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I 1 It is not ofteu thut oue has to record an net of heroism equal to that of Miss Marie Louise Kvuuh of Hythe, near Southampton, who succeeded the other day in rescuing throe people from drown iug by a combination of brilliant cour age andNkill. On the afternoon of Whit Sunday site was walking on the pier with a friend, whon a boat containing three persons capsized just off the shore. MiM Evhuh, who is mi accomplished swimmer, ran down the pier stops uno sprang immediately into' the wator tt IIAIIIR LOUISE EVANS. their rescue. She brought one of the party, a woman, to shore, then returned at once to the spot where the others, a man and a girl, were struggling in the water, and actually succeeded in keep ing them both afloat until a ropo was thrown from the pier. - ' By means of the rope the man was got ashoro, bnt the girl had a very nar row escape. She was sinking for the third time when Miss Evans dived after her and brought her to the surface. It ( is difficult to speak in ordinary terms of praise of ttnch a gallant feat as this ( a . feat which very few women, and not a great many men, could possibly accomplish. Miss Evans must possess, in addition to singular courage and strength, natatory powers of no common order. Hor example should impress upon all mothers the absolute necessity of having their children, girls as well as boys, taught to swim at the earliest age. There is, iu fact, no reason why a healthy child should not learn to sup port itself in the water almost as soon as it can walk. Scarcely a day passes during the sum iner months without a report of fntali ties on the son or rivor, while in more than half the cases the power to swim only a few strokes would have caused the saving of a valnuble life. Miss Evans was born at Hunipstoad in 1874 and educated at Oriel college, Belfast, under the able supervision of Mrs. Miles. She was taught to swim at Ban gor, Couuty Down, by her father, Dr Evans, Into of the Indian medioal serv ice, who has every roason to be proud of his pupil Lady a Pictorial, jf The Corrected Woman. The monster woman's demonstration in London, which, although carried out in behalf of temperance reform, enlisted the sympathies uud co-oporution of wo men in all walks of life and with the most unlike views, calls attention to the gradual chungo which is coming over the womuii agitation. Most, if not all, of the hysterical and theatric elements which disfigured tho movement and subjected it to inevitable ridicule have disappeared. The more sagacious uud temperate women have hud time to got to the front, and the clamorous womon who could not help imparting a termagant air to all they suid and did are being displaced. We bear Ichs about the elimination of man from the pluu of the universe uud are not wrought to wonder at the piercing desire of undeveloped damsels to live for themselves alone. Woman, having discovered herself en masse and with some violence, is now proceeding to correct herself with a finer reticence and, let us suy, with a bap pier sense of the relativity of things. Miss Maud Banks is no longer invited to WTithe publicly uuder "the hnrdou of creation" for man. Mrs. Kirk's warcry of "woman for woman" does uot wash, and Eliza Burt Gamble's discovery that man's organization is sufficient to ac count for all the evil in the world is scheduled along with the raudstone and the elixir of life. Even Miss Willard's patent for "lifting the sex out of mere sexhood into womanhood" is curiously associated with the latest flying ma china Some recognition is now due of the profound faith of man that woman sooner or later would settle down to the great work she had in band and do it with hor heart and ber conscience and not with her tongue. He never wavered iu his belief in her even while the flung Sarah Grand at him. He always said : "Some day Mrs. Lillie Devereux Blake will pass away. Then women will stop talking and go to work. When that day arrives, look oat, boys!" New York World. The King's DnikUn, The well known organiiation of King's Daughters has some energetio and earnest coworkers among the col ored women of New Orleans, who hare already established tp different circles, two af which are enrolled at the head quarters in this city and three in New Orleans. Nine years ago the benevolent pur-pom of the work of the king's Daughters was present! and made plain to the African-American women of New Orleans by tfie pastor of a ool ored church, who organized the circle callod tho Olivo Branch, and they have responded gonorously to the good cause, with much charity and kindly deeds to improve the condition of their race. Nearly all of tho members are either domestics or burdened with families who 'are more'or loss dependent on them for support, yet they give bountifully of life s weessmes in food