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Editorial Page of ih e Salem journal FRIDAY DEC. 26, 19 J 3 I HE CAPITAL JOUKjlNAL PUBLISHED BT The Barnes -Taber Company GRAHAM P. TABER, Editor and Manager. A. Independent Newspaper Devoted toAmerican Principles and the Progress and Development of Salem In Particular and All Oregon in General. i tmlitml Htw) Bttnlpg Except Sunday, Baltm, Oregon SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (Inrarlablr In Adraoc) 'll, tij Carrier, per year ...$3.20 Per month.. 45c rllr, bj Mall, per year 4.00 Per month.. 86c WVMklr. by Mall, per year .... 1,00 81s months. 0c rCI.L LBASBD WIRH THI.HORAI'H RHPOKT aWrfi&CSSL What is the Touchstone for a Woman's Age? BY DOROTHY DIX. The other day a group of ADVERTISING RATES. Advertising rate will be furnished on app'icatlon. New Today" adi strictly caab In advance. "Want" adi nd Tie Capital Journal carrier hoys are Instructed to put the papers on the orca. If the carrier does not do this, misses yon, or neglects getting the paper to yon on time, kindly phone the circulation manager, as this is the only way we cat determine whether r not the carriers are following instructions, ctone Mala 82. VILLA'S ELASTIC CURRENCY. THE MEXICAN REBEL, VILLA, lias discovered a new way of creating , currency. Ho has tho son of Bnukor Tcrrazas, tlio John D. Rockefeller of Mexico, a prisoner, anil has made demands for ruiiHorn, threatening to put tho young man to death if the ransom was not forthcoming. How over, ho did not feel like waiting tho delays attendant to tho ransom ing plan, so he compelled young Terrazas to Bign innumerable bank chocks, and ho compelled all merchants and bankers to honor thorn. It will thus bo seen that this bandit, uneducated and unsophisticated in tho ways of finance, Ins by his genius cut tho Oonlian knot, and has at one full swoop, bo to speak, established a currency system of his own that has remnrkablo elasticity. In deed, there seems to bo no end to tho caoutchouc like properties of tho curren cy, and the only thing that can possibly put an end to tho currency iBsuo is an attack of writer's cramp on tho part of young Terrazas. True, the merchants and bankers might run out of funds, but the failure of reserves is liable to hap pen to any system of banking. However, so long ns a man's remaining on earth depends on his ability to dig and his industry In that occupation, ho will landlo his shovel ratlior lively. Mr. Wilson, our own president, was some months getting the wiso senators to quit talking long enough to take a vote on our currency bill, and congratulates himself on his success. It might bo Well for him to send for Villa when ho has another matter that really requires speedy action. If Ignoranco Is bliss and gets the money, why search the ency clopedias for wisdom f By tho way, that is tho only place that article can be found, there and in tho dictionaries. A SPLENDID CHRISTMAS PRESENT. THE HISTORY of tho J. Thorburn Ross ease from Its first trial to tho culmination Christmas eve, when a full pardon was given him by Gov ernor West, is not a peculiar one, for tho simple reason that it is com mon, Having In his charge several hundred thousand dollars of the money belonging to tho Btato school fund, ho misappropriated it. Ho was indicted, tried and found guilty. On nppenl to the supreme court the vor diet in tho lower court was sustnlnod. Then his case was taken to tho United Plates supreme court, and there again ho was pronounced guilty, and his his enso remanded to tho circuit court hero, where Judge Kelly sentenced him to a term of years in the state prison, but nt tho snme timo paroled him, The final cleanup of tho matter and tho balancing of the books wnR completed Christmas eve, when the governor gave him a full and complete pardon, re storing him to full right of citizenship. At this glad Christmas