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OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDaV FEB. 2, 1912. MEXICO TO RETURN TO DIAZ' METHODS Official Policy is Decided on and Agitators Will be Pun ished Swiftly. Mexico City. Without blare of trumpets and without official proclam ation the federal government proposes to employ the drastic methods of Dim in restoring peace. Immediate application of the new policy will be the nation's only apprisal of it. This Is the substance of a statement by a cabinet minister. Swift punish ment is to be the. portion of all agi tators who can be reached, whether of gun or pencil. A few newspaper writers will be deported, it is said, under that provision of the constltu tion which provides for the expulsion of undesirables. Public parades and street orations are to be prohibited in cases where the purpose is in any manner connected with the political affairs. General Pascual Orozco has been appointed military dictator of the state of Chlhuahuaovith full power to quash the uprisings. Washington. To meet any emer gency that may arise in connection with the unsettled conditions in north srn Mexico, General Leonard A. Wood, chief of staff of the United States army, has issued orders to command ers of several army posts in various parts of the country to hold their troops In readiness for duty along the border. Three Die Whtn loe Bridge Breaks. Niagara Falls. The great Ice bridge that has choked the river channel between the caturact and the upper steel arch bridge below the fulls for the past three weeks, broke from its shoring and went toward the river, taking with It to their death a man and woman said to be Mr. and Mrs Eldrldge Stanton, of Toronto, Canada, and Burrell Heacock, 17 years old, of Cleveland, O. TO ESTABLISH REPUBLIC Chlneie Premier it Ordered to Co operate With South. Pekln, The empress dowager has issued an edict instructing Premier Yuau Shi Kal to establish a republic in cooperation with the southern re publicans. The edict has not yet been published and it is expected that it will be kept more or less secret as far as the public 1b concerned until arrangements in the south have been completed. Yuan Is now endeavoring to per suade the Nanking government to hand over the control of affairs to enable him to carry on the adminis tration of the whole empire until the national convention appoints a per manent government and adopts a constitution. Warning Away of Workers Decried. Portland, Or. Action of the central labor council of Portland In giving widespread circulation to an official letter from that organization warning worklngmeu and prospective homo seekers not to come to this state be cause of "lamentable" Industrial con ditions alleged to exist here, has aroused resentment among tho com mercial bodies and business men gen erally In the city, davernor FILMS STIR H.ORMONS to Buy Rejects Proposal Copyrights. Salt Lake City. Moving picture films illustruting stories in which the Mormons are presented in nn objec tionable way have aroused tho Ire of Qovernor Spry and ho 1ms begun a crusade against their exhibition. Pro posals have been made to him, the governor declares, that the stale of Utah procure tho suppression of cer tain Alms by the purchase of the 111ms and copyrights. In a telegraphic reply to one of these proposals the governor said: "I will never consent to Utah or any Institution or person paying mon ey to suppress thee slanderous dims. Once the state began buying those ob jectionable pictures there would be no end to tho calls for money to sup press them." Connen Jury Unable to Agree. Los Angeles. Tho Jury In the caeo If Bert 11. Conners, accused of hav lig attempted to destroy tho Hall of Records with dynamite, reported to Judge Willis that it was unable to agree and was discharged. It stood 10 to 2 tor acquittal. AN OLD TREE Will Not Bear Transplanting By MARTIN GOLDTHWAITE La Follette Suffers Breakdown. Washington. Suffering from a serl ous nervous breakdown resulting from overwork and the Incidental worry to the Illness of his 12-year-old daughter, Mary, Senator Robert M. La Follette ha cancelled all his immediate en gagetneuts. By orders of his doctor be will take a complete rest for the neit three weeks at least. ' Blamed a Cood Worker 11 1 blamed my heart for severe dis tress In my left side for two yearn," writes W, Kvaiis, Danville, Va., "hnt I know now it whs indigestion, as Dr. King's New Life Pills completely cured nie." Best for stomach, liver and kiduey tronblef, constipation, headache or debility. 25o at Huntley Bros. Foley Kidney Pills will enre any case of kidney or bladder trouble, not beyond the reach of meilciuo. No medicine can do more. Jones Drag o. o is. The nineteenth century made some wonderful changes In personal respon sibility. During the early part of it, whether or not there wus more inher ent honor among men, it wan ne' osnary to leave a great deal to the honor of In dividuals. An exercise of anything keeps It nlive. When It Is dormant it Is liable to retrograde. It was not till 1800 or thereabouts that the punch system for fare collectors on railroad-) and street cur lines was Introduced, and tho companies made the public their agents, Informing them of the conductor's duties. It was one of these notices posted In n street cur that gave rise to Mark Twain's celebrated doggerel: A