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4 MORNING ENTERPRISE TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1912 County Court L. C. J. J. J. A. T. F. D. W. Thomas 12.00 Heinz 92.00 Anderson 72.00 Wilken . 16.00 Shively 8.00 Gross 86.00 Johnson 32.00 Kelnhofer 66.00 S. Colcon 118.50 Kaiserm 65.00 G. Tiedeman Oregon City Lumber Co. Wilson & Cooke S. Moser . . 6.10 .. 8.64 .. 7.20 .. 7.00 District No. 35 We Booth 14.2,5 District No. A. M. Anderson E. J. Anderson R. F. Watts 36 7.75 4.00 5.00 District No. Wm. J. Carrell J. J. Kraus J. N. Bivert J. Sigrist 37 4.50 5.00 6.00 6.00 P. A. Anderson 64.30 Wm. Sewell 46.75 D. Legler 71.75 C. W. Kruse 46.50 J. Garde 1.50 District No. 40 J. C. Miller 4.00 Frank O'Meyer 24.00 John McCracken 10.50 V. Blust 6.00 Edward Cox 60.00 Alphonse Bufford 13.50 Dan Eidman 9.00 A. Butolk 2.00 C. O. Davis '. 1.50 John Douglas 25.00 J. J. Judd 25.00 J. C. Elliott 3.00 District No. 43 Ed Douglas 12.00 H. S. Gibson 12.00 C. Murphy 5.00 Ray Woodle 4.00 Lester Rivers Chas. Clester Earnest Hoffmeister William Schneiman . J. E. Brady A. D. Burnett 4.00 4.00 4.00 2.00 1.00 5.00 District No. 44 Wilson & Cooke 11.20 R. Worthen 26.00 G. Yexley 12.00 S. M. Wornock 50.00 A. J. Marrs 76.00 E. Bancroft .. 21.00 W. Roland .... ., , 2,QQ D. McCormack .' 16.00 C. Gregory 25.00 W. Mead 38.00 C. Cahill 44.00 Dave Jones 29.00 Earnest Jones 39.00 J. Houghman 35.50 Chas. Rider v 60.00 C. Williamson 35.00 W. R. Osburn 36.25 J. Buss 25.90 C. W. Hackatt 14.75 E. Hiatt 28.00 C. Geiger 28.00 F. Eggiman 17.25 Herman Fischer 45.50 Rider & Co 84.00 B. Clark 20.50 T. Mare 4.25 A. L. Rose 7.50 Charley Berch 10.25 F. Patrick 3.00 A. Osburn 2.25 Guy Woodard 2.25 C. Priester 4.50 District No. 41 Firwood Lumber Co 3.06 John Affolter 32.34 M. Updegrave , 6.00 Wm. Updegrave 6.00 Gaylord Keith 4.00 Chas. A. Keith 25.25 Paul R. Meining 3.30 District No. 46 Mack Rivers '. . 9.00 Carl Mumpower 2.00 Orval Watts 16.00 A. J. Crafton 4.00 F. W. Crothers 12.00 J. R. Carr 16.00 M. Leach 16.00 L. Leach 8.00 Elton Hattan 16.00 L. D. Mumpower 12.00 O. W. Hattan 10.00 District No. 47 W. H. Counsel 24.00 H. E. Sharrow 1.00 C. W. Risley 4.50 J. F. Risley 4.50 O. P. Rothe 15.00 Manson Rose 2.25 District No. 43 E. D. Hart 16.00 District No. 49 McCurdy Lumber & Hdwe. Co 5.00 J. F. Snyder 2.00 F. H. Davis 40.00 E. T. Davis 36.00 C. Wilcox 4.00 Paul Sauer 56.00 J. W. Pattison 60.00 A. C. Anderson 52.00 Tom Carter 26.00 Frank Sanford 36.00 'W. W. Porter 3.50 G. W. Callwell 4.00 E. S. Wilcox 8.00 Alex Irvin , 28.00 G. T. Hunt 101.50 H. H. Anders 24.00 Ben T. Rawlins 43.00 C. Johnson 32.00 The" Queendom of Xanthos An Experiment In Woman's Independence By F. A. MITCHEL A clever young woman of Athens, when that city was the intellectual center of Greece, lectured In the mar ket place on the subject of the inferior rights possessed by women and urged her fellow citizenesses to demand the privileges of men. She succeeded in inaugurating a movement with that nd in view, and the demand was made. But it was denied. Then this young feminine leader Thenia was her name proposed to the malcontents that they should go to one of the islands of the Grecian archipel ago which was uninhabited, take pos session of it and assume the same priv ileges that were possessed by the men of Athens. The scheme was put into effect, and the island, then called Xanthos, became a woman's community, Thenia having been chosen queen. At the time the women took possession of it their rad ical wing was in the ascendancy, and no men were invited to Join them. The leader of this wing, Hermodia, a very homely woman, argued that they had no use for men and could take care of themselves. As to perpetuating their community, they could draw con tinually from the women of other parts. But one day a pirate ship came tojthe island and spread consternation among the inhabitants. Queen Thenia sent for Hermodia to lead a corps of amazons against the intruders. The man hater was found hiding under the bed. The pirates were bought off, and the queen proposed to enlist