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MORE ABOUT SYMBOLISM
Christian Science off Her Stilts,
Walking Barefoot in Mud of Reality
Some time ago I wrote several
articles on symbolism for the Courier;
I did not finish up the subject at all
' only just touched on it. Symbol
ism is the most important study in
the world. Until you understand that
you cannot -understand anything else.
All things are independent and inter
locked, and symbolism is the key to
the locks of the storehouses in which
all wisdom is treasured.
Symbol is a Greek word that
means "thrown together." Fiction is
Latin and means "fixed up." Now
everything in the natural or material
world is a symbol or a fiction, or if
. you want to get down to slang it
is a fake. The word fake is not
really slang. It is good English as
anything else. It is from the Latin
faceo, I make. Fake is to maek;
faker is a maker or a fraudulent or
inferior sense.
Fact is from the 'same root as
fake. Fact is something made or
done, but if it is not real and true,
then it is a fake. Ideal or invisible
things are creations of the imagina
tion, and they are either facts or fic
tions or fakes. Fictions are true just
as fables or parables are true, inso
far as they are images or illustra
tions of fact.
The word real is from Latin res
(reez) a thing. Every visible, tan
gible thing is real from a material
point of view. 'But Christian Science
teaches that all these things are un
real, that matter itself is an unreal
ityj that indeed there is not any such
thing. It is all an illusion or a fake.
This all depends on the point of
view. The mateiralistic doctrine of
the reality of matter is the only truth
from the materialistic standpoint, be
cause the materialist cannot see spir
itual things. They are unreal and
intangible to him. They are non
existent. There are neither gods,
ghosts nor devils. These are all
fakes or illusions of the imagination.
That is the materialistic paint of
view and it is true as far as its ex-
ponents can understand. It is the
sum of their experience.
But the doctrine of the unreality
of matter is equally true from an
opposite standpoint. Take for illus
tration a tree. What is a tree? Why
it is just a collection of particles of
matter. It is a symbol. The par
ticles are "thrown together" in a cer-
tain form. But let a woodcutter
attack the tree with his hatchet and
cut it up and burn it, and lo, it is not
there any more. I is gone; it is an
unreality. In a few years there will
be no evidence of its existence And
in a few more years the woodman
will have gone also and his memory
will have perished.
Lo, the woodman is as unreal sa
the tree. That is, if we change the
j meaning of the word unreal and make
it to mean temporary or transient
passing away. But things that are
eternal do not pass away, nd things
that are immortal do not die, there
fore they are the only real things, if
by real we mean imperishable.
But all things that are temporal,
pass away. Tempus fugit is Latin
for time flies; and everything in the
material world is temporal or tempor-
ary. It is a thing of time, a passing
show, a moving panarama. " It is not
real in the sense that it is not ever
lasting or eternal.
But these things are real in the
sense of time and place. So long as
we are limited by time and space and
chained down in that state of con
f sciousness that Mrs. Eddy calls the
"mortal mind" the things of this
world are real. Indeed they are the
only realities to most people and
these apparent realities are very com
fortable to some folks and very un
comfortable to others.
But the Christian Scientists trans
port themselves in thought to a
realm of bliss, where material
pleasures and discomforts are equal
ly vain and illusionary, but they
always come back to the world of
reality when the dinner bell rings.
They cook and eat imaginary food
and dress in mystical clothes. They
live in fictitious houses and walk on
enchanted streets in magic cities,
built in a world of dreams.
On the other hand the materialists
take every hting seriously and in
deadly earnest. They struggle and
slave and starve and cheat and lie
and steal. They work and ficht and
kill ono another in their dreams of
greed and fenr. They fear tilways
that something is going to get away
from them, and what htpy four most
comes upon them. If they would let
things go, other things better would
come. But they can't let go. The
bull dog is the symbol of this state
of mind.
They buy more land to raise more
corn to feed more hogs, to make
more money, to buy more land to
raise more corn to feed more hogs
torevcr and ever amen. And they
never wake up to the true realities;
the substantial verities of life; if they
did they might lenrn that the hoc.
the world over, is tho siymbol of
iKiioiHiice una mm.
The science of symbolism is the
key to the light that reveals the re
lation between spirit and matter. It
removes tho veil hat separates the
visible from tho invisible. It opens
the ears of the deaf and causes the
dumb to speak and the blind to see.
It is the revelntion of agii and cf mir
acle. It enables us to eat of the
fruit of the treet of Lifo and enter
the portals of Immortality.
But this is merely introductory to
a fascinating study. If tho reader,
after wrestling earnestly and faith
fully with this, can't make head or
tail of it and finds it all only ns clear
as mud, let him not be discouraged.
