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Gilpin observer., 1920-01-15
FOREIGN

Jan 18th was fixed as the date for
the election of president of the
French republic by the French cabinet
Russla's war losses in killed and
wounded aggregated 35,O00,OO0, accord
ing to statistics of the Kolchak gov
ernment.
A German sportsman has bought the
yacht owned by former Emperor Will
liam Of Germany, paying 2,OO0,OO0
marks for the craft, it is learned at
Zurich.
The United States, because of it's
failure to ratify the peace treaty, will
not be represented on the tribunal of
five allied powers to try the former
kaiser, 1t has been learned in Paris.
The capture of 25,4OO prisoners is
claimed in an official statement is
sued by the soviet government at Mos
COW, giving details of the results of
Bolshevist operations on the southern
front between Dec. 81 and Jan. 8.
The revolutionary movement in Bull
garia is spreading among peasants
and working men, according to Bel
grade advices received Mt Geneva.
King Boris and the royal family are
said to be secluded in the palace,
which is under heavy guard.
Whether the League of Nations is
to be the real thing or an impOSture
depends upon the attitude of the peo-
Piles, and not least the British people,
in the opinion of Lord Robert Cecil,
who is chairman of the executive
committee of the League of Nations
Union.
The Dutch aviator and inventor,
Fokker, who gave his services to Ger
many during the whole of the war, Is
now constructing II new machine capa-
machine will weight 100000 kilOs,
will have six motors and make speed
of 100 kilometers per hour.
The French steamer Malte, from
Havre and VigO, with passengers and
cargo for Buenos Aires and Rio
Janeiro, arrived at Rio Janero with
five passengers dead, seven danger
ously i'll and a large number of others
suffering from an attack of Influenza,
which broke out in violent form on
the boat.
Thirty million men, women and chill
dren have died in Russia from vio-
lence, famine and disease during the
last three years. according to state
ment made by Princess Cantacuzene-
Speransky, granddaughter of Ulysses
S. Grant, in an appeal in behalf of the
Aerlcan central committee for Rus
sian relief The tremendous death
toll was exclusive, she said, of 5,O0O,-
600 men who had been killed in the
war.
Gilpin observer., 1920-01-15
Ca.h Grain in Chicnx..

Chicago.-Corn--No. 3 mixed, S1,l00
1.4sh; No. 3 yellow. $1.47h i.51.
oats-No. 2 white. S6A @s5hc: No
2 white. sSh 0s5kc.
Rye-No. 2. s1.s2Q1.s3M.
Barley-$1.480 1.67.
Clover Seed-S49.00052.00
Pork-Nominal.
Lard-S24.10.
Ribs-t19.00 a 1000.
Gilpin observer., 1920-01-15

Colorado has Il national forests
with total acreage Of over 13,OOO,.
600 acres.
Gilpin observer., 1920-01-15

1t is surprisingly how slow a watch
can run In church.
Gilpin observer., 1920-01-15

A stack of hay Is a whole lot safer
property than stack Of chips.
Gilpin observer., 1920-01-15

Brains without energy will never
overtake prosperity.
Gilpin observer., 1920-01-15
Evadlno the Iaaue.

Shells 1t true that liquor will con-
tinue to be made surreptitiouslyf
He-My dear, that's all moonshine.
Gilpin observer., 1920-01-15
Encouraolno.

Encouraging.
"Shall settle the bill now, doctorf
mot necessary. can arrange with
your widow"
Gilpin observer., 1920-01-15
GENERAL