time, when there at bust should bo "peace on earth and good will towards mon," a broad charity rather prevents such comment as tho occasion seems to require, and so wo only remnrk that heaven and the state prison, so far as tho wealthy are concerned, have points of strong almllarlty, as both aro so hard for tho rich man to enter into. We do not seo that thero is much oIro to bo said. Wo congratulate Mr. Ross, but we do not recommend him as peculiarly fitted for any fiduciary position. He will get It without any recommendation from anyone. the old books, and harp upon the past, women "I don't mind admitting, in coufi- were discussing age, that topic always denco, that the first realization I had interesting to their sex, and bow you that I was growing old came a few could tell how old Ann is. : monthB ago when I found myself shock- "Not by birthdays," they exclaimed cd at all the new dances, and comparing with one voice. "Thore's no such fool- them in my mind with the dances that ish way of telling a woman's age as prevailed when I was a girl. I'd been by tho years she has passed. A varie- saying that the tango and the turkey gated assortment of birthday presents trot, and so on, were indecent, and all doesn't make a woman old. There are of a sudden I recalled that that was ex- women who are mere debuntantes at ' aetly what my mother had said about 80, and others who are the oldest inhab-1 waltzing. She had cornered the waltz itauts whilo still in their cradles." unfavorably with the lancicrs and the "Nor can you tell how old a woman quadrille of her youth, and her mother is by her looks nowadays." said the bad considered the lanciers and quad woman in the taupe suit, "for It's only grilles vulgar, romping , dances as con tho very young who have any character ! trasted with the minute, of her days, lines in their faces. j "And I observe that the young peo- "By the timo a woman gets old pie now find nothing at all shocking or enough to acquire a roal human expres-: suggestive in the dances of today, it's sion on her countenance she begins to 3ust a Cas8 of other tinlc3 othor mau have her wrinkles ironed out by mas- ners. sage, so there aro no little telltale lines' "And another tip I got that I was left around the oyes and mouth by ' growing obi was that I couldn 't recon which you can give a guess at how e'l" myself to the new clothes. I was many summers, and also winters, have horrified at the tightness and tho split rolled over her hoad. "' 1 wanted a good old fashioned "It's grand-daughter who has got ru"llv kirt with I'mits in U n"'1 with tho crow's feet now, and grandma whoso petticoats under it, and a waist that face is as smooth as a China doll 's. "P hiKh in thc ,IPl'k Bnd lo,, in "And everybody wears handmade tho sleeves, complexions," agreed the woman in' "And what did you do?" asked the bluo, "and even tho mere chits aro woman in the blue hat. sporting gray huir, just as all the old 1 "l 'nt 8ml bol,Kht me the extremest dames flaunted mahogany years ago, 'clothes I could get," smiled tho woman so that your eyes no longer give you a yardstick by which to measure a wo- BE2SSZ!2S3Si2313!3n2 Wonderful Reductions pre- H mm H n vail all over the store for the i man's days." As For Clothes. "And as for clothes," in the tuaek hat. "Well," said tho woman in taupe. I Can tell exactly how old a woman is. I ask her where she stands on suffrage, land if she doesn't believe in it I know wailed the ,- ,. w ,,,, v fin.i woman in tne reel not, mere s no mi- ft tooth qni,,kcr than you ,.oui,i terence between tno injngs mat ju ami fjm, a womln who ,ioeHn't bc ! I.. .L.i i,t :.. .. 