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Editorial Page of "The Capital Journal" Moxn.w i:knino, October 2, lUlo. CHARLES H FISHEE, Editor tod Manager. 1 Fl'BUSHKD KVKRV KVKNIXO KXCKI'T Sl'XDAY. SAI.KM, ORKC.OX, BY Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. U S. BARXKS, . CHAS. II. 1-IMU.K. President. Vice-President. DORA C. AXPRKSEX, (Sec. niul Trciis. ISUUsiCHUTIDX KATKS Paily by carrier, per ypnr liaily by mail. per year .. . . S(i5.00 IV r mouth . . R.00 lVr muntli tile Fl l.I, l.KASKU W1UK 'I'KI.l'.dK.U'll KKPOliT Now KA8TKKX HKPKKSKXTATIVKS York. Ward Lewis Williams Special Agency, Tribune Building Chicago, W. II. Utockwell, People's Cms Building The Capital .lournnl carrier boys are instructed to put tin' papers on t ic porch If the earlier does not do this, misses you, or neglects getting the inner to vou on time, kiii.ll" phone the circulation manager. this is the only way we i'hh determine whether or not the carriers uio following instruction, l'hone Main 81 before Ti.tO o'clock and a paper will be sent you by special . messenger if the currier has missed yon. A MYSTERIOUS PIECE OF MACHINERY Death has been called "the great mystery; but in this line it is a simple problem compared to Life. Death is simply the ceasing to exist, silence, immobility, decay. Life is action, growth, fulfillment. And of all life that of the human is far the most mysterious. A wonderful mechanism is the human body, a machine which as Inger soll said, "changed food into thought, and created the divine tragedy of Hamlet." And yet apparently no two human beings are the same. They have their individual appearance by which, with all the countless millions, no two are exactly alike, but have some points of difference that makes them easily distinguishable from each other. Not only do they differ in appearance but in every other way. The dispatches Sunday mentioned the death of a girl at Spokane from the sting of a wasp, the end coming within fifteen minutes after. Now a wasp sting is a trival matter to most folks, being no more serious than to cause a trifling pain and this only for a short time. Yet in this case so simple a thing caused death. What peculiar thing about this girl's life made it susceptible to such a minute particle of poison? Wherein did she so differ from the balance of mankind that what is harmless to practically all, should be absolutely fatal to her? It is one of those inexplicable things that arise every day to awaken wonder and to baffle the wisest. One man will be torn and broken until he hardly retains human shape and yet in a little while his bones are knit and his wounds healed until he is as good as new, while another with trifling injuries succumbs. One person will handle poison oak or other noxious vegetation with impunity while another cannot go within a dozen feet of them with out being inocculated. So it goes in almost everything pertaining to life. What is one man's food is another's poison, and why it is so no one knows, and perhaps never will know. Infantile paralysis, and a host of other serious as well as minor ail ments become epidemic and whole communities are ex posed, and yet but a small percentage are alfected. Tuberculosis is common and yet it selects here and there one for its victim passing the great majority by. The mumps highly contagious will tackle a fellow and yet be satisfied with afflicting only one side of its subject in many cases, while the other side is certainly most thoroughly exposed. The young and vigorous pass and the old and delicate survive. And on top of all Nature makes a jest of life and puts a joker in each individual pack. The tramp with an appetite like a gang saw and a stomach like an ostrich haunts kitchen doors for an oc casional hand out, while Rockefeller who made $8,000,000 Saturday has to eat bran mash and has a stomach that is on strike most of the time to such an extent that he cannot digest ten cents worth of anything a day. He has a billion dollars and can buy anything that man can make, but he cannot even for his whole billion buy the tramp's stomach or his riotous waste of good health. Its not a nice way for Nature to act but mats ine way me om jester does. The cement hearing in Portland conducted by . the directors of the company, inquiring into the charges of Aman Moore, its vice-president, who charges a violation of the Sherman anti-trust law, is being held behind closed doors, and the indications are will result in an application of whitewash. Attorney Logan representing Mr. Moore, i