GOVERNMENT BY MAGIC
More Economical and Efficient than
Our Stupid Methods of Legislation
Suppose that Congress or some
state legislature had enacted a law
that every male person old enough to
wear pants must have the said gar
ments appropriately adorned witn a
crease up the bacK and another down
the from! The law would have been
nmvaii with a howl of derision. All
the powers of tne nation could not
have enforced it.
Vat cnmo inv isible government
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aopret. in tan (mile power aitl
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really enact this law and the people
foil tnr it. unanimously. There was
mt loo-al exn&nse. no highly paid of
ficials, no complicated machinery oi
courts and counsellors, ine iaw u
forced itself automatically and of
formally.
Saint and sinner alike adopted the
sacred crease. JJevout Christians,
fixnuisite ' ireiitlemen, distinguisneu
th.io-x. nrize fighters ana
plug uglies all lell in line. Kicn ana
poor accepted it as a belated sign oi
hrotnernoocl ana inaeeu it 10
ed amone tnose wno profess to Know
that tne ilawer a young man's purse
is, the more carexuiiy ne creases
mints.
Wo one goes to church or . Sunday
School or into any good society lack
ing this outward and visabie sign ol
An inward and spiritual submission
to tne autnonty of some deity, un
known but omnipotent and omnipres
I mean no one of any account. Oi
course there are many who do not
tun conventional crease, out
thov Hnn't annear in the best society
The ara nnriBHirables or unbelievers.
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A man with baggy pants is possible
in a cheap bar-room, but let him try
a high-toned salon or expensive bo
toi .nd if t.hpv don't actually throw
him out, at least he will encounter a
stony stare that will make mm ieei
so queer that he will sneak out very
quietly. He will imagine mat eveiy
hnrtu in Innkinc at his pants.
Inloorl tho Siirn of the Crease is
nntont. than the Siarn of the
Cross, or the Square or any of the
Jesus said: "Take
up your cross and follow me," but
no one understands tnat oraer. x, ia
uto tnikinir Wekh to a Chinaman,
but when the God of Cloth says "Grab
a hot flatiron and do as you see me
rin nvArvhodv obevs with alacrity.
Indeed pressing pants, training for
fnnthjill on il nrimDini? ud for dances
is an essentiul part of the program
in higher education, in tne Agncui-po-b
thev can take a bull
calf fresh from pasture and in two
or three years transiorm mm mw a
HnmoHtii't.eH lion with all the quali
fications nf a dancintr master. If
this is not magic, then let somebody
toll mo what, ifl mflL'ic.
What seems to be needed is for
some enterprising person to start a
correspondence school to teach magic.
Then all the inexperienced legislators
micrht. nilfll ifv themselves to introduce
laws that the people would be willing
to obey instead of passing measures
so obnoxious that many folks threat
en to go gunning for the officials
who attempt to entorce tnem.
Indeed all gvernment is a work of
magic, but the performance is becom
ing so rotten that the audience will
some of these days be tempted to
wreck the show and run the perform
ers off the reservation.
STATE TAKE IT OVER
(Mt. Scott Herald)
Thorn ara thousands of acres
of
wild land in this state that would be
appreciated by the people. Some of
this land has been taken up and lies
idle. Other land has been despoiled
of its forests and awaits a home mak
er. It is considered good business
policy for the state to appropriate
money for irrigation purposes, taking
a lien on the land for the money ex
pended. Would it not be equally as
jafe an investment for the state to
buy up some of the stump land, plat
it into small farms, twenty to forty
acres, finance the settlers in a limit
ed way and in a manner so that all
funds advanced shall be expended on
the land and its improvement, and ex
empt those lands from taxation until
deeds were issued?
If that were done some thousands
of people now residents of the stato.
and utterly without hope of securing
rural footing, would quickly become
producers. They would soon become
a state resource, and in a few years
the present uncultivated areas would
become a paying element when the
annual tax collections were counted.
