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OREGON CITY COURIER, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1914. STARK'S OBSERVATIONS A Column of Comments on Individu als and Events The open season for hunting the fan-tailed grouse closes Oct. 81. The voetbegging contest closes on Nov. 3rd. The unspeakable Turk is getting an object lesson in Christianity. At this writing eighteen million men are under arms. It would seem the peace prayers have not yet taken effect. Perhaps the lines were down or perhaps central gave you the wrong connection. Better call up "23" again. Two million Christians are reported hors d'combat, which recalls the rousing old hymn: "Thy saints in all this glorious war Shall conquer tho they die. They see the triumph from afar, By faith they bring it nigh." On page fice, column three and four of the weekly Oregonian of Oct. 8th, are two interesting news items reported from the city of "Magnif icent Distances." One dated Oct. 4 tells of peace prayers attended by President Wilson and is followed by another dated Oct. 6th, triple-headed, reading "Battleship Jobs Let." Low est bidders name price In excess of $7,000,000 each. New Jersey and Virginia yards win on estimated cost, but many experts reach too high fi gure." Just add these two items and you have a result of . capitalistic and eclesiastic consistency. For any shortcoming in this col umn just add a bunch of long char ity as I opened a kindergarten for a he bovine and have attempted to per suade his calfship that the rusty tin can ephonistically called the "full dinner pail" was "just as good." Be sides that have carried about a life sized pain in my hatrack a good part of the time. Before me lies a news item read ing "Harry K. Thaw, who is in cus tody of the Federal Court, pending the termination of extradition to New York has leased an estate in exclusive residential section of Manchester, N. II." My what hard punishment is put vpon rich murderers in this glor ious land pf equality. A last week correspondent says "That Stark had sometime some where in his life known a real good man or woman" etc. The artful, dodger seems to infer that during my uneventful career I have never known anybody but "the rascals in office.1' Really the remark is worthy of ex tensive reflection and were it not wishing to crowd out the "paid adv" and candidates' pictures I would fill the Courier with thots of "the vir tues of man and womanhood from the vivid standpoint opposite to the cantankerous ones he tells us about." Why do we talk so little jf the good people? Is it because they are air about-us, so numerous? We will not attemot to mention any because we would slight a legion? What is a good man or good woman like; how are we to know them from the bad? Are good people so uninteresting that there is nothing worth while to say of them? Do good people feed us on taffy of various kinds or do they blurt out the hideous truth? Are the people we call good today going to live up to the estimate tomorrow ? My little friend Ella Wheeler Wil cox says "The good are half bad and the bad are half good." .The home less carpenter said "no one is good but God" and He observed the rain fell and the sun shone on good and bad alike. Then why should we dis criminate? Perhaps my critic will recognize this simile. You will quickly discov er a dish at your table that is not vo your ideal but eat months of well .. cooked meals without a word of praise to the artful coook. There are many other questions we might ask. For instance why do the same people we call good seem bad to others? Why do the same people seem good some times and bad at other times? Has environment any influence on the question? Does our self interest lend color to this view point? Is anyone deliberately bad? You know the most pitying moan in history was "Father, forgive them, fhey know not-what they do." If my wishful friend is looking for something real good let him come to Maple Lane here we have the real rag and two yards long, j Does it pay to be good is a question one mav rightly ask. Years ago a young man used to call on me and one nieht in a confidential mood tola me he could not succeed in mixing it with calico. I told him the truth was he was altogether too tame. If he wanted to win the goods he had bet ter get his skates on and cut the pig eon wins. Those are not the exact words, for my friend had been raised bv hand and did not understand slang like you and I do. This particular locahtv lacked some ol tne raw ma terial to make a mormon colony out of. I told him that "the bottled in . bond" stuff usually was taken for that faint feeling. Not for Joseph, Never! "Well . then make some other bad break" I suggested "if vou are really are" anxious to come ih on the home