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About Jacksonville post. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1906-19?? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 8, 1908)
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦•♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦••♦» about the future. Countless promising Ilves have been wreckeii by this ♦ Topics of ♦ gloomy phantom, fear. Could we all put away all of these Illusions and | rivlnltl»»s. which drain onr Ilf«* for i‘H. the ♦ j nil ilevote nil of our energy to the ♦♦♦♦♦♦<♦♦♦ W ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ sential things that II«* ever close hand, the progress of humanity wo No man ever had a cold that a thou tie amazing. sand other men couldn't cure In thirty minutes. Tlie failure of Harry Thaw to ob tain Ills release from custody is a The- present Czar of Russia has highly »l«*sirabh* outcome of th** h;ibe.is reached the ripe old age—for u Czar — corpus pro<*e«sllngs instituted in his be of 4<i years. half. There is no doubt the effect upon Wizard Burbank might render a val a public opinion already sufficiently uable service by developing a sensa- cynical as to the elficlencv and roetl- tilde of our laws would have been of tionless Gould family. the worst If Thaw bad proceeded so Why Is It that "strange tongue p ro promptly from the dock to absolute (Inly one interpretation phecles” never foretell anything that freedom. would have been put ujion this se- Is grand and glorious? quen«*e by the average American— As the years roll by everylsxly will namely: that evasion of law Is th«* tie anxious to hear how that girl who secure privilege of the rich. The rough married the first man she met is get- reasoning of the public at large would have brushed ashh* the possibility of ting along. recovery and would have struck Those old timers who accumulated straight at the fact that by a 11lierai big fortunes couldn't afford to bother exjamditure from the Thaw millions with divorce courts. It was much "experts" and shrewd counsel had first inure convenient to live happily. saved Thaw from the cons«**pi**nces of Ills net by establishing one hyi»othesis If Prime Helle de Sagan says many nml then saved him from til«* eons«*- more unpleasant things about the news ipienees following upon tills hypothesis papers they will retaliate by omitting by repudiating It. Insane delusion all mention of him in their columns. sometimes is cured. But the Judg«* who committed Thaw to Matteawan London, It appears, does not under gave ft as his opinion, based upon the stand George Ade's "College Widow,” opinion of authorities in alienism, that but then there are a go»sl ninny Ameri Thaw's type of aberration was Incur cans who cannot solve the mystery of able. This dechiration wouhl have the “rah-rah boy.” given to the popular opinion n final lertalnty that Thaw had evaded the Andrew Carnegie says the United law. Happily the public has escaped States has the worst monetary system this disturbing eoneluslon and the ad in the world. Yet some men have ae- ministration of justlee lias been saved cumulated quite satisfactory wads of from another blow in the popular esti* money under that system. matlln. It is devoutly to be hoped that, not only for the safety of those The latest news from Breathitt upon whom a recurrance of Thaw's County. Iiy., is to the effect that the mania might be wreaked but for the undertakers still get an occasional Job welfare of the public nt large, the or two with the assistance of men with courts of New York will not take a grudge against each other. chances with his case. When Thaw Is proved sane anil permanently «aired If an American countess will go beyond a reasonable doubt, let him be boating on the Laborcza River near allowed to go free. But not till that Ooremezoe. Puszta and Ferencys she proof is given. must expect to have the boat tip over or some other disaster happen. A BEDROOM IN A TREE. —■ ... , A Baltimore doctor who operated on Sleeping outdoors in a rudely con- fl man for apendlcltls discovered that the victim's appendix had previously structed house erected among branches been removed. We are assured thnt of a high walnut tree In the heart of ♦he operation was entirely successful. Flatbush, N. Y., Is the novel method a young man has taken of "getting near “Why be downcast?" asks the In to nature.” The “tree house.” as the dianapolis News. "At least you don't |>eople In the neighborhood call It, is have any tire troubles with your lawn located on the lawn surrounding the mower." Oh. don't we? Perhaps you don’t know how the machine tires us every few days. ; Times 4 lÛ 4» Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects THE INTAMY OF BLACKMAIL. AM an old fool,” and so were David, the