What is tho sense of tho state's pol
icy of waiting until some one comes
along with sufficient cash to open
up these vast tracts of idle acreage.
Tho system mentioned above would
materially aid in reducing land val
ues. That ought to be no cause for
objection on the part of the man who
owns the land for the crop he can
produce on it. llo can grow just as
much on an acre whether that acre
sells for $50 or $500, and the prob
abilities are he can get about as much
for his products. As to the fellow
who is holding tho land for what he
can get for it. let us forget him for
awhilo. Moreover there is some
complaint about the taxes. If land
values come down, farmers will have
less cause to complain about taxution.
No More Fooling
The Herald is making a tabulated
record of the occasional dead bent
who takes and reads a newspaper for
a year or two and then tries to sneak
out of paying for it by saying he
never subscribed for it. In every
state where it has been tried the
courts have held that the fact that a
person took a paper from the mails
and read it became a subscriber by
consent, and that the debt for the
game could be collected by suit, the
same as for other commodities con
sumed in like manner. The Herald
proposes to collect from such dead
Koot. hpsidpg nrintine their names so
honest subscribers can see what they
look like. A man who win swindle a
newspaper will also swindle a mer
chant. Houlton Herald.
AS THE WHEELS TURN OVER
Woo it ouor occurred to you that
there is room in this world for all of
us that there is food enough for all
of us? Can you not comprenend mat
that anv one need
be short in the comforts of life in
order for you to have plenty .'
Do you not understand that no one
need be in want? Under our present
economic system wealth is acquired
only by impoverishing a large num
ber of your ieiiow men.
is surfeited and many are urougu..
want. This idea that it is so natural
ly is generally accepted as lnevitame,
,.,or,n,r tho strife after wealth
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by all the devious methods .legal or
illegal, are resorted to. in us iram
are all crimes and cruelties of which
the victims suffer. This is all wrong
and it also shows the stupidity oi our
government in its attempt to abolish
these wrongs by suppressing symp
toms. It can't be done. Then as an
anaesthetic we are insulted witn.
charity, which only aggrevates the
Bi-tnnt.jnn. Give us justice and then
the symptoms will disappear.
There should be work for all,
leisure for all and plenty for all.
This condition may not have Deen
possible a few centuries ago, but now
,ith tho mechanical development un
der reasonable rules it is not 'only
possible but logical that the whole nu-
man family shouia De nappy.
This condition must De Drougm.
about.
The present government does not
comprehend how to do it, so it must
U nknlicliad find substituted by a
theory of government working toward
that ideal. Then we can nave a iu..u
wherein thou shall eat bread without
scarceness; thou shalt not lack any
thing in it."
Just imagine, that is if you are
n-iftoH with an imagination, the legis
lature putting in a full session re
pealing the laws on tne statute uuima
tv.io atoto Of course that will not
Ul owwvw.
happen, but just imagine if it would
what the result would De. uni i am
aware vou would quickly move out
of fii-on-nn II n ( fro where there is
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plenty of "law."
Of course it is not necessary for
you to know what laws are in vogue
in the place or state you went, for
you don't care a darn what laws are
enacted in this state just so it is law,
and plenty of it you will believe in
it anyway.
in triio rpsnp.pt vou are auite dif-
from thin obscure scribe. He
is doubtful of the benefits of most of
the dream stuff labeled "law." ou
may be sure I am no patriot toh arbor
such ideas about our sacred laws.
Happily I am not alone in that frame
nf mini) T nViRprve "our most prom
inent people" always weigh the stuff
oovofnllir nnd if it is not to their lik
ing will order thes upreme court to
annul the law and you, u you nap
nor. tn tnlre interest enough in public
affairs to have noticed it, will be glad
of it, for it was a "bad law anyway."
See anything?
Justf or the sake of a little mental
ilnt.inn. rumination of the mind,
as it were, let us think a little on the
linn nf t.hot iust suggested.