a corps of men to be held ready for the protec tion of the queendom as she Insisted it should be called to be paid for their services, but in order that they should not interfere in - public affairs they were to have no privileges, being con sidered foreign mercenaries. Now, the Xanthos movement had tak en many of the most attractive young women of Greece, and when it was given out that an armywas to be re cruited for the protection of the qneen dom many of the finest young men flocked to the standard, indeed, they were just the men who would be most likely to cause trouble among the inhabitants of the Island. When the queen beard of the kind of men who were being recruited she was dis tressed. "Alas," she exclaimed, "our main dif ficulty has been encountered at the out set. While we are mentally as strong as men we are physically weaker. 1 fear that this will prove a stumbling biOck in our way!" "Cheer up, your majesty," said Ceria. a citizeness of great beauty. "What we lack in strength of body we can supply by artful management We must have these men to protect us against the lowest and most brutal of their kind, piratei" But we will hood wink our protectors. It Is easier to hold power wbich we jilreadypossess F. M. Gill 24.00 E. Wagner 22.00 Otis Wagner L 32.00 G. H. Sanford 24.00 H. O. Sanford 10.00 A. T. Hunt 28.00 Sidney Fisher 28.00 District No. 51 J. E. Siefer '. John Anderson Ernest Boese Otto Boese 20.00 6.00 12.00 12.00 Albert Welsh 23.00 Herman Johnson 24.00 Godfried Boese 24.00 Clarence Siefer 28.00 Ed Rich 20.00 Freight on Shovels 25 Fred W. Morter 1.35 Fred Anderson 6.00 Mat Sonickson 15.00 District No. 53 Frank Erickson 6.00 W. Powell 4.00 Geo. Wooster 12.00 E. R. Ridings 13.50 District No. 55 Creason Mill Co 365.07 Frank Busch 12.00 H. H. Mattoon 58.00 J. C. Mattoon 12.00 E. Ficken 12.00 Jim Hayden 6.00 Rae Crane 4.00 J. A. Tidyman 12.00 C. Jubb 6.00 A. C. A. F. B. Cope 30.00 Cope 28.00 H. Meyer ..! 32.00 Cockerlaine 8.00 1 District No. 56 Wilson & Cooke 3.40 Fred Heft 4.60 Dan Fellows 6.00 Bert Cody 6.00 Chas. Hanson 6.00 E. Haseltine 8.00 C. Garde 6.00 F. Mayfield 6.00 Jesse Mayfield 2.00 Milton Miller 4.00 John Wallace 6.00 Nat Scribner ;.. 11.50 Geo. Stevens 4-0 G. R. Miller . Harvy Holland 1.20 Dan Fellows .....7 10.00 ' District No. 57 Wm. H. Stuwe 13.00 J. W. Rood 3.50 Ole Bergstrom . 3.50 Austin Duboise 6.00 Isaac Williams 3.50 Henry Helgerson 2.00 than to wrest it from others. "What we could not do at Athens will be easy at Xanthos." Queen Thenia was encouraged by this reasoning, but the barracks were built on a point standing out into the Aegean sea, and a wall was construct ed dividing the point from the rest of the island. 1 Then she gave orders that no soldier should cross the wall. But the queen forgot that all com mands in order to be effective must have force behind them. It was a sim ple matter for her to issue an order, but she had no power to see that it was obeyed. The troops had hardly been . settled in their quarters before they began to make incursions upon the forbidden ground. The queen or dered the captain of the legion to ap pear before her and asked him why he did not compel his men to obey her order. Now, the captain, Themocles, was a handsome young Greek who had dis tinguished himself in the wars of his country. He had seen Thenia when she had spoken In the market place of Athens and had fallen in love withMier. When she had called for troops to de fend herself and her subjects he had organized the legion and. being the finest specimen of manly beauty and bravery in it, was chosen its leader He and his men had come to Xanthos to protect the women from pirates that THEN A LIEUTENANT ADVANCED. they might appropriate them to them selves. It Is thus that the superior physical strength of men is ever a source of weakness in the cause of equal rights for women. "1 fear, oh, queen." he said,, "that 1 cannot control my men in this respect since I cannot control myself!" "What is the cause of your weak ness?" asked the queen, astonished. "Yourself." The look