ftv'oi- trip notion of the committee which refused to have the hearing in public and also excluded him from its hearing except at such time as his client was testifying. He allowed his feelings to get the better of him and told the committee: "I am much inclined to tell you all to go to hell." Those acquainted with Mr. Logan will readilv believe he would have told the committee just that, if he had thought its members would take his advice. Germany turned all her clocks back an hour Saturday at midnight and is again running on correct time. -The plan has not given entire satisfaction and it is not prob able it will again be tried. The farmers especially object to it. President Sproule of the Southern Pacific is probably doing as he said he would and making an honest effort to do away with, or at least relieve the car shortage; but he is not accomplishing much in that line for the shortage has grown steadily until Saturday it was reported as above sixteen hundred cars. That is a pretty serious condition for the state for it shows that there are that many carloads of Oregon products that cannot find their way to market, and consequently that much material the money for which should be in circulation in the state, is practically worthless. The worst feature is that much of this material is perishable and will be a dead loss. There seems to be little hope of conditions getting better anyway .soon. It will probably require some legislation the coming session to give some protection to the pro ducer, who under present conditions is at the mercy of the railroads, and that is a quality they do not possess. The little sage chicks from Harney county have the promise of Madam Schumann-Heink to sing for them next Summer at their home town, lhe diva was de lighted with the youngsters and her interest in them is the greatest compliment they have received on their trip. They have had a wonderful time and they have more than paid for all the pleasure they have had by that which they furnished Salem and Portland. You see there are only a dozen or so of them to enjoy their trip while they gave pleasure to thousands. A Hood River orchardist has just purchased some seven thousand acres of timber from the government pay ing the sum of $:55O,O00 for it. Evidently it pays to oper ate an orchard in that favored neck of the woods. Few orchardists down this way can dig up wealth in wads like that. Another span. of the Vancouver-Portland bridge has been floated into place and it is claimed the bridge will be open for traffic before Christmas. And just about the time the crossing is made easy the legislature will meet and more than likely repeal the law that now sends so much of the marrying business to Vancouver. RippRhgRhimiQS Wa!t Meson FACING WINTER Prepare for winter, gentle reader; put by the hoe and rake and seeder; the tool with which you mow the clover may rust a while, it's season's over. In storage put your trusty swatter, until the days again grow hotter. The goosebone seers a3 one are saying that winter won't be long delaying, and they insist when it's a comer, 'twill be an old time ring-tailed hummer. The signs all indicate a season prolonged and cold beyond all reason. The moss upon the trees is thicker; the woodland beasts are working quicker to lay in provender to last them till springtime comes again, dodgast them. The southward birds are fly ing faster, as though they scented some disaster. It is the goosebone seer who's spoken $ he has observed the sign and token, and says the winter's coming early, and will be boisterous and surly. So blow yourself with eager ardor, for coal and sundries for the larder; prepare, all other labors dropping, and plan to do your Christmas shopping. THE OREGON STATE FAIR (Pendleton Evening Tribune.) When Providence is. kind and favors the Willamette Valley with fine weather during the week of the State Fuir, visitors are always assured a high order of entertninment and a high class of exhibits. No Btato can excel. Oregon in productions of the soil. None can present finer show animals. The management has always been broad, liberal and just. Exhibitors feel assured that they will receive an hon est vehdict from committees of award, and that every reasonable courtesy v ill be accorded them. The Autumn charm of the western portion of the state lures many from the vast interior, and from the south ern portion of the state, but the mass of the vnst crowds who visit Salem at this time, come of course, from Port land and the valley counties. It is a season of well