111.. ' ! men uu wear unless it is tnat 10 is a utile,,. . . .i -:,.i, tnr m nn,i W(V WHEN IS NEWS SOMETHING ELBE? NEWS is anything which Is in tho public mind. Advertising is the art of instilling Into and maintaining In tho public mind interest in salable merchandise, llencn thero is a news Interest in any extensively adver tised article. Note an exception to this rather loose-jointed syllogism in tho state of Indiana, There tho state board of health, in satisfac tion of mimerotw requests for Information about widely exploited "prescrip tion" proprietaries and beauty nostrums, Issued a pamphlet giving annlvses of many of thorn. Indubitably this was a matter of news interest to tho peo ple throughout tho state, otherwise tho many requests would not havo been out In. The news Interest had been inspired by tho advertising. Tho official pamphlet was given out to tho Indianapolis newspapers and mailed to a list of dallies throughout tho state. "As news It possessed a value that every news paper rocognir.es," writes an experienced and disgusted reporter, whoso namo we suppress, since ho probably wants to hold his job on the Indianapolis daily which employs him and which "turned down'' the story. Obviously it possesses such value. Hero was information from an official source proving that tho beauty-seeking women of tho state by thousands had been purchasing at exorbitant rates Epsom salts and borax as complexion lieautifiorH, granulated soap ss a hair-grower, salt water and fat as a dandruff cure, alum, glycerine and water (three cents' worth) ns a fifty-cent wrinkle radleator, and so on through a long list of petty fnkery, Supposo a story should turn p in the day's news of a crook who had sold 1,0,000 worth of gold bricks to the confiding women throughout tho state on the famous "Spanish prisoner" swindle, how the newspapers would have more dignified and conservative in its taste. Why, tho only thing that makes mo suspect that I'm getting old myself is that I find myself passing up good substantial dark colors ;n favor of baby blues and pinks and that I sort of lean toward huts with Queen of May effects and when a woman of my ago begins to yearn for millinery with wreaths of flowers it 's a sure sign of the approach of senile dementia." "Well," said tho woman in taupe, "my test for approaching ago in a wo man is to notice whether in her conver sation she NEW POTATO FROM NEW ZEALAND IS BLIGHT PROOF A new blight proof and frost resist ing potato has been discovered by John Harris, of Ohuro. road, Raetihi, Now Zealand. Tho discovery is said to be the most important one in agriculture for many years, and the agricultural department of the New Zealand gov ernment has investigated the phenom enon and admitted that tho properties shies awav from dates as, claimed for the new potato are beyond a nervous horso does from nn niitomo-1 question. Harris lyis been experiment bile. When a woman avoids locating ,ing with the potatoes for years, and anything in any particular year it's be- some time ago he noticod a healthy cuiiso sho doesn't want you to get a stock growing among a crop of North line on her. em Stars and Kl Donatio all of which " Another test that never fail is when llffl" ,t"1 b-v llliht' a"'1' fimli" she always says 'we girls' did so and so, ami when he always prefaces rem inisceneo by remarking. I was very El II El ri n El El II El II 11 II II II II II u a H H n a n Ei El u M El H El El E3 U EJ CI El II II n ei H n n n El II IS II II II II 11 II II j Ladies j 85c jj Union 1 Suits NOW II g 49c 11 na next two days The following goods will be sold at clearing prices, profits not considered. A clean sweep is the order. Out the goods must go. Ladies9 Coats and Suits, Furs, Sweaters, Silk Petticoats Shirt Waists, Kimonas, Bath Robes, Ladies' Wool and Silk Dresses, Silks and Dress Goods, Table Linens, Silk Hosiery, Handerchiefs for Men and Women, Men's Neckties, Men's and Ladies' Kid and Leather Gloves, Ribbons and Fancy Neckwear, Men's and Boy's Clothing, Millinery, Dolls, Toys and Games, and Hundreds of Other Bargains. Shop ear" ly and get the best choice. ii 