of admiration that accom panied the word was a revelation. Two emotions fluttered In her breast delight at ter conquest and fear of subjugation. Nevertheless she main tained a haughty reserve, not knowing what course to pursue. Then without reply she dismissed the captain and at once sent for Ceria. "You said, Ceria," the queen began when Ceria appeared, "that since we cannot control the legion by force we must do it by our feminine arts. The time has come when an application of those arts is necessary. The soldiers are constantly leaving their barracks and 1 fear will tamper with some of our weaker sisters and. having effect ed a foothold in our community, will reduce us to the slavery we have pre viously endured. I have ordered the captain to keep his men in their bar racks, and he has admitted that he cannot control them. Have you any thing to propose?" "I will think the matter over, oh. queen, and see If I can concoct a plan." Ceria withdrew, and while she was thinking of the matter there was a commotion among the women of Xan thos. One party held that since wom en were dependent on men for protec tion they must continue to be their slaves. Another declared that a mis take had been made in admitting the men; they should at once be sent away. Those who believed that the men should be sent away prevailed, and the queen was petitioned to issue an order for the legion to depart at once. To this she was obliged to assent, and the order was issued. Several days passed, during which the women watched for preparations on the part of their army for de parture, but could perceive none. Then the queen sent for itn captain and ask ed him why her order had not" been FIFTY-FIRST Oregon State F A I R Salem, Sept. 2 - 7, 1912 Offered in premiums on Livestock, Poultry, Agri cultural and other products Races, Dog Show, Shooting Tourna ment, Band concerts, Fireworks and Free Attractions. : : : Send for Premium list and entry blanks. Reduced rates on all railroads. For particulars address FRANK MEREDITH, Sec Salem, Oregon. obeyed. He replied that he liad issued it in her name, but his men seemed averse to obeying It Some of them had formed attachments to women of the island while the latter were still Athenians, and some had been cap tivated since. They were all well sat isfied with their enlistment and claim ed that they could not be discharged till its term had expired. The queen in her extremity sent for Ceria and asked her If she had thought of a plan to get the men away by strategem." To this Ceria replied: . "Oh, queen, the fault Is In our wom en. Expel from your queendom all those for whose sake the men are re maining and you will be rid of this Incubus." Now, the queen was greatly vex ed at this proposition, for it would cause her own expulsion. She there fore declined to avail herself of Ce ria's plan. But Ceria, who. being a beauty, was tired of remaining In se clusion, went among the queen's sub jects and stirred up a sedition, so that at last Thenia was forced by a clamor to yield. An order was Issued to the captain that every man who was re maining on the island for love of one of the queen's subjects should march to the palace on a certain day and hour and declare publicly the name of the woman he love'd. On the appointed morning a great stir appeared In the barracks of the legion. The queen and her subjects took position before the palace and awaited the coming of those men who were to declare their love. What was their consternation to see every man in the legion form in column and, headed by their captain, with banners flying and the sun glittering on their armor, march out of barracks toward the palace. The queen swooned. By the time the legion drew up in line before her she bad recovered and by an effort controlled herself. The captain advanced several paces, salut ed with his sword and declared himself a suitor for the queen's hand., Thenia blushed and covered her face with her hands. Then a lieutenant advanced and announced his love for Ceria. He had no sooner done so than others ad vanced