OREGON CITY COURIER,.. THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1914.
Public
From The People Subjects ot General mrerei
IN ANSWER TO CLYDE
John F. Stark Writes About the
Slave Matter and Confiscation
(i After giving the Courier readers
a much needed rest I have broken
loose again. Having observed that
everyone that amounts to anything is
either running for office or holding
on to one, I thot in order to pro
vide against the high cost of living 1
had better plant a patch of cross-eyed
potatoes. Potato growing is a reg
ular snap, Mnfirmtt"nu.i',ub
statement I refer you to the politi
cal farmers on Main street.
i in tho flnneressional Record
about the "Mighty achievements of
this glorious republic." So I knew the
20 cent mileage patriots were still
keeping two watchful eyes on the
strong box; while the chaplain in the
Senate still ended up with "For
Christ's Sake" I knew the ship of
state was guided by competent hands.
I did not even worry when I read
that Grapejuice Bill nearly tossed a
goblet of champagne down his gul
let by mistake. I did not even won
der what he was doing in a mob oi
drunks, for I was sure that if he had
omnncr low-browed. vulgar
working men it would have been beer
instead or nzz.
No, none of these things move me
for I am sure the press agent is do
ing hia duty as well as our hump
shouldered statesman.
In a recent item I advocated the
confiscation of railroads as a solu
tion in part, of the problem of why
we (this is I) are poor. To this me
thod Mr. Clyde enters objection the
railroad companies evidently feeling
no alarm, have not been heard from.
.This elicited some comment from
Myers in refeience to the slaves be
ing confiscated by Union arms. Now
Clyde comes back by quoting Web
ster's definition and then argues
against himself without seeing the
point. Webster derives the word
thus, "con and fiscus, a basket, a
hamper, or bag; hence revenue, or
the Emperor's treasure." Bear that
in mind that the emperor was me
state. In England "treasury" is equal
to our word commonwealth or the
nation, if I understand their mean
ing. Clyde says "So they were not
converted to the puuuc treasury
therefore not confiscated."
The freeing of the slaves convert
ed them from private to public prop
erty. The slaves, I take it, were un
der the ownership of individuals, not
companies. Just how many slave
holders served in the southern' army
I never heard, but by raising the
"state sovreignity" holler these fel
lows succeed in enlisting many other
men, nearly all of .whom did not
want the "damned Yankees to take
our niggers away," though if niggers
would have sold for $100, many
could not have bought more than u
big toe.
At the bottom it was an economic
question and was merely disguised
by the cry of "secede." Just as Clyde
says they "fired on the flag." If they
had only fired on the flag I fail to
see much harm, but either they fired
on something else or they were bad
marksmen, for 1 heard ot many
trenches full of youths in blue and
the progressive pension list would in
dicate "wild shots." That is the
"crime" to my Bimple philosophy,
that these men fired upon their fel-
lowmen. The question was not fought
on its merits, but as Uarlyle points
out in Sartor Resartus the rulers had
the cunning to have disinterested
persons do the bleeding and dying.
Just imagine Jimmy Buchanan
confiscating the niggers as "mili
tary necessity." Old Abe was an ab
olishinist so it was merely the
viewpoint on that question that nig
gers became contraband of war. So
far as the golden rule goes, the view
point is also here illustrated. Ask the
ex-slaveholder if freeing the niggers
was following the golden rule. He
can't see it. Why? Because he lost
by the transaction. The slaves were
not the property of the southern con
federacy as a nation and were the
property of but a comparative few
persons residing in Dixie, but these
few dominated the politics from the
fact that they were the economic
ruling class; likewise in the north the
manufacturers were with the new
transportation system, just then ex
panding; the economic rulers; the
rapidly settling of the west some
what shrouded tho true condition, so
in order to effect the revolution the
shrewd down-eastern permitted the
nomination of Lincoln.
It is well in passing to remark
that no man since then has been el
ected west of Indiana as president.
Illinois was then near the "frontier."
There is a reason. Just as soon as the
south was crushed this same unseen
power saw to it that the man who
trembled more for his country than
during the darkest days of the rebel
lion was put out of the way. "But I
see in the future a crisis approaching
that unnerves me and causes me to
tremble for the safety of my coun
try. As a result of war, corporations
have been enthroned and an era of
corruption in high places will fol
low, and tho money power of the
country will endeavor to prolong its
reign by working upon the preju
dices of the people until wealth is
aggregated in a few hands and the
Republic is destroyed, tiod grant my
fears should bo groundless."