and clothing and are ever roudy with . sympathy and cheering words. "Charity" is their ob ject, and "Faith in God" their motto. From this other' circles were 'formed, and the prop poet of growth in their work in very promising. The idea of tin or ganizatiuii of airy sort carries with it a certain excitement which is especially stimulating to the natural sympathy and desire to help each other which is characteristic of tho colored women, and they follow their- leader and enter into the spirit of the undertaking with great enthusiasm. One circle of 21 members makes be tween 800 and 400 visits to the poor in one monin, carrying groceries una a in tie money wherever they are most need ed. The Golden Rule circle gives espe cial attention to the needy poor who are old and decrepit. The Women's Beuev olent association, formed in Now Or leans over 60 years ago, is still flourish' iug, with a branch organization of young women, and besides there are many benevolent societies composed of both sexes, whose members are assured a physioiun in oose of illness, and a re spectable burial as well, but this charity bos a rival in an insurance company re cently formed, which,, for 10 cents a week, guarantees a certain sum for fu neral expenses. New York Sun, The Sunbonnet Tote In Mew Zealand. In one of the big towns in New Zea land the nominating convention chose as candidate. after a heated session a man whose morals were not blameless, and who in addition hud objected to the edu cation of womon, on the ground that it spoiled thorn for housekeeping. The news spread from the nominating con vention half through the town. In that hot climate many of the women wear large sunbonnets, something like the poke bonnets which are in vogue in the country towns of our ' own country. There were a number of women in the grocery store buying buttor and provi sions when the news arrived. There was brief interchange of remarks, and ev ery ouoweut directly homo. The houses there are separated by fences or trellises covered with roses, morning glories and scarlet creepers. In two minutes after their arrival home each woman had repaired to her fonce, called up her neighbor on either side and had transmitted the tidings with more or less emphatio opinions upon the action of the convention. Per sons who pussed that afternoon said that wherever they went they saw nothing but couples of sunbonnets in earnest but subdued conversation. Within an hour every woman in the town had been com municated with in suubonnot fashion. Before breakfast, it is said, every hus band had pledged himself to an indig nant wife. The campaign, a brief one, went through with singular apparent apathy. The luckless candidate, who had been fearful that his past would be overhaul ed, was joyful and confident of election by a hundsome majority, but when the votes were counted lifl was buried by a majority so large as to astound every politician iu the colony. The next duy the only newspaper which had support ed him in the district announced its dis comfiture in 'ae simple lines, "Bo was buried forever by 8,000 snubouuets. " New York Mail and Express. Nothing to Fear If Women Tote. Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, in con versation on her favorite topio, woman's suffrage, suid the other day : "There is a great doal of nonsense talked about women neglecting their homos because they think that they are entitled to the ballot Do yon suppose that women love their children less be cause they want to elect a president of the United States? Is patriotism not in harmony with the virtues of parental love and domesticity? If people would only bring common sense to their aid, they would not make such foolish re marks. Someof the best mothers in this country are interested in woman's suf frage. It is an ennobling causa That's what it is." Borrowed Small Change For Bobber. It takes a woman's wit to get the bet ter of train robbers. While the high waymen were taking up their little col lection on the Oregon express the other day, an old lady at the rear end of the car asked a gentleman near her to loan her a little change. Four dollars were handed to her, which she gave the rob bers when asled for her money. After the affair was over, the old lady repaid the loan from the purse of gold she had held up" by. ber adroit trick. Los Angeles Herald. A Parliamentary Authority. The Massachusetts state federation has adopted Mrs. Shattuck's "Woman's Manual" as its authority in parliamen tary procedure, thereby following the example of the New York federation, which did the same thing last autumn. A new edition of this book, revised and enlarged by Mrs. Shattuck, is to be is sued soon. - A Boston girl now in London writes home that she could not gain admittance to any so called respectable hotel in Lnadon because sbe was alone, though the had considerable