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T may be probable that all children
are not in the same mental class
as Winnifred, who at 12 years
can speak eight languages and is
almost a prodigy in mathmetics,
but that all children might have
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a vast amount oi dook Know
ledge in excess of the present average is now a
well known fact. The papers have dropped the
Montessori method which is practically along
the line of child education used by Mrs. Stoner
only because it has
WINNIFRED STONER ceased to be news.
AND THE WORD DON'T This lady has elimi-
n a t e d the word
-don't-from her vocabulary, and why not? It
is the everlasting don't that has cursed human
ity for as many thousands of years as man has
made history. Don't and threats of punishment
have proved a failure, a prodigious and over
whelming failure.
It is proven almost beyond doubt that there
is but little in the old cry of heredity; the old
(8) dogma that the sins of the fathers shall be visit-
(0) ed on the children, is on par with the doctrine of
hell and damnation for all who believe not some
certain things.
It is not proven that a child born from de-
praved and criminal parents, removed at birth
and given to some family to raise who know ab-
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epathy holding sway) will prove depraved. Al-
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Science.
Their doctrine of the unreality or evil, ap-
plied intelligently if not literally, might be that
after all evil is a state of mind as well as good.
If Winnifred was never allowed to come in con-
faf tnrt u'il hrlnn'tlinw rniilfl slip knnw nf pvil ? Tf
she attempts to put her hand in the fire, instead
of-don't-why not-that will burn vou? Instead
of showing the child how NOT to hold a spoon,
nEE33H HE Harney County News of a late
date containea an aruoe laigcy
quoting from President Farrcl,
of the 0. W. R. & N. Co., giving
reasons for failure to extend the
Oregon Eastern at present.
President Farrel. ouotes the
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News, states that "the extension must wait un-
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ui people are willing 10 iiive&u in uuiu u. i - ; , t ns
ties; that the portion of the road now bum pro- as wi-i " " north 0f the great
duces practically no revenue; that the land in around the co mti to h nwth ot J5rf
Harney county is nem oy : ::, ,u:,.h tho ,1Rn . of water
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NOT THE TKUE big companies wnicn retard v vu. v ,r . , .
.1 1 r-. r. -m.r 1 1 i 1 U t A IMS HI' 'flL dUUUl '
icr,A&uiN aeveiopment anu tioS where a few years since grew
a -. fv, flf KIT!!, n foti. fMnlf that sftffp-brush '. see thousands of carloads of pro-
the construction of the Oregon Eastern to the ducc going into the crcat n ai M1
coast will divert all through freight from the nearer at home is the grea t Owjto county
present hill climbing railroad the 0. W. R. & with it thousands o.a?'eT?
N. ThP OrPnn Extern nresents no heavv while to the northwest is hrpgan an 1 Jam eso n
grades from Nyssa to the coast and is a certain about ready to add their produce to me v,
b ... i. J t, ,i i rr. nr. if t t,.A fni t h P PMt PHI UlUltltUdeS.
competitor ior ail tnrougn tramc. vve rauier umeunwu - , . ,
ii.-i l. i ai r ct t i r,.nr i iroft v home, we nnd Vale in tnt
timiPd hiiildintr. that todav the 0. W. R. & N. center of a country just as good, 1 ing at the con
would, be a local road from Nyssa-Huntington fluence of the two greatest ya ei carrymfc
to Portland on account of those same grades. streams in the northwest, with one i eserv on par
As to the second reason: a road commencing tially completed cm Bully creek and Nith a wte
at a point where traffic does not originate and for another on the Malheur unexcelled in oca
endintr in a steep canvon through which it has,tion and cheapness of construction by anj loca-
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mn HOSE who are throwing their in
fluence against the formatior
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if n wate? district for the con
ttruction of the Warm bnrmg:
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1 tUn nninil0 fllSTinC-
iiroject nave im i'h
tion of being willing to damage
themselves for the purpose ot
nnnnal nninions correct and at
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the wine time hurting ineir m
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belligerents?
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of this is the most euphonius
"There am t no sich thing."
Neutral commerce must be un
obstructedwith neutrals.
Sounds good, but what if the ul
timate destination is one of the
Witness copper to Italy and from
thence to Austria. Food for civilians should not
be delayed. Sounds good, but suppose the civ
ilian already has a ton of grain and the army
head takes that ton away from
RIGHTS OF him, must another ton be supplied
NEUTRALS to the civilian from the outside
neutral. Germany complains
that we sell goods of all kinds to the Allies. Is
it not proper to sell goods to England or France
or Russia just the same at one time as another?