ln*ro. and Solomon, the sage; but Thomas Platt, as a sequel to his folly, has eon- ferred on society a material benefit in tliat he challenged the blackmailer and that whole tribe of moral lepers, compared with whom the assassin and the thief are ex emplary characters. How many millions are extortml from men in high places as the price of secrecy the world will never know. It is tlie basest of all multifarious ex pedients of crime and the most cowardly. The “Black Hand” carries terror to those against whom It is aimed, but compared with the secret nml noiseless work of the social blackmailer the “Black Hand” is a rather respect able method of diabolism. It carries a knife with which to relieve its victim of his wretchedness, and takes its own life in hand when it makes the venture. We arc persuaded that the act of Piatt in refusing the demands <»f Mae Catherine Wood and the act of Justice O’Gorman in sending the woman to prison will work wonders for the peace of society. It was a brave thing to do when Platt appealed to the court of justice, and would that every oilier man so beleaguered would do as much. Though his sin were scarlet, the public would applaud his service to society. The murderer may be a daring man, and so the thief; but your blackmailer is ever a coward, and It only newls to defy him to be rid of him. All other infamy shrinks to venial sin compared to tin* moral iniquity of the man or woman who demands a price for silence. -Washington Post. KEEP THE SCHOOLHOUSE 0PE7I. IIY should our schools be closed during the sun.mer? is It to give the teachers a vacation? They certainly need It, but could not sub stitutes he found? Is It for the sake of economy? What worse economy is there than that which provides conditions which not only lead to the tremendous expense of courts ami reformatories, but to the infinitely greater cost of lives that have been ruined through that mischief which Satan finds for idle hands? Boys and girls might be injured by a twelve months' application to books? There are other things than books in our education. The vacation school should teach something else than winter school. Why not tench a trade? Or play? At any rate, boys and girls ought to be kept off the street, And it makes no difference whether tin* street is In the city of in the small town. A great many of us think that the small town street Is as demoralizing as the city street. Notwithstanding all our talk about the new education, our schools still can be Improved. But the reform that is needed Is not so mill’ll in the curriculum ns In the con ception of the very purpose of school. It Is all very well to discuss "Frills" and the “Three It's." but let us open our eyes to s nuething more fundamental, The welfare of the community demands training in self-restraint and plain decency. When that happy day for which we all come to our senses, we shall the State is not to teach boys and girls for nine months in the year and then turn them loose for thr»*e months; we shall see to It that if fathers and mothers forsake their children, then the State shall take them up- -Into school, not Jail. If It Is the duty of the school to keep growing children from bud influences in the winter, it is even more its duty to keep children from evil In the sum- mer.—The World To-1 lay. WE WANT LOWER CALIFORNIAP CALIFORNIA Congresman wants tills country to buy I.ower California. The Im mediate prompting of such a purpose Is the advantage of Magdalena Bay ns a naval station. Although Lower California is, gen erally speaking, a «lesohite ami d«*s«*rt»*d stretch of territory. Magdalena Bay Is a superb lmrbor; its w ill«* and «1«*« p waters an* prot«*cted by a natural breakwater, the Island of St. Margarita. Here tin* battleship fleet engaged in target practice, by permission of th«* Mexican government, which, however, iefused its consent to small arms practice on shore. The United States might have taken Lower California at the «•lose of the war with Mexico, but there was no reason to believe that it would have been In th«* least useful. Mexico «loes not now* find Its possession of any material benefit; but such Is national sentiment In the matter of territory that it Is Improbable that slit* wouhl consider favorably an offer to buy it. As an available half-way anchorage between the west coast ami the Panama canal, the harbor «muid probably be made serviceable to the tl«*ets of the United States, es|>echilly In event of war. Providence Journal. N view of all that has been said about the fall in the death rate, it seems strange to realize that we are not living so long as our grandfathers and grandmothers did. More babies live to grow up nowadays than formerly, but people in later life die younger. Once arrived at adult age, the average man i or woman has few years of survival to ex- pent. This seems on the face of ft so surprising a state ment that in order to be accepted it should be backed up by data authentic and Indisputable. Such data are furnished by the figures of the Insurance companies (which all agree on the isdnt), but It Is easier to refer to the government census reports, which tell the tale In simple and convincing fashion. Even «luring the last fifteen years the death rate among all persons over 55 years of age of both sexes lias risen very considerably.