luggage and show ed her passport and letter of credit. A HUNTINGTON COLONY. Scheme to Populate Northern) California With Poor Parmer. A dlfpatcb from Sun Frunoisoo says thut Coins r. Huntington is interested in a big scheme of colonization on 103,- 000 acres of rich luud in northern Call iornia. Austin uormn, it will be re membered, recently brought ovor a ship loud of Italians for set t lemon t on bis plantation in Arkansas. Mr. Hunting ton, it is suid, will want American cit izens for his colony. The luud is now practically unfilled, as loss than 800 people are ou it. The pluu is to cut it up into farms of 20 and 40 acres each, one farm for each colo nist. Two mnin features of the plan the erection of houses and the distribution of any surplus derived from the sales of the property among the purchasers of the first 10,000 acres were, it is'said, particularly insisted upon by Mr. Hunt iugtou. The idea is not to make monev for the promoters, but to get settlers for the sparsely inhabited regions of north ern California. It is believed that hun dreds of poor farmers eking out a scanty existence ou unproductive and overworked r.ew England farms will be glad to start life anew in this country, COMI8 P. IIUKTINOTOIf. which is as fertile as any on earth. It is calculated that iu ten years 800,000 people will be living on the 163,000 acres. Houses, schools and churches will be built for the colonists, but they will not scattered. Each section of 10,000 acres will have its group of buildings and will be a township. Thus the set' tiers will have the benefit of social iu tercourse. The first of these townships ill be named Hnntingtonville, it is said, in honor of the projector of the colony. According to the dispatch, Mr. Hunt ington's agents will in a few weeks be gin the task of interesting the poor farmers of the east, especially those in the loss fertile parts of New England Colonists will, it is said, be carried free of charge over Mr. Huntington's rail road the Southern Pacific. Mr. Huntington was asked if it were true that he intends to follow the ex amples of Mr. Cnrbin, George M. Pull man and Baron Hirsch. While apparent ly denying he really confirmed the story by Baying, "There is nothing in it' just at preseut. " New York World. A LONG TRAMP. Fifteen Hundred Mile Walk Just Fin. lied by One Family. Charles Roberts, his wife and three children have just finished a 1,500 mile walk from the interior of Texas to their old home in Delaware county, Iud. Roborts removed to Texas some years ago, but failed there, and things went so badly thut lust summer there seemed nothing but starvation ahead, so he de termined to roturn to his old friends iu is old home. He hud no money to spend iu railway fares uud decided thut the only thing to do was to walk. The youngest child a boy, aged 7, and the other two chil dren, a boy uud a girl, are twius, 12 yours old. Roberts suys they walked the whole of the distance except about 25 miles. They had a little money, and the furiuers all along their route treated them with greut kindness. Parents uud children were in good shape physically at the end of their tramp, but showed many evidences of the long walk and exposure in all kinds of weather. Tale and Princeton to Play Memphis. Yale and Princeton are to meet at football as comrades, not as foes. The joint eleven to play the Memphis Ath letic club teuni at Memphis ou Deo. 26 has been decided upon as follows : Cen ter, Harry Cross, Yale; guards. Wheeler and Riggs, Princeton; tackles, Church of Princeton and Alexander Brown of Yale; ends, Cochrane of Princeton and Treadway of Yale; quarter back, Poe of Princeton ; half backs, Lettou and Jer rems of Yale ; full back, Pope of Prince ton. The White Necktie. We bear much about the frequency of the white cambric necktie among the new members of congress, and we re joice in that conclusive evidence of ar tistic temperament combined with tech nical skilL Tbe mind which can grasp the process of adjusting a white necktie in such a way that it will be recogniza ble can run a great republic with its little finger, we guess. Detroit Tribune. Chora of States. We came from sylvan triumph Into fame' perplexing way. Our hair 1 full of laurel leaves. Our crapbouka full of praiae. We were summoned from our plowshares To conduct this hemisphere. And we know just whit we're doing If we do look queer. The ercat men of all nation Hare met personal abuse. Ton may do your beat to scare as. Bat it len t any use, and when history calls "next trmrr" We are what she means, it' dear. It' a new deal, and we're la It If we do luuk queer. Waabiagtoa Star. A HYPNOTIC MAYOR. 