If En eland cannot convey her own goods
through her power on the sea, of what use is her W
navy? That's what she built a navy for. Sup- W
pose Germany whips the navy of England and 1
gets control of the seas will she buy from the K
United States or not? The United States is not f
fighting Germany and will deliver goods to her
if she, Germany, can keep her ports open and her J
seas free from floating mines. The United States
is not fighting the Allies, therefore why put an
embargo on goods. England has made
passed for 60 miles out of 76 cannot be expected
to have any traffic. Imagine the 0. W. R. & N.
commencing at Huntington and ending at Pen
dleton, where would they realize?
The Oregon Eastern is a splendid standard
road with the best of bridges and concrete cul
verts intended for heavy transcontinental trains
and rolling" stock, an absurd construction for a
local road from Vale to Riverside.
Harney Valley is one of the few remaining
wheat growing countries yet undeveloped in the
west. Its elevation and somewhat greater rain
fall than in the lower valley ensures a fair crop
tion in the west.
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We find some ten thousand .blockade good against Germany, why not Ger
acres already under cultivation on the Malheur
and 30,000 acres of splendid land awaiting only
the act of the people under the water to add their
produce to the worlds markets; we find twenty
thousand acres under the Bully creek system
about to receive the life giving water stored by
the energy of an enterprising citizen; we all
know what this work would mean to our popu
lation. Vale escaped temporary annihilation last
fall. It is the open threat of the same power
that the destruction ol Vale will again be at
why not always show how TO hold it, eliminat- are being sold on the strength of the advance
of grain every year. The Oregon Western. Col-'tempted, and before us is a simple and complete
onization company is the greatest single land method of forever settling the controversy. By
holder in the county. Its lands are for sale and j putting the water on the land around the town
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ing don't. If we desire to memorize anything do
we not continually repeat it ami why not do the
same to the child if we desire them to learn any
thing. Application of knowledge comes to all
later. We learn that two and two make four,
that six times nine is fiftv-four, and a lone time
after learn that nine pounds of rice at six cents
() per pound amounts to fifty-four cents.
We are all anxious to hav; our child obey,
and what child would disobey if they were never
told-don't.
Webster had a vocabulary of some 9,000
words. Bryan has, perhaps i n equal vocabu
lary (less wise perhaps) ; now .suppose the baby
commences to talk at two years and useful words
are taught to the child at the rate of one each
day (perhaps too much for the first year but the
increase win age would:' more than make up)
for ten years, at twelve years the child has a vo
cabulary of 3600 words as against some live hun
dred of most smart children of that age under
our present methods. J ; '
Old methods must make way for new as fast
as the old are shown inadequate or wrong. The
world will learn from the present war, not learn
it, but have the knowledge brought home to
them, that constant talk about fighting will cause
a fight. We all know that about boys and men.
In school, constant talk about one boy being able
to whip another will surely bring on a row. In
a town constant talk about the ability of someone
to whip someone else will result in a row. Na
tions are but an agglomeration of men and boys,
mostly boys.
Away with-don't: Away with threats of
punishment in either this world or the next. God
made men to be happy and he never made a
threat nor said-don't. He made man to live on
land and the sea will drown him. He made fish
to lie in water and taken from its element chan
ges fn.m lifj to what we call death.
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Speaking of recall: It's a good thing for
some editors that the people cannot recall them
at a special election.
In this connection nerhaps Hamlet's words
might be appropos: "If all men got their de-
.Tts, who of us would 'scape whipping."
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Watch Mexico the day peace is declared in
Europe. Ten million soldiers free to settle all
diplomatic questions. The day of "watchful
waiting" will come to a close and the dawn of a
day of settlement will have arrived. Who will
pay? Let Bryan answer.
If Colombia was robbed at all whv pay any
hing short of the entire amount? Why trv to
mottle for 62. per cent?
One thing which makes us find so few noo-
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) pie who appear reasonable and agreeable in con-
) versation is, that there is scarcely anyone who
dues not think more of what 1 e is about to say
than of answering precisely wl at is said to him.
0 The cleverest and most complaisant people con-
tent themselves with merely showing an atten-
do) tive countenace, while we can see in their eyes
(o) and minds a wandering from what is bald to
them, and an impatience to ret irn to what thev
wish to nav ; instead of reflect ir g that it i a hall
Cj) method of plonking or purhiuuHng others, to be
H studious of pleasing oneself; ami that lUtming
() well und uiuwering well i one of the grcati -rt
?) K'rfH'tlnn that can attained in nnei!i-
i) tion. Muxlini.
ment of the Oregon Eastern into the country.
The sale must naturally be slow through the de
lay in building the road. Wheat nor in fact any
thing can be raised except stock, until there are
transportation facilities furnished.
