MORNING ENTERPRISE WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1912.
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SHEPPARD PLANS
LONG WAY AHEAD
Peerless Mel Intends to Enter
the 1916 Olympics.
WILL BE KEPT VERY BUSY.
Declares He Ran Best Race of His Life
at Stockholm, Baffling Those Who
Thought Him Through Ray Collins
May Stop the Giants In World Series.
By TOMMY CLARK.
Mel ,Sheppard, the veteran runner,
wants' the public to understand he is
not through with athletics yet. He
proposes to keep on training for future
meets and expects to capture some
more prizes.
If his condition warrants it Sheppard
Is confident he will make the 1918
team to Berlin. That will make his
third trip in competition on foreign
soil.
"I won't say that my defeat by Mere
dith makes me say this," said "Peerless
Mel" recently. "I just want to con
tinue at the game because I like to run.
I feel better now than I ever did be
fore. I ran the fastest race of my life
at Stockholm, and yet lots of peop!
thought before the meet that I had run
my last good race.
"I expect to. participate in a number
of meets. I had generally good luck in
Europe after I left the boys in, Stock
holm, picking up prizes by the score.
And I didn't have to exert myself either
to turn the trick. - "
- "It's hard work for me from now on,
but I expect to find time to condition
; myself for big future races." ' ' .
Ray Collins, the Red Sox star young
southpaw pitcher, ii-picked by the Bos
ton experts to mow down the Giants
In the world's series. One reason why
they believe he will be the boy to stop
the.New Yorkers when they meet Bos
ton In the world's series is that New
York happens to be weak against
southpaws. There are a large number
of portside heavers in the old league
who hung it on the Giants this season.
There are Rucker and Benton and Lei-
Photo by American Press Association
BAY COLLINS.
field, and there are others. They claim
Rucker is far off form this year, ak
though last season he was generally
regarded as one of the very best hurl
ers in the old league. If the Giants are
so weak against the left banders in
their league what will a good southpaw
like Collins do to them? That is what
they are asking in the east
Collins had a bad start this year.
Jake Stahl feared that he would be of
little use In the pennant fight for the
Red Sox; but he has rounded to form
and lately Joe Wood is the only Boston
pitcher to display ,any more class than
Collins. The Red Sox themselves be
lieve that it will be Collins, and not
Wood, who will pitch them to a world's
championship.
Billy Sullivan, the veteran catcher of
the . Chicago Americans, who was re
leased recently, announces he will quit
the sport.-
. Sullivan until a year or so ago was
undoubtedly head and shoulders over
any other catcher in Ban Johnson's
league. He was a brainy performer
behind the plate, a perfect receiver and
good thrower. It was he who did much
to make the Sox pennant winners In
1906 and who kept the team contend
ers In other races because he seemed
to be able to get more out of the pitch
ers than any other of the catchers.
Sullivan led the league for several
years in the number of games he
caught He worked nearly every day.
One day when Fielder Jones was
managing the White Sox he noticed
that Sullivan was sitting on the bench
while the team was taking its prelimi
nary practice.
"Aren't you going to warm up. Bill?"
Inquired Jones.
"No," was the reply. "I haven't cool
ed off yet from yesterday."
PELS1MEN CANNOT
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two Single Tax measures. One is the
local county option law for Multno
mah also offered in Clackamas and
Coos counties. The other is the Grad
uated specific tax exemption amend
ment" ' -
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declaring that Graduated Single Tax
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A Country
4 It Wielded a Strong but j.
Silent Influence
By F. A. MITCHEL
W-j-lH-l-IWM-l-l-H-l-m
To me, a city business man. there
is nothing more delightful, by contrast
with my accustomed tumultuous life,
than a country library. There is no
need in one of these secluded uooks
for the card used in city reading
rooms, on which is printed the word
"Silence!" a word which seems to rec
ognize the fact that there is turmoil
about and a great effort is necessary
to keep it out.
Being nervously tired, my physiciaD
recommended me to go to a quiet
place and rest. I chose thetvillage of
B., where no summer boarders were
to be found, and, finding quarters In a
private family, settled myself down
for a season of do nothingness. At
first the sensation of. idleness was
pleasant, but I soon grew tired of it,
and one morning passing the town
library, a dainty little building built
for the purpose. I went in.
The librarian was sitting at a table
with books in piles about her. The
"I AM SOBHY TO DISTtTBB YOU," SHE SAID.
door closed behind me noiselessly, and
my footsteps made no sound on the
rug that led from it to the desk.
"I shall be in this town for awhile."
I began, and my voice, sounding very
loud, I lowered it "My purpose be'
ing to rest. I would like to acquire the
privilege of reading here."
"This is a free library." she replied.
"Any one may use it"
I wondered if her voice was natural
ly sweet or had become so from con
stant modulation. I wished to hear
more of It so I spoke of her surround
ings. "Tour library," 1 said, "resembles
in one particular, and pnly one. a ceme
tery. In the cemetery all is death, thp
bodies resting in graves or on shelves
In tombs. Here there are no bodies,
but your shelves are loaded with living
thoughts."
She raised her eyes to mine, and I
saw that whatever there might be in
my comparison appealed to her.
"There are graves here, too," she
said.
It was now my tufn to listen.
"Now and again," she continued, "we
weed out books that are dead. Some
of them are the remains of a past that
has no longer any existence. Some are
composite photographs, never having
had any life in them, while some are
bad. These books find a tomb in the
cellar or are cremated."
"Do all of your bad books find
graves?" I asked.
"Yes. in time. It is til good that
lives." -
"How do you account for that?" .