8TRANGE POWERS ATTRIBUTED J. C. MONTGOMERY. Could Go to Cong-re Prefere to Stay at Home and Enjoy HI Wealth Cure Hopeless Case by Persoual Magnetism. People have wondorcd for years why J. C. Montgomery, mayor of the town tf thut same nuuie iu West Virginia, should be the most popular muu in the whole section aud how he cume to bo elected inuyor of his home town, term after term in succession, till no ouo cuu remember when he was not at the head of tbe muuicipul government. Thut Montgomery bud qualities which always render their possessors popular could not be denied. . To begin with, he is a giunt iu stature, stundiug over 6 feet, having a splendidly proportioned body, heud aud limbs. He wears a heavy red beard and a slouch hut and is quite good looking. Ho is rich, good nuturcd, easy going, knows every man, woman and child in the valley and culls them by their first numes, aud is a good fel low in every reputable sense of the word. The squire is modest too. .He is a Democrat, uud the town gives 800 Re publican majority, bnt tbut mukes no difference iu the certainty of Montgom ery's election evety time a mayor is to be chosen. He lias hud opportunities to go to cougress aud the legisluture, but be has refused all of them, preferring to rest content with modest honors among his own people. But now, aitnougn tnese qualities are good reasons for popularity, tbe true reason tor Montgomery a power over ins fellows is coming out. Montgomery is a hypnotist. He did not know it, and hud never used his force voluntarily till about a year ago, when be became in terested iu a pcculiur case of blindness, wbero a poor miner lust his sight in the mines, on account, as tho doctors suid, of the degeneration of the optic nerves, from constant work aud t he durk. Mont gomery tried his influence upon the man. He decided thut if his will power and that of the putient could be sufficiently controlled aud directed toward restoring the lost sight, it would be accomplished. Montgomery called at the minor's home day after day and expatiated on his the ory to the patient, till at lust there was a partial return of the sight. The work was kept up for fully a mouth, until the miner was able to go to work, aud now he cun see very well with the aid of a pair of spectacles. His second case was that of a man afflicted with rheumatism, who hud not been able to walk for several years. Montgomery tried rubbing the patient's legs with bis hands, aud concentrating his thoughts on a belief that the work would be effective. The rheumatio was not cured, but he was relieved so much that he could walk about, and the pnin almost disappeared. A physiuiun's reme dies were applied and now the patient is almost sound. The next person to be relieved by tbe healer was Judge Bruzie of the Fuyette county orimiuul court. After the mine riots of last year he was completely broken down aud forced to take to his bed from nervous prostration. He had eminent medical utteutiou, but it did little good, and a trip for rest and health did not revive bim. Mr. Montgomery, a close personal friend, called on Bruzie one duy uud suid he believed he could do him good. He held Brazio's heud in his hands for half an hour, stroking it gently and rubbing the buck of his neck. The next day Brazie wus so nearly well that he notified tbe temporary judge in churge of his court thut he would as sume his duties uguin the following Monday, which he did. He has been a well man since. From time to time others came to be healed of rheumutism and other com mon ills, and iu ueurly ull cuses Mont gomery was successful. However, there were many cases in which he wus not entirely successful, and in some no re lief wus given. He made no pretensions and promised no one to do more thuu try his power. From some of those who were able to pay uud offered money be accepted it, but be wus not muking a business of heuling and usked thut as little as possible bosaid about his work, as the people calling ou him seriously interfered with bis personal desires as to the manner of spending his time. The local newspapers had been print iug news of his work from time to time, and quite an interest bus been created among prominent people. Atthe request of several promiueut men and two or three newspaper men he recently con sented to give an exhibition of bis pow er, provided the spectators would fur nish tbe patient. The editor of Tho Evening Mail suggested John C. Herr mann, who, as every one about there knows, has been coufiued to his bed most of the time for two years with rheumatism. Tbe party repaired to Herr mann's house on the south side without notifying bim they were coming. Herr mann was found in bed, groaning with agony and drawn almost double. Montgomery, who had never met the patient, went to the bed, threw the cov ers back, bored Herrmann's limbs and began rubbing tbem. Herrmann and his wife hardly knew what to think of tbe performance, but they allowed it to go on under assurance from those present that it was all right . After perhaps ten minutes Montgom ery told Herrmanp