The same power thnt stood back
in the shadow guiding the economic
affairs and destiny of this land of
liberty, enlightening the world
that same power at the hour struck
down, the man, who, snould he have
lived, would have sounded an alarm,
just as soon as his mind would have
been free from the war problem so
he could have focussed that search
ing, rugged honesty upon the doings
of the economic master clans, who pa
triotically saved their precious hides
from rebel bayonets, but during one
of the most trying hours put thru
the Union Pacific Steal. Let me say
here that in Portland not so long
ago that same power had a "patri
otic evening" where, amid flag wav
ing and horn tooting they fired up
on the producing powers of the econ
omic subject class, yes upon their
very lives, when they fired down
their throats the champagne to the
toast to apostle of "the new free
dom." "Herd's to your good old wine,
that makes you feel so fine, drink
'er down." "And the tonst was drunk
with great enthusiasm."
It may interest Mr. Clydo if I say
that my parent on my father's side,
worked three years on the job of con
fiscating tho slaves; leaving his wife
and three babies to live upon S13
Opinion
depreciated currency, which the
traitors at home juggled into a high
cost of living. While their congress
men "like plumed Knigms nmivuuu
down the aisles of congress" and
i ,.-.,.w Aii their fichtms by
proxy. While the man spoken of is
not here I ieei saie m ouynns
believed in confiscating the ruggers
-c-.. u an nito-inul nhnlitionist.
1UI UB "OO -
Mr. Clyde sees tne injustice m m
A offaira if nnt the whole ec-
lillliuau auauu " -
: ...tim nf vuhrh railroads are
UUUJlui; oyoiti vjj- .
but an integral part. He has the
same idea ot solution wnicu j. uu w
years ago and during the Populist
movement, but I see it will not bene
fit the people much, so I propose to
simply confiscate tnem in me imi ;c
them public
property, the property of the nation,
just as tne negro uu,
Clyde and Stai'K are now a j
the commonweaitn.
Tu:n nAllam ia nnminff UP for SO
lution very soon, U up now, only the
.,,,,.. wiuVioa r.n nut US in
unsecii yv x- -
bondage, put paper handcuffs upon us
so that we may ton nue gauey sivc
Without digressing
I say that is a big part of the pres
ent good roads movement. It is that
condition I am "agitating" against.
Clyde proposes to pay for them.
Pay to whom, please? The men who
did the work will get none of the
pay. Only the men who went to the
greatest gambling den in the land
where with crimped cards they won
them in the jackpot. These roads
have been paid for by the people
many times over after building them
and of right like the land belong to
all the people. We are going into
another great social change, let Ui!
meet and solve it like full bearded
men with God's implanted will and
courage so that the blood shall not be
upon our children. r
"New conditions teach new duties,
Time makes ancient truth uncouth;
They must upward, still, and onward
Who would be abreast of truth.
Lo, before us gleam the camp fires;
We ourselves must pilgrims be;
Launch our Mayflower, and stee
out boldly
Thru the desperate winter sea;
Nor attempt the future's portals
With the past's blood rustly key."
We have the ballot.
John F. Stark.
Experienced Help for Mothers
It often happens that mothers,
during a case of confinement, need
help for,a longer period of time than
a doctor can well afford to give them.
A learned and experienced mid
wife is a necessity. Mrs. Anna Berg,
Oregon City, Rt. 4, Home phone.
Beaver Creek, is a woman to whom I
can highly recommend to all. She is
at present working as a trained
nurse.
She graduated in Christiania, Nor
way, worked for the government. She
has 21 years of practice.
Some time ago we had the meas
les in our neighborhood, and my two
boys took them and exposed three
little ones and my wife a hard prop
osition. Knowing what I was up
against I thought of my old D
-;,.i.-nT.,l hut hnimi- so far out i
the country and his short visits and
being so busy that he would not give
me satisfaction I thought the next
thing was to get someone that was
as good and take no chances. Being
acquainted witn Mrs. uerg, aim
knowing that I could depend on her
ki .umo mill lirmiirht the little ones
out fine. My wife took the measles
and she broke out line v riuay, ami on
the following Saturday, January u
1011 mno hni-n tn ns a fine bov.