Just for the sake oi a little menuii
volumes which are vaguely referred
to as "law books" were instantly to
disappear from human ken. Then of
course no courts of law could cntinue
in session. Just imagine what the
result would be.
Surely the mills would stop for
want of power because the water
could no longer flow over the falls or
the power wheels until the law build
ers at Salem would introduce a bill
reading "be it so enacted by the leg
islature of Oregon that water must
hereafter flow down hill."
This bill would have to be read
upon three separate days and attach
an emergency clause to it so it be
came effective upon the signature of
the governor, who might delay the
bill long enough to answer all the
weighty questions propounded by the
alleged prohibitionists and all this
time the waters of the Willamette
standing as still as "Jordan's stream"
was reported to have stood, until the
governor signed it and the great seal
of the state attached. Do you think
so?
Do you think the cold rain would
cense falling alike on the ragged-bent
buck of the worker and the silk um
brella of the shirker?
Would your flocks no longer in
crease do you think, if those myster
iously worded annotated statutes
should be no more?
Would the sons of God no longer
make love to the daughters of men
if Ballinger's code could no longer be
found or a long piece of paper with
an "infernal revenue" stamp stuck
to it could not be "legally1' written,
now would it be so?
Oh, I am aware all this doesn't
interest you and that is just what is
pathetic about it.
The season for loaves and fishes
has opened in Salem. It must be fine
sport with nearly a million suckers
in tha state pond.
Now that the law factories are in
full operation the guessing contests
will follow later.
John F. Stark.
Education is by no means con
fined to the schools. Daily life is a
school, college and university rolled
into one, and in one way and another
it offers more courses than any uni
versity can give.
POTATOES!
If you have any to sell get my price
before you sell
W. 11. LUCKE
PHONE
Home A-72. Pac. Main 448
Warehouses at Canby and Oregon
City
FARMERS' UNION DEPARTMENT
Co-Operation, Hang-together and Stay
With it Will Win I
CRv P W Meredith') !
Cliy I . v. wtrcaim;
l'ir.l.M.n I Ima rrnr id a Ifnnfl TYl H r M f I.
for western Oregon.
The Equity and Farmers'
just made that discovery.
Union
Farmers can find marktes when
they organize to help each other to
live.
David T. Houston, Secretary of
Agriculture, said at Columbia, Mis
souri the 13th. "The indivual farm
er acting alone is practically help
pless. Is there any stronger argu
ment for organization?
Secretary Houston also advocated
rural credit legislation both on the
part of the nation and the states.
Secretary Houston said there
were 7,500 co-operative institutions
of farmers in the United btates tnat
marketed last year one billion dol
lars' worth of products.
It is probable, that there will be
established quite a lot of trade be
tween the farmers of eastern and
western Oregon when the Willamette
vallev farmers are organized a little
more and arrange the necessary ma
chinery.
Pinrone has war and in addition
she has disease, poverty, famine, and
last very destructive earthquakes.
Oregon has only poverty and a legis
lature, but we think we will not feel
Myers
ow about your B&rnDoors
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Do they stick- Jump the track
or pull harder than they should
We have the remedy 'n MYERS DOOR HUNGERS.
Ttibclar and Stay-on Styles. Get them now and put them
on while the weather mates it bad to work outside.
WHEN WE SAY
We carry everything in 7arm Supplies
WE MEAN IT
We Want if our Trade on
Gasoline Engine Engine Oil; Cream Separator Oil;
Axle Creese; Wire Fencing; Post Hole Diggers; Oil Cans; Grind
Stones; Single Trees; Hitches; Pitcher Pumps; Pipe and Fittings.
Everything in Implements and Vehicles,--and at right prices
w.
J. Wilson & Co.
Oregon City, Oregon
Canby H'dware & Imp. Co.
