simpson, Glasses Fitted.
 REAL ESTATE. Geo. c. Hazelet.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-02-08
TOWN OF CORDOvA.
Municipal Taxes.

Municipal Taxes. Town taxes are now due and pay able to the town treasurer, H. O'Neill, at his office.
 Said taxes will be delinquent on the second Monday in February, 1917. at the hour of 6 o'clock D. m. Upon all unpaid taxes after that time a pen alty of five per cent will ve collected.
 H. I. O'NEILL,
 Town Treasurer.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-04-12
CONCERNING taxpayers.
From the Manson (Ia.) Democrs

From the Manson GAP democrat
Not infrequently you hear someone
sneer that somebody else should have
nothing to say about public improve
ments and affairs because he lis not a
taxpayer.' Nothing could be farther
from the truth. A man does not have to
hold property to be a taxpayer. Every
man. woman and child who works and
earns is a taxpayer. h loafer who owns
nothing and does not work Is not a tax
payer, neither is the savage, but the man
who earns pays his share Of the taxes 8 $
well as the man who pays taxes on
es children and keeps her home is as
much OF a xpa as the w vol MI in
property and pays taxes on it. Every cent
that is spent by people who do not own
property. for the necessaries Of life, goes
into the Golfers of people who do Own
property and, out OF the profits OF the
money the man without property spends,
the property owner pays his taxes Never
sheer at a man because his tax receipt
is not as large as yours or because he
has never had a tax receipt. God put him
on th:s earth to do his part and the
chances are that il you stop to inquire
you will discover that he is doing his
part as well as you are, or even better.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-04-12
An Obvious Means.

.E OH1 LIN SAS $3.50 HIIs
There have been Investigations and boy
colts. grand jury indictments and arrests,
lions. and all sorts Of ~explanatioas, foolish
cost Of living. And still the cost of living
keeps on going. higher. and the attempted
enlightenment has done little but confuse
the people.
people are not confused about one thing
they know they can do a great deal them
selves to lessen the burden Of hig food
ing in back yards and 4 vacant aisn s,, lots as has a
small towns people will go back to the old
American habit OF raising chickens and in
who have been dependent for the raising
of their food supplies upon others will by
summer be more Independent of the
grocer, the marketman and the huckster
than ever before.
This may not be pleasant for those who
make the production of food their bust
ness or for the middlemen who stand be-
tween than and the customers, but it is
the most obvious means of relief for the
people, and a great number of them are
going to make it.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-04-12
The Msltina Pot.

There is trouble In Mexico.
an elderly spinster because OF Kindness
ri, Ihs rs csSssy F5ss =, vse4 r gs.s e e CHI,
beef.
th Tae sef e asyy = 9o1 Z p waai asnsst Psl'i for
sssa ! 5000 and said he spent y TO
sentenced to four days in jail for printing
g statement that George Washington was
A. misery recluse in New York who died
OF burns while trying 70 perfect an oil
and-wateg stove, slept S IN m 2 packing 0ox
eaEf the en' Unftea 81 States ties d daping ISIS. 49,
Appleton, wis, high school has adopted
a 2-month-old baby AZ q live subject to
w ehiey VIII Msl n their Medsao saws there IS
in New York an idle army of slab-sided
round-shoGidered. fishy-eyed men open TO
any crime, that sponge on their mothers
and sisters.
A Newark. N. y, policeman and two
fellow keepers Ct the peni lten I'd W ths
Chicago chief OF police on the charge OF
A globe-trotter who, since he left Paris
worn out 300 pairs OF shoes, was arrested
in New York because his dog was not
A prominent physician told the New
York Academy Of Medicine recently that
"one or two members of every large fam
! lily are inefficient and need help to get
along in the world"
S~uffragists posted sentinels around the
| White House to make it impossible for
the president to enter or leave without
! meeting someone bearing. 8 suffrage de-
vice. He passed them, u~nrecognized, but
| the next day during THE cold snap, he in
| vited them in to warm their feet.
Chicago secret service agents conhscat-
ed a Turkish towel four feet long. dis
played In a store, because it was woven
in Imitation of q IS bill and therefore was
| a .counterfeit.n 1900
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-04-12
Old Looks !?
(BY DIR. Z. III. sMITH)

Persons suffering from too much uric
acid In the system frequently look older
than they should. They age faster and
the appearance Of gray hair or bald
head in early years is, indeed, often a
sign OF uric acid. The face appears
lean and haggard, lines and wrinkles
appearing in young men or women.
The best way to combat this prema-
ture age and the obstruction to the
arteries and faulty circulation is OF the
simplest: Drink copiously of pure water
between meals. This will not make
you fat, as 1t is only the water taken
with the meals that fattens. Obtain at
any drug store a package Of Anuric,
double strength, which Is to be taken
before meals, in order to expel the uric
acid from the system. The painful eff
fects of backache, lumbago, rheuma-
tism, govt, due to uric acid in the blood
should quickly disappear after treat
ment with Anuric.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-04-12
Rats and Fires.

