4 PORT ARTHUR HERO COM Tssn GENERAL NOGI AND COUNTESS END LIVES TO SHOW THEIRS SORROW TRAGEDY AT MIKADO'S FUNERAL Famous Japanese Captain Follows IEJ9U3Q SJEsqjoj jo uiosno Falls on Sword in ' Street TOKIO, Sept. 13. Testifying ac cording to the ancient custom of Nip pon to his love and reverance for his dead emperor, Mutsuhito, whose fun eral was held here this evening, Gen eral Baron Kiten Nogi, the hero of Port Arthur, and his wife committed hari kari in the public streets as they followed the coffin of the emperor to the public funeral services at the Aoyama parade grounds. Nogi's sacraflce of his own life and that of his wife came before the eyes of hundreds of thousands of Japanese who, with torches lighted, lined the streets of Tokio behind a triplet cor don of police and soldiers to see the dead ruler's body go by in state. , The General was marching in the funeral cortege with a number of other prominet soldiers of the empire who were accompanied by their wives many of them ladies in waiting at the mikado's -court. Shortly before the section of the parade in which he marched reached the Aoyama parade ground Nogi and his wife without a word of warning to their fellows, dis emboweled themselves according to the ancient rites of Japan, and fell dying in the street. Not one of all the soldiers who fought and bled for Japan in the war with Rusia won more glory than No gi. Born in 1849 at Shoshu, he fought as captain in the civil war of 1877, which resulted in the downfall of the Shoguns and the elevation of the mi kado. In the Chino-Japanese war 1895 Nogi again distinguished himself. Lat er he was governor general of For- mosa in 1S96, and on the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese war, he was ap pointed commander of the third, ar my which invested and took Port Ar thur. There, for weeks, Nogi's little brown soldier's fought their way inch bj inch upon the cannon swept hills from which the Russian forts protect ed their last stronghold in the east. Nogi's determined attack, more than any other, caused the fall of Port Ar thur, and when the war had ended he was made a baron in recognition of his valor. Later Emperor William of Germany decorated Nogi, with file first class of the Order of the Hohenzollern sword. He was also the holder of a score of Japanese decorations. eart totle&rt Talks. By EBWIN A. NYE. MARTIAL MORTALS. The human nice is brave. The fai l is proved by tb other fact that it i-oiiiinues to live. Occasionally a tired, sick Hearted member of. the race throws up his hands and surren ders, but he is the exception. Humanity is hrave Daily do men and women face dan gers that might daunt the intrepid gods. Think you because they go about with smiling faces they face no foes? Here is a strong soul fighting to keep In subjection his lower nature. He fights a deadly duel every day. He is a brave man, as brave as ever couched a lance in rest against a foe. And here is one who fights the w,ild beasts in the arena of business compe tition and keeps the whiteness of his soul. And neve Is one who struggles with the thorn in his flesh and smiles. Humanity is brave. This woman faces poverty and limi tations. And this one undergoes pain or strain upon her sympathy. An arch angel might well shudder to undertake the whole gamut of suffering that comes with everyday wifehood and motherhood. And there is no shrink ing,' no shirking of the duty! Humanity is brave. Womanhood suffers and jlies and gives no sign. Womanhood lives and smiles in the front of fate. Humanity Is brave. Jn this arduous life of ours the real men and women of the race sleep each night as the soldier sleeps on the bat tlefield. And reveille wakes each mar tial mortal to daily battle some to fight the good fight with willing hand? and some with brains and some with hearts. Humanity Is brave. Look about you. See the battlefield. Some are fightng with broken swords. Yes; humanity is brave. But it needs daily to repeat the pray er of Robert Louis Stevenson: "The day returns and brings us the round of irritating concerns and du ties. Help us to play 'the man; help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces. Let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day,-bring us to our resting place weary and content and nndishonored and