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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-11
Shippings Lead the Trading.

Shippings continued to lead the
active dealings of the morning.
American International. Atlantic Gulf.
Marine common and Pacific Mail be-
ing the foremost features. at gains of
to points.
Coppers, notably Utah, also display
ed further strength on the higher
prices quoted for the metal: and
equipments. including several of the
inactive issues, were l to points
higher.
Low-priced rails augmented early
gains, but investment transporta-
tions Jagged.
Some of the food shares and Ameri-
can Telephone and United States Rub
Der reacted to 81. points.
Initial rates for call money ranged
from to 7Ik per cent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-11
On the Local Exchange.

On the Local Exchange.
This was bond day on the local
stock exchange. more sales being re-
ported than on any previous session
of the week.
Capital Traction SIS sold at 81.
Washington Railway and Electric
As sold to the extent of $4,000 face
value, in $1,000 lots at 60.
Potomac consolidated SIS were firm
err at 93k. while the general Is
brought SO.
Stock transactions were extremely
light. little Capital Traction sold
at s9A to s9k. few shares of Lans-
ton at 69A and Riggs National Bank
stock changed hands at IS a share.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-11
High-Grade Rails Improve.

Several leaders. including United
States Steel. reacted slightly at noon.
but this was more than balanced by
the further strength of shippings,
coppers and equipments.
High-grade rails. notably Reading
and Southern Pacific. also improved,
with chemical and fertilizer shares.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1919-11-05
Deposits OF Ladd & Bush
Bank Total Over $5,OOO,OOO

The Ladd &c Bush bank of
Salem has passed the $5,000,-
600 mark in deposits, accord
ing a statement by VIII H.
Bennett, superintendent of
, banks, Tuesday.
This record places the Salem
: institution on a par with the
largest banks in the state.
X X X X ;. X X X X X X * X
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1919-11-05
POLITICIANS WATCH
FIRST CONVENTION
Of WOMAN VOTERS

Portland, Ore. Nov. 5.--Women vot-
ers of the state of Oregon are meet
ing here today with Mrs Carrie Chap
man Gait, president of the National
Equal Suffrage association.
Mrs. Gait came here to form an
Oregon branch of the National Lea
que of Women Voters. Her call stated
the purpose of the organization as
the coordination of the activities of
women citizens"
Many Of the Oregon women who
have taken a leading part in feminine
activities in the past, responded to
Mrs. Cats call with considerable re-
luctance, seeing in the "co-ordination
of the activities of women citizens"
Isomething that is limitless in its scope
and political in sound. They are afraid
the real object of the organization is
the formulation of political zone
big union" Of women voters.
So the meeting. which is being held
this afternoon. may be rather lively
affair All the interest isn't on the
inside either. Some Of the political
leaders among them men, on the out
side, are anxfpusly awaiting news Of
what's going on inside.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1919-11-05
CLEANING A COMB

Instead Of washing combs, clean by
brushing and pulling piece of cotton
through the teeth, always changing it
as 1t gets soiled; then rub with clean
cloth.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1919-11-05
IRVINE MAY BE kept
OUT Of PACIFIC FRAY

| The Bearcats indulged in some
healthy scrimmage Tuesday afternoon
which toned the squad up bit with
out making any more cripples. Before
scrimmage, the squad split into two
sections and used fifteen minutes
running signals. Cripples Irvine, To-
| bic, Brown, Thomas were out in uni
form but not in action. Quarterback
Irvine is not likely to be in against
Pacific Saturday, since his Charley
horse" has been paining him ever
since the warwhoop of November l..
Ganzane will probably take the pilot
position. Tobie and Brown are i'm
proving and may get to mix the mus
tard with up. u" Thomas may also
leave the invalid class before that
time. Tackle Ross Miles will not be
in, as the DOC" made another incis-
ion in his infected foot Tuesday.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1919-11-05
Use OF MATCHES BY
GAS meter READERS
TO Be INVESTIGATED