CANBY,
" i ,,. nf Fnrono bv the time our smaller barrel than one containing ' move to strike out thew ord independ
joauloua of Euiopo by the tune sma, .fc unanimousyi
legislature adjourns
The State of Washington has is
sued county school and municipal
bonds to the amount of $100,000,000.
Tha irnvpi-Moi- doubts if they can ever
II kiwi
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Uni) but thcro is no telling what
a legislature will do.
The United States has exported
fifty million bushels of wheat MORE
than last year. 70 percent of the
191-1 crop has been sold. The farm
iivo not holdim? the wheat. The
high price is not due to the millers.
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They make only 8 cents on a barrel
f .Tl -.
nf flour
The high price of wheat is due to
the speculators who are organized in
to boards of trade and chambers of
commerce. The United States govern
ment has investigated the wheat busi
ness in Chicago and will probe still
deeper. The price of wheat in Italy
is $1.99 per. bushel.
t nna di-a mnfio hlMipr nnd if
middlemen' profits are allowed to,
go higher and freight rates go high-
er nnd everything goes on as it is
now going the people who raise the :
wheat and the people who build the
mills will be forced to go without
hrP.-iH. rharitv soud without bread
would be spoiled water.
The Farmers' Union are to have
n hnnk in SDoknne to be known as the
Farmers' Bank and Trust Co. They,
OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY,
wish to be open for business by April
first. John C. Lawrence of Spokane,
will no doubt be its president. He
was at 'one time president of the
Garfield bank.
nurDoae and 0biect of this
bank is to help the several co-operative
enterprises of the Farmers'
Union. The Grange is going to
assist and has taken stock in this
bank. Oregon needs just such an in
stitution. I .
Pmf TTpntnr MacDherson of the
Oregon Agricultural College, has
drafted a state rural credit law tnat
will be introduced into this term of
the legislature. Now if the legisla
ture was composed of farmers the
bill would become a law.
The Portland retail grocers are
planning to buy direct from produc
ers and eliminate the middlemen. An
ice-making firm has agreed to sell to
them direct. They may take the
entire output of the Albany creamery
and in time no telling where co-operation
will stop.
Senator Borah said on the floor of
the senate the 13th that the new
banking organization was a "sort of
antedeluvian mastodon too dead for
a menagerie and too much alive for
the operating table designed for the
treasury but seemingly on its way to
the Smithsonian institution." We
refer this to Mr. Mills of Portland.
There is a freak bill before con
gress to establish a standard barrel
for all fruits, vegetables or other
dry commodities, and if a farmer or
any one else sells or offers for sale
any produce except cranberries in a
OREGON
7056 cubic inches can be jailed six
months or fined $500.
The staves must be exactly 28 Va
inches long and the barrel must have
n head of 17 and one-eight incnes.
a reader
Now if the Courier has
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4-i,4- can urur npnPTir. to ine t iu
ducers m this bill et him arise and
explain. If there is any benefit to
the consumer we would like to know
it.
It is a great benefit to commission
merchants and dealers and they can
have what few farmers we have left
on the farms put in jail.
In recard to this barrel bill
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. quote from congressional record of
Jm'marv fith. naee 1160:
Mr. Floyd of Arkansas: "Suppose a
barrel had the capacity of 1 bushel."
Mr. Ashbrook: "He has the right
under this bill to sell one-third, one
half, three-quarters or one barrel."
Mr. Floyd of Arkansas: "I under
stand that; but suppose it was of less
quantity and not the exact propor
tion described in the bill? You are
imposing all kinds of difticulties
upon the fruit producers, xou are
giving the fruit buyer and the men
in control of the fruit market the
advantage in this proposition. It is
a barrel maker's bill and a vegetable
and fruit buyers' bill, not a fruit
ii-vowers' bill in mv iudement"
Mr. Ashbrook: "If your content
ion is right the fact remains that we
must always legislate in the interests
of the majority and a majority of
the people are consumers and not
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OBEGON
producers."