Let him adjourn for refreshments.
Let him take something. But don't
let him imagine that I have been tak
ing something through a needle be
fore I wrote this. If he does he will
imatrine a vain thing and th cground
under him will be an unreality.
Let him go back to the world of
reality as ho sees realities. But let
him not forget that there are visions
that his mortal eyes can't see, and
music that the dull ears can't hear,
and that there are worlds to explore,
the maps of which are not published
in his geography.
But by way of precaution 1 want
to sav that if anv of vou should see
a yellow dog on the street and you
can't bo sure whether it is a real nog
nr nn unreality, whether it is a natur
al dog or a metaphorical ono, or a
psychological dog with an allegori
cal tale to it if vou can't tell the
difference your case is getting ser-
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ious and you naa Deuer consult mr.
Thnt.rher. the criminaloeist. or Dean
Collins, the nut expert for the Ore-
gonian. Don t come to me. I aon t
nrart.irp. I nnlv nrofess. I liave no
license to take your money from you
not yet. When I get a license ana
vou get the money, why then 1 11 De
happy to see you.
J. L. Jones.
The Follies of War Shown by a
School boy
In ancient times as history maintains
The art of war meant Chivalry,
But call it as you may, the fact re
mains, It was conquest out of deviltry.
Kings, Emperors and Lords .
Arose from strength, and Drutai
force:
Their imbecile descendants now
Accept their rank and place of
course.
These imbecile descendants now
Boast of their ancient ancestry,
And couple the name of God and War,
Which looks to me like blasphemy.
The men without title, rank or wealth,
Fine men in every way,
Are ordered to the front to kill
Fine men as good as they.
Poor fools, they know they have to
kill
Their fellow men in battle.
They dare not think, or they'd be
shot;
They are like dumb, driven cattle.
Chivalry is not mentioned now
The word is out of date-
But slaughter is the only word,
And true at any rate.
The Hague Tribunal as it is called,
Was erected for the kings,
Who just made rules to regulate War,
To slaughter and such things.
They ruled that certain things in War
Were not to be permissible,
But why not make a set of rules
To make a War impossible?
In framing, rules for this Tribunal,
Just call things by their names,
Instead of War, say slaughter,
And slaughter but Kings' games.
And soldiers they should call blind
in blind faith
And submarines they should call
Treacherous instruments of death.
And Airships call them vultures;
Vile birds of human prey,
That are used to kill off innocents
And destroy by night and day.
Let Kings and Emperors who want to
fight,
Just take each other's life,
And that would be the surest way
Of ending all the strife.
Kix.
Summons
In the County Court of the State of
Oregon for the County of Clacka
mas. Mary Morrison, Plaintiff,
vs.
Malcom D. Morrison, Defendant.
To Malcom D. Morrison, above named
Defendant:
In the name of the State of Ore
gon, you are hereby required to ap
pear and answer the complaint filed
against you in the above named suit
within six weeks from the date of
the first publication of this summons,
and if you fail to appear or answer
said complaint, for want thereof, the
plaintiff will apply to the court for
the relief prayed for in tho com
plaint for a decree dissolving the
bonds of matrimony now existing be
tween plaintiff and defendant.
This summons is published by or
der of the Honorable H. S. Anderson,
Judge of the county court, which or
der was mado on the 2d day of I'ob
ruary, 1915, and the time prescribed
for publication thereof is 6 weeks
beginning with the issue of February
4, 1915, and ending with the issue of
March 18, 1915.
, Robert Scoular,
Attorney for riaintiff.
Notice of Final Settlement
Alvin T. Schmalo, Estate.
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned as administrator of the
estate of Alvin T. Schmalo, deceased,
has filed his final account in the
County Court of tho State of Oregon
for Clackamas county, and that Fri
day, the 12th day of Murch, 1915, a,t
the hour of 10 o'clock in the forenoon
of said day and the court room of
said Court has been appointed by said
Court as the time and place for the
hearing of objections thereto and
the settlement thereof.
Dated and first published February
11th, 1915.
A. W. Schmale,
Administrator of aforesaid.
W. S. Ward,
Attorney.
Notice of Final Settlement
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned has filed her final re
port in the matter of the estate of
Samuel Mills, deceased, in the County
Court of the State of Oregon, for the
County of Clackamas, and the Court
has appointed Monday, the 15th day
of March, 1915, at the hour of 10
o'clock A. M., as the day and time for
the hearing of objections to such
final report, if any there are, and
for the settlement of said estate.
Mary J. Mills,
Executrix for will of Samuel Mills,
deceased.
Date of first publication, February
18, 1915.