IN lrLEN F
At q time when everyone is COM
planning Of the high cost Of living it
might be well to see IL we cannot elm
mate two great sources of waste-hres
and rats.
Most fires are needless. ALI rats
are so. Some years ago a study of the
rat problem in Philadelphia arrived at
the conclusion that the rodents of that
city ate more than a million dollars
worth of food each year. At that rate,
the disgusting creatures can hardly
cost less than $1OO.OOO,O00 per year
to the whole country. This is a pref
ty high price to pay for the compan-
ionship of impish pests which, besides
their other bad habits. undermine
floors and carry the most dreaded of
all diseases, bubonic plague.
Yet fires Ire more expensive than
rats. In 1915-the last year for which
figures are at hand-the American
people paid out in premiums for fire
insurance $419,361,346 OF this vast
sum at least three-fourths could be
saved by reducing our fire record to
the rate prevailing in England, France
or Germany; and even in our time and
nation $500, 100000 per year is a saw
ing worth noting, and n which
would have a p%erceptible effect on thu
cost of living.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-04-12
SIOUX CITY PTc. Co, NO. 1s..isizs
A Marvellous Herbal Tonic for Wonea

Council BUNS, IoWa.yWhen va
going through middle life / became all
rundown, "a very nervous mud sur
fered with severe pains In my back.
doctor advised me to take Or. Pierce'M
Favorite Prescription, which I did, and
1t brought me through Ia strong
healthy condition. I have always used
the Pleasant Pellets and found them
to be a splendid regulator OF the STONE
ach, liver and bowels. MRS, NARY
MORGAN, 1856 10th Ave. saEas|
DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are tho
original little Liver Pills. These hnya1
~sugar-coated,i anti-bilious granulesl
the smallest and easiest to take. Made
up Of May apple. the dried juice OF the
leaves OF aloe and the root OF jalap.
Almost every drug store In this country
sells these vegetable pellets as well 40
|-Ior. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and
Golden Medical Discovery. R not Oh.
tainable send 25 cents to DR.. v. N.
Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. and he will mall
a package of the Pellets.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-04-12
Gruesome German Advertisements.

Paris-The Journal says that the tech
meal paper, the Chemicher zeitung, pub
lished on November II, 1916. the following
advertisement: 1.-The Eckbolsheim Their
mo-chemical company. Strasburg.. On
account of the departure OF our manager,
we require an engineer, free from military
commercially, our factory for the destruc-
ton OF dead bodies" b name Of the
nature of the work carried on in this
thermo-chemical factory, which compris-
es the chemica treatment and utilization
Oh dead bodies.
The statement in the Lausanne Gazette
made by the American consul who left
Germany at the same time as Mr.. Gerard
fully confirms this. The enerny is reduced
to extremities in order to obtain explo-
giyeS.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-04-12
Victim Of the Law.

Now, my lad" said the severe mag
istrate, have you anything to say for
yourself-any excuse to offer for such
early %depravity. Fourteen years old
and caught picking pockets in the
street. What started you on this road
to crime?"
'You did, mister
II did? What do you mean, boy?"
well, mister, IL you 'adn't given my
old dad six months / wouldn't have
had to start life SO early to keep the
home going"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-04-12

which brought me out of it all right, so
am now well and do all my homework,
besides working in my garden. Several
OF my neighbors have got well by talk
ing Lydia p: Pinkham'sVegetable Com
pound Mrs. VIOLA F1N1CAL, Wagon
or, Okla.
Such warning symptoms as sense of
s~uffocation, hotfashes, headaches, back
aches, dread OF impending evil. timidity,
sounds in the ears, palpitation of the
heart, sparks before the eyes, irregu-
weakness and dizziness shout. be Needed
by middle-aged women. LYDIA e. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound has carried
many women safely through the crisis.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-04-12
pubic Duty to the German.Amsricsn..

IPIouh ~ HiSh6o Iool. "l-AF
Mr.. Horace L. Brand, editor of the ILL.,
nois stats Zeitung, speaks in almost ex-
act words which the Post has been using
when he says in his newspaper today:
"Americans not OF Teutonic ancestry
have a patriotic duty to perform toward
those fellow citizens who are of that mi
grafton.
THAT duty consists Of showing their
friendship for these. whose hearts are
wrung by a war with Germany; to pardon
with kindly forbearance the ~unguarded
but otherwise INDEPENDENTLY unfortunate
remarks that q German-Amertcan might
be. guilty Of: to help to erase the fear
among German-Americans that spies sur
round them, ever ready to misinterpret
innocent acts or words; to aid in increas-
ing the love for and attachment to the
United States on the part Of citizens Of
possible. to bring back peace and content
ment to the German-American element"
Americans. who can feel any proper
realization Of the tragic choice that may
soon face their fellow citizens of Ger
man blood, must act in accordance with
the plea of Mr.. Brand. It is an American
plea. because 1t Is for the good of Ameri-
ca. So vital is It that America must pre-
pare to enforce it by the strength of the
common government, should the go.d
sense of the people be insufficient for iB
voluntary observance.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-04-12
BILIOUS, HEADACHl
SICK 'CAsCARETS'
Gently cleanse your liver and
sluggish bowels while
you sleep.
Get 4 l0-cent box.

Sick headache. biliousness, dixsi-
ness, coated tongue, foul taste and foul
breath-always trace them 70 torpid
liver; delayed, fermenting food IN the
bowels or sour. gassy stomach.
Poisonous matter clogged in the In
testines, instead Of being cast out
of the system is re-absorbed into the
blood. When this poison reaches the
delicate brain tissue 1t causes con
gestion and that dull, throbbing. sick
ening headache.
Cascarets Immediately cleanse the
stomach, remove the sour, undigested
food and foul gases. take the excess
bile from the liver and carry out all
the constipated waste matter and
poisons in the bowels.
A Cascaret tonight will surely
s~traighten you out by morning. They
work while you sleep-a 10-cent box
from your druggist means your head
clear, stomach sweet and your liver
and bowels regular for months. Adv.