— Health Culture. A PLEA FOR A VERMIN-EXTERMINATOR—THE BARN-OWL. No w«*ather r«*port r«*ceiv«*d, ho wi * republish thnt of yesterdny.” n «•«•rtnin villnge neivsp:ipei* iinuounced, oil n tempestuoliH dny when the ivires were 'down, '1'lie «ilitor of a more enterpris ing sheet <H»I better lie proc«*e(l**d to make gn.iil the deficiency himself. "Feeling sun* that our readers will Wish to learn th«* prolmbilltieH, official ly or otherwise,” lie «le»*lm'«*<l, confiden tially. "we have taken personal pains to iiai'crtiiln them, We first consulted that respected authority. Squirt ■ jury discovering incidentally : ?n,ss<*<l the pond that the * it*e is not Boys, firm enough fur skating, warning I and as we sat on 1 the •tep emptying the water out * of boots, sipiire gave us his views ■ from I the hull. As we were wetter than a drowned rat. and sh«Hik off showers with «‘very shiver, he did not, out of respect for Mrs. Pedbury's carpets, ask us in. We would have appreciated •f he had. but cannot wonder, “Squire opines the wind down with the sun; that there will a big drop In the thermometer by mid night, mid dear, cold weather to-nmr- row. "Our confidence In his Judgment is such that we were returning satisfied, when on the corner we blew violently Into the arms of Cap'n Ebenezer Tuttle, In the Spring, Etc. "Perhiipa it's ov«*rsensltivem*ss on my wlm disentmigled us from Ilfs muffler with difficulty and warm language, but part,” remarked th«* old bachelor, "but subsequently consente«l to prognostl- from this tint* on until autumn sets hi 1 cate for publication, t'lip'll Eli says again In earneet I am going to 1...... .. the mercury will rise ns the wind tinuiilly embnrrassed by public love «Imps: that we are going to have a making. Last Sundny afternoon 1 went ! real springy, mild spell, and he'll bet for my usual stroll In the park, anil I ■ bls hat there'll lie a warm rain by suffered any number of minor shocks j to-morrow noon. He states that Squire from i*omlng on couples spooning on , I’wllitiry Is a fin«* man, but when it the benches along the paths. latter on coineH to wentber, Ills opinion Is not I had to ride down town In the subway, worth Hhucks. and I saw two more couples talking I "At our office door we encountere«l into each other’s faces as If there our esteemed subscrilier. Miss Lydia wasn't a human lielng within a mile Pettengll!. with whom we enjoytsl a of them. Of courue they don't mind pleasant »hat while rectifying her new But I hate to fa* put In the atti me. silk umbrella, which had blown InsId«* tude of an Intruder on love's young out. Miss Pettenglll differs from the dteam." I gentlemen with tinniest reluctance, and Is a little shy at print; but she Is i>e**- No Thonirht ful. Is* no present Nell—Yes, the count Is attentive to feetlv sure there will tie her. She admired some roses she saw change In temperature, nor will the In a florist's window they were passing wind subside, ns we are receiving the yesterday, so he had nome Rent up to first Installment of what Is bound to I m * a 'dry storm’ of several days' dura- her------ ♦Jon. Belle- I low thoughtfid ! "Our readers can take their choice. Nel!—Yes; C. O. D.—The Catholic Meanwhile the gale still howls, an»! Standard and Times. we can assure them, with a fervor A Good Man. unanimously share«! by our three au "Your dead husband wor a g<KH, thorities. that they will la* much more mon," declared the symiaithetlc Mrs * comfortable Indtairs conversing about Casey to the bereaved widow. I the weather than out«loors experiencing "He wor!” exclaimed Mrs. Murphy, It." Youth's Companion. dashing the tears from her eyes. • "N 1 There never were men like the Ulen two ¡mllcemin cud handle him."—Judgu | at* expect our neighbors <o la*, .*^U> MAJ. GEN I Oue of I WILSON. the Mile Nur» Itinti General« of the CH II War. Of the 253 major generals and thoM of superior rank, UjM.