The Oregon Legislature, in special
session at Salem, ratified the amend
ment to the federal constitution grant
ing suffrage to women.
Jack Britton, weterweight champion
of America, will accompany Promoter
Cochrane to England in order to ac-
cept So, offer to box the winner
of the Kid, Lewis-Johnny Basham
match.
Reduction of fine silver in Canadian
currency to 800 parts with 200 parts
alloy by government order has been
announced in Ottawa, Ont. The for
mer. standard was 925 fine silver and
75 alloy.
Ten billion dollars is needed to keep
Europe from anarchy and save the
world from Bolshevism, Sir George
Paish. British financial expert, told 700
members of the Pennsylvania Bankers
Association at Philadelphia.
Brooklyn census officials announced
that the population of the borough ex-
ceeds 2,250,0O0. Their estimate is
based on the census now being taken
and which is nearly completed The
state census in 1915 showed 1,S25, ,534.
Rembrandt's portrait of Magdalena
Van Loo, wife of his son, Titus, con-
sidered by many art experts his great
est work, has been bought for $780,
600 by Frank Wood of Toronto The
masterpiece is now on exhibition in
Toronto
A threatened strike of teachers in
New York public schools was averted
when the board of aldermen was au-
thorized to issue revenue bonds to the
amount of S620,000 in order to pay
teachers salaries for December.
Final plans for the introduction of
n bill at the coming session of the New
Jersey Legislature authorizing the sale
and manufacture within the state of
beers and wine We're made in confer
| ence between Governor-elect Edwards
and n number of Democratic state
leaders. After the conference 1t was
announced that bill had been decided
upon authorizing beers and wine con-
| taining up to 8 per cent alcohol.
Marrying persons and justices look
for n prosperous new year following
advice by Attorney General ]. J.
Blaine that 10000 Wisconsin couples
should be remarked. Blaines advices
followed n ruling in Illinois that mar.
rlages contracted in that state by per-
sons desiring to avoid the laws in
their own states are invalid. Wiscon-
sins marriage laws are strict and law
yers said half the Milwaukee couples
married In the last two years took
| their VOWS in Illinois.
Mrs Mary Elizabeth Payne, SO years
old, first cousin of Abrahap Lincoln.
was buried in Ogden, Utah. She died
Of henrt trouble. Mrs. Payne, who was
n daughter of William Hall, was born
In Louisville, Ky. Her features bore
striking resemblance to those of Abra-
ham Lincoln.
Thirtyfive aliens ordered deported
from Detroit were sent to Ellis Island.
A thousand friends and sympathizers
gave the deportees II noisy scndoff ut
Gilpin observer., 1920-01-15
But You Must Drive It Out oi
Your Blood.

IS dHHoyHX enough
when it chokes up your nostrils
and air passages. causing difficult
breathing and other discomforts.
Real danger comes when it reaches
down into your lungs.
This is why you should at once
realize the Importance of the prop
er treatment, and lose no time ex-
perimenting with worthless RENE.
Gilpin observer., 1920-01-15

Green SRIted uOrsehldcs.
Green hides &c per Id. less than
cured.
Part cured hides 1c per lb. less than
cured.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-12-16
The Public Be Damned Policy

It was the public be-damned policy of the railroads that
drought the railway system of the United States to disaster
made railroads dependent government subsidies
for operation with federal regulation actuay and public
ownership possibility.
It was the public be-damned policy of the liquor interests
that abolished the saloon the brewery the winery and the
stery brought about the enactment of the prohibition
amendment and buried the entire industry in the ruins OF its
Collapse
was the pubcbedamned policy of the beef trust that
brought about supervision forced the segrega
on it's allied interests and places in jeopardy OF seizure
y the government at the demand OF exploited and eX
Asperated people, with pending for its control
is the public damned policy OF the coal trust that
has resulted in the introduction OF drastic legislation for It's
control to end it's unusfabe profteeng with the threat
naturalization of mines Perhaps no single combine has
caused as much suffering and human misery that COM
posed of the coal barons.
Yet these huge combinations of greed to learn
the railroads. experience of the beef trust the agitation
against the coal trust continue by their profiteeng
insolence and arrogance the public policy that
spells shipwreck for buccaneers of industry.
Here the steel trust importing the rffraf of Europe
to work it's 12hour shifts under hygenc conditions not
content with taking all the toll the traffic will bear but
actively sponsoring nationwide effort to destroy labor
unonsm the nation by refusing to sell steel products to
contractors employing union labor thereby precptag IN
dusa turmoil and class warfare to demoraze the nation
Americas industrial auocracy seems to be deliberately
courng the fate has overwhelmed political autocracy
the old world and of the industrial autocrats OF the
new world and bndy continues its ruthless pubc-be-
damned policies The trusts having substituted public
olotation for public service inviting their own
destruction.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-12-16
The Tin Dipper