The wife and child were poorly
and I asked Mrs. Berg if any help
was needed. She said no everyuniif
was alright. If we had not the righ
kind of help at the right time .
would have lost one or both, so .
nm ini.unrl Thn hiihv had the meas
am i(ivm-i.ii. - j
les when 7 days old, but now all are
well and leeiing line.
John J. Wallace.
LIBERAL
hna struck us once
,,. oi.fl irrpni ih crowinc to beat
the band. Colds are leaving us with
tho warm sunshine. The singing or
the birds is a pleasant change lor an
There surely is a pile a mining
timbers on the Waldron place, and
more being cut.
Tho P. E. & E. has placed a rooF
over the small unloading place of
Liberal, but the company will soon
have to give us more room according
to our strengtn in a snort nine.
Jim Stipp of Grcsham, is visit
ing his brother, T. S. Stipp for a few
days. ,
Mrs. Fred It. Burns is visiting ner
sister in Portland for a week. Mrs.
Nellie Osburne is her sister's name.
f..:i.. n taxn lining WOCO Ollt Silli
ly U I IV .....v.-
dav not for pleasure, but a good
jolting up.
Kaily gardens are nemg inuuc mm
a few are planting early rose pota
toes. . . . ,
Clover is growing very fast and
tho sheep are having a fine feed.
Card of Thanks
We wish to express our sincere
thanks and appreciation for the many
kind nets of neighbors mid friends
during tho illness and death of 1). 0.
Fouts. These acts of kindness will
long be remembered.
Mrs. D. C. Fonts and Family.
A Product of the Pacific Climate
W. F. Kirk of Tillamook, a former
resident of this city, is a pretty good
advertisement of how kindly the Pac
ific coast deals with age. Seventy
four years old, he is a picture of
health, and mentally and has been a
resident of Oregon for over GO years,
50 ycais of which he lived at Beaver
Creek. Mr. Kirk was, personally ac
quainted with Dr. John McLoughlin
and knew nearly all of the old Ore
gon City pioneers.
Special "Health Warning" for March
March is a trying month for the
very young and for elderly people.
Croup, bronchial colds, lagrippe, and
pneumonia are to be feared and
avoided. Foley's Honey and Tar
Compound is a great family medicine
that will quickly stop a cough, check
the progress of a cold, and relieve in
flamed and congested air passages. It
is safe, puro and always reliable. Sold
by all druggists.
Children Cry
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REV. MILLIKEN ANSWERED
Paul Stark Seely Replies to his
Christian science Criticism
Portland. Ore. March 6, 1914.
Editor Courier:
Tf tha Reverend Milliken reallv be
lieves Christian Science to be so nox
ious as his letter in your issue ot
February 25 would indicate, and is
infr.r-mofl with what, eairerness and
gratitude its teachings .are being ac
cepted Dy rapiuiy liltirasuig iiuiuueio
of his fellow men in the four cor
ners of the earth, he is deserving of
commisseration for the mental an
guish which he must endure. Per
chance these people do not all possess
the critic's oracular sagacity in mat
ters religious, a loss which, it might
be inferred, his article is perhaps in
tended to supply.
In this his latest and somewhat
wordy fusillade against Christian
Science, your contributor so far for
gets the decorum of his calling as
to slur by truthless inuendo a woman
whose purity and Christianly devotion
to the cause of human betterment has
been marked by lasting tributes of
highest regard from pens far abler
and more fair than his own.
When in 1910 Mrs. Eddy passed
away from earthly associations an
ecomium of highest regard for her
life, her character and her lasting
achievements went up from the En
glish speaking press throughout the
entire world, in ner nome city,
among those who knew her best, the
City Council referred to her as "an
honored and devoted friend
whose motto was 'to injure no man
but to bless all mankind." If the rev
erend critic cannot agree with the
religion founded by Mrs. Eddy, he
would, we venture to say, win more
respect for his own highroad to sal
vation were he to refrain from assail
ing the honest beliefs of his fellows
and curb his inclination to belittle
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tho hip;h motives and goodness of a
woman whose life work he cannot
yet understand, but which has never
theless brought healing and happi
ness to multitudes, and that, too,
while modern science has been prat
tling with its intellectual dotrnias and
theorizing as to bow it could divide
tho atom into electrons and the elec
trons into something else.