wishing, a harvest of festival indeed. There is no public .money more wise ly appropriated than that which main tains' the annual fair. There is no private money more happily expended than that which takes the family to an exhibit such as is being presented at the capital of the state this week. Court House News A marriage license has been issued by the county clerk to Benjamin Hur ley Robertson and Nora Hester Word, both of Turner. S. A. Parks, of the Hospital station, has taken out an anglers' license. Hunters' licenses have been issued to the 'following: K. C. Naftzger, B. I'. i.arouiaiue, J-eo oemcr aim u. n. jjv Jardin, of Oervais; Will Becker, of u Jem: diet Mers. of Talbot: S. A. Parks of Hospital station; J. J. Bretauo and Bert Orcutt, of St. Paul. Judge Galloway has issued an order confirming the sale upon execution of land described in the complaint of D. A. McKee against Xina Velorous Kays and Klviu Kavs. ,T. A. York has begpu an action in the circuit court ugainst the Farmers' and Merchants' bank, of Mtuyton, to col lect $150 alleged to be due him on a certain note and mortgage. A decrease of divorce has been issued by Judge Galloway to Opha Clare, w hoso husband, Curl Clare, deserted her. A motion to make the complaint more definite and certain has been filed iu the case of Fred J I. Hazard vs, Robert L. Tucker. T. W. Riches, Custer Ross and Ed Adams, appraisers of the estate of George D. Hibliard, deceased, have filed their report. William Donaldson has been appoint- led by the county court as administrator ot the estate ot the lute r.li Ziegler. 1 lie estate, which has a probable value of i(WQ, will be uppraised by E. X. Bran sen, James Bcliue and Peter Kgglcr. The petition of Anna Simmons, ad ministratrix of the estate of J. D. Sim mons, asking for un allowance of $;!t3 as compensation for administering upon said estate, has been granted by the county court. - Saturday, November 4, at 10 a. m., has been set by the county court for hearing the final report of E. W. Hulin, administrator of the estate of Henrv Hnhn. Seventy-five per cent of the women workers in Germany work ten hours a day or more and their wages vary from 2 1-2 to IS cents an hour. LITTLE TALKS ON THRIFT liy S. W. STRAUS Vres'uient American Soa'e.y f or Thriji LADD & BUSH, Bankers Established 1SGS CAPITAL $500,000.00 Transact a General Banking Business Safety Deposit Boxes SAVINGS DEPARTMENT 1 X Spend i ii g or saving, w aste t HI it c s s i r economy are iu.it tcis ot sutVieictit moment to uppc.il to all t I a s s c s of people. To day the ud iii i s s i o u is iii,ivcr n 1 1 v k v. 1 made that ?vj3 'rvlrav.TL'1 ll t living is one of our beset ting evils. Be this charge justified or not, .we know that American homes waste excessively, the pace for extravagance is set there. The untrained wife is the wasteful wife and to a great extent is responsible for the wasteful family, with the following results: improvidence in the management of the home; go. ing iu debt for luxuries: the charge account where the income is un stable; improvident training of the children. It is reliably stated that women spend 904 per cent of all the money spent in the United States. Tl-y regulate the expenses of the household of the nation. I'ntil re cently how little study has the average housewife given to the home income and expenditure? How little attention did she p-iy to the values of food, not estimated by the price but the amount of nutriment contained? Po women ruliza what crcat idiuiuwuaior f finance they are ami what in important factor they will be in making this country the most thrifty in the world? It is the home economics that loom up large and in this way one learns the truth of the saying: "Small things are not small if great results come of them." Thrift, iu the home, should have as its hinbest exponent, the wife and mother. Her aim should be always to conserve and to improve living conditions hy the strict prac tice of home economics. She should study the markets each morning just as her husband docs. SI'.i should watch the pennies ns the business man watches them in his transactions: she should keep a family budget and personally do her own marketing. She should learrt to cook and serve the food she buys without waste. What do the little savings care fully hoarded from these small economies of the housewife amount to? A visit to the Probate Court will give answer more graphically than any written word. It is the little savings begun in the first years of married lite that met the payments on the little homes of t!u widows, the little savings that reached to dollars and then still larger sums, which were invested, or. which paid the life insuran.