holding up their hands, crying "And I!" "And I!" "And I!" till fully a third of the legion were clamoring for recognition as the girls' lovers. Discipline was at an end. the men breaking from the ranks and each choosing the girl he desired. Now, the legion numbered barely a tenth of the citizenesses of Xanthos. and, as was to be expected, the sol diers' chose the most comely and other wise attractive of the women, who made no objection whatever-to being chosen. Indeed, many of them had" for some time been secretly receiving the attention of certain of the men. There, necessarily remained a large number of women unchoseu. These re marked the defection of their queen and their chosen fellow citizenesses with bitter condemnation. One of these, who saw in the action of the soldiers the fall of the community, de livered a speech to her sisters which was as full of severe invective as her features were repulsive. Then the body of unchosen women departed in anger very much like the chorus In a Greek play going off the stage. Boost your city by boosting your daily paper. The Enterprise should be in every home. DR. LB. FORD PRAISES SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS Dr. T. B. Ford, pastor of the Metho dist church, at the services Sunday morning, called attention to the Sun. day school Department In the Morn ing Enterprise. Dr. Ford said: "The department is a fine one, and should receive the encouragement of the pat rons of the readers of the paper. I know the Rev. T. L. Linscott well, and no better man could be obtained for such work. He is one of the great est Bible teachers In the country." February Legends. Why February has twenty-eight days Is explained in the legends of the past. One is of an old woman who. tending her-.tlock. ridiculed the mouth of Kehru ary because he had' dealt so leniently with her and her sheep Then Febru ary felt- insulted and made leap year and borrowed a cold day from March and froze her and her n.-ck. There is a Norman legend which makes it our that February had originally as many days its the other months, but Febni ary was a confirmed yntubler and lost at dominos a day both to January and to March" Strange to say. there is an old story of Egypt wherein the sod of February plays forfeits with the inoon and loses certain davs. Condemned to Slavery. Two hundred years ago. when men and women werecondeniiied to death for trivial oflenseSit was the custom in Scotland to commute the death sen tence into perpetual servitude to speci fied masters. In other words, the-condemned person became a slave. It was further ordained that he should wear a metal collar round his neck re cording his sentence and punishment The Society of Scottish Antiquaries owns one of these collars, fished out of the Forth above Alloa. It is brass, with this inscription: "Alexander Stew art, found guilty of death for theft at Perth. 5th- December. 1701. and gifted by the justiciars as a perpetual serv ant to Sir John Aresken of Alva." Weiqhing Common Air. The weight of air has often been test ed by compressing it in receptacles by the air pump. That it really lias weight when so compressed is shown by the fact that the weight of the vessels is increased slightly by filling them with compressed air and that such vessels become specifically "lighter" as soon as the air contained in them is ex hausted Many elaborate experiments on the weight of air have proved that one cubic foot weighs 5315 grains, or something less than one and a quarter ounces. The above experiment on the weight of air is supposed to be made at the surface of the earth with the temperature at 50 degrees F. Heated air or air at high elevations is lighter. Solitude. Solitude is a matter of taste. It has been the subject of much discussion. Volumes have been written in praise or condemnation of it But perhaps the real value of solitude has never been so subtly and so accurately expressed as by the girl who was asked if she liked being alone. "That depends." she an swered sweetly, "on whom I am alone with." , Unqualifiedly the