TWO DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL, 8ALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1903. On December 28 we shall commence taking our annual inventory We have lots of stock on hand that we do not want to Si inventory Rather close it out and count the money. We never :arry over goods from one season to another, when Low 1 J Prices Cut Prices Cost Prices or any other kind of prices will sell them. So we will now commence a GREAT INVENTORY SALE t t and continue until that date, Of coutfseyou can stay from this sale, if you want to, but you will lose money if you do, Note a 1 few of our prices. Everything CUT, $10.00 Suits o Overcoats reduced to $ 7.00 J2.50 " " 8.00 J5 " " " JO' $17.50 Stiitsanci Overcoats reduced 20 u 25 " " $12.50 15 16,50 Remember yon have the largest stock in Salem to select from. Don't miss this opportunity. jB TV Sw SLvJHv 257 Commercial Street THE DAILY JOURNAL Borlpps News Association Telegrams. 3 and 6 O'clock Editions. DY HOFER BROTHERS. DaMy One Year) 94.00 In Advance. Dally Three Monthe, 81.00 In Advance. Dally by Carrier, 60 Cents Pr Month. Weekly One Year, 91.00 In Avance. I. I II II i is-- i I I i i I in Hissrastsae JOURNAL 8PECIAL DELIVERY. Ono Week $ 10 One Month 35 Three Months 1.00 At Journal office. At Daue'a Grocery, South Salem. At Bewersox Grocery, Yew Park. Asylum Avenue Grocery Store. Eleotrlc Grocery, East State 8L iiimiii niminnnn- mtn hhiiiiihiiii t-m OREGON COMING EVENT8. Rxocutlvo committee ineotlne of America Mining Congress, Portland, Docemlicr 1. Dalrytnon'r ausoolatlou, Corrallls, Docombor It 16. Poultry and pot etoclc show, Salem, Decetnbor 1T-1. Bpoolnl suasion of Uio legtulature, Balom, Docoiuber 21. National., livestock., contention, Portland. January 11MG. Angora goat shot, Dallas, Janu ary H-15. The Weather. Tonight nml Saturday, cloudy with occasional ralu. s WHAT THE EDITOR EAT8. A lady who has hoard that the mil torlalu on this paper aro generally written aftor the alitor comas to the olllce In the morning wants to know what he eats for that meal. Such tiuostluns give a man a tlrod foellag, hut it sh will be nny hap pier we do not know as wo have any right to refuse the Information. He always eats some fruit fresh strawberries about thrss months In the ysar canned strawberries the rest of the year. He drinks about a pint of coffee made In a tin open bucket, camp style, and net tie I with a little cold water n harmless beverage. On top of that he eats half a doseti griddle cakes buckwheat at this time of the year, ami ordinary wheat flour It's Wonderful Tho antolutt of good you'll receive from a few dosoa of Ho tetter's Stom ach Hitters, oepeolnlly when tho stom ach la disordered or the liver Inact ive, It on row Losa of Appetite, Sour Stomach, Heartburn, Dyspepqla, ln digestion, Chills or Malaria, lie turo to try It. also a oopy of our lllustrat. ed Almanac for 1904 from your drug, gist It U free and contains Instruc tive readlHK matte that Is vroll worth having, HOSTETTER'S STOMACH BITTERS cakes In summer. Of courao, along with this goes tho nocesFnry cream and sugar for coffoo, nml the butter and maple syrup for the cake Ho used to suffer from tho bullet Unit maplo syrup to ho fit to oat had to mine right from the trees In Ohio or Vermont. Hut ho has found that the aitlflclnl ly manufactured innple syrup Is Just as good, and helps tho corn farmors of Illinois to sell their product to tho glucoso factorlos. If tho lady wants to know anything furthor about our habits, wo will bo glad to grant liar an Interview, during olUco hours. BOOKS ARE AN ECONOMY. The boy or girl who becomes fond of good books will grow up to bo an economical citizen. That Is not saying thoy will grow up to he closo or stingy, Ilut ono who Is happy lu the socloty of n good hook U getting hnpplnoss at the least cash outlay. - Tho socloty of HosweU's Johnson, Forsyth's Cicero, Plutarch's Lives or Trovalyan's life of Charles Jamos Fox Is nevor oxpeuslvo. Plonsant and