The indiscriminate use Of matches
~ meter readers in the employ of the
Halem Gas company is called to the
attention OF A. G. Barber, state insur-
ance commissioner and fire marshal,
by Fred A. Williams. public service
commissioner. who characterizes the
practice as a menace to the health and
safety of the public. Barber is re-
quested TO investigate the situation in
an effort to put stop to the practice.
Commissioner Williams letter to Bar
her follows:
Believing that your good office is
directly interested in removing and
preveuting any and all practices that
may be hazardous either to the inai-
vidual Or to the general public, we re-
spectfuiiy call your attention to the
fact that. aa we are informed, in In
Gtanes the meter readers of the Salem
Gas company have been using matches
where Light was necessary to read me-
tors In houses in Salem. This occurs
90 us Is dangerous to health and safe
ty Of the public, and IL done with the
knowledge OF its officers Is criminal
and IL without their knowledge It IS
sadIy neglected.
1--WE siucere,y hope that you will EN-
pIoy such means as are at your COM
mand to expel Immediately this iniqui-
tous habit while there is yet no loss Of
uf1 nr erx9erty.o
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1919-11-05
Wife Stays WOMAN
.tWHO ATTEMPTED TO
STEAL HER HUSBAND

Gan Francisco, ROY. 6.--Miss Jear
Kimball. 80. head bookkeeper at the
Palace hotel. was shot dead late yes
terday at the entrance of the hotel
She was killed by Mrs. Julia Mild
red Thurston, 80. Of Sacramento, who
is staying at the Maryland hotel
with her husband.
Mrs. Thurston was arrested imme-
dfately. She declared Miss Kimball
had been trying to steal her husband
for tile past two years.
Mrs Thurston shot twice, chasing
her victim into the hotel entrance.
The second shot took effect in the
right side OF the body.
Mrs. Thurston was taken to the
city prison to be booked on u charge
of murder.
Mrs. Thurston told police officials
her husband had just got out of the
army. She said Miss Kfmball has been
attempting to win his affections for
two years and his release from the
army brought the affair to climax.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1919-11-05
SOME DIFFERENCE

In the British Isles there are 3e3
persons to the square mile, while in
Australia ! " is the average.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1919-11-05
SALEM BOY WRITES OF
VOYAGE over PACIFIC

Private Frank Hettick who enlisted
in the infantry July 4, 1919, and has
been stationed at Fort Mcdowell, An
gel Island, California, since his enlist
ment, sailed October II for Siberia.
Word was received yesterday by his
mother that he had arrived safely at
Honolulu. He was nine days sailing
the distance so far and will be fifteen
more days in competing his trip to ST.
IBERIA.
The young private says he's having
the time of his life and getting fine
eats. He visited the Waikiki beach.
He says tell all the Salem folks he has
all the pineapple he can eat for ten
cents and bananas fifteen cents doz-
en-. He is aboard the transport Thomas.
Private Hettick Is the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. J. s. Hettick of 400 North Seven
teenth street.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1919-11-05
CLEE CLUBS TO STAGE
LIGHT OPERA NUMBER

The Yokahama Maid is the title Of
the light opera to be put on by the
glee clubs of Willamette university
sometime near the Christmas holidays
DIR. John r. Sites announced Tues
day. The opera, the scenes of which
are laid in Japan. will be staged in
the Grand opera house for two eve
nfngs. The mems and women's glee
clubs, assisted by students of the
school of music, will make up the
cast. Dean Sites will direct the mus
ical.
The music for the Yokohama Maid
has been ordered. said DIR. Stes yester-
day. and the cast Of players is being
completed. An orchestra composed OF
townspeople will furnish the accom-
paniment. Director Sites said that he
could not set the exact date for the
opera until he saw how the players
got hold Of their work. Both the
musical rendition and the acting must
be perfect before the opera Is placed
before the public, he asserted.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1919-11-05
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
CONFERENCE CALLED

What IS expected to be the most
influential gathering of clergy and
laymen Of the Episcopal church ever
held in Portland has been called for
next Wednesday, Nov. 18th, by Bish-
op Sumner In Portland. when plans
for conducting the great nation wide
campaign Of the church will be dis
cussed.
Invitations have been sent out by
telegraph to all local leaders of the
campaign.
Bishop Sumner and other Oregon
delegates to the campaign will tell
Of the remarkable general convention
lat Detroit, said to be the most notable
in the history of the church, at which
three days were devoted to the cam
paign.
The Portland session will lay plans
for the great spiritual effort of the
church, which is in no sense money
drive, but by which it is intended
that the church shall take on new
growth, and find herself for the work
in the new era following the war.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1919-11-05
Los Angeles Police Asked
To Discuss Unionization