stretch." "Why don't you do some yourself you old hermit" almost shouted the young man. "A gray haired, gallant is jmrelv funny but only youth can charm," I replied as I laid two large leatherbound volumes before him. "What I have told you in two min- fM ia all that those two thousand pages contain." The youth began to be thotful for a while and when he left me I said "discretion ia the word my boy, don't let your feet fly up in the air." Two weeks pass ed before I saw im again. When he came to the shanty I thot a Kansas cyclone was paying me an impromp tu visit. "You heard about the dance at 1" No, I had not, my reading always interfered with my hearing. Well, he took my suggestion, he said "and within two minutes after I got to the house I was the sinecure (cy nosure) of all eyes, as you say. Really I made a plumb ass of my self I guess, but after the ball was over I had a companion." He was a metamorphosed creature and turned states evidence against himself. Soon after this I left the locality.' The winding uneven path of life brot me back again about two years later. Again I met my young confidential friend. A demure Miss of the other day had a husky baby on her lap; not good, but interesting. Does it pay to be good? John F. Stark. FROM CHERRYVILLE Editorials from a Former Newspaper Man on Political Matters War and politics are all the talk now. The candidates are all smiles and eager to shake hands with everybody. Look out for canards and false statements made to catch the unwary and the credulous in the last days of the campaign. The Oregonian contains daily car toons showing up a full daily dinner pail. Much that bunch cares whether anybody has a full dinner pail as long as they have their feet in the hog trough. The Republicans made a frightful mistake in putting up a man so vul nerable as R. F. Booth for U. S. sen ator, when it is plainly shown by B. F. Jones of Roseburgh, a fellow Re publican and a member of the state legislature when Booth sold out to the Railroad when the shipping bill was up some two years ago. This is of ficial as Jones has made this declara tion over his own signature in the Journal. Booth however, is knocked out as Hanley's vote, which will be a liberal one, puts him on the blink. A fellow Republican is also out with the statement that Hawley vot ed to give Alaska to the Guggen- heims and states the page and date in the Congressional Record when his vote is so recorded. If this vote was venal it is rotten, but if he voted, not knowing what he did, it clearly re veals his incompetency. He too, is on the toboggan shute and is headed for the scrap heap. Moores, the mighty statesman con ducting the Republican campaign in this state, has put up a fearful 'howl" about China eggs killing the poultry business in this state and all over the coast. . Has anybody seen any China eggs? Perhaps a few not edible for nest eggs. Or is any body buying fresh Oregon ranch eggs any cheaper than they ever did? They used to tell us that foreign goods made by pauper labor would he dumned on our shores. Now we are going to have China eggs dump ed on our shores. Let 'er dump! It beats the Jews how Hollister is gaining ground at every lap of the heat. He might as well . mane ar rangements to get a home at Wash ington. D. C. There is where he is going the 4th of next March, barring death or lingering sicmieso. jjcoiuco bein? an able man he is a white man with a heart in hini, who treats everyone the poor and lowly in his employment with kindness and con sideration. Vote for him! Get in the band wagon before it is everlast ingly too late! The Japs Jiave taken the Island of Yap in the Pacific Ocean says a late newspaper. It is to be hoped that none of the inhabitants will escape and come over here. We have plenty here now, and they are going to vote for Withycombe and a few of them for Hawley because they are told we are poing to have some China eggs dumped on ou- shores. Won't that be iiwful Mabel? Tho writer acknowledges the re- receipt of a copy of the Cotisro.'s ional Record from Senator Chamber lain containing his speech on the tolls question. Many thanks! It is an able and in every way correct state ment of this momentous question to the coast. Also we are. in receipt of the Record as a regular subscriber from Senator Lane. This is an unex pected pleasure and privilege that is greatly appreciated. Mrs. S. C. Runyan of Tangent, Or, has arrived here and will, in com pany with her husband and family, reside here. Houser, the sheep 'man from East ern Oregon, brought his sheep down from Wild Cat mountain last week, and started "them on the road home to Tygh Valley. He says he sold 1,100 lambs for $3.00 apiece, and got over a head for the wool. He never did so well in the sheep business in 20 years