profitable occupation of the mind makos a parson loss of a boro to othoru, less of a nulsanoo to themsolvos. The book-lover Insensibly turns away from other stimulants and Intox icants, and lustlnctivolr bocomo more humane and culturad. The greatest criticism of modern education Is that It does not produco ladles and gentlemen In the hlghost nud broadest sense of the term. One may have education, wealth, and oven social position, and be a church member, and not have the In stincts of a lady or gentleman. Good books make Indies and gentle men qf young people. tho most valuable members of tho council. John Iinyne Is a good lawyer, and n good business man, and a man of clean, moral purposes In his public and private life. Ho was a member of tho commis sion who drow the now chnrtor, and wns public-spirited hoyond tho control of influences that fought tho charter. Those samo Influences that fought tho chartor wore dictating tho man ngomont of tho Citizens' campaign, and tholr success would hnvo boon claimed as a victory against CJroator Salem. So far as Mr. Dayno's election has any political significance it is a vic tory for tho progrosslvo olomonts of tho city, and nn ondorsomont of Qrontcr Snlem. How's ThlaT Wo offer ono hundred dollars re ward for any ' caso of catarrh that cannot bo curod by Hall's Catarrh Curo. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio. Wo, the undersigned, havo known F. J. Cheney for tho lant 15 yearn, and bellovo htm perfectly honorable In all business transactions and finan cially ablo to carry out any obliga tions mtido by tholr firm. WEST ft TIIUAX, Wholesale Drug gists, Toledo, Ohio. WALDINO, KINNAN A MARVIN, Wholosalis Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Hall's Catarrh Curo is takoa intor nally, acting dlroctly upon tho blood and mucous surfacos of tho system. Toatlmoniala asnt froo. Prico 75c per bottle. Sold by all druggist. Hall's Family Pills aro the besL THE HOME- ROLL CALL. Do the father and the boys keep Uie woudbox well filled and plonty of good kindling rnily to light the tires? Is there a comfortable room for the children to attend the long winter evenings, with some good reading, ami not too much tolmocu iiiuikeT lias the horse been given a clean, comfortable place to sleep, ami a few apples or roots every day, when there Is no green feed? The cows that are expected to give milk should not be turned out to aland In u cold wind and rain, without shel ter. Have you examined the poultry house to see that Uu roosts are not alive with vermlu? Look after that It you expect early lariat Uem The dogs aHd Uie rata at this time of the year weed to be fed at least once a day on all the goot, olsoii, warm food thoy will tat. Some things like these aro as Im portant niMH of grace as long prayers ami regular attSHdnncs at church and prayer meeting. ONLY ONE DEMOCRAT, lu the recent olty election the Re publicans elected all their candidates but one. One Democrat was elected on the CIUhus tiqkat. The Journal takes pressure In ear ing that this Detnoorat will be one of Berlolz, the Ungallant. t Mme. Adelalna Patti, at the height of her celebrity, kept an album, in which nil the notnble peoplo of her acquaintance wero expected to write or paint, or sketch, or cgmposo some little telling frngmont. nerlloz had already refused a dozen times to have anything to do with the volume. One ovenlng. however, see ing that ho was In nn unusually gen ial frame of mind she wont up to him, book in hnud, and sugared his request with a bribe. "Master, if you will wrlto one little thing In my album, a line even, I will give you your choice of two rewards. You shall either have a kiss, or you shall have a wonderful pate de fol gras which has Just been sent to me from Toulouse." Uorllos smiled, and was sjhtit far a momeat. Presently he said: "Give me your album." lasuaUy he was provided with writing necessities. Thsa he wrete: "Oportet pato" "What does it meant" asked Mine. Patti. pitaaled. "It means, my child, bring the pate," answered Ilerltox aweotly. Mme. Patti pouted and then fetched the promised pate. Is An-uales. 