Mr. Ashbrook is from Ohio and
voices the sentiment of congress for
the last 50 years and if the farmers
or other producers of wealth ever ex
pect to have fair treatment at the
hands of congress they must organize
and adopt better ways of electing
their representatives in congress.
In proof of what we have just said
we quote from the congressional
record of Jan. 2, page 910, from a
atntpmpnt bv Senator Bristow of
Kansas, where he told the U. S. Sen
ate that the farmers were not pros
perous. "I know that tne American
farmers are not organized into a
concrete organization to have repre
sentatives in the National capital,
who can go to committee rooms of
conotnrs and make certain demands,
and if those demands are not met,
enforce them by votes cast in mass
at the doIIs. The farmer is an in
dependent, hard-working citizen, the
bone and sinew ot American me, wno
has been the butt of legislation by
special interests from the beginning,
and it seems never too late for the
American congress to go directly
after him in any effort they make
to reduce the cost of living.
They try to reduce the price of
toW. Vie nroduces but do not attack
the influences and the combinations
that exploit him and multiply the
price of his product after it leaves
the farm.
That, is the sDirit which permeates
and controls in the legislation, that
i nnw nrnnnsed and I denounce it
j r
as unjust."
All the comment we wish to make
on Senator Bristow's remarks is to
Myers
OUR WINNER
ent ana pass it unanimously
How to Cure a Lagripp Cough
Lagrippe coughs demand instant
treatment, xney snow a ssnuus wu-
on 0f the system and are weaken-
ing. Postmaster Collins, carnegat,
N. J., says: "I took Foley's Honey &
Tar Compound for a violent lagrippe
cough that completely exhausted me,
and less than half a bottle stopped
the cough." Try it. Jones Drug Co.
Proposals Invited
Sealed proposals will be received at
the office of the undersigned in
Oregon City, Oregon, on or before
Thursday, February 4, 1915, at 6
o'clock p. m. for 250 cords of
good, first growth, large body fir
wood, four feet long and split
suitable for furnace burning, de
livery to be made between June 1,
and September 15, 1915, at the
Eastham, Barclay and High School
buildings, in Oregon City, Oregon,
as the School District may desig
nate. Payment for said wood to
be made in 50 cord lots as fast
as delivered and accepted. The
right to reject any and all bids
is reserved. By order of the
Board of Director of School Dis-
trict
No. 62, Clackamas County,
Oregon.
Clerk.
E. E. Brodie, District
In the
Debt!
midst of Life we are in
if A
OLD MAN DONNELLY
A Story of the Shadow of a Wooden
Image, by J. L. Jones
Old man Donnelly was a tenant
farmer. He had cleared a farm
worth ten thousand dollars for Squire
Tottenham, and had paid him rent all
u na fnr fVio nrivilep-e of doing it.
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The Squire had the farm and all the
money and Donnelly in his old age
was a pauper.
Not a pauper in the sense in whicn
that word is understood here. I he
terms pauper and beggar are com
monly applied in literature to folks
who are deprived of wealth. A
gentleman who has lost his fortune is
said to be reduced to Deggary, wn.u.
moans. I suDnose. the condition of
those who never had any fortune.
Donnelly was deprived of his
wealth as fast as he made it. He had
fait.hfnllv all his life produc
ing wealth for the squire, and as ne
had accumulated nothing for himself
Via Vian to pnntinue to work in his old
it. nf his strength. The
story was told that in the beginning
ed the 200 acre farm from
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the Squire on a contract for $200, but
being young and honest and simpie
minded, he feared that his credit was
not good for such a vast sum, and
surrendered the contract, borne 01
his friends, hearing of this, offered to
iJinnn Viim mnnev but the Squire
would not return the contract. He
would, not sell at all so Donnelly
remained a renter.