to get up. Herrmann smiled incredulously, but made no effort to move. Montgomery insisted, and Herrmann tried. He rose without diffi culty and stood on tbe floor, amazed. Montgomery then told bim to dance. In a minute the invalid realized that be was not being trifled with and began hopping about the room in ecstasy. He could jump, run and skip about Jike a boy, and so happy was he that he could not control his desire tonse his legs and arms and screamed and laughed with joy tbe while. Herrmann went to work iu threw days and has had neither pain nor stiffness since. Ex-Governor E. W. Kil aun was a member of tbe party who saw this cure. Philadelphia Prwo. STORIE8 OF THE DAY. . tatasastlM and Tnurie Starr of Toon TU Inm, Oeorge G. Symes was one of a family of ten children living in JUornon coolie, aear the Mississippi, iu westorn Wis cousin. It was in that vicinity that I portion of tho boyhood of Hamlin Oar land was Duiwd. Both were furmor boys. Young Symes grubbed stnmps plowed, drugged, planted, sowed, hoed, crudlod, mowed, dug, thrashed, fed pigs, milked vows uud marketed crops uino mouths in the year. The other three ho was a student iu one of the colleges of the masses uta crossroad. At 18 he walked to La Crosse in sourcb of a chance to study luw uud found it in I ho office of J. W. Losey. By the time be bud niastored the art of sweeping and dusting, replacing books iu the li brary uud errand running Mr. Lincoln wautod volunteers. Young Symes retired from the law business and enlisted. His regiment was at Bull Rnii and one of the first at Washington the next morn ina. though it fought as well as any. It was mude up of hardy western boys, used to fast walking. They scorned to let the cuvulry puss tbem until the v ush- ingtun end of Long bridge was reached. Symes, though slightly wounded, trav eled with the fast moving procession, quickening his step with the rest, when some one suid he heard the clutter of the Black Horse cavalry in pursuit. It was better for the nation and mankind thut the victorious southerners did not run n foot race with their brothers of tho north thut hot and eventful July night, or Washington would have fallen. Symes was a stnneut, ou observer, a great render when off duty. He fre quently visited the halls of congress. He wonld sit for hours and watch the greut men and listen to their debates. "Jim, some of these times othors will watch aud listen to me as we watch aud listen to our congressmen." In 1 862 Symes was made adjutant of the Twenty-fifth, of which the late Governor Rusk was major, and luter its commander. In a few months he blos somed into Captain Symes. In one of the battles on the road to Atlanta, iu 1864, Symes was dungerously wounded and -sent home to die. He didn't die. There was a cull for more regiments. Tbe governor sent him a commission ax colonel. His regiment served in Tennes see and Keutncky. It was at or near Pa dncuh when the war ended. Symes, as a private, sergeant, adju tant, captain and colonel hud studied a great doul. He was a well informed man nnd had made a good deal of head way in the law nt the end of the wur. He had developed into a flue, intellec tual appearing man. Freckles and sandy hair do not count against a' muu. or woman of bright eyes, on intellectual face aud a fair form. Noticed that, haven't you? I shall remain at Paducoh," Symes said. A few lawbooks were bonght, a room rented, a sign painted, and within six months Lawyer Symes was a man of note in thut part of Kentucky. A man who had hud a steamboat taken aud wrecked wanted Symes to take the case. "It is an important case, sir. I want a retainer of tu.000." "I haven't that many cents'." "Do you expect me to work for glory and amusfiment?" "No; I expect to give yon half of. my claim for $80,000." "That will do, I guoss." Night and day for weeks tho steam- bout cuse wus given his best thought. The case was won, and Symes banked $40, 000. His name and fame were soon abroad. Business rolled in upon him from all Bides. He mude money rapidly. No one was anxious for the Republic an nomination for congress in the Pa ducoh district. The convention ad journed while a delegate ran over to Symes' office. "Colonel, we ve got to have a candi date for congress. Will you accept the nomination?" "When do you want my answer?" "Now; the conveution is waiting. " "I'll take it." Being a ready speaker, he stumped the district Both candidates claimed the election, but the Democrat was giv en tbe certificate. Symes contested and lost. "Sorry I can't sit in the gallery and hear Congressman Symes this winter," remarked skeptical Jim. "Wait a spell," said tho colonel While in Washington Symes became acquainted with President Grant, who took quite a fancy to him. One day Grant asked him bow he would like to go to Montana as a judge. He liked the idea, but it did not meet his