grant us In the end the spirit of sleep. Amen." Hb Told Her. Teacher Willy, can you tell methe difference between caution and cow ardice?" Willy Yes, ma'am. ; When yoa are afraid yourself that is caution, but when the other fellow's afraid that's cowardice, . " f4M..I..M..T..l..M..I..l..M..M..M..?.y t indicate A Story of the Alps 4 By SARAH J. BAKER . i I There is a silent grandeur about mountains that canuot but affect those who dwell among them. It is their greatness, mingled with their stillness. Then, too. mountaineers are con stantly incurring dangers, and a cer tain sensitiveness grows up in people thus exposed as-to their steadfastness In standing by a companion in peril. Indeed, they are very exacting with one another in this respect, and any disposition to save oneself at another's expense Is treated with contempt Largely on this account there is no class of men with a greater sense of responsibility than mountain guides. A guide is held accountable for. the safety of the person he conducts. If both are endangered the guide is ex pected to stand in the breach. Recently a man of forty, premature ly gray, entered one of the hotels in Grindelwald. Switzerland, at the 'foot of the Jungfrau, and registered as coming from Colorado, U. S. A. He made no friends among the other guests of the hotel or the people round about, though he took long tramps among them and spoke the German language, but with the accent of a native who had lived long abroad. His unpommunicativeness gained him the name of the "silent stranger." though some called him the "melancholy stran ger," for about him was that which in dicated he had experienced some great grief. Not long after his arrival while on one of his tramps he stopped at a chalet, and ascending the steps, paused at the open door. A woman was with in, bending over an oven. She did not turn, and he spoke to her. At the sound of his voice she started. 'Can you give me a little bread and cheese," he asked, "and some wine?" The woman turned and faced him. It seemed, for a moment, that she was ' "IT WAS NOT CUT." intending to speak to him about some thing not pertaining to his request; then, with a simple "yes," she mo tioned to a table on the porch. He drew a chair to it and seated himself, while the woman went to a cupboard and from it brought him the refresh ment "Do I address you as frau or frau lein? he asked, looking up into her face inquiringly, as she stood waiting for further commands. "Fraulein," she replied, lowering her eyes under his gaze, and seeming to reflect his melancholy. She was four or five years his junior, but retained a comeliness that must have been even more attractive when she had been younger. "You love your home In the moun tains?" he asked. "Yes. I could not live anywhere but here." "I, too, live in a mountainous coun try. My home is In the western part of America. The mountains there are beautiful, but not so picturesque as your Alps. The snows in the Rockies lie In patches and are melted in sum mer, which gives them a bare appear ance. The white peaks of the Alps mingle with the white clouds, and it is often difficult to tell cloud from mountain. She made no reply to this, standing demurely and waiting. "Supposing," he went on, "1 had a mind to ascend the mountain, do you know of a guide I could employ to take me?" "Herr would not need a guide." "One Wilhelm Burche has been recommended to me by the landlord of the hotel. Can you assure me that he is a good man and a fearless guide?" The conversation seemed to be wear ing on the woman, and when her guest asked her this question with his eyes fixed searchingly on hers, a slight Bhiver passed over her. She did not reply. "Speak," added the stranger without removing his gaze. "I approve of, or condemn, no man." she answered. "Surely. I have never Dlamed any one." The stranger at this relaxed the gaze he had fastened upon her. She turned "Plain Cooking." A girl who had been through a cull- nary Course in an elementary school was- asked what she . understood by. plain cooking. Her answer is given by Miss M. E. L'oane.in her .book. "The Com mon Growth:" 't'.: " 'Plaiu'cbokln- she replied. Is when you puts the whole of the egg-insMe the puddin". .Fancy cookin' is when the,; yolk's inside, and the' white's ' outside. And it's