The critic cites with evident satis
faction a dialogue with a Christian
Scientist on matter's unrealty. Per
ad venture the leason it seems so fun
ny to him is because he laughs at his
own ignorance, even as these same
teachings were "unto the Jews a
stumbling block and unto the decks
foolishness." Christian Science is not
for the man who does not want it,
so the reverend gentleman need not
be troubled. Its adherents are quite
content to mind their own business,
and ask but like consideration from
those of differing beliefs.
In a tone of caustic glee the cri
tic tells of a child who had Christian
Science treatment and died. If he
would be fair, let him take a peep be
hind the curtain of his prejudice. Let
him consult the health office records
of city or state and he will learn, if
perhaps the fact has escaped his at
tention, that people are dying by
thousands who h:ive sought health
through the ministrations of ortho
dox medical practice. Indeed, so
many have died under that treatment
that the custom is now well estab
lished and few have thought it odd.
even while Christendom has been
saying with its own lips that God is
Love. Had materia medica been meet
ing the need of mankind for life and
health, Christian Scienco never would
have gained its present place as a
world-wide movement, for its appeal
has not been in its words but in its
works. As God becomes better under
stood and man's scientific unity with
Him becomes worked out in life
practice (Science and Health, page
202) Christian Scientists know that
every failure due to mortal ignor
ance will disappear and man will be
able to demonstrate the absolute
truth that God is omnipresent and su
preme. That the absolutely infallible
demonstration of Christian Science
has been attained in this age, no
Christian Scientist will contend. That
Christian Science is healing where
material systems have failed and
that its failures are less frequent, is
beyond cavil.
After proving her discovery to be
true, Mrs. Eddy proclaimed to the
world in 1875, through the textbook
of Christian Science, Science and
Health with Key to the Scriptures,
Page 4C8, the momentous fact that
"There is no life, truth, intelligence
nor substance in matter. All is infi
nite Mind and its infinite manifesta
tion, for God is All-in-all." With ever
increasing volume this great truth
has been taken up by thousands who
haved runk deep of the woes of ma
terial beliefs and have turned in their
hopelessness to the spiritual truths
of Christian Science for surcease
from sickness, sin and woe. The ty
ranny of matter's claims over indivi
dual life and destiny is fast crumb
ling before the practical application
of God's laws, as taught by Christian
Science, to every human need. Hu
manity's mistaken belief in matter
as the cause and concomitant of life
is being proved to be the counterfeit
and untrue. God as Spirit, Love and
Truth is becoming understood, and
man created by Him and like Him is
being discerned in lives regenerated,
sin destroyed and disease healed.
Christian Sciences make no claim
that man will overcome in a day or
a decade all the claims of mortal self
hood. The child learning its first mel
ody is not expected at once to mas
ter the grander symphony. But for
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joice that the way to -greater happi
ness, better health and more harmo
nious living has been made plain, and
that all who will may "come and
drink of the water of life freely."
Paul Stark Seeley.
ELWOOD
Spring is surely here. .
Farmers are rushing their spring
work.
Mr. Henderson spent a few days
last week visiting relatives in Ore
gon City and Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. Cane have moved
out on their homestead.
Mr. Park has been quite ill the
past week, but seems slowly improv
ing. Mrs. Drew of Rpringwater, who
has been working for Mrs. D. Val
len, returned home Saturday.
Mattie Maplethorpe is at home on
account of the illness ot ner grand
father. Mr. Park.
Mr. and Mrs. C. Freeman called on
Mr. and Mrs. W. Gorbett of Colton
Sundav.
Phil'ip an.'. !.;na Putz of Colton
spent Sundav at the lome of Montie
and Walter Cix.
Mr. Handle of Highland was in
our neighborhood Saturday regis
tering the people, and urging them to
vote.
Frank Wilson, who is wj-k'ng in
Dodge, was home Sunday.
Louis Vallen was in Estacada Sat
urday. Children Cry
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SOME ROAD EXPENSE COM
PARISONS WITH OHIO
II. W. Hagemann thinks the Live
Wires had Better Quit Quoting
Editor Courier:
At the Pacific Highway meeting
in the hall at -the Commercial Club
some time ago, several speakers stat
ed, that the permanent, hard-surfaced
roads in Ohio should be taken as
an example for Oregon, or words to
that effect. In fact the inference 1
gained from those statements made
me believe that the middle states
were spending millions for hard-surfaced
roads.