notwithstanding the old Ore gonian said not over a year ago that the Democratic tariff law had killed thn sheen business in Oregon. It to laugh. Pamell Averill. A WOMAN'S OPINIONS S cialist Lady Writes of Bonds and Bondage Clackamas, Ore. Editor Courier: If man creates luvs that make life unbearable, how does he expect to live? Law, like an endless chain, re turns to the place of beginning. Two men are running for office. One is for bonding the people, and one is for increasing the medium of ex change. If bonds are created the law would in time rob the people of their wealth to pay off the bondage. While under the law, when money represents wealth, it would, or could, be used only in exchanging commod ities. Bondage takes everything and gives nothing but poverty in return. The people, that is the working people, create the wealth of a nation and why should they be robbed to keep the idle, selfish class? If man votes for bondage there is a place where he must give up all and the place first to suffer is the center of large cities, where there is neither vegetable gardens for employment. Man's destiny is usually created by man himself. If man jumps into the fire he will burn so it is with law; whether we understand it or not. Jeolousy is that monster that never slumbers, but roams the earth seeping whom it may devour. You trace jeolousy down to its lair and you will find that it is ignorance. Jeolousy may have all its command but through its own ignorance wastes its force in destroying its victims and. at the same time loses its own oppor tunities. ' Mrs. Viola Burr. LIBERAL Farmers have been busy sowing fall grains, but the rain has stopped them again. Potatoes are all housed except the very late ones. Except ionally fine grass for stock of all kinds. Lewis Farr is ouying up a lot of beef cattle for the Farr Market in Oregon City. The W. V. S. is laying track on the Carlson place and by Thursday night they will connect there from the Wright Junction in Liberal. They surely will be welcome at our one horse station. Mrs. J . E. Coates and Susan Moody of Portlai.d were visiting rel atives for a few days last week, re turning to Portland Sunday evening. The mining timbers and telephone poles are going out and coming in about even. The corwood is the hardest proposition as cars are hard to get. A good many cars of hard wood went to Portland this fall. W. J. E. Vick, our agent here, Is busy now learning the sound of the telegraph to be used in this office at Liberal. One mail route leaves here now from Liberal post office. IN STERLING LIVES A GIRL Who Suffered As Many Girla Do Tells How She Found Relief. Sterling, Conn. "I am a girl of 22 years and I used to faint away every month and was very reaK. i was also bothered a lot with female weakness. 1 read your little book 'Wisdom for Wo men,' and I saw how others had been helped by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta ble Compound, and decided to try it, and it has made me feel like a new girl and I am now relieved of all these troubles. I hope all young girls will get relief as I have. I never felt better in my life. ' '-M iss Bertha A. Peloquin, Box 116, Sterling, Conn. Massena, N. Y. " I have taken Ly dia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and I highly recommend it If anyone wants to write to me I will gladly tell her about my case. I was certainly in a bad condition as my blood was all turn ing to water., I had pimples on my, face and a bad color, and for five years I had heen troubled with suppression. Ihe doctors called it 'Anemia and Exhaus; tion,' and said I was all run down, but Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com- J 1 ..Ul n.,4. nil irtlit ' ' Mica pOUIlU UrUUgHL 1113 uuv on ugiik wioa La visa Myres, box V4, massena, in. i. Young Girls, Heed This Advice. Girls who are troubled with painful or irregular periods, backache, headache, dragging-down sensations, fainting spells or indigestion, should immediately seek restoration to health by taking Ly dia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. TOM J. MYERSJand E. A. BRADY RESIDENT UNDERTAKERS i- ' & 4' 75 The only RESIDENCE Undertaking Establishment in Clackamas County Day and Night. Service Lady Attendant Tenth and Water Sts. r Main 123 - A-37 MULINO WelC Mulino has at last a railroad. The rails were laid into North Muli no on Oct. 8, quietly and without any blare of trumpets. In fact quiet per sistent, determination has marked the building of the Willamette Valley Southern Railway during the past three years it has been building. It is quite a pleasing contrast to the bombastic boasting and giving of promises, most of which were never kept, that accompanied the building of the Harrimon branch from Canby to Molalla last year. About