MEDFORD DAILY TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREOON, MONDAY. DECEMBER 28, 1908.
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IMMORTALITY.
Immortality is the fairest, flower In Hie garden of faith
some call it superstition. The promise of a hereafter,
where all present wrongs are righted in the light of eter
nal day. is solace to the afflicted, hope to the discouraged
and inspiration to the world-worn. It is the blossom of
brimming June, which in all ages has cheered the heavy
laden. '' . ' ,
To see once more long-lost loves, to touch again the
silent chords of memory, to awaken the forgotten melodies
of the soul, to clothe our dreams with the cloth of golden
realities, to magically rebuild from the ashes of failure
the splendor of desires was not this promise allurement
enough to hold humanity in its spell for centuries i
"
The belief in immortality, like so many of the softer
and more beautiful theories of religion, is probably of
pagan origin. It was brought from wicked Babylon by the
.Hebrews who had absorbed t during the captivity. There
was no rainbow promise of heaven in the stem religion
of Moses, who taught tiud-f caring virtue. Jehovah of the
ancient Jews, punished transgressions in the flesh and
rewarded the faithful with substantial prospcritv. Con
fu cius, the philosophers of Greece and Rome, and nearlv
all early religious leaders taught, virtue as its own reward
and enunciated the principle of the golden rule as the guide
to happiness.
Willi the scientific progress of the world in the last
century came a reaction against the stereotyped beliefs
of religion, and a wave of materialism swept the nations.
People refused to believe longer in such doctrines as the
eternal-damnation of innocent babes and a host of cher
ished delusions went: overboard. The orthodox hell, aptly
described 'as; ;' ; j i ' .
s , !'A .boiling, .seething, bottomless pit,
i - ' Whero ooi-)1;uiumhI sinners forever sit,
U ,' ; (And boil and stew and bake and fry,
Gnawed by the worms that never die"
was discarded as a discord in a gospel of infinite love. So
was the orthodox' heaven, with its endless processions of
chanting angels. Agnosticism ruled the circles of culture
and the popular conception of heaven and hell conformed
more nearly to that of the old Persian Omar :
"1. sent my soul into the invisible,
Some letter of the after life to spell;
And bye and bye my soul returned to me
And said: '1 myself am heaven and hell:
Heaven but the vision of fulfilled desire.
And hell the shadow of a soul on fire. "
There are indications now that another reaction is
replacing the unbelief of the materialist with faith faith
so great that it moves mountains and accomplishes mirac
ulous cures. We know so much nowadays that we are be
ginning to realize how little we really do know about this
complex creature called man. There are a dozen new re
ligious movements in America, all of which are alive with
The wondrous vitality of faith. As taught by
Christ, both body and soul are mended. We do not know
how, but. we know that faith makes the lame to walk, the
deaf to hear and the blind to see now as in the days of the
lowly Xazarene.
Through the blight of materialistic pessimism, the hope
of immortality still lingered like
"The sound of music heard ere birth
A spirit lute touched on a spirit se-i. "
The finite mind cainot grasp the infiirte. The why
and wherefore remain unsolved mysteries. We know not
whence nor whither; yet in each of us Ir.rks rniething of
infinity the whispers and the shadows, suggestions of
other davs and times, "of births far back, of -ives in dis
tant star's."
There is no scientific proof that the soul from whicl
WHAT PAPERS SAY
APPLE GROWING
(Northwest Horticulturist)
Tho great apple show wliii-h has just
closed in Spokane, was au innovation
to the commornul world. It was an
inspiration to all fortunute enough to
see it, and the growers have been stim
ulated with confidence, eal and re
newed determination. The captains of
transportation have at last caught the
idea that the future apple crops of the
Pacific Northwest will command more
tlmn ordinary service. Up to the time
the Northern Pacific liailway comjmny
carne under the control of the Hill
family of financiers the policy was
to fostor in every " way possible the
fruit industery, , by providing ample
facilities for tmn:porlatiiin. J'dr the
past four years, as ulong the Great
Aortlieru.fruit growers, have complained
bitterly aud fur neglect' of proper at
tention in time one of these lines at
least, has been punished by having had
to pay heavy damage claims to shippers.
Tlie stockholders of this compauv seem
to he dlouly getting their eyes open to
at least one im-oiu-iHtoncy as to the
manner iu which the road hns been
li'iindelcd. Although promises ;m; nueli
for adequate service, comim'reial fruit
grov.-ers wouhl.be considerably Worried
were it not for new lines xww building
to tlio cost. Like the apple show itsoll',;
the now lines are an inspiration even to
present operating roa.ls as well as to the
fruit growers.
The Pjieilic Nurlhwest is fast becom
ing a leruler iu the production of apples
for the commercial markets both for
In, inn and abroad, flint fuel is conced
ed by nil in position to know. It is
due to favorable elimatic conditions,
soils contain ;i hi.'Ii per cent of avail
able supply to potash ;ind other neccem
ary elements of fertility combined with
ample moisture under perfect control
for proper application lit seasons of
growing iemperiittire. Strict liortieultu
ri:l laws have served to fix il high sluml
ord iu the minds of growers end the
ensinopoliti:!!! spirit of our people wiiil"
in friendly rivalry from u local stunt!
point, sland us a unit in lU'velopilig dis
tant markets.
In the control of insect pests, apple
growers are becoming thoroughly skilled
thanks to the workers at the experi
ment stations, who are saving
t lioiisamls of ilollurs iu this one class
of fruit, 'the planting of cniuinerciul
apple orclmrds inuy be s.'it'ely continued,
but attention nhotild be given to the
adeptibilily of pnl'ticulnr varieties lo
a locality with an aim to suit the innr
ket Intended to reach.
Adopt the most modern methods of
culture and handling in order to keep
down ns low as possible the cost of
producing, u good, or high class, solu
ble product. Apple eating will never go
out of fashion and markets will be de
veloped more easily in the future than
in the past, and they will also como to
us, for the population will become very
druse in thin part of tile country. Aim
thin to meet the demands of both the
high priced and the low priced markets.
so is to realize a profit in either ense.
Dear Reader-
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atriu'turral materials, a body composed
of the most distinguished engineers and
scientific men of the country, gathered
hero to discuss the work now under
way at the arsenal testing station of
the United States government in this
city.
At the close of tho session "Richard
L, Humphrey of Philadelphia, the sec
retary of the board nnd the engineer
in charge of the structural materials
investigations by the government, said:
' ' We have some tremendous problems
before us which we are aiming to solve.
Our principal work is in an earnest en- '
deavor to reduce the number of deaths
in coal mines.
"Another phase of tho work relates
to stopping the wasto not only in min
ing coal, but also in its utilization.
"The government is also endeavor
ing to save the timber resources. Ac
cording to Chief Engineer Pinchot, the
lumber supply, with the present increas
ing rate of consumption, cannot last be
yond 35 years.
"Last year fire losses in the United
Stntes amounted to the tremendous total
of $21ff000,000. This is from six to ev
entimes the firo losses of Europe. Three
fourths of the; entire loss in tho United
State occurred in frame buildings,
which means faulty, defective contsruc-tion."
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