1 ee0exeaa I JOURNAL X-RAYS seewwooxofeNOu Tho holiday season makes a man sometimes hositato as to whether he will part with his wifo or his pocket book. You can savo a dollar by taking ad vantage of Tho Journal bargain day, and use that dollar to buy somo nice stockings for your wife Street Commissioner Qriswohl has tho thanks of Tho Journal for clean ing away tho mud from tho stroot car Junction, and thus obviating tho con stant necessity of men and women I holding up tholr nether garmonts in navigating from ono car to another. m A solf-clasplng, tlmo-locking pocket book for your wlfo Into which you throw a dime ovory tlrao you' play one at a slot machine will make a good Christmas prasont. , Smoot insists that ho has only ono wlfo, nnd Smoot ought to know. Tho Winchester, Ky., Sontinol boasts of a little girl not yet four yonrs old, Eva Morgonson, who doos half tho milking for tho family. Hora in Orogon, owing to our climate, tho avorago kid, "whon a weok old, doer, all tho milking for tho family. Maybo though, little Eva is half of a pair, and not woanod. Politics 111 Kentucky aro getting down to their natural love!. At tho Inauguration of Governor Beckham, Wednesday, his political enemies turned looso twenty skunks in tho capital square. The nnlamls wora killed, but the evidence' of tholr hav ing been there, wns present, though not visible. V An exchange asks: "Who Is the happiest, tho man who possesses $100,- 000 or tho man who has soven daugh ters?" To which another exchange re plies: "The man with the- seven girls of course. The man with tho manor Is not satisfied, and wants more. Tho man with the seven girls Is satisfied he has enough." North Head CitlMii. A California Jury awards Mrs. Carrie Vernon JS7.S00 or the loss of UK husband, whs was kilted In a rail road awsldetiL It Is a bad ursesdeut, for the married womeu of our slstor fate are llahje to go Into ths train wrecking business. The pronU are tempting. 'I O i People's Party Committee. Morephls, Doc. 11. Tho national cowmittos of the a Mod nsools's par ty Jast night lssaod a rail for a moot ing of the central commute at St Louis, February JJd, for the purpose of naming a date and place for the na tional convention. W Sale Ten 1 Eillion Boxes a Year. 1 BL EilXSiS,,,,? bowels M Avers vttmmmmmmKuaMtKmmmamaamaaammaammmiaaammamm Cherry Pectoral for colds, coughs, bronchitis, consumption. We have been saying this for 60 years. And so have the doctors. i&iU'lES: HOLIDAY GOODS that are useful as well as ornamental, Um brellas, gloria silk, black or colors, handles neatly mounted with sterling silver. Look like $5 value;, our price $1,75 to $3,00 Shawls 25c each that are worth 50c, we have others ranging nriPP tin fn H2 0. Millinprv InfVstvle nr trnnA rmiltrv Af LV Ji A dt U a. i I sk. tu pci uciu icuuLtiuii rts nat cuMing oniy jii.iiu. A $3 Hat costing you only $1.80, A $4 Hat costing you only $2.40. 50c Satins only 25c per yard, bright co'ors. Rostein & Greenbaum 302 Commercial Street E. C. CROSS Meats and Provisions PHONB 2503a. Established 1884 -,.,. '-.-rr-S' i TwiV t u jij.iF ry & fefl a2) sraE V -i I.i i v. . R3SSSr iu.r- fTH-T 1KJXSC Signs of Renewed Activity In the real estate world indicate In creasing building operations tail Spring, an prompt us to remind yoo that our facilities for supplying hard and soft wood, lumber, lath, shlnglo, and other building materials are ex ceptionally good. We will be pleased to furnish estimates on contracts, large or small, A car of Mill City shingles reoeiyed. OOODALE LUMBER CO, . . . Near e. P. Pas Dsptt Phone 681. 04--HPtCCO4ateis)tttttiQ-t-afrefsM t KiKiirAGENCY OF:::::::: ;; BALFOUR, GUTHRIE & CO.ii GRAIN BUYERS AND SHIPPERS!)? (VR ATW ' Oats For Sale. HOr GROWERS SUPPLIES. Crude and stick SnlphDr. I J. G. Graham, Agent, 287 Commercial St;f Sjdna, Oa OWtfWItQCtfSiftssjits)iSfe)Ba)gfltaiagsIW'HM ;