Harney county has one valley containing
300,000 acres and another with 200,000 acres. It
has the reputation of being the best irrigated
of any county in the state and its irrigated lands
produce one to two tons of wild hay per acre.
Why? Why not more? Wild hay is the best
stock feed in the world and can be raised at no
cost. With an area of nearly six and one half
million acres Harney has no railroad. The O. E.
ends in Malheur canyon and has no traffic and
Harney might raise millions of bushels of grain
but has no transportation, an absurd and unbusi
ness like condition, brought about by railroad
speculators and illogical from an economic ope
rating standpoint.
Give Harney county a railroad and the lands
of the great P. L. S. company and of Mr. Han
ley's company will become so valuable that they
cannot afford to raise wild hay, but will either
produce greater crops themselves or will let
someone else farm the land, the latter being most
)robable. Put the Oregon Eastern into the wheat
growing section of Harney and a revenue will
be produced even though fears of competition
stop the road far short of the coast.
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portunity for some energetic
promoter to reap a mild harvest
for himself and at the same time
render the county and thous
ands of rheumatics a great ser
vice With an inexhaustible sup
ply of water coming to the surface at a tempera
ture of 21G degrees V. within 1500 feet of a town
paying $8.00 per ton for heating coal, the spring
containing medicinal elements unequalled by any
spring in the world, we have
PROMOTION a combination hard to beat.
OPPORTUNITY There is no necessity for a
heavy first expenditure. An
income can be assured with but a trifling expend
iture compared to the benefits.The entire town
can be signed up for heat and hot water. A
moderate sanatorium would prove a revenue
producer from its inception, a green house gar
den would produce a big income from year round
vegetables.
Owned by progressive citizens who have
their money locked up in loans to the community,
which cannot be withdrawn without great luuv'i,
the springs offer great inducement for outside
capital.
and on the country south and west of us, our po
sition is made absolutely impregnable. Cover
ing the sagebrush plains with grain fields and the
benches with fruit and corn not only settles the
future of Vale but adds to the happiness and
wealth of the county, state and nation.
It is fortunate that those who are attempt
ing to delay the matter of irrigating our vacant
lands are few and that their influence is not
great, but there should be no opposition, not
one voice should be raised in resistance to the
formation of an irrigation district.
Those Pre - eminently Entrancing Orna
ments of the human family can go some when
they get ready.
"What is fame? The advantage of being
known by people of whom you yourself know
nothing, and for whom you care as littls Stanislaus.
"Truth does not do so much good in the
world as its appearances do evil." Maxims.
Get your swatter ready. If you use it as
well as some of our citizens use the hammer not
a fly will live to lay eggs in the ham.
many make her blockade good against the Al
lies? If she is not able to do so must we help
her? That's war.
As a matter of fact, charity and a humane
feeling for others foreign to us in language and
in fact has induced the United States to help
Germany and that with the consent of England.
What right have we to feed the conquered people
of Belgium?
Germany has conquered Belgium and acts,
in every way but one, as monarch of that coun
try; she provides no way for feeding the con
quered. Not even the great ancestors of the
Germans, Attila and Alaric were so savage and
brutal in their treatment of conquered foes as
are the Germans today.
They complain of our attitude toward them.
England has not called on us to feed German
prisoners through charity. Belgians are Ger
man prisoners in fact and Germany has boasted
that she has food for all and only protests from
principle. She takes advantage of her isolation
and power and refuses to assume any obligation
if one of her submarines sink a neutral on pass
senger ships.
The facts are that in a war like the present
the exigencies of the belligerents make the law
and that will be the law until a greater power
makes a new one. Vanderbilt said "the public
be damned." Warring nations : "Damn the neutrals."
It was a lucky thing for some of Vale's elite
that the city marshal was busy beating up a bar
tender the other night.
Ontarian : Geological formation of the up
per SILURIAN age.
"Pitiful, who fearing failure, therefore no be
ginning makes;
Why forswear a daily dinner for the chance of
stomach aches?"
Matthew Arnold.
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Suid "BIi:: "I cannot kneel." A few ban)
raps with the rolling pin and a dig or two on the
shins with the family noker, and he knelt with
ilacrity, or something like that.
"He only judea right who weighs, compares,
And, in trrmt M-ntrna which bin nia
pMmouna , iumt iilumlojih charily."
Wordsworth.
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THIS week we will open for your
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inspection, a lot of Hon CO Alt.
rons, House Dresses, etc., all pric
ed to save you money in the pay
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The nev fipri; s Waahgoods are here in a great
variety of p.aterm and coloi-in
We will o plwsed to show you all the newest
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