expecta tions npon trial Statehood and a sen atorship were far away. He resigned and weut to Colorado. In time be be came one of tbe best mining lawyers there and was a rich man 15 years ago. In 1884 he was elected to congress and re-elected in 1886, when his appetite was appeased. Life as a congressman did not suit him as well as he thought it would back in 1861, when he aud Jim were interested onlookers. Colonel Sanies wus a hard worker. He showed himself no mercy. When tbe crash came in 1893, he worked harder than ever. Suddenly the mental machin ery flew out of cog ; be was nervously prostrated. Still he tried to work. One duy iu July of that year be was found at his desk dead. Other cogs bad slip ped ; the brilliant mind was running wild; sleep was a stranger to him; be could not control his thoughts any more than a bulie a raid stop the flow at Ni agara. He committed euicide while working 20 hours a day before the cogs began to slip, as many another bat done and a countless others will da George G. Symes was a good soldier. an houest muu, a fine lawyer, a faithful pnblio servant, a self made man, aud the world could have spared a battalia of other men better than it could him Colonel J. A. Watraua in Chicu i Timcfe-Herald. FOR LITTLE FOLKS. A Coming Champion. Leslie Schiano of Roslindale, Mass., 6 years of age, is able to accomplish rides which many an older rider would hard ly attempt Twenty-five miles a day is not too much for bim, and he has been known to make a run of M miles in 20 min utes. L. A. W. Bulletin. The Punctaatlon Points. Bix little mark from school are we. Very Important all agree, 1 Filled to the brim with mystery, ' Biz little mark from school. One little mark is round and small, But where It stands the voice must full At the close of a sentence oil Place this little mark from school. One little mark with gown a-trailing Holds up the voice, never failing. Tells you not long to pnuse when hairing Tbia little mark from school. If ont of breath you chance to meet Two little dots, both round and neat. Pause, and these tiny guardsmen greet These little murk from school. . When shorter punses are your pleasure. One truil his sword takes half the oat ure, Then speeds you on to seek new treasure. This little murk from school. One little mark, ear shaped, implies, "Keep up tne voice uwuit replies," To gather tnforniution tries, " Tbi little mark from school. One little murk with an exclamation Presents itself to your observation And I "liven the voice ut an elevation, Tbi little mark from school. Biz little mnrksl Bo sure to heed as. Carefully study, write and read us. For you onn never cease to need oa, Bix little murks from school. -St. Nicholas! Swiss Boy. Switzerland, strange to say, celebrates the anniversary of its independence only every 100 years, and the sixth anniver sary took place uot long since. One would almost imagine that the Swiss youth would almost forget his country if this natioual fete, coming ut such long intervals, was the only festival But it is not Switzerland is the land of heroism, and so many aud various are tho historical events that euch vil lage and town bus numerous celebrations and military displuys. Tho boys ou these occasions turn out with ull kinds of in struments, musical and unmusical Alpine horns, drums, cuttle bolls, whips, tin kettles and pass through I he streets making as much noise as possibla Ibe costumes in Switzerland ure numerous and picturesque. Among Alpine herd boys a noticeable pretty dress is the short dark trousers, blno blouse und black silk cap, with its bright red bor der. New York Mail and Express. He Hit the Kaiser. One day lust winter the German em peror und empress, whilo out sleigh rid ing, came across throe little boys iu tho Thiorgarteu who were so-busy suowhnll ing as to overlook the imperial couple's approach until quite close, uud then chance had it that one of the snow ha IU hit the monarch on the nose. Did it hurt you, Herr Kaiser?" ask ed the little culprit iu so anxious a tone to set emperor and empress both laughing. "You can hit me," resumed tho little fellow, "and we'll call it square." At which there was more laughter. Tho emperor took the boy's address. and next day sent him a comical me mento of the incident No Core. "Give ns a bite of yer apple. Billy T' "Shan't" "Well, leave us a bit of the core. " "There ain't goin to bcuocur." Sketch. Read IU Punch has given us a song said h have been sung before Queen Victoria by a Chinese lady. Although formi -iabht looking, patient study will permit even mall lads and lassies to read this kind of Chinese : Ohe ometn r rt- aoho pwit haw, Andh nra no oixlo f thl t, Ta-illpr oviwii imU x u-lnntt ea. Irg nt lii ysl Iwl lla tte at. Tun nlyf mink Uli ngs apo nad, 8ne onset otbet earns rtaa dtry, Vnh ettere anel awwk erebefo) ad. On hate ayoth r aeedb ay