On my recent visit to Ohio and In
diana I was surprised to find that the
conditions were not much better than
in Oregon, in fact I am convinced
that Oregon has made better pro
gress than those states, taking in
consideration the time of fisrt set
tlement, the climatic conditions, and
alsp the difference in opening the
vast forests that we have had to
contend with on the Pacific coast.
Mr. Jesse Taylor, the father of
the Good Roads movement in Ohio,
stated at a meeting held in Dayton
in February last, that OHIO
SHOULD WAKE UP AND PULL
ITSELF OUT. OF THE MUD and
then went on o say:
"Twelve years ago Ohio appropri
ated $10,000 for the opening of its
first highway department and the
education of the people along better
road lines. The next change in the
road laws- gave each county $5,000
annually for road work. Without a
system of laws to work by this mon
ey was literally dumped into the mud
as the roads started no where and
ended the same place.
The tialf mill levy law passed by
a recent session of the legislature
places into the state treasury annu
ally over $3,500,000 for road work.
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Twenty-five per cent of this goes
to the building of the main market
highway and the remaining 75 per
cent goes toward the building of the
inter-country system of county seats
in the state. This money is to be ap
portioned equally among the 88 coun
ties, each receiving $30,000.
County Can Add $30,000
To this sum the county can add an
equal - portion not compulsory
making a total of $GO,000 in each
county for road work. According to
Mr. Taylor 85 of the counties have
filed a demand for their shaie of the
money with the highway department.
All of the county roads will be built
and maintained by the state aid,
while the main market roads will be
built and maintained by the state. In
dications are that $4,500,000 will be
spent in the state during the com
ing year or two years at least in the
building of these inter-county roads.
Several years &go, the post office
nno.-i-..df of WncViinrrfnn AScis-
Ut'.ll llllllV CW ,1 M... vv.
I ted the state in securing $120,000 for
! the re-DuiKiing oi me oia nuuunui
pike from the Uluo river to rranK
lin County.
Here we have it in a nutshell. Ohio
levies one-half mill tax and here in
Oregon we are asked to spend TWO
PER CENT. That is over eighteen
million dollars at one Swoop. Ohio
takes ALL THE ROAD MONEY for
country roads, but in Oregon the cit
ties and towns keep every cent that
is collected on property within their
city limits.
Think this over taxpayers and
and vote for men for county office
that look to your interest as well as
everybody else. How would we stand
and "where would we land today if
Mr. Anderson and Mr. Smith were
not in the County Court? This is a
matter that every voter ought to con
sider. H. W. Haggeman.
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CLEAR CREEK CREAMERY CO.,
A REMARKABLE SHOWING
An Illustration of what Co-operation
and Good Management Do
Following are some figures that
should preacli a loud sermon to the
farmers of Clackamas county. They
show what a splendid business has
grown out of a little starting, with
co-operation among farmers.
Look at the price paid this cream
ery for butter fat, and look at the
wonderful increase of over $70,000
in business in one year, and all this
on a capitalization of only $15,000. A
business of $136,800 on this capital
is going some.
And if this little company had not
been started a few years ago, the
farmers who are now" getting 37 and
5-12 for butter fat would be ped
dling their butter to the stores and
houses, at any prices they could get,
the same as they now do with their
eggs and produce.
Here are the outline figures of the
wonderful growth and present pric
es the Clear Creek Creamery, and
they point a big moral to the far
mers of the county.
Lbs.
Total cream received at
creamery 983.331
Butter fat 329.497
Butter Manufactured 404.557
Average price paid for
butter fat for year 37 5-12
Total sales of butter 1913 $136,800.36
Total sale of butter 1912 95,472.87
Total sales of butter 1911 66,621.47
Increase of 1913 over 1912,
$41,327.49.
Cost of handling cream, manufac
turing and selling 3.05 per lb.
KING ANSWERS LEWIS, SUL
LIVAN AND HAGEMANN
Shows that by Direct Taxation We
Could Get 75 Miles More Road
Editor Courier:
In a recent letter A. J. Lewis writ
es what you might call a joke for
there is more of that than any real
argument in his letter.
In part of it it seems to me ridi
culous and that is the part referring
to figuring the interest cost of roads,
and the original cost of the bonds
and adding 'the two to find the total
cost, thus knowing in advance the
actual cost to the people of the roads
they get for their bonds.