Los Angeles, CAL, Nov 5.--Repre-
hentntives Of the big cour railroad bro
fherhoods have asked members of the
Los Angeles police department to
meet with them to discuss formation of
= policemens union, 1t was amounted
here today.
A charter for such q union already
has been received from the American
Federation of Labor. according to J. B.
Dale. A. f. Of L. organizer.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1919-11-05
Argentine Faces Strike To
Free Political Prisoners

Buenos Aires, Nov. 5.--(United
Press. WORKERS throughout Argen-
tina are preparing to declare a general
strike IL their demands for liberation
of all social prisoners are refused by
the government, the radical sociaifst
newspaper LaMontana declared today.
The so-called social prisoners in
clud many arrested during the general
strike last January.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1919-11-05

Homesteadeys, already impoverished
by the drought of last season, are said
to be in hard straits. 1t is reported
that many Of them are tearing down
barns, outhouses and fence posts III
their desperate efforts to secure fuel.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1919-11-05
Montana Ranchers Suffer
Severely From Lack OF Coal

Butte, Mont, Nov 5.--Ranchers of
Montana, particularly those in the
palms sections of the state are suffer-
ing extreme privations due to lack or
coal, according to reports brought to
Butte today by travellers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-20

| boots; if yu are are hoamly, hoe yure branes" 4
 Hunting happiness Is a good deal like hunting crows; when yu hain't got yure gun with you, yu kan alwas git a grate deal nearer tew the crows"
 T wonder if thare ever was an olde maid who ever herd on a match that she thought waz suitable.
 '1t aint so much trouble tew git rich, as it is tew tell when we hay got rich.
 ''WhisKee haz done a grate deal for this kuntry, in the way ov penitentiary homes and horses for the poor and suppose, if
 it want for whiskee theze houses would |aktually hay tew shut up'
 There iz one advantage in being poor thare ain't no danger ov mistaking flat tery for praze"
 "If you argy, alwas git beet"
 In manner of speaking, these shrewd little aphorisms show you Josh Billings at work-coat off, sleeves rolled up, ham, mering out concentrated wisdom while the sparks fly. Bit even at play, for example, when discoursng of "Phatt Men, he tucks in lot of Unreasonable observa- ton along with the fun. 'Thare iz only 3 things that belong tew other folks that i ever envy he tells us, and them in vir- tew, flesh and understanding. I sup pose it is possible for a man tew manu- fakter hiz own virtew and improve hiz stock understanding: but; he want kiver hz long, lean boddy ov bones with a soft and pulpy cushion ov flesh that It is fun tew set down on.''
 CONCERNING FAT MEN.
 You hear it said that nobody loves a fat man" Rubbish! Heresy! A wicked doc Urine, destructive of all right thinking Says Josh, T never cum across phat man neatly dressed, with his silk and shining face cut generously out ov warm meat, and gashed with a pair of srnaking lips, az smooth and gently red az the doorway tew a sea shell, and gar nished with a grate pair ov juicy eyes that are forever stopping over with good nature but what I want to call him unkle and kiss him for my ant" Cherup ye Irwin Cobbs and plump Sam Blythes. It is true that jokers will still quote the shocking sentences Roosevelt was our most bellicose President, .Arn't you thinking of Taft?" but Josh Bill ings hastens to defend you. Continuing his laudatory discourse on 'Phatt Men, he remarks, And then their embonpint- SD outspoken so full ov good thngs-is equal to a dinner. for lean devil, like me- to look at even Did you ever kno | a phatt man to commit sewicide? guess l YOU never did; they luv gravy tew well 1 for that Did you ever hear a phatt man being hung? I guess not. They never murder ennything that ain't good tew eat" In Josh's opinion. it must have been a fat Frenchman who expla ined, on | frst vistin~ America. What a peo- pie, Ten thousand different religions and only one gravv''
 By the way of topping off his plea for tphat men" Josh declares triumphantly, 'In konklusion never knu but one phatt schoolmaster, and he want good for enny-
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realistic effects the reproductions are treatd to gas and smoke.
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, thin, only tew slide down bill with the
 bols. That satisfize me that phatt is only another name for virteW."
 I doubt if Josh ever truly loved a , 'skoolmaster." In Lanesborough, Mass,
 where he was born and where I have
 stood beside the rough granite block with Josh Billings on it, that marks his grave, he must have led them a fright ful chase, for during his freshman year the faculty a Hamilton college rusticated him more than once, and when he was on his way back there aboard a canal boat after his first summer vacation, he fell m with a pair of young scamps who had been west as far 'as St. Louis and were
 returning, and, with a fearless farweil to pedag gogues, Josh kicked over the acad-
 emic traces and went along.
 Thus ended his education-formaly, that is Informally, it flourished like green
 bay horse, and he became not only philosopher, but positively without excep-
 tion our most captivating pientist. Where in the learned volumes o! Buffon, Agas-
 sig, Audubon, Darwin aEd Holder will you run upon anything to match his con- tributions to natural history? As Artemus Ward would have replied, "NoWhares-
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coal miner a steamboat captain, and pret ty nearly everything else you choose U name except a writer, he happened one day to be swapping jokes with the eur tor of newspaper in Poughkeepsle. MT, Shaw" said the editor, why don't you write. It's in you. Try You write. and m publish. and, by Jiminy, an astonlsh- ed universe will get up on it's hind legs and cheeri"
 That looked good to Josh. Twenty pieces he wrote, all in nice, polite, satlny English. and out they came, unsisneu' But the universe. instead of getting up on its hind legs and cheering, reglstereu a profound disinclnation to take notlce' and consequently the budding author re- solved on strong measures, which, hap pilv. were not far to seek. Comic spelling and comic signatures were popular III those days-the days, that is Of Ar'efnuS ward and Petroleum V Nasby-and MT Shaw tempted fortune anew by prouuc ing ah essa' on rThe Muel signlns nm self Josh Billings. and selling the mas terpjece in Boston for a dollar and a haH' Practically every newspaper in the coull- try reprinted it To say that the universe rot up on it's hind legs and cheered is inside the mark One may more truth f,,llv and at tho sa me time more harmohi- csiIv obser that thenceforward Josn Tad the universe rite by the pane.
 Now. the kirgGom cf hnmor IS "o. taken by siolenee. TEere was more to Josh than funny spelling and a funny signature and his continued success ies proved it. especially his success as iet te
 tnrer. for then the funny spelling yanish- ed and if people, had fancied Josh Billings a rawkish. illiterate. old party the nal. who confronted them on the platform was distinguished-look persohaSe' with bearded chin, flowing locks, anu the air of fine New England oreealIis Father a jolt it must have been, iate9 or to read his answer to corresponoeht'
 ..Yee ask m how lik the lekturing oizZ- ness and what success have met with' and what iz the trn nature ov the lectur hay hin dispensing?' Briefly thus reply: Two years ago I tined the oahu os lekturing marters and, as near as hah rekolect now, I kant tell.
 Mi lektur iz an attempt tew be conich' Mutch ov a humorists success depehos upon the physick ov hiz aujience man who haz the dspepshee fust rate ials under protest. but if hiz dinner rluS easy YOU kan tickle him with skoop- shovel. If an aujienee refuse teW oe
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-20
A BROAD HUMORIST