Want to be in stvlc rirls? Use
a wash rag and a cuke of soap. So
ciety has pronounced them an in
despensible aid to beauty. No, this
is not a grocery advertisement.
OREGON
Plenty of System, but Jones is Poor
Number Thinks Ida M. Hart
Eagle Creek, Ore, Feb. 10, 1915.
Editor Courier:
In readinar the articles by J. L.
Jones in your paper, I have been in
terested in his religious views, as he
has given numerous facts that are
commonly overlooked, but I beg to
differ with him on some of his
opinions.
In the article "The Girl on Stilts,"
he says "So far no system of religion
or philosophy or science, no plan of
social salvation has ever got within
touch of the people that need it
most," "Religion is dead and buried,
rolled up in an ancient napkin' of
millinery and mummery."
Now if he had said that so far
EE HAD NOT FOUND a system of
religion, etc., or that he had not in
vestigated all systems as yet, he
would have come nearer the point,
for at the present time there is a
system of religion that is helping
thousands of people physically,
morally and spiritually, and accord
ing to their own testimony they were
in' need of help if ever mortals were.
Anyone taking the trouble to read
the speech of Hon. John D. Works,
of California in the senate of the
United States, January 5th and 6th,
1915, in pamphlet form, will obtain
convincing evidence of the same.
We often form rash conclusions
without thorough investigation.
In speaking of the shattered
churches and cathedrals of Europe,
he says: "If these are houses of God,
why does He not protect them?" Is
a building which is made for people
who profess religion, to assemble in,
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Myers
ow about vour Barn Doors
Do they stick- Jump the track
or pull harder than they should
We have the remedy n MYERS DOOR HANGERS.
Tutelar and Stay-on Styles. Get them now and pat them
on while the weather makes it bad to work outside.
WHEN WE SAY
We carry everything in Farm Supplies
WE MEAN IT
We Want f otir Trade on
Gasoline Engine Engine Oil; Cream Separator Oil;
AxleGreese; 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
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Oregon City, Oregon
Canby H'dware & Imp. Co.
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really any different in the sight of
an Infinite God than any other ma
terial structure? When Constantine
was once told that a mob had broken
the head off his statue with stones,
the emperor lifted his hands to his
head saying, "It is very surprising
but I don't feel hurt in the least."
Many of the churches of the
United States prayed for peace, to
be sure, but did the warring nations
wish to be peaceful, or did they re
quest tho prayers of the people?
Have we any right to take up their
problems and work for them as we
may think best without them request
ing' it?
The Bible is full of promises but
certain requirements are mado and
have to be met before we can re
ceive the results.
Where tho trouble has all been is
that humanity wants to get tho ans
wers to their problems without work
ing them. The problem of life can
be worked and the right results ob
tained and proven if we work accord
ing to the rule of Divine Principle.
Ida M. Hart.
Six Per Cent Money
Loans may be obtained for any
purpose on acceptable real estate se
curity; liberal privileges; correspond
once solicited. A. C. Agency Co.,
75S Gas, Electric BJdg., Denver, Colo.
There is a fellow around here who
never reads his home paper, and peo
ple often wonder at his lack of know
ledge concerning local affairs. We
don't.
Ci$ COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON
HAMMERS AND NUTS
"For Farmers to think about nuts
to crack and a hammer to crack them
with."
Yes, and there will be someone
along to eat them as fast as he gets
them cracked. You hand him a little
hammer a tack hammer I suppose
, when he already has a steam ham
l mer with plenty of steam to use it,
; only he has not sense enough to
strike where the nut is; that is his
own nut, but if the other fellow wants
a few cracked he will lay off and do
it for him.
I Point out to him exactly where the
nut lies and that if he hits it it will
benefit him and he will blaze away,
j If he doesn't miss it altogether he
will smash it so skin and kernel are
so mixed that none of it is any good
and then the chances are he will grub
: up the tree or bush that bore it.
I Let a measure for his own good be
' presented and all that an astute
I politician has to do 'is to hand him a
telescope with the big end to his eye
j and by the way he sees it it looks so
small that he doesn't think it is
worth considering. He never tries to
turn the glass around in fact he does
not think at all; the other fellow does
that for him.
Segregate him from others and he
doesn t know enough to put the big
apples on the top of the box. Cob
bine him with others and he lets all
but the big ones rot.