>n whom fell tlio military res|M»nsildlition of the held during the course of the Civil War, there an* only nine survivors. Of these Major General James Harrison Wilson, famous cavalry leader and en gineer officer. Is president of the Cav alry Society of the Armies of the Unit- *?d States. General Wilson was born in Shaw neetown, III., in 1837. IIis grandfather was one of the founders of Illinois and his father was an ensign in the war of 1812 and a captain in the Black Hawk War. General Wilson was edu cated at McKendree College and at the United States Military Academy, froii which he graduated in 1XGO. He was assigned to the corps of topographical engineers and was the chief engineer of the Port Royal expedition. He then served in the Department of the South, and acted as aide-de-camp to General George B. McClellan, being present at th<» battles of South Mountain and An tietam. Appointed lieutenant colonel in the volunteer staff of the army, in November. 1.862. lie served as chief en gineer and insist-tor genera) of the Army of the Tennessee, and was active in tile operations around Vicksburg. He l>eeame captain of engineers in May. 1863, and brigadier general of volun teers in October of that year ami was engaged in the operations near Chat tanooga. the battle of Missionary Ridge WE ARE DYING YOUNGER. WEATHER TO SUIT. It Is inh-rently misleading to say that our g. neral business prosperity "cam«* with the prosperity of the rail roads" as if the railroads had created IN T1IF their own prosperity first and had then home. A wooden stairway winds around invited tin* country nt large to share in it. or had set a pace In prosperity the tree’s trunk loading to the single making that the general business of chamber above, allowing an easy ascent the United States was quick to catch to be made. ’The entire structure is made of wood. tip with and follow. At first the Intention was simply to One of the largest cantilever bridges build a “crow’s nest,’’ where the “tree in tin* world will be opened to the pub sleeper” and his companions could se lic in the early i autumn, when the clude themselves on rainy afternoons bridge connecting Manhattan Island and days when it was too hot for ac with Long Island, . by way of Black- tive exercise. The “crow’s nest” did well’s Island, is I completed. The not prove to be large enough, so the tiridge will he In three spans, the long boys added n large platform, * which est of which is nearly twelve hundred forms what they call their piazza, This feet. The spans of the Firth of Forth piazza Is roomy enough for an ordl- cantilever bridge are each seveiit<>en nary sized dining room table and com- hundred feet long. The new bridge fortably accommodates six or elght carries two floors. On the lower one diners. Then the boys decided that they there will be four tracks for surface curs and a driveway for carriages. would like to see how it would feel to There will be four tracks for elevated sleep out In the open. They covered cars on the upper floor. besides two the top of tile house with panes of foot paths. This Is the third bridge glass, and this gave them all lire light, across the East Hirer between Man- day or night, they needed The trial liatten and Long Island, but It will worked so well that they declared tfiat not be the Inst. Work Is progressing i thereafter they would, while the weath rapidly on a fourth one, between the er was warm, sleep In the tree. We start out in life with a definite amount of possible energy. We can It as we please; but even with the best Intentions many pc»,pie use up a large part of their capital In worry, anxiety or b.v fretting over nonessen- tlals — trifles which have nothing whatever to <lo with their success. Many people go through life without ever getting full poss»*ssion of them selves. They do not seem nble to grasp their possibilities; they never develop the faculty of flinging their lives out with force and effectiveness along the line of their lient. They can use some of their faculties to advant- a go. n nd can do some things fairly well, but never come to a full know!- edge of their possible strength, If we could only learn to control our thought force and to sjiend It where It Is need ed. Instead of allowing it to ooze out or leak away In driblets on unimpor tant matters, what marvels we might accomplish! Some people spend half the power they generate In vain worry, bickering, splitting hairs over irrelerancles. Much of our possible success-energy Is waste»! through fear, which In all Its phases is the greatest curse to the human race—fear of fail ure. fear of Imaginary conditions and happenings thnt never come about, drend of criticism and forebodings •*» ♦ 2 Young Yanderbllt, In his character of "whip,” drives a conch and collects fares from his passengers. He Is mere ly reverting to first principles. Ills Illustrious ancestor, the commodore, made many a^diine in Ills early days as a ferryman. 