11 n a n El 11 II II II u M M H El El II El II M IS 11 11 II 11 II El II II II 13 11 II II II El II tl 11 II II II II El II II 13 II II swim ip rmm il mil " i .IM' iiiippIiiiuiiwiiiiiisi.iiiiihimmwiiiiiwisi.i ih SthesTORE THATSAVES YOU MONEY jrf.:- I j B .WW.rMifc-Jii il III mini mill mil a ; irilmi mi ill n "Vial Ml II lliHil'll IIIKnl.i.mi.iiJ.n I llni'iiij jjj young nt that time'. If you will notice you will observe that all tho little youngsters in college call each other "women," whilo ladies who are 40, or half passed, alwooys s)Ktak of them selves ami each other as 'girls.' " "Right, oh," exclaimed the woman in the black hat, "all of those signs of age are signs that never fail in dry weather. But what wq think of a wo man's age doesn't matter. "It's what sho thinks that counts, and tho most amusing and pathetic thing on crnrth is tho sight of a woman who has had It dnwn suddenly upon her consciousness that she is growing old, and who is getting busy to stop the clock. "You know how It is. She's gone along, like tho balance, of ns, thinking that she's drunk at the fountain of per petunl youth, and then, one day, she takes a look in tho gloss, anil sees that she has got fat, and settled-looking, and that, her hair is turning gray around tho templee, and lines coining about her mouth. "Talk about, vour names! She's in rhuckled into headlines over It! But concerning this vaster and even more . i,i rv n,1 .k. limta it dnwn to absurd confidence game, not one line appeared In nny paper In tndinna. Whyt t, merest, beauty parlor, and boils it in a perfect state, began to experi ment. The result is that a potato now called the New Krn has been grown. Tho plant was carefully nourished and tended, and for several seasons a new crop was propngHtcd from tho seeds of the previous crop. The variety has been placed under the closest observation but no occasion has there been tho slightest trato of blight or disease caused by frost, though tho crop planted next to it had been blackened by the severe cold and is even now badly af fected. The average yield is about 1! tons per acre. Bayliss, of tho govern ment agricultural department has made an inspection of tho growing crop, and, though he hns formed no theory to ex plain the origin of tho New Era, ho ad mits that tho potato is really frost re sisting ami blight proof. Japan Times. The Markets Hons, per lb oostors, per lb. ...lie. 8c Steers Steers. JWniiso the perpetrators of tho fakes are all advertisers. For Indiana journal ism tho following simple riddle may be found appropriate: Question When Is a piece of news not a piece of news, Answer When It touches advertising profits. Colliers, , FIRST PRESCRIPTION. (DNiTsn rsrss uabid winsl London, Dee. 2(1. Professor Flllott Hmith, famous Kgvptologist, today for mally Knnoiiiiced tho discovery of what lie believes to be the first prescription ver written by a doctor. The date Is about i.00u II, (' nml the prescription, which Is written on I'.gyptioii pyrus, throws an amusing light on the efforts of the ancient medical men to ilea with acute mania. Some fourteen In gredients are mentioned as the formula for an ointment, to weaken a husky sufferer who evidently proved too strung for his medical advisor, and tho patient had to be annointed fifteen timed a day until he was sufficiently calmed to be treated with tho usual medicine. Is 11U to be the good year, at last, when tho Alaska steamship line will be finally and permanently established LADD & BUSH, Bankers ji TRANSACTS A OINEHAL BAJtTKINO BUHINKiS. AHTY DB FOBIT B0Xr.. TRAVELS!' CKXCKft. and bakes herself, and has her poor 1mi.Iv pounded into a pulp, and begins to tlo without everything sho wants to Tit. And she trios to youthify her conversation by giggling and acting kit tenish, and talking girly girly stuff that sounds as If sho had softening of the brain. ' 1 pray (I oil