a waste of time,', site conclud-; ed, .with "-decision. . "for ItVoh'y the same one egg wherever you puts ii." HUB- and went into the house. When a lit tle later she looked out at where she had left her guest he was gone. The refreshment she had placed before him was untasted. . . One moruing the melancholy stranger announced that he had come to Gren delwald for a purpose. . A friend of his many years before had attempted to make the ascent of the Jungfrau and had been lost in a cravasse. Doubt less the body had been in a measure preserved by the icy cold atmosphere, and he proposed to make an attempt to recover it. When asked why no such attempt had been made at the time of the accident he replied that the-rmly person who had deemed a descent for the purpose possible was the guide who was making the ascent with the lost man, and no one could prove it prac ticable by an attempt without consid erable assistance, involving expense. The stranger hired a number of per sons to go with him to join in the pro posed work and procured a thousand feet of rope. He consulted w-ith no one as to a plan or the best time for put ting it into execution. It was known that some one was to be lowered into the crevasse, but whom and into what crevasse were not given out. When all was ready the stranger and his assist ants, carrying the rope, attended by many curious persons, sallied forth to make the ascent to the place where the accident had occurred. The way led pasti the chalet where the stranger had tarried not long be fore and conversed with the fraulein. She came out and stood looking at the throng. "Fraulein," said the leader of the par ty, "we go to find the body of a tour ist who was lost in a crevasse or. rather, over a precipice on the mountain side years ago. His guide, Hans Richter, a young man of twenty, returned with: out him and displayed an end of the rope attached to his own person so frayed as to indicate that it had been broken. Richter explained that the tourist had slipped, the rope had bro ken and the tourist had gone into the crevasse. Richter claimed that he had braced himself so as to withstand the shock. One Wilhelm Burche charged Richter with haying cut the rope in or der to save himself, while his charge was dangling over the crevasse. We are going to. lower a man to recover the body so that we may discover whether th6'end of the rope attached to it is frayed or cut, that we may prove Richter's guilt or innocence of Burche's charge." "Who," asked the fraulein. "is to be lowered into the crevasse?" "L" There was silence for awhile, during which the woman appeared to be thinking; then she said: "If you are in Richter's interest you may be charged with tampering with the rope before it is brought up." "True, and on that account one who is to be trusted will be lowered with me." "Who else dares to go down there?" "One whom 1 will make independent for life if he is pulled up again." The woman made no reply, but, seiz ing wraps, put them about her and joined in the ascent. No one, unless the woman, knew the crevasse referred to by the stranger, who guided the party to it as though he had been over the ground but yes terday. When he reached the gap there was a murmur among his follow, ers that a descent into it was too perilous to be undertaken. But the stranger handed a large roll of bank notes to a man of the party, who counted a hundred thousand francs and handed them to a friend for safe keeping. Then ropes were placed around the bodies of each of the two men, who were handed alpenstocks to push themselves from the sides of the crevasse. Then after a short prayer the descent was begun, the stranger carrying the end of an extra rope. Some time elapsed after the men sig naled that they had reached the bot tom before a signal was gjyen to hoist on all three ropes. The two live men and a dead body came up nearly at the same time, and the crowd gathered round to note the result. The stranger stood looking down upon the body, which'was perfectly preserved. One of the men seized the end of the rope, ex amined it and said: "It was not cut." "My friends," said the stranger, "I am Hans Richter. and this." turning to the woman who had joined them, "was at the time this accident hap pened my sweetheart Wilhelm Burche I wished her, and when