He reminds me of a friend I have
' who always buys "hand me down
clothes." I said to him one day
"why do you do that for? the position
you occup demands better." "Well,"
he says, "it's this way. You can see
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my form is not made to advertise a
tailor's business, so when I go to get
a suit of clothes made they size up
my form and tell me to pick out the
cloth I want them made from, which
I do, then they find the worst appren
tice they have got in the shop to
make them. When I go for them
and take a look at them of course I
make a roar because of the way they
are got up. 'Well,' he says, 'they are
the goods you picked out.' "
If a candidate wants your vote
would offer to come and plow your
potato patch for you for nothing you
would turn down his offer for you
would be afraid he would ruin it, but
you will vote for him to put him
where he can tell you HOW to do it.
The farmer is a PRODUCER a
grower of things. Everything and
everybody wants some of it. His
thinking lines ere along its' produc
tion and if he lays off to consider
transportation, markets and com
panies, by the time he gets back the
microbes have eaten up all he has to
trasnport to market
Cain is the only man that ever had
a judicial decision rendered in favor
of the farmer. When Adam showed
his preference for mutton chops,
lather than turnips, ho took an auto
matic Remington club and decided the
case in his favor and put his adver
sary out of commission. But in place
of forming a syndicate and telling
Adam he could eat turnpis at his
price or starve or go to work, which
ever suited him best he took a sneak
and that is where the farmer is to
win
E,. l-J' A. It J'ti- . "r-i
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day in a back seat, for the lime
light hurts his eyes.
Someone must do the outside
problems for him and the great
things for h:m to study is between
the true and the false.
ROAD TROUBLLE IN DIST. 46
Editor Courier:
In road district No. 46, not over
three miles from the court house,
is a piece of road that is a disgrace
to the county court. There is both
a mail and a cream route over this
road and it is well settled up by
farmers.
Last year a delegation of the tax-
payers waited upon the county court
tos ee if something couldn t be done
to put that road in shape and the
court finally agreed tht.t if the
people would donate enough to grade
said road that they would put in a
rock crusher and rock it out of the
general fund.
About $800 was donated and the
road was graded in good shape, but
it seems that promises were cheap
with the county court and the only
thing we got was a few loads of poor
quality gravel on a short distance of
this road. In consequence even the
mail carrier has been obliged to call
on the farmers to extricate him from
some of the mud holes.
The district supervisor took charge
of the grading and took $75 out of
the donation fund for his wages. He
also put a part of the donation fund
on another road, for which it wasi not
donated.
There are four main roads in this
district, namely: Holcomb, Forsythe,
Stringtown and Clackamas river
OUR WINNER
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roads, and the Holcomb and For
sythe roads, according to territory,
are entitled to at least two-thirds
of the district tax money, but last
year there was not one cent of the
district money expended upon either
of these roads. Both of these roads
have a mail and craem route. Why
this discrimination?
Not a very nard riddle. That part
of the river road that is in district
4G is Judge Anderson's direct road
from his home farm to Oregon City.
Can you guess the riddle?
And yet, having been informed of
these facts the county court reapoint
ed said supervisor over the protest of
about two-thirds of the resident tax
payers of this district.
L. N. Leach.
From the description given by
Mr. Leach, we should judge that this
stretch of road was in very bad shape,
but from our personal experience
with the roads of Clcakamas county
it is no worse than many others.
East and West Clackamas $1.40
The Courier has made a clubbing
arrangement with the Estacada Pro
gress whereby the two papers are
offered for one year for the bargain
price of $1.40. Through this com
bination you get both and eastern
and western Clackamas county paper
for less than the price of one county
paper. Send subscriptions to either
the Courier or the Progress at Esta
cada, and you will get both papers
one year for the $1.40.
Myers
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New York, February 15, 1915.
Full skirts have undoubtedly come
to stay for a while at least. For all
that, there is no reason why the wo
man with several long tunic skrits
in her wardrobe should be discourag
ed, for they have not been discarded
by any manner of means. A number
of the large French dressmakers are
using them this year with great suc
cess and in such a way that the in
genious woman may follow their ex
amples with her old skirts.
For instance, the new tunic skirts
are very long, muc hlonger than
those of last yearj showing scarcely
more than one or two inches of the
lower skirt beneath; but to offset
this, which looks rather difficult
when your last season's long tunic
showed at least six inches of lower
sgirt, yokes are very much the rage,
and by attaching a tunic to a yoke it
will be long enough to suit this sea
son's requirements.
If the dress you wish to remodel is
of silk, or a summer fabric, a very
simple way of modernizing ft is to
add a lower section of two or more
ruffles and the depth of the lower
skirt which shows. I saw a pretty
taffeta dress the other day which had
been made with a flaring tunic and a
very tight lower skirt. The owner
of the dress made the skirt wide by
inserting a triangular piece of the
material into the back seam. Two
ruffles she made of thes ame ta'ffeta
with narrow machine hemstitched.