Of this particular style of fun he wrote I enjoy good laff-one that rushes ou' ov a mans soul like the breaking up of a Sunday school. I am called a broad humorist' and I am glad ov it: there IS plenty ov narrow humorists in the coun- try without me" But, while Josh coudl be broad, and now and then coarse, he was philosopher and at times a poet. You will look a long way for a prettier interpretation of childhood than this ex- auisite passage from his "essa" on 'Hartes':
 Sum hartes is trumps. The little child's $ harte has a host ov shadowy things in It fairy ghostesses in the distance. with out much form in the foreground, tops and marbles, rag dolls. and sweet whls- sels christmas, with the little old esquire in his tights, and frisky span. loaded with wares for the baby market: dreams with out enny meaning. little jelosys. little hopes and curious fears-strange invoice but life's capital. in which sleep giants and pigmys happiness and misery.
 'Tffe's capital which can't be increase sed but which may aul he lost.
 The little child's harte! look down in to it. it is like the vault ov wild-flower' apparently tenantless but ful lov little secrets-secrets unknown tew itself-se- crets worth knowing-life' capital"
 Correct the spelling and the bad gram mar. and nothing Eugene Field or Whit comb Riley ever wrote about children has more rcetry in it than this charm ing "essa" You are frequently tempted to correct Josh. Sometimes the printers did, in which case Josh flew out of one conniption fit into another with appalling speed and vivacity. For he used to run off his ''essas'' in orthodox English, first, and then carefully, patiently. slew round the spelling'' until he obtained the de- sired effect There are folks who wish he hadn't. Fashions change more quick lv in humor than in most other things. and you hear people roast Josh Billings for exercising his rite tew spell a word inc way it is pronounced" and talk as if
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-20

