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MORNING ENTERPRISE WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1912
If REN CRIES OUT
TO FELS FOR CASH
BOOKS BY SHIELDS SENT BACK
TO MILLIONAIRE.
Single Taxers Make Claim for Funds
to keep Army of Paid Workers
Going Farmers and Busi
nessmen in Fight
Indications have been furnished in
Portland of the tremendous sum of
money that is to be expended to
force down the throat of the state
the Single Tax doctrines of Henry
George.
Because there seems to be a tem
porary financial stringency, W. S.
U'Ren . is sending back an earnest
call to Joseph Fels and the other
millionaire subscribers to the Single
Tax Fels Fund. He is using a club,
too.
U'Ren Asks for Books.
Mr. U'Ren's club is proof of the
work being done by the Oregon
tiqual Taxation League, the organiza
tion of farmers and business men
that is combatting Single Tax.
U'Ren called up Charles H. Shields,
secretary of the league, and asked
for 60 copies of "Single Tax Exposed"
the work that is being distributed by
the league.
"Why," said Mr. Shields, "I know
what-you want them for. You intend
to send them back to the subscribers
of your fund and get more money,
don't you?"
"Er Er " Says U'Ren.
"Er er er " began Mr. U'Ren,
but he ended by admitting the truth.
"Sure you can have the books,"
said Shields, "and I trust that they
prevent you from getting a single
other subscription by converting all
the men whom you intend to reach.
"You know and I know, that Single
Tax is just a trick and a snare."
But Mr. U'Ren did not answer.
Leading Economist to
Handle Campaign
Charles H. Shields, who as sec
retary of the Oregon Equal Taxa
tion League, is in charge of the
campaign ot education against Sin
gle Tax and the Graduated Tax is
one of the best known economists
the West.
Mr. Shields was president of
the anti-Single Tax organization
CHARLES H. SHIELDS
in Washington, and met with mark
ed success in the campaign in that
state, Single Tax being over
whelmingly defeated.
Mr. Shields believes that for its
own sake, Oregon will reject Sin
gle Tax. "Vote Nos. 304, 306 and
308 and you kill it in Oregon." he
said.
Mr. Shields is author of "Single
Tax Exposed."
Oh, ours would be a beautiful state,
If the Single Shh! I mean, -
If the Graduated Land Tax Scheme
Got into our social machine;
For then we would get a chance to
know
How fast the neighboring states
could grow.
It will be simple, for then they" will
Keep growing .while we are stand-
ing still.
When the graduated land tax scheme
Gets working, then we'll spy
Capital flocking to neighbor states
And passing our own state by;
And thus, at the very trifling cost
Of several billions of dollars lost,
We'll have a chance to perceive, I
wot,
The size of the lemon that we have
got
Experience is a bitter school
Where a fool, however, may learn;
And that is the school to which our
friends
Of the new regime would turn.
' Lava.
Lava may be blown into opaque bot
tles of gossamer lightness, and the
harder sort makes a beautiful green
glass of half the weight and double the
strength of ordinary glass. But it is
not always the same. Every volcano
poors out its own special brand of
molten mixture, disagreeable to walk
on, but sometimes yielding precious
products, as pumice stone. Lava, like
all things, decomposes under the touch
of time, as the fertile plains of Sicily
if J&A , 1 J
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Jft 'TON
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testify.
ESTACADA SCHOOLS
TO BE AMONG BEST
The Estacada High School will op
en Monday, September ( 16, with the
folowing teachers and grades:
Principal and instructor in history,
Burges3 F. Ford.
Instructor in High School English
and Latin, Mrs. Maude W. Devore.
Instructor in Science and Mathe
hatics, F. B. Guthrie.
Instructor in sewing and teacher of
the seventh and eigth grades. Miss
Minnie Altman.
Instructor in sewing and teacher of
the sixth grade, Miss Abbie Stites.
Manager of the south basement and
teacher of the fourth and fifth grades,
Mrs. Maude B. Graham.
Librarian and teacher of the pri
mary department, Miss Eva Wash.
Mr. Ford, who begins his first year's
work in the Estacada school, was
graduated from the Willamette Uni
versity at Salem. He also is a grad
uate student of Northwestern Univer
sity of 1909-1910; Department of His
tory Montana Wesleyon -two years,
and Lebanon High School 1911-12.
Mrs. Claude W. Devore is a gradu
ate of the University of California.
She taught in the Sutter City high
school for two years, in the Drain high
school for three years, and in the Es
tacada high school for one year.