Best LEDGER The De Luxe' Steel Back New improved CURVED HINGE allows the covers to drop back on the desk without throwing the leaves into a curved position. Sizes 8 1-4 to 20 inches OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE Headquarters for Loose Leaf Systems SOCIETY BEAUTY TO FIGHT EX-HUSBAND SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Aug. 26. Maryon ' Andrews-Burguiere-Denning-Bruguiere, California beauty and a member of the New York's and New port's exclusive set, is enroute to this city to begin her active battle to be declared the legal wife of Dr. Pedar Sather Bruguiere and compel him to provide separate maintenance of 400 a month. Mrs. Bruguiere's suit not only seeks' to set aside her divorce from the mil lionaire physician and society man, but itj would have his marriage in 1906 with, his present wife, who was Nannie King, step-daughter of A. C. Townsend, fee candy magnate, auto matically declared illegal. Mrs. Bruguiere was the second wife of the much" married physician. He first married Madeine McKisick, whom he divorced in-1902. His court ship with the beautiful Maryon An drews was far advanced before he had secured his decree from his first wife. The decree from the first Mrs. Bru guiere, however, stipulated that he could not remarry for a year. This, however, applied to California only. Bruguiere and Miss Andrews went to Reno where they were married on De cember 20, 1902. They returned to this city to live and. on September 6 of the following year a son was born to them. Bruguiere went to Reno February 1, 1905 ,and established a residence. He filed suit for divorce charging cruelty and desertion. Mrs. Bruguiere says her husband told the court she had deserted her home in Nevada, where as she never had one therej He ob taind his decree on January 28, 1906. Being ignorant of judicial proceed- The Season Is On At DELIGHTFUL NEWPORT OnYaquina Bay and the Pacific Join the crowds, whether you want rest and quiet or clean, wholesome, lively fun. You will find either at Newport Wealth of natural scenery. Splendid fishing, boating, bathing. Delightful drives. Pretty trails through the woods and along the beach. Abundance of sea food, oysters, clams, crabs, rock cod, groupers, etc. Plenty of fresh, palatable vegetables and table supplies. Inviting nooks for campers. Reasonable rates at rooming houses, cottages and hotels. All modern conveniences. Special Low Round-trip and Week-end Fares From Oregon City Season $6.25 Call on our agent for information relative to train schedules, etc. Ask for illustrated literature and our spec- ial folder "Vacation Days in Oregon." JOHN M. SCOTT General Passenger Agent, Portland, Oregon. ings, Mrs. Bruguiere says, and believ ing mat ner nus Dana's degree wa binding, she on July 20. 7907. married at Atlantic City, Stewart Denning, broker for the Gould family. Learning in 1910. she says, that she was still the legal wife of Bruguiere and that his divorce was not binding nuiea in Marcn or tnat year witn per- mi col Sn T -v rnon mn Vi a n vn a a? Tm guiere. IONS FOR WASHINGTON, Aug. 26. Approp- pnations secured for Oregon during tne session of congress just closed were: Kiver and harbor improvements witn ro-n crn 1 f ! fin rtf a 9ft fAnt . V, . rial nnri 49 QA7 ftAft nn onn uuu ior preliminary surveys. urater L,aKe road system, $50,000 and maintenance of park, $3000. inaian agencies and settlements $247,000. iions, $4uu,uuu for roads and. trails ana jfdsu.uuo tor fighting fires and for emergencies, 10 per cent of receipts irom iorests last year equalling the !?k,uuu aaaitionai tor roads and trails ; ana ?iad,&4b for maintenance of Ore gon forest reserves. I .5 . : : i : .1 . . 1 11 auuiLiuii. liir seonro nnsaon an appropriation for settlement with the siate ror raising volunteers during the vim wai m xxva.oio wmcn was re- iAnlnJ 1, 11 , . . . ference. . ine increases secured in the senate over me nouse appnations total nfore man $ouu,uuu. 11 it nappened It is In the Enter prise. Week-end. $3.75 ) SUNSET S 1 I lOGDENftSHASTAI I 1 1 ROUTES I I