-j and educated the children. Pos sibly the greatest benefit of n". coming from the home where th; housewife is thrifty will 1-c the frugal habits inherited by the chil- CASTOR I A For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Always bears the Signature of Have You si Boy? You want bim to succeed as well as you, or better! Is he on the right track now? Can you do anything better for him than start him saving money at this bank, and encourage him to , keep everlastingly at it? We'll be glad to see him. UNITED STATES NATIONAL BANK Salem, Oregon Member Federal Reserve Bank The Nation's Favorite Butlber Nut There Is No Better Capital Journal Want Ads Will Get You What You Want ; . Always Watch JThis Ad Changes Often HHMMttttMMMttHttMMMMtMMttMMt. Strictly correct weight, square, deal and highest prices for all klads tt junk, metal, rubber, hide and furs. I pay Se per pound for Old nfs. Big stock of all sizes second hand Incubators. All kinds eomgate -iron for botk roofs and buildings. Boofing papar and second kaid linolenm. H. Steinback Junk Co. The House of Half a Million Bargains. 11 North Commercial It, Faaa tW CAPITAL JOURNAL WANT. ADS BRING YOU RESULTS. C'H.VPTKH XXXVI. ' The next tiny I kept Miiuily in led until noon. We were to start early the following moruiiiK. and I was determin ed she gliouhl rest. "Oh. Mmidy! It was just glorious: " I vxelaimed. .' " You did wonderfully." "Co'se I done fine. Aiut it the fust dinner vo' done sive ttese Xo'th'n white folk? I 'low they aiu t uothni' ou the eul'd' folks when it tomes to eookiu'." I wa verv busy all tiny. I had my packing to di, and instruetions to give to Katie and Annie, who were to re main in the house. They were to do a good deal of eleaniiip w hile I was away, and I wanted it done thoroughly, as I intended to have everything spiek und span when Clifford eanie home. The Ripening Friendship. Leonard Brooke called about S o'elock. "You look tired, little lady. I'm afruid your dinner party was too mtieh for you." he remarked, after we were seated in the library. "Oh, no, indeed! I'm not so tired as that. In faet, the diuuer didn't tire me one bit. I have beeu very busy all day, packing and attending to things about the house. It seems good to sit down Quietly for a while and rest." MR. BROOKE CALLS "Would vou rather I should not stayf" " . . "Oh, no! I shall be delighted if you will stay. Just as soon as you go I shall think of something else 1 want to do." "What a busy little lady it is! How long do you expeet to be awayf " "Two or three weeks, possibly a mouth. It depends a little on Mr. Ham mond 's plans." "Is he coming for yout" "Oh, uo. At least I don't think so. But I should like to be at home soon after he returns. Why?" 'r "Oh, I have to go South also on business, and thought I might visit those friends 1 told you of who live iu your vicinity. I shall take the liberty of calling ou yon then, if I may." "Do! I shall be glad to see you. Aud I have two sisters and a cousin who are considered attractive girls. They will give you a good time, I am sure." "Oh, I shall be satisfied if I see you. " "Xly cousin is a real heart -breaker, vou '11 have to look out." "I'm fireproof." "Xonsense," I laughed. "You are too young to talk like that. " "It's the truth, and " he hesi tated, then changed the subject. But I held my breath, as I dimly perceived his meaning, then smiled to myself to think how silly I was. I was a married woman, n mother, so of course he didn't mean me. But bow cheerless the room seemed after he had gone! I shivered as if with cold. It seemed as if all the warmth mid light had left me when he went away. Misgivings. I laid - my head back . against the high-backed chair and wondered what Clifford wag doing, how he was enter taining himself on the yacht. My un leashed imagination began rioting. Was I.. G., the woman who had written that note to Clifford, on board Then I im agined him with Mrs. Horton, and her as fascinating. I vi&ioned sweet inti macies that tortured me. And I knew that, whatever he did, however he acted, he never once would think of me, that what I did, where I went, were as nothing to him. Then, of a sudden, I realized that some sort of a crisis was at hand, that I wanted my husband more than I had eer wanted anything in my life. Finally I crept upstairs and into bed, my last waking thought a longing for Clifford. (Tomorrow Welcome Home.)