F. B. Guthrie is a gradute of the
Minnesota Agricultural College;
taught in the Birmingham, Mich, high
school for two years; in the Minne
sota Agricultural College four years,
and engaged in the Industrial Mis
sion Work, at Kamerun, West Africa,
two years.
Miss Minnie Altman taught in the
Portland public schools for ten years
and in the Estacada school for two
years.
Miss Abbi Stites taught in the East
ern public' schools for ten years and
Oregon public schools four years. '
Miss Ellen Erickson, is a graduate
of the Estacada High School and was
a special student of the Summer nor
mal in Salem. She taught in the' Es
tacada public schools one year.
Mrs. Maude E. Graham taught in
the Oregon public schools for eleven
years, and will teach her second year
in the Estacada school.
Miss Eva Wash, who is a graduate
of the Oregon State Normal, and spe
cial student in the University of Cali
fornia and Oregon, taught in the Per
rydale, Or., school for two years, and
had charge of the primary department
of the West Oregon City schools for
two years.
Professor James, who has been city
superintendent and principal for the
past four years, has resigned to ac
cept that of supervisor of Estacada
school district. Professor James gave
excellent satisfaction while principal
of the school, and will retain his resi
dence in Estacada.
The Estacada high school will be
represented in the State Contest to
be held at the Willamette University
May 24, 1913. The Estacada High
School belongs to the Oregon Inter
scholastic Debating League, and the
local "tryout" will be held on the eve
ning of December 20. Contests will
be held as officers of the district de
termine. The Estacada school has been equip
ped with apparatus for three branch
es of study. The agricultural labra
tory will be well equipped and the
fine exhibit at the recent Estacada
Juvenile fair at Estacada shows what
the pupils are doing in that school
district. It is planned by the pupils
and teachers to have even a larger
and better Juvenile Fair at Estacada
next year.
The Estacada board of school di
rectors, J. P. Woodle, L. E. Belfils, J.
W. Reed, Mrs. Sarah E. Bates, has
arranged to install shower bathes for
the benefit of the students They
will be ready for the opening of the
school term.
The Estacada school is adjacent to
the athletic grounds which will be
used by the pupis. If the pupils
show the proper spirit contests will
be arranged with other schools. Trips
are certain to the University of Ore
gon, Oregon Agricultural College and
Willamette University if the boys will
make good next spring.
The following is the course of
study:
Freshman Ancient history, Eng
lish, Algebra, Physiology, agricult
ure, spelling, sewing.
Sophomore Medieval and Modern
history, English, Geometry, Agricult
ure, Arithmetic sewing, spelling.
Junior English, Agriculture, sew
ing, Latin, Phyics, spelling.
Senior English, Chemistry, Agri
culture, j Latin, American, history,
spelling.
Spelling will be required of every
student in the high school regardless
of classification.
The girls will takej advantage of
the sewing class, and it is necessary
for each pupil to be equipped with
sewing bov, thimble, scissors and em
ery. It is the intention of the teach
er of this class to have, a fine exhibit
of needlework at next year's Juvenile
fair to be held at Estacada. Special
work will be given the pupils in this
class two or three weeks before
Christmas. Seventeen models are to
be worked out by the seventh and
eighth grade pupils; twenty-five mod
els to be worked out by the ninth and
tenth grade high school students and
thirty models to be worked out by the
eleventn grade students.
Two literary societies will be form
ed. Unless otherwise agreed upon ev
ery other Friday at 2 o'clockyfcill be
the meeting time and it will be re
quired that every student be a mem
ber of one of these literary societies.
Madrid's Night Watchmen.
-Madrid still has the medieval night
watchmen. They admit late comers to
the apartment houses at night, but no
longer sing out the hour or the condi
tion of the weather. They still go by
the name of "sereno," which they got
from the fact that, as it seldom rains
in Spain, their cries about the weather
generally ended .with that word ("la
tres y sereno").
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By JAMES D. ANDREWS
Major MacDonald, as the name indi
cates, of Scotch descent, was every
inch a soldier. He claimed that army
officers should be celibates.
But Major MacDonald could not en
force his opinions or their practice
upon those under his command. While
he restricted himself to celibacy, his
officers were marrying and raising chil
dren, and many of the men in the
ranks were doing the same thing. The
consequence was that during several
years -when his command was located
in one place it came to comprise nearly
as many women and children as sol
diers. Then came the order to move. Even
the major was not prepared for the in
crease of his military family and the
herculean task of transporting the liv
ing Impedimenta, to say nothing of
furniture and baggage. The migration
was from Fort W. to Fort J., and,
since the command consisted of two
companies and each company was al
lowed but one wagon, it required a
dozen trips for both wagons to make
the transfer.