So many wagons passed alon,
The road that ran by the mil
dam that Paddy Muskrat paid lit
tie attention to them. But one day
when he had wandered over neal
the fence by the roadside he hat
a great fright.
| A big covered cart came joltine
along, making the most terrible
noise Paddy had ever heard. Il
was hung all over with queerly
shaped things, which gave forth
p deafening din as they rsttled
and clattered and tangled and
dangled
Paddy Muskrat ran toward the
mill pond. He was so scared that
he forgot to slap the water with
his tail, to warn his friends to
! run and hide.
He was worried about his wife
But he found her at home. So
they both stayed there for a long
time and never went outside their
house again until it was quite
dark.
Then Paddy said he was going
to call on Mr.. Turtle and ask him
about that notwithstanding
wagon.
Hes lived here so many years
that he may know what it is said
Paddy.
For once Mr.. Turtle was puzz-
led.
1T wasn't a moving machine,
was 2" he inquired.
But Paddy said he knew
moving when he saw one
and it couldn't have been that.
Then I'd say it was a treshing-
machine said Mr.. Turtle.
But Paddy Muskrat had seen
threshing- machines. And he knew
it couldn't have been one of those
either.
Mr.. Turtle thought and thought
And finally he said:
There are SO many new-fang1ed
nowadays that it's hard
u say just what you saw. It's
Just possible that it was steam.
boat"
1--WE heard Of steamboats,"
Paddy Muskrat remarked. But
the thing that passed here to-day
went ION land. And steamboats,,
they say, go in the water"
Maybe they do" said Mr.. Turf
lie. But perhaRs this one had
'un away, Did you hear it
?"
Paddy said that he hadn't heard
t whistle, but that it seemed all
'eady to screech.
mo doubt that was it." Mr.
Turtle told him. 80 long as If
tays out of our pond, we've moth
ng to worry about But if It
hould come in here, I should
cave at once"
Paddy Muskrat felt less uneasy,
.fter his talk with Mr.. Turtle. ,
'ut not long afterward he heard
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-12-16
The Best Christmas Gifts

In sending Christmas gifts do not overlook local products
No appropriate presents exist to send friends nearby
or at distance and that would be more enjoyed
Who would not be delighted to receive box OF our fancy
apples natures most perfect product brngn ghe fragrance
Of the orchard and conurng pleasant memories OF golden
days?
Who would not be still happier to receive the sparkling
juice of these delicious apples bottled most aurngy
drink fit for the gods?
And who does not crave that cup of brimming June
crushed from the perfumed oganberry whose delicious
flavor satisfies the taste and glorious color charms the ey
And what family is too lofty too owy to enjoy pack
age Oregon prune king of dried fruits and most luscious
product of the orchard?
Then there the superfne jams and eies from oregon
fruit lands that constitute ornament to table and an
appeal to the most jaded appetite.
sensible gifts these and similar local products
excellence has made Salem famous gifts that are SUIT
able for any and sought for the country over
gifts that anyone would appreciate apd which will win the
gratitude of the recipient Moreover their presentation will
only advertise the valley that produces them but Will
stimulate the demand for them thus helping create
prosperity.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-12-16

some news that set him to worry
ing again. Benjamin Bat told hin
that the strange wagon was spend
barnyard.
II flew right into it, befor
saw it," Benjamin Bat said
And | nearly got caught in
trap that hung on one side of it,
Paddy Muskrat began to shiver
He shivered so hard that Ben
jamin Bat sid:
I'm afraid you have ehill-and-
fever. That's what you get by
living in this damp mill-pond.
over and live where / do, high
up under the roof of Farmer
Green's barn. It's perfectly dry
there"
Paddy Muskrat said he would
think about it. And when he
went home to go to bed he spoke
to his wife about the matter.
But Mrs. Paddy wouldn't think
Of such thing.
II like this house too we'll TO
There's just one thing that need
to make me perfectly contented
here"
whats that?" Paddy inquired.
IA new tin dipper!" said Mrs.
Paddy.
"Goodness!' he exclaimed.
You might just as well ask for
piano. Where do you suppose
can get a new tin dipper?"
you're a man." said Mrs. Pad
dy, And you ought to know"
When she said that, Paddy Mus
krat knew that there would be no
peace for him until he gave his
wife what she wanted. He could
hardly sleep from worrying about
that dipper. And the next day it
worried him SO much that he for
got all about the fright he had
had the day before. Paddy roam
ed far and wide, looking for a |
dipper, and asking everybody if /
AAS iAeeV oSCIl OilC eiily WIctGs
He was crossing the road some |
distance from home when all at |
once he heard that terrible jang-
ling and changing again. And he
jumped out of the way in hurry.
But in his haste he made "a mis-
take Instead of jumping toward
The brook, he jumped away from
I. And there he was, unable to
swing away!
Paddy Muskrat crouched behind
he fence while the terrible wagon
cnssed him. After a while he
oeeped between the fence rails to
see if it was safe to cross the road.
And there, right in the middle Of
he road, what should he see but
new tin dipper!
He hurried out from his binding
place, snatched up the dipper, and
ook it home to his wife.
That good lady was greatly
pleased. And she wanted to know
where Paddy found the dipper.
He told her. But how it came
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-12-16