kant tell whether dogs are born with bob-ta on them or whether they ain |, but I am inclined to think them am, be- kause 1 never see enny dogs tails lay ing around loose, without enny dogs to them.
 Frankly this is the way I like my science served. Even in his dealings with the vegetable kingdom, where his genius was equally at home, Josh would avoid be- ing too cock-sure. In his monograph on the 'Izokernut," for example, he says, "The only real good thing about this -ur- rin nut is it's skull, they kan be cut in and made into drinking kups, and !. must konfess, they do look kind when laid on a clean flat stun in the side ov eadow spring, but I kant drink out ov them myself, without thinking what a kapital thing they would be to build a young darkey to-" yet he instant lv adds, But this iz only phoolish
 noshun ov mine, and probably it couldn be did enny how.
 It was for their contributions to science, and more especially to applied science, that his "Aulminnax' owed much of their unbounded popularity. Every little way
 you come upon something instructive such pearls, of wisdom as, Few skin a Eel, turn him inside out, and remove the meat with ack-plane, 'Tew learn your offspring to steal, make them beg hard for all that yu give them Ana here and there Josh reports the progress of invention. Personally and speaking for myself alone, I may say that his para
 graph on the "one-wheeled velosipere
 comes mighty near beating anything else in the works of Josh Billings. Under the caption Patents Issued During lS6s," he presents it thus: April 18th; To Ezra Push, Jun, a patient for one wheeled velosipede. This wise instrument tality haz two handles tew it, and IS i, purswaded by taken hold ov the handles . and walking between them with a shove motion. If it wasn't velosipede, 1t would be an old-fashioner wheelbarrow. s ' On the cover of this remarkable pamph- let YOU would note a sentence in which Josh Billings playfully epitonfzes his claim to greatness. Writes he, ''1n these
 days of tawdry novels, imbecile poetry and florid historys, it iz charming tew take up such a brilliant thing as Josh Bilrings's Farmers Alminax,' whare whare philosophy and sentiment frolik to- gether, and where wit sits in state, with one arm around the waist ov morality (Copyright, 19l9 by the Bell Syndicate. Incl
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nor anywhares else!" In fact, I would rather read Josh for 10 minutes than Darwin for AS consecutive hours, and so, guess, would you.
 JOSH'S NATURAL HISTORY.
 Natural history" says Josh, lis dosg cheap. To open our eyes and think while we are looking is aul the capital neces- sary for the naturalizing bizzness," yet consider the reward! Take for instance this. instructive bit from his chapter on geese. They are most curess about one thing" he writes; they kin haul one legf up into their boddy and stand on luther, aul Gay, and not tutch epnything with their hands l take notis, there ain t but durn few men kan dew this" Or ob- serve the fine ultra scientific self-restraint in his remarks on bob-tailed dogs: 'I
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your eye down these pithigrams selected at random from Josh on Ice:
 T never bet enny stamps on the man who iz always telling what he would have did if he had bin thare: l have noticed that this kind never gifts thare."
 It aint best tu swop with yure r. lashuns, unless yu kan afford tev giv them the butt end ov the trade"
 If .yu are handsum, cultivate yur'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-20

The municipality of Portland, Ore. will engage in the construction of 5000 houses at once as means of absorbing the surplus labor and of utilizing some of the immense lumber supply of that state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-20

feel like reading the most enthusiastic article ever published about Josh, you will find it in bound volume of the Metho- dist Review.
 HUMOR MUST HAVE TRUTH.
 'Humor must hay sum truth in it, said Josh Billings, and a good deal don hurt it. Sound gospel. that! Just to see how faithfully he lived up to it, run
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bad spelling were his sole claim to inn mortality They forget that he could be as wise in substance as he was cheerfully idiotic in form. A famous preacher once owned up to getting seed thoughts for sermons from Josh, while Dr. Buckley has declared in the Christian Advocate that many of his sayings-moral. social, philo- sophical-were as original as anything in Shakespeare And if some day you should
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-20
NO. 11-JOSH BILLINGS

HOLD, quoth Josu Billings. that a ma n has as much rite tew spel a word as it IS pronounced. as he has tew pronounce IL the way it ain | spelt." Yet Josh had toddled along con - tentedly enough for forty-five years with out prosecuting the alphabet. and thls
 is how he began to-
 A restless soul, by turns an auctioneer, a real-estate agent, a