TVio SmiirA was a ei-eat, clumsy,
Vioovu man with immense hands. A
massive nose extended along the mid
riu nf n flat, exnansive. expression
oca face. Kves like Drown gia
marbles, were set close in by the up
per corners of the nose. The strange
picture was framed in a setting 01
thin atraicrht. black hair. Altogether
he did not give one the impression of
belonging to any known race 01 nu-
man beings but reminded one 01 an
nnimatprl wooden imace. moving
about mechanically in slouchy, ill-fit
ting clothes. But thanKs to nis
wealth, he was the most important
person in the community. He owned
a saw mill and, a flour mm in tne
village of Stanhope, and many farms
in tho vicinitv. Many others beside
old man Donnelly were making money
for him, which would have been mucn
more profitably spent upon their own
families.
Some twenty or thirty miles away
was an Indian village. Thirty miles
was a long distance in those days. I
had never been so far from home,
but it happened in the course of time
that I was on a trapping expedition
along some lakes not far from there
We met an Indian from that place.
His name was Tottenham. He was
formed after the image of the old
Squire, only he was not so heavy.
The man who was trapping with me
knew about him. It was well known
in the Indian village that he was a
son of the old squire and there were
others. And then I learned that
Squire Tottenham, like the elder
Astor, had laid the foundation of his
fortune by trading with the Indians,
buying furs.
This was after I had left Stan
hope. During my time there old
Tottenham was the chief pillar of the
church. There were several church
buildings in Stanhope but the one
called "THE" church was the Angli
can or English. The others were only
Methodist or Presbyterian "meetin'
houses." The church stood near the
center of a tract of about an acre,
covered with cheap monuments and
grave stones and surrounded by a
tumble down picket fence. I belong
ed to the church and used to sit in
the front seat in the crallerv besides
the pastor's son, a mischievous youth
who was my boon companion, ine
old squire and his family occupied a
pew close up to the pulpit. It was
boxed up high and square and com-
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The Squire always fell asleep dur-1
ine the sermon. His head would go'
bobbing forward and presently he
would recover himself with a gasp
and snort. Just then my companion
would stuff a handkerchief in his
mouth with one hand and make a
punch for my ribs with the other.
Sometimes he would try to kick my
shins. These were my first exper
iences of the consolations of religion.
He dared not do it outside but we
could not fight much up there be
cause we were exposed to a cross fire
from the other end of the gallery,
which was occupied by the choir.
Otherwise our position was an ideal
one we could see without being seen.
In the summer the flies used to
disturb the slumbers of the old Squire
but some of his children generally
kept them off. He had a second wife
and several fat moon-faced children
like Eskimos, and one that was slim
and pretty like her mother. He had
also a daughter by his first wife, an
old maid, nearly as big as her father
and every feature like him, though
her figure was shapely. She used to
sing in the choir and she practised
Christianity a great deal because she
had not anything else to do. I don't
think she ever danced. It would have
been interesting to see her if she did.
I never knew whether she was
acquainted with her relative in the
Indian village and never heard of
them visiting at the Squire's man
sion in Stanhope. Indeed, I did not
know of the relationship till after I
left there, but the family resemblance
was so striking, there could be no mis
take about it.
Our family lived next to old man
Donnelly, and I was intimately ac
quainted with him and his boys. He
was the best educated man in the
neighborhood and an universal favor
ite on account of his good nature and
sturdy honesty. No one ever heard
him curse or swear when he was
sober and he never at any time used
filthy language. But twice or three
times every month he would get load
ed up with fireworks at the village
tavern and come home late. Then he
would swear and curse at everything.
One night he started to curse the old
Squire and he kept that up, a steady
string of it, till finally he turned it
I into a maudlin, sing-song and went
to sleep cursing.
Another night, one of his boys told
me, he ran out without his boots thru
the deep snow to a barn about half
n mile off. where he naa some i-atv.o
and a yoke of oxen. The boy follow
ed him. Donnelly lonu.eu 6
j tua nr old oxen and blubbered
and cried over them for a long time.