on my knees to snv me from acting tho fool when 1 cross the age lino." "I think," said tho woman with the long feather in her hat, "thnt the real test of age is not physical, but mental. It depends upon tho suppleness of your soul, und not your body. We Are Mentally Young, "We're young physically just as long ns every muscle is flexible and pliable and quick to change and movement, and we are young mentally roally young Just as long as our minds are alert to new I. lews, new thoughts and capable of Inking new points of view. "The first sign of physical age Is when we beiiiii to stiffen up at the joints, and to prefer to sit and watch others play to playing ourselves, and we hsvo begun to grow old mentally when we begin to think that all mod em progress is foolishness, and that the old ways are the best wys, and when we want to hoar the old mimic and road TOTS SEE DOLL COLLECTION, trim-run imisss uiasid wins 1 Huchariist, Dec. 2M7 The Sallies and Mamies and Maggies and Sadies of Huchnrest today were given tho treat of their young lives. Carmen Sylvia, queen of Houmania, who ha the lnrg- est and most expensive collection ot dells in the world, invited hundreds of poor children to an exhibition of her dolls. The agivl queen, whose only child a little princess died nt the Bge of four years, has made a collec tion of dolls representing every nation ality under the sun. The doll nursery contains 1S00 dolls, IF YOU ARE A DRINKING MAN You had better stop at once or you will lose your job. Every line of busi ness is closing its doers to "Drinking'' men. It may be your turn next. By the aid of ORltlNE thousands of men have been restored to lives of sobriety and industry. Wo aro so sure that ORRRINK will benefit you that wo say to you thnt if after a trial you fail to got any benefit from its uses your money will bo refunded. When you stop "Drinking," think of tho money you'll save; besides, sober men aro worth mere to their employers and get higher wages. Costs enly $1.00 a box. Wo have nn Interesting booklet about OKK1NK that we are giving away free on ro piest. Call at our store and talk it over. Terry's Drug Stores. PORTLAND MARKETS. Grain, Flour, Feed, Etc. Wheat Track prices: Club, 85c; Blnostcm, 0,,cj Forty fold, 85i8(3c; H')d Russian, 84c; Valloy, 85c. Millstuffs Brtln, $20.50 per ton; shortf, $2223j n-idtllirgs, $30. Flour Patents, $4.60 per barrel; straights, $4.00; exports, $3.653.80; valley, $4.00; graham, $4.60; whole wheat, $4.80. Corn Whole, $30; cracked, $37 per tnn. Hav Fancy Idaho timothy, $1718; fancy eastern Oregon timothy, $1516; timothy and clover, $1415j timothy and alfalfa, 1315; clover, $8.5010; oavs and votch, $1011; cheat, 10U; valley grain hay, $10(311. Oats No. 1, white, $2525.50 per ton. Barley Feed, $2425 per ton; brew ing, nominal; rolled, $27(ip28. Groceries, Dried Fruita, Etc Dried Fruits Apploe, 10c rer lb.; currants, 10c; apricots, 1214c; peach es, 8JT. lie; prunes, Italian, 810c; sil ver, 18c; figs, white aed black, 6Vj 7Vjc; raisins, loose Muscatel, 6Vi 7',cj bleached Thompson, HVic; un bleached Sultanas, 8Vjc; seeded, 7'j(tp MiC. Coffee Roasted In drums, 1832c e ih. Nuts Walnuts, lHc per lb.; Brazil uuts, 20c; filberts, 15c; almonds, 20c; pecans, 17c; cocoanuts, 90c$l per dot Salt Granulated, $14 per ton; half-'lb.j valley, 1618c. grouud, 100s, $10.25 per ton; 50s, $11 I Mohair Choice, 2526c per lb. per tea j Hides Salted, 12c per lb.; sal tod calf Beans Small white, $6.00; large I617c; salted kip, 12c; salted stag, white, $4.75; Lima, $8.30; pink, $4.00- x;jC. uc. hes, o,i. rod Mexicans, 5c; bayou, $4.40. i drr calf, No. 1, 25c; dry stags, 12 Rice No. 1 Japan, 55Wc; cheaper 13C. grades, 4Mie; southern head, 5"46e. j Country butter, per lb. 30c Honey Choice, $3.253.75 per Eggs, per dozen 40c Sugar Fruit and berry, $5.20; Hono-j lulu plantation, $3.15; beet, $3; Extra C, LOCAL WHOLESALE