If we do not do this how are we to
know what we will have to pay for
our roads?
The object of figuring the intrest
cost of bonds, in my letter of Feb. 12,
was to show the actual cost of this
mode of building roads by the bond
ing process and to show further on
in that letter that a greater mileage
could be built for the same sum by
direct taxation than by bonds. Un
der the bond system we would get
100 miles of road for 1 million dol
lars (the actual cost of the bonds)
while we could build 175 miles by di
rect taxation for the same sum pro
vided always that the roads could be
built for $6,000 per mile as estimated.
In reply to, Lewis along this line,
I would ask him if he wanted to buy
an article of any kind, would he say
to the dealer "yes, I will take your
article." then take it. home and use
it till he was satisfied with it, or had
worn it out and then go back to the
dealer and ask the price of the ar
t.iclfi? As to Sullivan's article on . good
roads wherein he seeks to prove that
by increase in assessable valuation
that the bond issue would not cost
us very much, I don't think he is
very familiar with the tax history of
this county else he would not make
the statements he does.
The history and experience of this
county along this line of increases
in value, has been increased taxes
every time.
- I could give the history of this
but it would take too much space.
If we would increase our valuation
in this county it should not be by
higher taxes and bond issues.
As to Haggeman's idea of county
bonds issued by the different coun
ties and deposited within national
treasury, bearing a low rate of in
terest, I will say this proposition is
very good in its way, but why bonds
ail? Whv not auitate for state
banks instead of private banks and
then use the profits accruing to such
banks to build roads? This, coupled
with U'Ren's inheritance tax provis
ion ought to give us the best roads
anywhere without any expense to the
general pumic.
AN EASTERN VIEW
OF WESTERN EDITOR
New York Paper Hands Out This to
the Courier Editor
The following clipping is from the
St. Johnsville, N. Y. Enterprise sent
to the Courier editor the other day,
j v a fi.-m believer in adver-
anu na iic o - .
Using he had nerve enough to print
it and never Dat an eye;
"M. J. Brown is a newspaper man,
cow puncher, political reiormer, uis
turber of things-as-they-are and
chosen apostle of things-as-they-ought-to-be.
He is a man of convic
tions. Lots of them. He used to run a
paper in Cattaraugus county, N. Y.,
1 nno nf hie ennvictions was an
abiding faith in the rottenness of
the old party rings oi tnat county
tj uH,ro Viimcolf tn he a discov-
erer and finally moved on over the
western trail with a laitn as aDiaing
PniumViiio Rut. Columbus died
as wwmi"-"
without discovering that he had not
discovered that wnicn ne tnougni ne
had discovered and Brown went west
unenlightened as to the political con
ditions of Herkimer county.
Brown has convictions. He pur
chased a paper in Oregon City and
proceeded to demonstrate that some
thing worth while could come out of
the east and he found the recall an
instrument worthy his skill. To a
man who has handled the lariat over
the Texas steer, and rattled bones for
his political existence with Billy Bar
nes and the Hon. Charles Francis
Murphy, the recall opened up 'possi
bilities beyond the portrayal of even
Ex-Senator Beverage. And so Brown
came into his own and he has been
adding power to his pen and strength
to his vocabulary with each succeed
ipg moon.
Brown has convictions. Among
others is the notion that fool Ameri
cans who go touring Europe ought to
i . i i .r i . i i
oe neaaeu on aim lurneu lose some
where west of St Louis and made to
look upon the wonders of America.
His motto is "Seeing America First"
and so he takes a layoff every year;
goes wandering among the unfre
ciuented paths of the American con
tinent and jotting down his discov
eries. And let me tell you Brown
knows how to put it down. He is
there with the human interest as well
as the flowery stuff. He sees with
eyes that never miss fire and he
senses that which he fails to see. He
is bred to the trail, knows his brand
marks, and his hoofs are hardened by
manv trios into the land little known
and less understood."
TWILIGHT
T r'lK.ti. Pvooiflotit. nf the Lonl
U. UUIVIil) ---
Pino cunt- r'lnlv hna called a meetint
for next Tuesday evening at the club
parlors, to be known as tne coniess
fnnol Tn o-niltv nnnscienee. has been
largely due, the large number of lap
ses the past year, ana tne rresiueni,
avers 'that an open confession of the
irmcrnlnr nets of life will not Only
stop the leak but better fit the par
ticipant tor hies worK in tne ciuo.