Then he went home in a pemuMu,
frame of mind and got up early and
went to work as usual tne next mui..
ing. He always took his jags on his
own time and at his own expense.
The profits of the Squire were not
diminished. He was not working by
the day. He had a steaay jou iur
life that he could not get away from.
When drunk enough he usually act
ed like an insane person, but no one
could tell how much of it was just act
ing. Sometimes he was violent and
pretended to be dangerous, nv-
drive the boys out of the house and
fire off the gun at the wall. This
did not do any damage because the
cedar logs were solid, but it scared
his old wife so that she could not
scold any more that night. But next
day she would start wicn iresii "
forcements. Looking back at it now I can see
exactly what was the matter with
Donnelly. He was worked to death
and could see and feel that his work
was useless and that everything was
slipping away from hi. His neigh
bors who owned their own land, were
getting comfortably fixed. He could
not build a new house for himself nor
even a barn fit to shelter his cattle.
If he did the landlord would raise his
rent. . , .
This feeling was restrained and im
prisoned within him when he was
working and he hardly did anything
but work. But when he was drunk it
broke out in what the lawyers call
"emotional insanity." It was the
shadow of the Wooden Image that
was resting on him, strangling his
soul, smothering his aspirations and
sapping his lite. H was as u
to the devil by a se
cret contract, and held under a wither
ing curse.
Donnelly's wife was a cripple.
ev fnn worked far beyond her
strength and constantly scolded and
complained. She nagged mm ever
lnstWlv because he had failed and
let things slip through his fingers.
How could he help ltY His linger
joints were big. His heart was big
too, but it was broken.
His life was a long drawn tragedy.
For lack of a few miserable dollars
when he needed it most for yielding
to an impulse that was honest rather
than evil he was caught in the grip
of an intangible enemy; he was con
victed without a trial and sentenced
to life-long servitude.
He was a man of great strength
and violent passion. The blood of
the Norsemen was in his veins. . His
pride rebelled against such a stupid
fate. Is it any wonder he cursed?
And his curses were aimed more ac
curately than fool's prayers. They
struck the target. It was told that
the Tottenham fortunes was dissipat
ed and that his family (the whole
branch of it) had ceased to prpsper.
It is not a pleasant reflection that
the sins of the parents are visited on
innocent children, but such things
happen. The shadow of the Wooden
Image never yet has been lifted from
Donnelly's sons. They are scattered
abroad among strangers, no two of
them together.
Donnelly and his sons are .types
of a class. Their individual cases are
insignificant items in a world tragedy.
Millions, yes hundreds of millions of
lives are withered and shrivelled by
the same deadly blight. Our Agri
cultural collges are not making any
progress in discovering a spray that
will cure it.
The professors in these institutions
are more interested in tho nnimal anA
vegetable kingdoms than in the world
of humanity. This disease of land
lordism, complicated with lendlordism
is a thousand times worse than the
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plagues and all slaveries, but the
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of the House of Mammon and like the
Pharisees and hypocrites at the end
of the last dispensation, they will
neither enter the kingdom of Heaven
themselves nor suffer others to enter.
J. L. Jones.
Sowing wild oats is necessary to
most young fellows but don't mix in
any rye.
Residence 6 1 2 Phones: Main 1101
Center St. . m. i 72
Dr. A. McDonald
Veterinary Surgeon
Office, Red Front Barn
Phones: Main 1 16
B-9 OREGON CITY
C. SCHllEBEj
LAWYER
DEUTCHER ADVAKAT
Oregon City Bank Bldg.
Oregon City
OREGON FIRE RELIEF ASSN,
Strongest Mutual in the West
GEO. W. H. MILLER., Agen
216 ?th St., Oregon City.
H. M. THOMAS
VETERINARY SURGEON
DENTIST
Call Elkhorn Livery Barn
Oregon City Oregon
Geo. C. Brownell
LAWYER
Caufield Bldg.
Oregon City
Oregon