pink trip slip for an eight cent fare, A blue trip slip for a six cent fare, A buff trip slip for a live cent fare, Punched In the presence of the pasBengere. Punch, brothers, punch; punch with care; Punch In the presonce of the passongere! Then, too, the merchant of the early part of the nineteenth century consid ered It a disgrace to full in business. Ho had Inherited from his ancestors the tradition that in monetary trans actions he could only maintain a re spected position among his fellow men by paying dollar for dollar. Muny a man of that time died of a broken heart not entirely becuuse of tho loss of his wealth, but the loss of his honor, These Illustrations could be added nd libitum, but the two mentioned will suffice to give the younger members of the community today an iden of those times when there were no patent de vices fur Insuring honesty. When the war between the states broke out Ned Cnrleton, u boy of fif teen, enlisted, though ho was three years under the required age, and mnrched south with his regiment. Aft er tho battle of Shlloh he was reported missing and was dropped from the reg luieutul roster. Ills funilly mourned him ns dead. In the year 1000 a man giving his name as Judson Macintyre enweu upon un oculist to save the sight of one of his eyes. The oculist after a num ber of visits on the part of the patient discovered that ho was suffering from a depression nt a certain point in his skull, causing a pressure on the optic nerve, and recommended trepanning the part. Macintyre was opernted on by a surgeon and the moment lie became conscious nftor the passing of the effect of the anaesthetic cried out, rising to a sitting posture: "Stand fast, boys! We're drlvln' 'em." "Don't excite yourself," said the sur geon gently forcing the patient down on his bnek. Oh, I see," said Macintyre, look ing about him, "I've been hit. I'm in hospital, I suppose." "The operation tins beeu successful. ou'll be all right very soon." "Did we lick 'em?" "Lick whom?" "Tho Confederates." Those about the patient looked at one another as much ns to say, "lie's out of ills head." "You must keep quiet. Mr. Macin tyre," said (lie surgeon. 'Macintyre! Who are you talking to? My name's not Macintyre; I'm Ned Caileton of the Indiana volun- ers." And bo he was. Tor forty years a uvssiire on his brain, occasioned by u ou lid In (he head, had made him oh llvlons to his existence for the first llfteeu years of his life. How he had une to assume Mint her name he didn't quite remember, but during four cades ho had lived under that name. Hut he had not lived In America. Ills rllest remembrance was of Australia, I hough how lie got there he didn't now. lie hud been a sailor a part of the tl mo since he begun his second xlsteuce, while the rest had been spent s u sheep herder. And now Cnrleton, fifty five years old. having recovered from the operation, was obliged to go out into the world nd earn a living. He had been well located for a boy of fifteen and wrote n excellent hand. He went about ap plying for a clerkship, l'verywheiv ho applied he was received with surprise. 'We don't litre any one of your age for a clerk," lie whs told. "We pre- r very young men." "I'm n good penman. Can't you give me some copying to do?" Typewriting?" "Typewriting! What's that?" "That young lady will explain It to yon," pointing to a girl clicking a nia- iilne. The poor fellow, taking up as he did Ihe thread of life from the age of six teen, did not apply for a man's work. One day Cnrleton, being kindly re vived by u benevolent looking gentle man, told the man his story, eliciting a great ileal of Interest, "I will do what 1 can for you," said the gentleman. "We need n collector. How would you like that position?" "(ibid to get anything," said Cnrle ton, "and I'm sure you will II ml me honest. I'll not pocket my collections." The gentleman did not seem impress ed with that phase of the case, but he gave Cnrleton the position, naming his salary nt $10 a week. Cnrleton was surprised. "Do you menu, Mr. Gregory," he asked, "that I am to be trusted to ooSo$oo$o$oojo.$o5o3o3o$'0 collect funds fot you ond be paid only flu a ween i n sceius 10 me mui you need a trustworthy person for that service, and a trustworthy person should command more money." "Oh, we don't take uny account of honesty. There are insurance com panies who attend to that." "And if I appropriate the funds I col lect?" "They will secure your arrest and put you in Jail." Carleton looked at the man in as tonishment. "Do you think, Mr. Gregory, that to deny a man your confidence is con ducive to honesty?" "To speak frankly, I do not." "Then why do you refuse to trust me?" "Because it Is the system under which all men work. We cannot do business under different conditions from other concerns." "May I consider your offer over night?" "Yes, if you like," with some surprise. Carleton had been born of Christian parents, who had taught him to be scrupulous In the matter of "mine and thine," never to tell a He and to con sider himself required to deal honor ably by all men. This offer of a posi tion with un Insurance policy ou his honor was a bitter pill for him to swallow, but be must make a living, and the next morning he went to Mr. Gregory and told him that he was ready to go to work. "Very well; go upstairs and have your photograph taken." "Photograph! Whut's that for?" "A