three days were required to put in the steel bridge across Milk Creek and the rails have been laid on to the Molalla river. A switch has been installed in South Mulino on the town site. A plank road is to be built to the depot site on Broad Street from the county road Work on the water system is pro gressing as fast as the weather per mits. Mulino is fortunate in having so much good water so near and eas ily obtained. The spring purchased by the Mulino Water Co. has flow enough for a town of 1,000 people and as good water as any in the high Cas cade mountains. It's elevation above Mulino ranges from 160 to 200 feet, thus giving a gravity flow and ample fire protection. There are also sev eral more springs very near by and nearly as large, thus insuring a good wattr supply for years to come. Does anybody know of a shoe and harness maker and repairer? This position is now vacant in Mulino. CLARKES Mr. John Putz, our supervisor, worked on the road last week. Mrs. Bertha Boss came home from Mount Pleasant to visit her mother, who is ill. Mary Bottemiller went down to Willamette recently to stay with her sister, Mrs. C. Ralph. Mr. Zwalen purchased a new plow. A party was held at the. home of Mrs. Ring's last Saturday night and all the guests enjoyed it very much. Mr. and Mrs. Lafollet left for Eastern Oregon the other week on business. , Mr. Golf has rented the old Mar tin place. Mrs. Washburn was out to visit her daughter, Mrs. Henry Klein smith, and family recently. Mrs. Golf from Eastern Oregon, is staying with the Lafollet family. Mr. and Mrs. George Clark visited Mr. Clark's brother. Mr. W. T. Wettlaufer went to town Monday. x EAGLE CREEK H. G. Huntington and wife were out this way last week, buying up eggs. J. P. Strahl returned home from Eastern Oregon last week with a new team and buggy. A. W. Cooke and wife were guests of Mrs. Howlett Sunday and Monday. Mrs. Viola Douglass called on her The Dental Trust, with all it's powerful po litical organization, is moving heaverfand earth to defeat the dental reform bill. In every town and city members of the Trust are out working against the bill. The Medical Trust is helping the Dental Trust by forcing nurses and druggists, under threat of boycott, to work against dental reform. All kinds of campaign lies are being circulat ed to deceive the voters. Don't let the Trust scare you. ,. The Trust made the present dental law.' Un der this law it controls the State fioard of Dental Examiners every member of that board is a member of the trust. In this way competent dentists are kept out of Oregon, and the Trust prevents competition and keeps up prices. Vote YES X 340 And Bust the Dental Trust -PAINLESS PARKER, Dentist , Sixth and Washington Streets Portland, Oregon (Paid Adv.) mother, Mrs. Howlett, Sunday. Willie Hoffmeister and Virgil Douglass took a supply of eatables to the hunters, returning with a piece of deer, which was killed by Will Douglass. Mr. Murphy and daughter, Miss Meda. were Estacada visitors last Thursday. Eagle Creek Grange met last Sat urday with about 60 members in at tendance. A short business meeting was held in the forenoon and after noon an address on "Dairying" was delivered by Prof. Fitts' of the 0.A. C, also an address on poultry raising this being given by Prof. Lamb of the same school. T. W. Cross and wife, of Gresham, were grange visitors Saturday. Mrs. Ed Douglass is on the sick list. Dr. Adix called to see her the other day. The Want Column FOR SALE 25 head of good grade Lincoln Bheep. Address W. F. Harris, Rt. 3, Bx. 72, Oregon City. FOR SALE Cheap, two private tel ephones and wire. Address Alon Shewman, Milwaukie, Rt. 1.- FOR SALE Two houses and three lots in Canemah. Will be sold cheap. Address J. W. Plummer, Canemah. ' FOR SALE 3 ' head fresh Jersey cows, K. C. Reitsma, Maple Lane. FOR SALE Pony, 10 years old, 800 pounds, grey, gentle, broken to ride or drive, price $25. G. F. Knowles, Oregon City. FOR SALE Choice White Leghorn Cockerels. Alsd White Rock Cock, prize winner at Clackamas Coun ty Fair. F. G. Buchanan, Ore gon City, Ore. Main 2264. FOR SALE Spring colt, sired by Belgian horse; one Simplex cream separator, 450 lbsc capacity; or.e broad cast seeder in good repair. Address Frank Weisenback, Moun tain Ash Stock Farm, Oregon City Rt. 6. I WILL GIVE $1000 IF I FAIL TO CURE any CANCER or TUMOR I triat bifore it POISONS deep glands or ittaches to bene Without KnifeorPam No PAY Until Cured No X Rav or other swindle. An island plant makes the euro Wllltn UUHitHnicc A Tumor. Lump or Sore on tho lip, faoo or body 6 months ia Cancer and never ?mnsuntil laatstane 20-PAGE BOOK sent FREE, 10,(K)O testi monials, wrlll u A LUMP IN WOMAN'S BREAST I. CANCER and if neglected it nlwnya ppiRons deep glands in tho BrmpitiindMLLS