0I1I Brooklyn Bridge and the new Wll- '■anislmrg Bridge. I '•r* v*. ■**' and the relief of Knoxville. Placed in command of the third division of the f’avalry Corps in the Army of the Potomac, lie bore a conspicuous part in the operations under General Philip H. Hheridan, including the Richmond raid I'lid the combats near Petersburg. He led his division through the Shenan doah campaign. Including the battle of Opequan, until October, 1864, when he was assigned to the command of the Cavalry Corps of tin» military division pf the Mississippi. Organizing a mount ed bodj of 15,000 men. he contributed largely to the success won in the west by the armies of General Thomas and General Sherman, particularly by his capture of Selma and Montgomery, and Columbus ami Macon. Ga. days lie captured five fortified »•¡ties. 2,'l stands of colors, 288 guns mid I1.N2O prisoners, among them Jef- Person I »avis. April. 1865, he was pro 'noted major general of volunteers. In January, IMtwi, he was mustered out of th«* volunteer service and in July was conmilssloiie<l lieulemint **»d»»m*l of the Thirty-fifth Infantry mid brevett»*»! major general in tin* I'. S. A. for gal- lant ami meritorious services diiring till* Will*. | In INTO h«* was honor.ibly dlseharg«*«! ngagi'd in largì* railroad and en- operal I oiis al homi* limi In May, 1XHS. he was coin- mission**»! major generili in ilo* volun- tecr servi* »■ for Ih»* Spallisi! w.ir and commende«! Ilio First ami Sixth Army t'orps ili Georgia nml t'uba ami t»s>k IMirt In tln* l'orto llico ciimpaign. Il» was witli tln* Ubimi Rellef Expmlltlon and coniniamled Ih»* <•<» <>|M*ratliig force of American ami Brillali troops lti tlie captare of elglit Chlnes«* tempi« s. I Io nlso <*<>mmiin<!e<l tl»»* Aim*rlcan forces in l’eking. Wlien King Edward of En- glnml was erowned General Wilson rep- resented thè Uniteli States Army. Il» was plaeed on thè retlrcd lisi In listi by s|ss*lal act of Congress as brigadier generai of the U. S. A. Hard t<» A BARN OWL ON A MOONLIGHT RAT-lIl'NTING EXPEDITION The barn owl is not popular with the <*ountry people, and it is a much- jsTsecuted bird. If the farmers only realized how very useful th«* owl Is In exterminating rats and mice they would protect It. Th«* blr»l woul«l be a very valuable ally to tin* Society for tin* Extermination of Rats, which has now begun active work In tills country.—Ixmdon News. Wonclrrtnl Mn el»ln »«. The sensitiveness of the human or ganlsin la gross Imlee»! when one com pares It with certain marvelous mu chines. A photographic plate, coupled with a telescope, discovers millions of stars whose light the retina of the eye il»«u not nppr»*e|ate; the microphone makes the Inaudible treail of a fly sound like the tramp of cavalrymen. The human limit sens»* cannot realize a difference of temperntiir»* lieyond on«* fifth of a degree. But the barometer, an Instrument 2t«M»i<l times ns sensl tlve us the skin, notes a difference of a millionth of a degree. A galvano meter flexes Its finger nt a current gen »■rat»*»! by the "coherers” of Branley of Paris, so ns to press It out of a spher ical shnjx* Into thnt of an egg The artiount of work done by the wink of nn eye e»juals luO.PtAJ.lAltJ.IRAl of the winks marked on the scale of a delicati* In strument; but even this performanci* I» surpassed by tin* “coherers” of Branley of Paris, by which the Hertz waves ol wireless telegraphy are caught In theli pulsings through space. The range ol Impressions which we get from lifting an object Is exceedingly small. An or «Hilary chemist's baiarne Is some mil lion times as sensitive and weight» down the two-hundredth pqrt of a rullìi gram. Without such Instruments at these we should know far less about flu* world than they place within Olli I reach. Knew thr Itole I'roiKinn<>r. A iv«*ll <lri*ss<*«! iimn euti*ri*«l 11 fi»ir- I r I' h simp In 11 «‘«‘I'taln city wiqitly, tliri'iv down 11 ib'lhir and mid said Im iviint«‘d Home flow«*rs to take home. He ivng quit«* uiiHteiidy, evidently taper- hi»,* off 11 spree, mi«l tlie flowers were nppii reiitl.v lntei>di*«l as a domestic p-iice ’»fferiiig. The florist picked out the »i **ollectlon of hyacinths, and »'»iller Htnrted to leave, but nt the door lieHitiited. "I any,” In* Raid, thickly, "ivhat'a tin's«* tloivera cnlled?" "Ilya- clnthH.” Raiil tin* fbirlst. The euatotner shook III« bend, and, as he walk«*«! back to th«* couiiter. Raid; “Gotter have Rometlilng eaaler. Gimme a dozen r*«H«*H.” Art nml Trnr«« “I suppose you soiihdimes shed real tears at the theater?” said the ad- tniter. “I 11111 tempted to,” (ins were«! Mr. Stormington Barnes, “ when I lisik over the box »»flice statement." Washington Star. lly “Jk, you flilnk .voli colli»! learu lo lov « me?" thi* young man ln«|Ulred. "Ix*arn to Invi* you?" exclalmed the The mu ó who lias a motto Is also apt rapturous inaili, Harold, I could givi lessotis nt It.” LuuUvllle (Joorier to take iii > Home of your time tiy quot ing ¡»oetry you aren't aniloua tu lieu# Journal.