I came down ; from here and reported the loss ho ! strove to ruin me by spreading a re ; port that I had cut this rope and pur- posely frayed the end attached to my waist. I was told that my betrothed believed the calumny, and, pained be yond endurance, I went away to Amer ! ica. There as a miner I have made a fortune, a part of which I have spent to clear myself of this charge." Then all gathered around the Ameri- j can with congratulations, and the old er ones, wno naa known him as a young man. were loud in their sym5 pathy. He approached his former sweetheart, who gave him her band and said: "True as there Is a God above I never believed you guilty." Then the party descended into the valley. When Richter and his former sweet heart were alone he said to br: "When did you discover who I am?" "When I first heard you speak." "And you did not marry my rival?" "You see that I did not." "Can you leave your Alps to come and live with me in the Rockies?" "I will go with you anywhere." "It is more beautiful here, but too silent. t'There one hears the sound of J the stamp mill and the voices of husy men. Since yoti will, let ns go there. j Not So Bad. 'A young lawyer who has recently hung out his shingle here was retained by a criminal with $5 and a very poor defense. ; . . ' . '- "-"Well, you got a case, son?"1 said his proud father. ' . "Yes, dad." ' .v . - "And "what advice did you give your client?" -:'-."-..:: , ' . "After listening to his storv I collect ed what money he had and advised him to retain a more experienced lawyer." -Kansas City Journal. o - -- r-O Stories from Out of Town J : ' BARLOW Paul Rodby, of Portland, who was picking hops for Mr. Keil 'at Aurora, spent the day with Elmer Irwin last Thursday. Fred Jesse went to Spokane Friday, j where he has employment. . W. S. Tull finished picking his hops Saturday. Merrit and Winnifred ; Freeman are picking hops here. They ; are old residents of this place. -,. j Mrs. Stuart, mother of Mrs. Kelly j and Mrs. Misa Keebaugh, of Californ ia .arrived here Sunday morning. Mrs. ! Stewart will make her home here. J Mrs. L. L. Irwin has, been quite ill for some time past but is recovering, j Leonard Parmenter's baby fell over I in a chair one day last week, Bevere- i ly hurting his nose. Dr. Dedman I was, called and sewed up the wound and the little fellow is getting along nicely. Several of the children won prizes at the Juvenile) Fair from here. Le ona Parmenter won first prize on lay er cake. The writer had the pleasure of testing the cake, and It was cer tainly fine. Keep it up Leona and you will be a professional cake baker some day. Marion Evans, also won & prize on cake baking and Edward and Chas. Dregnie won prizes. Edna ; Phelps won a prize. ' Barlow will not have an exhibit at the county fair this fall. Miss Zada Van Winkle returned home from Sehridan Sunday where she has been with her father in the art studio. Mr. and Mrs. Churchill went to Portland last week. " ' Mr. and Mrs. W. Jesse, Mr. and Mrsr Frank Jesse, Fred Jesse, Mr. Wurfel, Mr. Andrews and Henry Howe at tended the State Fair last Thursday. Mrs. L. B. Irvin, of Aurora, was vis iting Mrs. Quint and Mrs. Irwin Tuesday. Mrs. J. Andrews has returned home after an absence of three months with her daughter, Mrs. Perry Kee baugh of Milwaukie. Mrs.- Keebaugh and children came home with her mother. SANDY J. W. Dixon was in Portland on bus iness Friday. C. F. Barber is spending the week in Portland. Mrs. McKarrow. of Powell Valley, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. J. W. Dixon. Uncle Joe Willig has returned from a two months' sojourn in France and Germany. Ed Bruns' transacted business in Oregon City Friday. . Henri Koch has an automobile. The Sandy railroad promoters put up $7000 cash Tuesday night to buy right-of-way for the propised five and one-third mile extension from Cotrell to Sandy. At this writing the entire right-of-way has been purchased outright and real construction work on this bit of road will soon be under way. Ed Bruns i3 putting up a house for C. D. Purcell. A. E. Krebs is erecting a school building for the Lutheran society. H. Smith is, building a bungalow for F. E. Beckwith. 