QU1LK1.Y Poor cured at hnlf pnee it cancer is yet smoll DR. & MRS. CHAMLEY & CO Hook Hunt Fheb "Strictly (tollable, Greatest Cancer Specialist llvini" AE434 & 436 Valencia St., San Francisco, Cal. KINDLY MAIL THIS to someone with CANCER Hot Lake Manager Would Like No tice of Arrival in Advance Persons contemplating a visit to Hot Lake Springs, Oregon, who re quire the service of a wheel chair or other special convenience, are re quested by the management to give notice of arrival in advance, so that proper care and attention may be as sured. (Paid advertisement.) Farmers who want representation Will Vote For C. E. Spence Millmen, workers, producers who wish more justice, better conditions Will Vote Fof C E. Spence Fathers, mothers who wish for a clean state and saloonless nation Will Vote Fof C. E. Spence Everybody who stands for thebest things for all the people Will Vote Fo C. E. Spence Independent Candidate for the Legislature Paid Adv. Be Fair OREGON NOT ONE OF SOUTHERN OREGON'S COUNTIES HAS AN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION TO WHICH THE STATE CONTRIBUTES A DOLLAR OF SUPPORT The heavy lines divide the state Into three natural, geographic subdivisions. Our one normal school Is Indicated by dot. It is doing excellent work, but Us sphere of service is LIMITED to Its OWN SECTION; a fact that Is equally true In every other state. A COMPARISON California has eight Normal Schools and eighty five percent of the teachers now employed in that state have had normal school training. Oregon has one Normal School. Eighty percent of last year's appli cants for teachers' certificates had no training abovm the eighth grade. ARE YOU RAISING CHILD REN FOR EXPERIMENTAL PURPOSES? A noted oculist was once com plimented on Ills wonderful skill. "Yes," ho answered, "but I spoiled a hatful of eyes learning." Rather hard on the people who furnished the eyes! Yes, but how about theVhihhen all over Oregon that we funiisli for untrained teachers to practice otl? Moral: Let Oregon's schools have trained teachers by furnish. Ing the nornml schools w herein such training cun be obtained. The Southern Oregon Normal School has a plant, owned 6y the state, sufficient to meet all requirements for many years. "It is a fact well supported by experience that the majority of the students in any educational Institution come from a territory Included within a circle with the Institution as the center and a radius of fifty miles. It Is there fore Imperative that each Impor tant division of the state should have a strong normal school." William M. Proctor, Department of Education, Pacific University, ForeBt Grove, Ore. "There could be no greater ex travagance than that of spending large sums' of money on public schools which are 'kept' by In competent teachers. Not only is money wasted, but the injury done to the raw material Is incal culable." P. L. Car.'pl:r!l, Pres. U. of O. To the man tvlth property asscjsed at S4.000 this school means the price of one cigar a year VOTE FOR THE SCUTHERI1 CnEGGH STATE NORMAL SCHOOL 312 X YES Paid Adv., Alumni Assn. S. O. S. N. S. Citrolax CITROLAX CITROLAX Best thing for constipation, sour stomach, lazy liver and sluggish bow els. Stops a sick headache almost at once. Gives a most thorough and satisfactory flushing no pain, no nausea. Keeps your system cleans ed, sweet and wholesome. Ask for Citrolax. Jones Drug Co. S. MACDONALD To Al Every school In Oregon above a high school Is Indicated on this map. Does not simple fairness dictate that the noKjffal school In Southern Oregon should be main tained that the common schools may have efficient teachers? HOW ABOUT THE HEW- COIIERS? Oregon wants more settlers. Will the man w ho says, "Give me the state that is alive and ubrcast with other states, especially nlonfc lines of public school advantages," chouse Oregon with one normal or California with eight or Wash ington with three, all better equipped than our one? ECONOMY. Oregon spends over $5,000,000 annually on its common schools. Why should this vast sum of tax payers' money be uncconomlcolly spent through teachers who have not been trained for their ull-im-poi'tunt work? "No school comes so near to the pcoplo and confers the Immediate benefits that the normal schools do, for they train the teachers who train our children, during their Impressionable years. Good schools are only possible by hav ing trained teachers, and we can only have trained teachers by training them." C. E. Spence, Master State Grange. "No more meritorious measure will be on tho ballot than the one for the support of the Southern Oregon Normal School at Ashland. It is tho height of business folly to allow it t-j lie Idle when there Is so much urgent neoc". for trained teachers." Deun A. B. Cordley, O. A. C.