As old Omar would phrase
it, Russia has divorced old Ba-
ron Wrangel from its bed and
taken the god of wine to
spouse instead.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-12-16

7 TfHdn't take much psa
L get Chesterfelds gold
self-starters. That blens
Turkish h and Domestic
makes friends by the milf
other thing-yOu don't q
terfleld smoker shifting
he's in "high" all the il
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-12-16

The present styles simplify
the matter of determining
Just how much will be requir-
ed to fill the Christmas stock
ings.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-12-16

Thirty hunters, working under
the predatory animal division of
the United States biological survey,
disposed last month of 281 preda-
tory animals in Oregon and Wesh-
ington
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-12-16

in temperament to pay any atten-
ton to sentiment of that sort.
don't desire it; 1 don't miss i; it
simply is not an item in the list
of things that interest me. But of
all things in the world, I do adore
friendship.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-12-16
THURSDAY ns,sa,5.,

Then len. she said.
this ! i ras ,ps5 s.,, use !. i d
head aG' ~ss. 1Ia NJ. ! rpui.
Crows ezplanaf,.,lh " hsas
clareo That 4m,,lID aiDpsr.' /,
ene Steamboat isss isss y
Yesterday uia' "
a. And as for paa,,.
didn't know quite saas Y.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-12-16

TO be lying in the road, Pa5d-,
was quite unable to explain T.
was old Mr.. Crow who mada ~
mystery clear at last. e
Il understand" he said ~.
q tin-peddler spent the night ~
Farmer Green's house. He nnas
nave lost the dipper off his wapon
And since it belongs to him :.
course you'll have to give it bacl,
to him" oack
mrs. Paddy looked disappointed.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-12-16


believe it. read and re-read your
flast three letters-such dear, odd,
whimsical letters!-so wonderful
ly written, so full of beauty and
of poetry.
They do almost sound like love
letters-or at least as I imagine
love- letters are written. But
they can't be- How can they he >
And first of all, even if YOU
meant them that way, 1 don't
know what to think. I've never
been in love. I know how I feel
about you-have always felt. You
know, too.
But you never gave me any
reason to think-and I newer
dreamed of thinking anvtbing
like that when you were here. It
never occurred to me. It would
not occur to me now except
Tor your very beautiful letter-so
unlike you--so strangely sad. so
whimsical, so skillful in wondor-
ful phrases that they're like those
vague prose poems you sent me
which hint enough to awaken yon-
imagination and set you aflame
with curiosity.
But you can't mean that you're
IN love with me. should be too
astonlshed. Besides, | shouldn't
Know what to do about it. Tt
wouldn't seem real. I never have
thought of you in such a wav
What makes a girl fall in love
DO you know? Could she fall in
love with a man through his lot.
ters because they are so beautiful
ana sad and elusive, so full of
charm and mystery? Tn in love
"lth them. But, Jim, don't
kno" what to think about Won,
"a have to see you again. first
anyway. You are sufh a dear
BOY! l can't seem to think If
YOU that way You know it's diff
.erent kind of love, ours. All ri,
1an think about it is the tremen-
tous surprise-if it's true.
But l don't believe 1t is. yo,
ire lonely; you miss dad-mise /,
ne, perhaps. I think you do miss
ne for the first time in vour life
ou see, I have rather a clear
nina and memory. and cant
lelp remembering that when you |
we're here you certainly could NOT
lave felt that toward me; so how !
AN you now? I did bore vo,,
ometimes.
Anyway, I adore you wita, all a
ieart' as you know. My affection
lagnt changed one bit since I r
vas tiny girl and came into youri
DOM THAT day and saw you down t
n the floor unpacking your suit i
ase. | adored you instantly. T q
ave not changed. Girls don't
hange. ,
mother letter from her some n
1onths later: +,
You're such a funny boy-iustI h
boy, still, while in these six
lonths I've overtaken and passed P
ou In years. You won't believe fl
; but L have. Maturity has over W
'ken me. I am really real II
oman.
Why are your letters vaguely re- le
roachful? Have done any. p,
ling?Were you annoyed when w
'ked you whether you meant me
take them as love lettersq You e.
ldnt write for month after re
lat.1 Did I scare you? You are
lnny!
l 60 really think you are in love !
mot with me, Jim-not with anv st
~ other particular girI-but lust in
love with love. Writers and s,,
fists and poets are inclined to ;.
at sort of thing, fancy. -
That's what worries me about;
am not inclined that Sway; l af
mt seem to be artistic enough Bl
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-12-16