During the hegira the major fumed
and stamped and swore that he would
rather command a tribe of Indians
with a full complement of squaws and
papooses, for, while his own force was
loaded down with effects, the Indians
carried their clothing when they had
any on their backs. His wrath was
especially irritating to the wives of
his soldiers, who considered that they
WELCOMED HIM WITH OHEEES.
had their rights even as part of an
army. The move was a trying one for
all, and they had been some time set
tled in their new quarters before the
garrison resumed its wanted good hu
mor. As soon as the furniture was in po
sition and the trunks, boxes and bar
rels unpacked, the officers wives there
were two captains and four lieuten
ants, all married got together to fire
blank cartridges or empty words at
the major. They began by calling him
a brute, a monster, a devil, but finally
simmered down to applying no more
disagreeable name to him than crusty
old bachelor. Thenjithe meeting resolv
ed itself into a committee of the whole
to express its dissatisfaction at the
treatment It had received and take
measures against its recurrence.
There was one dissenting voice in the
clatter of tongues. Mrs. Captain Fer
guson, a good natured, motherly wo
man, avowed that the major was rigftt;
that an army encumbered with wom
en and children would be better equip
ped with blank cartridges;" that the
army was no place for them, and, be
ing an encumbrance, they should bear
patiently any scolding the commander
chose to give them.
A couple of months after the hegira
a niece of Mrs. Ferguson Miss Gwen
dolin Brayling, a young lady of nine
teencame out from the east to visit
her aunt When the major heard of
her arrival he sniffed the air ominous
ly. The ladies whom Mrs. Ferguson
had reproved for their strictures on the
major at once took notice, wondering
how the new impedimenta as they
had come to facetiously style Miss
Brayling would affect the major.
"Did you ask permission to have her
come?" asked Mrs. Lieutenant Hark
ness of Mrs. Ferguson. .
"I did not." replied Mrs. Ferguson.
"I shall take care of her in every re
spect. She shall be no encumbrance
upon the garrison."
"He'll get even with you," exclaim
ed Mrs. Captain Wetherby, shaking her
head ominously.
To this Mrs. Ferguson did not deign
a reply.
Miss Brayling had scarcely had time
to make the acquaintance of. .the la
dies of the garrison before she was
privately warned by them to keep her
self at as safe a distance as possible
from the commander.
"What'll he do to me?" she asked.
"What'H he do? Why, what a ques
tion! Don't you know that he con
siders women a drawback to the com
mand? If there was an artlola in the
"regulations' to cover the case" He'd
convene a board of survey to condemn
every one of us and make a bonfire
of us."
. "What an awful man!"
Now, it happened that Captain Fer
guson soon after Miss Brayling's ar
rival was promoted to be major and
assigned to the command of Fort G.,
100 miles south of Fort J. He had no
sooner left the fort, his wife, children
and niece in an ambulance and his ef
fects in an army wagon, than Major
MacDonald was heard to say, "There
go five dingers and one soldier."
There was not a lady at Fort J. who
did not envy Mrs. Ferguson the
change, but all iiad at least the satis
faction in her going that they would
feel the more freedom in abusing
Major MacDonald.
About a week after the departure of
the Fergusons Major MacDonald re
ceived an order from Washington di
recting him to inspect the army sta
tions in the vicinity and report on
their condition, burning over the
command to the next officer in rank,
he departed with a single orderly and
remained away a fortnight.
After this the major was continually
making inspections, remaining away
from his command on each tour from
a few days to a few weeks. His de
parture was always hailed with de
light by the ladies at Fort J., and his
return was regretted, for during his
absence they ceased to feel that they
were . necessary evil and breathed
freely.
"I wish," said Mrs. Lieutenant Weth
erby, "the government would keep
him inspecting till he came to the age
of retirement."
"And I wish.' said Mrs. Lieutenant
Gunther, "that some woman would
get him, load him down with baggage
and he'd be ordered to move at five
minutes' notice."
One day when the major was off on
his fifth tour of inspection Captain
-Harbison, who was in command of the
post, confided to his wife a secret.
MacDonald was not going away from
his command on inspection duty at all.
He was simply absenting himself with
out leave.
"You don't mean it? Where does he
go?"
"Nobody knows. . isuspect bemay
I am a power for great good if you do not abuse my use.
In cases of need I do my work well.
I am a builder up of health and strength in the hospital
or in the home.
For the invalid or the convalescent for the tired or over
worked I offer a great help.
A little of me goes a long way.
I have been among you for three generations.
have secret orders to investigate some
thing." '
"That's not . usual in the army. At
least in time of peace. There's no se
cret service except in war."
"That's all the explanation I have
to give," replied the husband. "Be sure
not to say a word about what I've told
you."