TTa Anaa nnf nnfipinntA fhft lineflrthinff
of a horse thief, nor bank robber, but
maintains tnat most men ana some
VVVItllCII VUl.Ull.U v.a V T' .. ,F
afa Kiffui-lir aahamaA anH thin nllhlic.
acknowledgement will relieve the
conscience, tnus ciaruying tne inui
vidual, and we believe he is right.
A matter or two has already sug
gested itself to us.
A serious mistake was made when
arm, precluded the scratching of his
own DacK.
Tho MphH familv have lust emerg
ed from an attack of measles.
The continuation of winter's rains
are retarding outdoor work. But lit
tle seeding was done in this neigh
borhood last fall, by reason of early
rains, and spring sowing is progress
ing very slowly by reason of contin
ued precipitation.
Mr. Jemison, the newcomer, is er
ecting a dwelling on his recently ac
quired ranch.
Talk about the divergence of com
parisons. You should see Mrs. Bent
lov'a hnhv. a hunch of sweetness.
and then behold its father.
Mrs. G. M. Lazelle was entertain
ed bv her dautrhter in Sellwood a
part of last week.
Tramps are unusually plentiful
tVi!D enrincy flnrl in numerous instanc-
f ' I " - - - ; -
es are quite bold in their demands
for something to eat.
Give us the second round in the
a fnv Pflpifip Hio-hwav honors. In
one round we beat Canemah to the
road markers, and in round two the
f nnntv Pnnrt. had chased ud the Ca
nemah route by reason of its impos-
. 1, n
nihility. JNow nave you enougn i
While a town resident we fre
quently advocated the dog nuisance,
maintaining their proper abode was
the country. Things have changed
and with it our opinion, which now
properly locates this nuisance in the
city pound, or with a gas exting
uisher of suitable capacity to avoid
delays in extermination.
Uusually a man should consult his
enemies before accepting the advice
of his friends to run for office.
I have lately discovered that it
is the dullness of my jokes, which
crates the necessity of their expla
nation. Clyde B. Harvey, of Seattle ate
kraut and country bacon at Totum
Pole Ranch Sunday.-
We once knew a politician who,
with no intermission, filled the officeu
of Justice of the Peace, City Judge,
two terms of probate Judge, seven
years, and at present ending up a 4
year term as postmaster and still
under 50. Is it possible our Mr. Mul
vey has heard of him?
As earlier predicted, the building
occupied by saloons 60 days ago are
practically filled by legitimate busi
ness enterprises, not requiring frost
ed windows or wooden screens for
their customers to hide behind.
If the people are sincere and ac
tually want to rid our public records
of many useless extravagances we
should get behind the editor of the
Courier and push. We should at
least subscribe for the paper, and
thus convey our moral support of his
efforts in behalf of the common peo
ple. The funeral of Mrs. Henry Scheers
father, Mr. Meier, took place at Can
by, his home, the 7th inst. Mr. Me
ier was in his 83rd year and will be
remembered by many in this com
munity as a remarkably pleasant old
gentleman, having made his home
with his daughter in this place at
one time. The sympathy of this com
munity goes out to the bereaved fam
ily of this aged couple.
The annoyance of loafers has
reached the point where a busy man
in this vicinity has been compelled
to hang out a sign at the entrance of
his premises indicating the undesir
ability of callers.
Judge Anderson's platform has the
right ring. It's short and framed-in
language easily understood. "Econ
omic government, consistent with
good public service" covers the en
tire situation, and should easily de
feat the retiring clerk's candidacy,
who rests his case on a plank, bear
ing the unpopular inscription of a
chronic office seeker.
We have never witnessed the Tan
go, but recently read a minister's
description of the positions taken
by the dancers, which would hardly
pear repition in this column. Mor
ally we are progressing at a rapid
rate downward, and so long as the
upper strata of society commend and
practice such modes of amusement
we shall continue to loosen up in
this respect.
From four brood sows, E. E. Par
ker harvested 44 pigs for which he
finds a ready market at weaning
time.
The Literary Society has sus
pended for the season, after a very
creditable year under the young
people's management.
Miss Ruby McCord is visiting
Seattle friends this wek.
Since writing the above weather
item we have enjoyed a number of
Italian days and farm affairs have
opened up more auspiciously.
Twilight sports a man in command
of seven different languages. Now,
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