tlGs NSppyllSAlbSo A0Ao W
But now, in his letters, more
and more this romantic and airy
fabric took shape. Being young,
and for the first time in his life
thrown upon his own resources
and, moreover feeling for the first
time the pleasures OF WELDING AZ,
eloquent, delicate and capricious
pen to voice indefinable aspira-
tions. he began to lose himself in
romantic subtleties, evoking drama
out of nothing, developing it by
implication and constructing it
with pensive and capricious hu-
mour limiting of dreamy melar-
choly.
Until the Stephanie quest Of his
had become tc him
the fair, and cXquisiteIv .Hdifter-
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-12-16
Loganbeny
Laughs
BY Robert QuilIen.

by RoDeFt QuIllen,
Frequently a man is all il
when he is found out.
4 II *#
How to be a philanthropist
First skin your public.
+ 4 4 i
Still, the ouija board is nc
more erratic than the Ship
ping board.
Il Il u y
A man is old when he devel-
ops the habit of scolding about
everything.
# Il II
One who would succeed in
the manufacture of all-wool
clothes must be a good mixer.
Il ##
And there are more things
in Vienna sausage than are
dreamed of in your philoso-
ply.
Those who bewail the pass
ing of the spirit of '76 haven't
been watching Ireland lately.
Just why is it righteous to
invest in blue sky futures and
wicked to invest in a stack of
poker chips.
49,
Why should a man sigh for
license to steal when there are
still openings in the building
game?
At about the age when a
girl is most fond of sour pick
les, a boy begins to think he
understands women.
# i ##
The closing of the gridiron
season doesn't Interfere with
the functioning of the great
American waffle iron.
- #%#
One who is full of an ambi-
tion to get something for
nothing usually ends by get
ting free board and clothes.
Il + Il
The quality of their head
work leads to the reflection
that the problem is a problem
in solid geometry.
IS +
The public sees only a mans
good luck, and takes no
of the years of sweating that
paved the way for it.
#%&*
We all went up together,
and rest assured the first
tumble will find us all COM
ing down together.
#**% II
The Frenchman who hanged
himself because his clothes
didn't fit achieved his ambi-
ton. The moose fit all right.
The reprisals in Ireland
each us that a patriot is will :
ng to sacrifice his last match
IN the altar of patriotism.
$*$%
The present styles simplify
he matter of determining
ust how much will be requir-
d to fill the Christmas stock
ngs.
As old Omar would phrase
4, Russia has divorced old Ba-
N Wrangel from its bed and
ken the god of wine to
'ouse instead.
ssss
When a politician says the
untry is going to the doogs
means to express his fear
?. - .-..os. 70 tho III
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-12-16


Robert w. Chambers)
ent little renaissance figure of his
fancy; and he, somehow or either,
her victim. And the n1nre eXqui-
site and Indifferent he created
her, the more she fascinated him,
until he completely hypnotized
himself with his own cleverly
finished product.
A letter from her woke him up
more or less. jolting him in his
trance so that the jingle and dis
sonance of the real world filled,
for a moment, his enchanted ears.
Dear jim;
Your letters perpleX me more
and more, and don't know at all
how to take them. Do you mean
you are in love with me? l can't
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-12-16

By of "Barbarans" 'The Dark STAR"
copyrighted 1913 by Robert W, Chambers)
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-12-16

When a politician says the
country is going to the doogs
he means to express his fear
that it is going over to the
opposition.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-07-31
No. l Continued From
Page One

only an early edition.
Lavish decorations blazed through
out the city, and flags and banners
being mingled with Autographs of
Governor Cox although the likeness
of Senator Harding, his Republican
opponent also beamed on the festivi-
ties.
Daylight and night fireworks were
other features of today's program
with band concerts in several places.
The Streets were festooned with cleo
trio lights for evening illumination,
the celebration was the only break
scheduled today in the governors
preparation of his speech of accep-
lance, which was interrupted briefly
yesterday by a visit with Senator
Walsh of Massachusetts, who had been
prominent in Democratic senator's ad-
vocacy of reservations to the League
of Nations. The subject, however was
not discussed with the governor, ac-
cording to Senator Walsh who prom
ised his unreserved aid in the Cox
campaign.