MARKET. $4.70; powdered, barrels, $5.45; cubes, Bran, per ton $25.00 barrels, $5.20. Shorts, per ton $27.00 rrulta and Vegetables. Wheat, per bushel 80c Green Fruit Apples 60c2.23 per j Oats, per bushel ...3233c box; pears, lgl.50 per box; grapes, Chittlm Bark, per lb 4Vj5c Malagas. $7.50(ti $8.50 rer keg; Emper-IHay, Timothy $15.00 per doz.; tomatoes, $1.50 per box; gar lie, 12Vic per lb.; sprouts, 11c per lb.; artichokes, $1.50 per doz.; squash, IVjO per lb.; pumpkins, lc per lb.; celery, 5075c per doz. Potatoes New, 75c$l per cwt.i sweets, $2.25 per crate. Onions Oregon, $2.15 per sack. Dairy and Country Produce, Butter Oregon creamery, solid pack, 30c per lb.; prints, box lots, 34c. Eggs Oregon ranch, 45e per doz. Cheese Oregon Triplots, IOVjC; Dai. ties, 17c; Young America, 18c Veal Fancy, 13yj16o per pound, Pork Fancy, He rer lb. PTOTUlonj, Hops 1913 contracts, 23c; 1912 crop, 141bs., 1920c; picnics, 14Mic; cottage roll, nViC Bacon Fancy, 2829c; standard, 21Mi25c; English, 2122s. Lard In tierces, choice, 14Vjc; com pound, 9c. Dry Salt Meat Backs, dry salt, 13 14c; Wits, smoked, 14Vj15VjC; bellies, dry salt, 14V4c; smoked, 16c. Smoked Meats Beef tongues, 25c; dried beef sets, 22c; outside, 20c; in sides, 23c; knuckles, 21s. Pickled Goods Barrels, pigs feet, $14; regular tripe, $10; honeycomb tripe, $12; lunch tonngues, $22; lambs tongues, $40. Hops, Wool, Hides, Etc. Hops 1913 contracts, 20c; 1912 crop, luminal. Wool Eastern Oregon, 10(16c per 78c 45e 89c ...7 to 7c Cows, ner cwt .. Hogs, fat, per lb Stock ogs, per lb Ewes, per lb . 48 pring lambs, per lb 5e Veal, according to quality 1113 Dry, per lb. fr Salted country pelts, each 65c$l Lamb pelts each . ...........25e NO CRIME TO HIRE ANYONE TO COMMIT MURDER. UNITED MESS LEASED WIHI.1 Taris, Dec. 20. Because, under the French law, it is no crime to employ persons to commit murder unless they actually accomplish it, or in other words, "deliver the goods," Professor Rouquette, of Stanlias College, Clamart,. today was set at liberty. A few days ago he accosted a couple of young men from the country, named Billard and Gavello, in a Taris cafe, and be sought their help in getting rid of his mother-in-law. They accepted the job,, and the professor paid them $50 on ac count. First of all, the two countrymen spent the money in riotous living, then, they went to the police and told their story. When 'Rouquctte was arraigned he denied tho story, and later not only admitted the truth, but said he had' instructed tho young men to break up the furniture nnd steal nny valuables they might want, in order to give the impression tint tho crime was com mitted for burglary. In spite of this confession, Prof. Rouquctte got off on the plea of his attorneys that his act constituted no crime In France. It was not until today, however, that a higher court handed down a formal de cision favoring the arguments of the defendant's lawyers. ors, $3.734 per keg; grapes, crates, $1.732; rasabaa, JUjc per lb.j cran berries, $11 per barrel. Vegetables Cabliage, lglVje per lb.; cauliflower, $1123 per do.; eucurn dots, 4045e per do.; eggplant, 7e per ib. head lettuce, $22.25 per crate: pap per, 5(j7 per lb.; radishes, 10$12i Oats and vetch $12.00 Clover, per ton . $9.00 Cheat, per ton $11.00 Buttst and Eggs. Ilutterfat, per lb., f. o. b. Salem. 37e 'reamerr butter, per lb. ..37c Poultry. Fryers 12s DEWEY IS SEVENTY-SIX fOMiTCD rasas lsassd wis Washington, Dee. 26. Admiral' Dewey, hero of Manila Bay, was sev enty six years young today. His years did not keep him away from his desk and duties at the navy department, but the constant stream of callers to offer congratulations did. Besides "best wishes" Krsonally offered by high officials and friends in Washington, the Spanish-American war naval hero was literally showered with letters and telegrams of congratulations from all' over the coantrv.