1 R. E. Esson has received the fix- tures for his new drug store. Wallace Curties will live in one of the Proctor houses near the creamery. Leigh Barber, of Portland, is. spend-' ing the week in Sandy, - Oats in this section, cut just prev ious to the recent rainy spell, are sprouting in the shocks. . H. E. Krisler, of Portland, is spend ing a few days on his place here. Potatoes are beginning to rot in the ground on account of the long con tinued rains. A meeting to discuss single tax was held in Meining's Hall Wednesday night. W. A. Proctor and Ed Bruns are transacting railroad business in Ore gon City. F. E. Beckwith is recovering from an attack of tonsilitis. The present drying weather is very welcome to ranchers, who have oats in the shock. ELWOOD Farmers are glad to see a favorable change in the weather, as grain even in the stack, was beginning to sprout. A number of Elwood families are away enjoying an outing and picking hops. Gustie Powers visited Mrs. Delia Vallen Tuesday. J. Johnson has returned from Port land where he spent a few days visit ing his parents, who reside there. C. Bittner came home last Wednes day. It is reported he intends start ing up his sawmill soon. Mr. Melike and Mr. Stahlnecker were in Estacada Wednesday shop ping. ' Mr. Schestierine-of Portland, paid a visit to Lewis Vallen's this week. Miss Hazel Freeman visited Miss Montie Cox Sunday. Mrs. Ida Park is staying with her father, Edd Dibble, for a few weeks. Lee Cadinau and a friend, Mr. Nel son, of Astoria, visited in this vicini ty and ' took a short hunting trip in the mountains. Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Bonney are being congratulated on the birth of a daughter. East Wood's are going away from' this place and Mr. Sherman's intend moving on the vacated place. Mrs. East Wood's health has tteen poor and they are going to another climate. We hope she may be benefitted thereby. C. E. Surfus was a visitor in Es tacada Sunday. Miss Nouna Vallen visited in Esta cada last week. Miss Montie Cox was in Estacada Saturday. Will Freeman has gone to Portland to work in an automobile shop. Mrs. Blanche Eliott, Miss Alma Hubbard and Miss Effie Cox visited Mrs. Stahlnecker Monday afternoon. Misses Montie and Effie Cox, Miss Hazel Freeman, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Stahlnecker visited, Mrs. W. -M. SuP fus Sunday. Threshers "are expected in Elwood this week. '.-.- WILSONViLLE Mrs. H. D. Aden went to Lebanon Monday to spend a couple of weeks with Miss Hazen at her home. The railroad commissioners of the 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 Oregon Electric were in our village Tuesday, on business. Mrs. Marion Young accompanied some of the juvenile fair .children to the fair at Salem. Mrs. J. W. Thornton went to Port land on Wednesday. Miss Kate Wolburt and Mrs. Aden spent Wednesday in the Rose City. Mr. Rheimers and family left for their new home in Idaho this week. Mr. and Mrs. Stone, of Sacramento, visited Mr. and Mrs. Black this week! - James Say and Rhetha Vincent will enter Newberg High School on. the 23rd of September. Hop picking is about over in most of the yards near here, including Mc Ginni, Henry Wilhelm's, M. C. Young'3 Graham's Thompson's, and others, and the hops are reported as very good indeed. Wilsonville scnool will not begin early this year, on account 'of the building not being finished. The Hasselbrink baby is a sure winner, carrying off oneof the big prizes at the State Fair? Several ladies from Wilsonville at tended the fair on Mothers' Congress day. Paul Jaeger won second prize on celery at the State Fair. Menga Bat algia wen a prir:e for aprons, and sev eral other prizes coming to our vil lage are as yet unidentified on ac count of the tags tearing off. We hope it can be straightened out. At a recent meeting of the Onion Grower's Association, J. L. Seeley was elected trustee, and Mr. Rand secretary and treasurer. Among state fair visitors from Wil sonville were H. D. Aden, Mrs. M. C. Young and -family, Mrs. Morris Young, Mr. and Mrs. R. Graham, Miss Hagman, Andy Hasselbrink, Emma Stangel, Mr. Brobst and daughters, Mrs. Gould, Lois Melvin, and Mrs. Walter Brown and children. Chas. Wagner who has been on the sick list since the fair, is somewhat improved. Miss S. M. Graham and two nieces will return to Portland this week. The recent rains have kept back the harvest somewhat, but the