These were placed onto the founda
tion skirt, and of course, the piecing
was hidden and joined below the long
tunic. The dress was very smart and
looked as though it might have been
designed this season instead of last.
With a little forethought and a
careful studying of new designs to be
seen in the fashion magazines or
fashion sections of the newspapers
many an old dress whose style is
hopeless can be made into an up-to-
date garment which will give a great
deal of pleasure.
In my first illustration I have
shown a dress whose lines are simple
enough to suit the most conservative
of tastes and yet are so smart that
wherever the gown is seen the wear
er would pass as a well-dressed mem
ber of society. The model is develop
ed in Belgian blue ribbed material,
light of weight and suited to the
skirt whose wide tucsk give an effect
of deep hems in a flounced skirt.
News from Paris says that gabar
dine continues to be very smart. It
has the qualities which should endear
it to the American mind, for it is
serviceable and practical and comes
in all the known shades, from navy
blue, black, white, to all the shades
of tan and gray.
Checks large and checks small are
being shown for the spring suits. In
my illustration I have shown a trig
little suit with a diagonal black-and-white
check. The coat is made some-
what on Norfolk lines, with a six
gored sikrt cut the short ankle length
to which length all skirts should be
cut to have the proper style this
year. Instead of shoes, to be dis
tinctly up to Paris styles, boots
should be worn with a walking dress
of this character. Russian boots they
are called, they button or lace up the
sides and wrinkle in a mousquetaire
fashion.
Empire lines are shown In every
thing. Suits are made short waisted,
with full peplums hanging from the
belt. Tailored frocks are made short
waisted, with a wide or narrow belt,
which is attached on its upper line
only and hangs free on its lower edge,
giving a boxed effect. The evening
dresses are made distinctly after the
gowns of the Empress Josephine's
period, the waists just coming below
the bust, and the skirt's longer and
fuller than those of her time, but
clinging gracefully to the figure.
Striped taffeta skirts have jackets
of satin matching some color in the
stripe. Voile is used extensively,
and usually trimmed with bands of
taffeta. Sand-colored voile skirts
have brown taffeta jackets.
Lunette is an American-made
fabric which takes the place of the
Georgette crepe, which is made
abroad and has become very scarce
since the war. Whole dreeses are
made of it, especially for evening
wear, and it is most attractive and
more -durable than chiffon. There is
an indestructable Voile which is very
much like chiffon that is also used a
great deal. It comes in all the beau
tiful old-fashioned designs, in Dolly
Varden and Dresden designs, as well
as in the large figured effects.
Plfi.l fnhrics are havine a renewed
vogue in Paris, although they are
considered a novelty rather than a
staple fabric. Black is naturally very
stylish, as WOUlQ ue expetteu, Yvucii
one thinks that all France is in
mourning. After black comes white.
White evening coats are considered
very fashionable; also coats of white
serge and gabardine for the separate
coat. Black and white combined is
also very good and largely featured,
and in its train 'purple and grayin
fact, all the mourning and semi
mourning colors are having a vogue
which they will probably not have
until another war.
New uniforms have been made for
the French soldiers of a new shade
of blue; naturally that means it is
immediately copied for costumes for
women. This color, together with
the khaki-colored field cloth, nre used
extensively for tailored costumes, es
pecially if they follow ever so slight?
ly the tendency toward the military.
Small hats are the vogue in Paris.
They are loved too well by the Paris
ians to be quickly discarded. Trig
little hats of oilcloth to match cuffs
and belt are worn extensively with
tailored suits. The small hats entire
ly covered with flowers are used for
more elaborate occasions. Tailored
hats are being trimmed with ribbons
of large plaid, as well as in black and
white faille ribbons, and give them a
distinctly new look.
Large hats are slowly creeping in
to view, and will no doubt hold the
people for summer, especially the old
time shape trimmed with flowers and
velvet ribbon streamers.
Notice of Final Settlement
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned as executor of the last will
and testament of William Wild, de
ceased, has filed his final account in
the County Court of the State of Ore
gon for Clackamas county, and that
Monday, the 22nd day of March, 1915,
at the hour of 10 o'clock in the fore
noon of said day and the court room
of said Court has been appointed by
said Court as the time and place for
the hearing of objections thereto and
the settlement thereof.
Dated and first published Febru
ary 18th, 1915.
John W. Loder,
Executor of the last will and tes
tament of William Wild, deceased.
SALE OR EXCHANGE Fine 40
acres, stocked; accept residence on
Oregon City line; balance easy
terms. Box 206, Canby, Ore.
POTATOES!
If you have any to sell get my price
before you sell
W. H. LUCKE
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