"Of course not." And as soon as the
captain left her she went into Mrs.
Wetherby's quarters and told her the
story. In half an hour it was known
to the wife of every officer of the gar
rison. The next time Major MacDonald
went out on a tour of inspection he
took a new uniform with him that he
had just received from a New York
tailor and a trunk full of other cloth
ing. .
He had been gone several days
when an army wagon was driven Into
the fort and a considerable load of
brand new furniture and a dozen
trunks were dumped in front of the
major's quarters.
The episode occasioned a greater
commotion, than an attack of a thou
sand Indians. Every woman, includ
ing the children. In the fort stood on
the parade gaping at the pile, and there
was a clatter of tongues that would
have drowned the post band.
"I'll tell you what we'll do," said Mrs.
Gunter. ."Let's bring all our empty
trunks, boxes, suit cases and band
boxes and put them on the pile."
"Wouldn't it be mutiny?" asked one
of the more timid ladies.
"Mutiny! There's no such thing as.
mutiny for us. We're not in the army.
Come on!"
Every woman rushed to her quarters
and back, she and her older children
carrying articles to swell the major's
pile. When it was so high that they
must be tossed upward to get them in
position it stopped growing, but the
impedimenta was enough to drive a
quartermaster insane.
The next afternoon a smart little
wagon was driven into the fort, and
who should appear on the back seat
but Major MacDonald and Miss Bray
ling! When the officer saw the pile in
front of his quarters his brow dark
ened for a moment; then he broke into
a laugh. .Several ladies were on the
parade, who. hastened to welcome him
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back, and hepresented his companion
to them as Mrs. MacDonald.
Both the groom and the bride entered
into the spirit of the joke that had been
perpetrated, and, the news, spreading
that their commander had returned a
married man, the garrison poured from
their quarters and welcomed him with
cheers. Then all took hold, separating
the additions from the real impedimen
ta, and carried the latter into the quar
ters of the bride and groom.
In the evening all was ready for a
wedding reception, for some of the
boxes the groom had sent contained
eatables and drinkables, and there was
a merry time at Fort J. Some one pro
posed the health of the newly married
couple with .the words: - ' -
"May their belongings never dimin
ish!" The major replied, pledging himself
thereafter to consider the wives, chil
dren, cats, poodles, furniture, trunks,
boxes, bandboxes, beds, bedding and
wearing apparel, a part of the para
phernalia of war to be respected ac
cordingly. "You ladies." he added in conclusion,
"are indebted to Mrs. Ferguson for a
happy outcome from your troubles.
Since my marriage she has confessed
that she brought her niece outhere
with a view to making a married man
of me and thus putting me in the same
boat with the rest of you."
Rainy Scots.
The rainiest dayon record anywhere
In England was Aug. (5. 1S57. when
the rain gauge at Scarborough, hold
ing nine and one-half inches, was fill
ed to overflowing. The rainiest place
in England is Sty Head, in Westmor
land, where the mean annual fall is
175 inches, but where in wet years
there have been measured 200 inches,
or 17 feet
How Are You Heeled?
Mentality is marked on the heel.
Only those with pronounced brain abil
ity have lines there sharply seen. Oth
ers have them as mere markings. If
there is a network of small lines upon
the heel it means great versatility.
People who draw, paint, play and dab
ble In the languages have many heel
lines. A smooth surface of heel denotes
a placid, non working brain.
D.
NEW YORK, Sept. 3. The large
force of armed guards which has been
stationed around the John D. Rocke
feller estate at Pocantico Hills, near
Tarrytown, foi the last two weeks,
was established because of threats of
death received by Rockefeller himself
and members of his family, according
to the World.
Eighteen negroes, deputy sheriffs
and a squad of detectives, all armed,
constitute the guard.
According to the World, Rocekefel
ler and his son have received a num
ber of letters threatening both their
lives and property and demanding
heavy ransom.
Threats to kidnap two young chil
dren of John D. Rockefller, Jr., who
are1 ill with measles at a nursey on
the estate, have alse been made, it is
said.
BRITAIN WON'T ASK
CANAL ARBITRATION
LONDON, Sept. 3. -Complete dis
avowal was given this morning by the
British Foreign Office of the so-called
official announcement that the British
government formally would demand
arbitration on the Panama Canal tolls
question.
"The lines of action which! lie be
fore the British government now are
being considered, and any announce
ment of this kind is premature."
This is the full text of the formal
statement given out by the Foreign
Office in reply to requests for details
as to the reported demand for arbi
tration. Boost your , city by boosting your
daily paper. The Enterprise should
be in. every home.
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