threshing machines are all going at full blast again, making up for lost time. The business men of Wilsonville, and farmers, who have subscribed so j liberally to the juvenile fair, held i here recently may he, proud of the fact that we had more money sub scribed and paid up then any other Mrs. Helms and Mrs. S. Boutz call ed on Mrs. H. T. Dunsan Tuesday. Miss Nina Hay visited her friend Miis Sadie Tedeman, recently. Miss Iva Whitten has been living in Portland with her sister, Mrs.Thos. Savage, since the death of their mother. Miss Ethel Baker and Mr. Will Cook visited Sunday with' Mr. and Mrs. Bob Wanker. Miss Harriet Dunsan stayed over Friday night with Mrs. S .S. Boutz. Mr. and Mrs. Will Wanker and daughter, Lulu, visited Saturday and Sunday with friends and relatives in Portland. - Church services at the Hazelia school house Saturday, Sept. 14, at 8 p. m. Sunday school at 10:300 a. m. every Sunday. MACKSBURG The storm that continued for. two weeks has cleared away. The weath er Sunday and Monday was bright and bracing, gladdening the hearts of the grain and hop growers. The threshers are working in full force. while the hop yards are filled with pickers, cheered by the bright sun i shine after a week of clouds and of "amy weather. The Juvenile Fair news, as pub lished in last week's issue of the En terprise was most satisfactory to tb rising generation of Macksburg, who are gratified by their town standing second in the competition. The chil dren have received an impetus from he restj from their work will awak en new energy for the coming year. George Sutherland is building a new house on the Schwanzara place. Chris Coth is still unable to be re moved from the home of Mr. Troyer, where he was taken after his accident Sunday September 1st The four at tending phyisians have found his in jury more serious tnan it was at first thought. It is , feared that some of the splinters of broken bone may have been driven into the lungs. We JPI BU3 XBS 0 'J8A9A0U. '.iddBTI OJB Coth has been easier for the past two days and that hopes of his recovery begin to be entertained. Mr. and Mrs. Will Coth and their little boy are staying at the senior Coth liome. Mrs, Jess Hippler and Mrs. Will Coth spent Monday at the home of Mrs. John Hippler and Mrs. Arthur Baldwin called on the Hippler's Mon day afternoon. Mr' and Mrs. Klubsky entertaineU a number of their friends Saturday evening. The dancing continued until a late hour and seems to have been thoroughly enjoyed. The Hippler & Walsh thresher be gan at Luther Morrison's on Monday and finished the day at Mr. Hippler's. The only out-of-door industry tnat went uninterruptedly on throughout the recent rain was the work on the Canby and Molalla railroad. The whistle of the donkey engines has been heard through it all, telling of steady progress on the road. LOGAN A. J. Johnston came home from Gresham with an abscess on his arm He was with G. Gerber's threshing crew. -Surely '.his corner of the globe will not need; surveying soon for it has been done lengthwise, crosswise and very way for the past two months and still at it. The natives were treated to a gen uine surprise Tuesday when S. G. Kirchem came, delivering nice fresh beef. Come again. Saturday about thirty members met in regular session at Harding Grange; owing to the busy time the crowd was not as large as usual, but nevertheless the usual program was carried out and the discussions were very interesting. A resolution en dorsing Governor West's anti-vice crusade was read and adopted and is as follows: "Be it resolved in regu lar session asembled, that we hearti ly approve of the law enforcement and anti-vice crusade inaugurated by Gov. Oswald West and -that we hope for a great measure of success and a greater future in the way of bet ter laws and better enforcement. Resolved that a copy of this resolu tion be sent to Gov. West and to the Oregon City papers for publication, also to the Oregonian and Journal." Creamery patrons received 34 cents a pound for butter fat for the month of August A. R. Smith has resumed his duties in the creamery. A new bungalow is to be built on the Casper Moore place and will be occupied by Mr. and Mrs. George Ead en. The weather this year is like the 1912 politics can't tell today what to morrow will bring forth. I 5V