custom of these times. All our employees are photographed. If they run away with our funds and we have a likeness their capture is easier." "Do you mean, Mr. Gregory, that you keep a rogues' gallery of your clerks?' "Not at all. We keep the gallery, and It Is for the individual to make a rogue of himself." Carleton stood looking at the gentle man with eyes wide open. Finally he said: "I was brought up by a father and a mother who would have considered it dangerous to me not to give me their implicit confidence. You are treutlng your fellow men as thy dared not treat mo, und by doing so If you ore not encouraging dishonesty you are surely paving the way for it. If I ac ceded to your terms I should consider that so far as you are concerned 1 hnd a right to beat you if I could. This would be the first step to my own deg radation. The next would be to beat the rest of the world If I could do so without risk to myself. I am much obliged for your offer, but I canuot ac cept it I was boru nt a time when nil nieil were trusted till they proved un worthy. I came to my youth nt a time when my countrymen were acting upon the highest principle of lienor in glv ing their lives for their fellow men Suppose that vast nrmy who died on the battlefield and In the hospital should rise from their graves and con front you. Would they not shudder nt the standard of honor which has re placed the one uuder which they gave up their lives?" Mr. Gregory listened to these words, spoken by one who had really but Just renewed his existence from that period when the youth of the country had lived under a higher standard of honor, a stiimlnrj of truest niauhood, and when he had finished said: "The years, the centuries, are rolling on. Tho standard of one age Is not the standard of another. Hut while we must preserve our individual honor we must submit to that which exists about us. "You have passed with but n single step over forty years. You find that the system, or, rather, the lack of sys tem, of that time lias been replaced by another. The youth of 'ill would have scorned to accept a position wherein provisions were taken to avoid Ions by their dishonesty and to facili tate their capture if they betrayed n trust. We have not now the youth of 'til. We have the youth of the twen tieth century. Nevertheless they nre the! same beings, and the latter may maintain their self respect ns well as tho former, for, after all, it Is In the man and not the system." "Doubtless you are right, Mr. Greg ory," after some thought, nut to transplant the youth of 'til Into 1901 Is a failure. Yon might ns well try to grow oranges in the northern states. I thank you for the position offered me, but 1 snail decline it, not unit i would demean myself by accepting It, for you have shown me that after all It Is the nian rather than the system, but that I cannot bear transplanting from the soil of '01 to that of 1001." That night Carleton slept on a bench In a park, or. rather, he lay awake, thinking of those who hnd been fighting with him In the "hornets' nest" of Shlloh. Who of the company had fallen? Who had lived and grown to old nge with the unexpired portion of tho century? Doubtless those who were now alone had censed to be n part of the systems In vogue during their youth and had glided uncon tciously Into the systems of their old ge. One morning a body was found float ing in a river and dragged ashore. 1'lie clothing was shabby, the only adornment being nn army badge made of gun metal, it was tho corpse of Kdward Cnrleton, He had spokeu truly wheu he said that he would not bear transplanting from the middle of tlie nineteenth century to the begin ning of the twentieth. He bad tried several Jobs, but the sense that he was not trusted so worked upon Ills feel ings that he at last gave up every oue f them. Having been taken from an atmosphere where he breathed freely, he decided to go where breathing was not necessary to existence. A BIRD OF LIGHT. If von haven't the time- to exercise regularly, Doan'a Kegnlnts will pre vent constipation. Thev Induce a mild, eav, healthful action of the bowels witliont griping. Ask your druggist for them. Do cents. An Epidemic of Coughing In sweeping over the town. Old and young alike are affected and the strain is narticnlarlv hard on little children and on elderly people. Foley's Honey and Tar Compound is a quick, safe and reliable core for all oooghi and colds. Uoutaim no opiate. Jones Drug Co. The Aretie Tern Shuns the Night by Flights From Pole to Pole. It used to be thought that the golden plover bore off the palm for length of flight between summer and winter homes, but an article in the National Geographic Magazine awards that dis tinction to the arctic tern. This bird breeds as far north as it can find any thing stable on which to construct its nest. It bas been found within seven and a half degrees of the pole Itself. And that nest was found surrounded by a wall of newly falleu snow, which the mother bird hnd carefully scooped out from round her chick. The tern arrives in the far north about June 15 and leuves again for the south toward the last of August, when the young are able to fly strongly. Two or three months later th, birds are to be found skirting the edge of the ant arctic continent, 11,000 miles away. What their track is over that vast space no one yet knows. A few Indi viduals are occasionally seen along the New England or Long Island coast In the fall, but the flocks of thousands and thousands of these gregarious birds which alternate from pole to pole have never been met by any trained observ er competent to learn their preferred path and their time schedule. They must travel at least 150 miles each day apart from their flights in search or In pursuit of food to carry them within ten or twelve weeks from one end of the world to the other. The arctic terns enjoy more hours of sunlight than any other creatures on the globe. The sun never sets dur ing their stay at their northern nest ing grounds, and during their stay In the south they have two months of continuous sunlight nnd practical day light for two months more. The birds have twenty four hours of daylight for between six and eight months of the year. FORESAW HER DOOM. Warnings of Her Tragio Fate That Came to Empress Elizabeth. In "My Royal Clients" M. Pnoli, the famous French detective, writing of the unfortunate Empress Elizabeth of Austria, who was so foully murdered In Geneva In 1898, says that two strange Incidents Incline one to the belief that the empress received a pre sentiment of her tragic end. "On the eve of her depnrture for Geneva she asked Mr. Barker to rend her a few chapters of a book by Mar lon Crawford, entitled 'Corleone,' In which the author describes the detest able customs of the Sicilian Mafia. While the empress was listening to the harrowing story a raven, attracted by the scent of some fruit which she was eating, came and circled round her. Greatly impressed, she tried ti drive it off, but In vain, for It con stantly returned, filling the echoes with Its mournful cronkings. Then she rar Idly walked away, for she knew tlia ravens are harbingers of death wheu their 111 omened wings persist In flap ping round a living person. "Again, a lady in waiting told me that on the morning of that day she went Into the empress' room, us usual, to ask bow she bad slept nnd found .her Imperial mistress looking pale nnd sad. " '1 have had a Btrange experience," said Elizabeth. 'I was awakened In the middle of the night by the bright moonbeams which filled my room, for the servants had forgotten to draw the blinds. I could see the moon from ray bed, nnd It seemed to have the face of a woman weeping. I don't know If It Is a presentiment, but I have nn Iden I shall meet with misfortune.' " And It was n few hours later that Lucchlnl killed her with a three cor nered file clumsily fitted to u wooden handle. Where the Co'd Is Warm. I have seen sunshine, oh, sunshine ns splendid as yours, among my be loved mountains in Switzerland! You know what cold Is and what warmth Is, but do you know what warm cold Is? Did you ever live n whole winter through glowing because the frost wus so warm? Do you know the wonders of blue Ice, pink Rnow and 40 degrees of frost, whilo the men skate in pann tnas and the girls with open parasols? And the splendor of colors In the morning sky: everything In the solar spectrum red, orange, yellow, green. blue. Indigo, violet: nt each moment a new combination. And then the sun Is up, nud the Intoxication of It all makes you wonder If you ever lived before.-Dr. Aked in Christian Herald. DOUBLY PROVEN Oregon City Readers Can No Longer Doubt the Evidence This Oregon City oi izen testified long ago. Told of quick relief -or lading Den- eflt. The facts'are now confirmed. Such testimony is ooinplete the ev idence conclusive. It forms covinomg proof or merit. Theodore Huerth, Parkplace, Ore gon Uity, ore, says: i iounu Uoan'8 Kidnev Pius to db just as rep resented and I consider tlieui worthy of endorsement. For a' long time I suffered from lameness across my back and there was a steady ache over mv kidneys. The tionble was not severe enough to lay me up but it caused great distress, especially when I Hooped or lifted, on a irienn s sa vice. I was finally led to nse Doan's Kiduey Pills, procured from Huntley Hros ' Drug Co., and they removed every symptom or my iron mo. (Statement given January 27, 1!K)8. ) A PERMANENT CURE. Iu April "1910, Mr. Huerth added to the above: "The ststemett I Have previously given in favor of Dean's Kidney fills still lions goou. xms remedy effected a ermsneut tnre iu my case. ' ' For tale by all dealers, nice ou cents. Koster-Milborn oo., Kunaii. Ni-w York, sole agents for the Luted States Remember the name Doan s and take no other. Mr. and Mrs. Lon De Lare$, Music Teachers; violin and voice; studio 410 High Street; Pacific phone Main 3171, Portland Oregon .Portland Oregon New Silks and Woolen Dress Goods An advance showing of the popular fabrics for early Spring Wear. Worthy qualities selected with great care from the best foreign and domestic mills. Be among the first to see them. Swiss Messalines in New Plain 7 C n Shades, Specially Priced, Yard jC 27-inch Swiss Messaline Silks of splen did weight, brilliant finish and perfect weave, shown in all the new plain shades as well as the staple colors for street and evening wear. You will agree with us that they are silks of exceptional quality al low prices. Yard Wide Black Peau de QQA Cygne Silks, Special per Yard uQb 30-inch Black Peau de Cygne Silks of extra weight, made of the purest silk fiber. 'Iheycomein a deep, rich black and the finest Swiss finish. 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