"For the reason that there is a con
stant development in mankind out of
our primitive condition. There was
in that condition only the germ of hu-
man good buried in brutality. As we
advance the good increases, while the
brutality drops off."
I was amazed to have come from a
great city, with its intellectual stars,
to a country town to find this feminine
philosopher.
"But pardon me." she continued:
"my time belongs to the library. How
can I serve you?"
"By permitting me to go into one of
these alcove tombs or columbariums.;
as the Romans called the receptacles
of the urns that held the ashes of their
dead and enjoy the books."
"Your simile Is Inept" she replied,
smiling. "These shelves do not hold
the ashes of authors. The volumes
would better be typified as phono
graphic records."
"Right, but even that simile fails,
for the bookor rhe phonographic rec
ord Is only a medium through which
the dead lives."
Feeling that I had taken up as much
as or more of her time than was excus
able. . I left her. entered one of the
"columbariums" and began to nose
over the books. But I found that these
living-dead persons were cold, while
the librarian , was full of life and,
warmth. Between me and the former
there was nothing but a mental con
tact while the latter drew me by a
living force. I tried to banish the
is a Single Tax, and this is the truth.
But Single Taxers will rarely admit
it. As a matter of fact Graduated
Single Tax is a purely Single Tax
measure."
.. He continued: "Single Tax is of
fered to you as a tax reform, as a sys
tem of taxation that will relieve all
the ills of Society. As a matter of
fact it is not a system of taxation at
all, and far from being a tax reform.
It has but one object, that of restor
ing privately owned land back to the
state."
Taxes should be paid, said the
speaker, by those who ha ve the where
with-all. Graduated Single Tax ig
Library
girl tnd take bold of the books, but
fount! the .latter tasteless beside the
fornier. Finally I took up a literary
lira on the cover of which was the
name of Nathaniel Hawthorne. In It
I found that which permitted me to
read and dream while Y read, dream
ed of the librarian. I created in my
dreams of her something between 'the
living in the flesh and the living in
the paper and which partook of the
earthly parts of neither.
' I was sitting in an easy chair read
ing and dreaming when I was sudden,
ly recalled to myself by seeing the
librarian standing before me.
"I am sorry to disturb you." she
said. "It is an hour past the time for
closing. I would not interrupt yoir,
but I have duties at home as well as
here."
"Why did you not call me before?"
I asked. looking up at her half dazed.
' "I found some odds and ends that 1
could as well attend to, and I did not
need to call you."
"Nonsense. You were too good to in
terrupt me." . ... ..
A slight flush was all the reply 1 re.
ceived. I left her pinning on ber hat
and went out' feeling that my, doctor
bad sent me to the right place;. In the
library I would find rest and refresh
ment. In the books I would find
friends, while In the librarian I would
have an ever present companion, both
In the eflsh and in the spirit. - '
I went to the library every day and
stayed each day till I was ashamed to
stay any longer. The librarian was
very good to me, and when I made
excuses to draw her into chat instead
of doing her work she did not repulse
me. I found the quiet of the place with
Its presiding divinity restful as well as
delightful. 1 disliked to have any one
come in to break the seclusion. And
when now and again some. man's so
norous voice resounded from the walls
and rolled through the alcoves it seem
ed very much out of place. ..
I remained at B.-as long as I was
able to be absent from the city, then
bade adieu to the library and the li-i
brarian. I told her at taking leave of
her how grateful I was to her and it
for the rest I had received and exacted
a promise from her that if she ever
came to the city she would let me
know of her arrival. My transition
from the quiet I had enjoyed to--the
turmoil of a metropolis grated on me.
but I soon got used to it and vwithin
twenty-four hours after my return J
was again immersed in business.'' Then
the library and the librarian were, for-
; gotten except after the work of the day
: was over and I laid my head upon my
' pillow for a night's sleep. . v' .
I v During the winter I received a tiny
. envelope containing a card with tn"e
I name engraved on it of Miss Mildred
' Trask and an address.. Who was Miss
Trask? Where had I met her? 1
could not remember. However. I call
ed on the lady and was received by
the librarian.
I had long looked forward to this
meeting, but now it was realized I was
disappointed. Miss Trask did not
seem to be the same person. I was not
able in the new surroundings to resume
the relationship that had existed be
tween us in the retreat at B. in which
I had passed so many dreamy hours.
, My remarks were perfunctory, and her
replies were equally so. 1 noticed that
she, too, showed disappointment. I
fancied she blamed herself for sending
' me her card. This when I began to get
up some degree of cordiality put a
1 damper on my effort. -. 1
To make matters worse, 1 was obliged
to leave the city the next day ! to be
gone during the whole period of her
visit and was thus prevented from
showing her that attention 1 would
have liked to show her. As I took
leave of her her hand lay passive and
without warmth in mine. I tried, to
say something genial, but she did not
help me. I wished she hadn't come or
hadn't sent me her card.
I found It impossible to let the mat
, ter rest and wrote Miss Trask a letter
I saying untruthfully that I was " not
very well at the time of her appear
ance in the city, and since my enforc
ed absence had prevented my showing
her any attention 1 wished she would
come again. She replied that there
I was no probability of her soon being
able to leave her duties at the library.
, The matter troubled me to sueh. a de-
gree that when the next summer came
J on I determined to Spend my vacation
at B. I desired to re-establish my
I former relationship with the librarian.
not with Miss Trask, for ,she and the
librarian did not seem to me as one
and""thfc same person, but the girl of
! whom I had dreamed in the alcove.
One day I made my entrance Into
the library just , as I had made 3t the
year before. The door closed noiseless
ly behind me, and I advanced to the
desk. The librarian,- sitting at her
table; continued her work, but I
thought I saw her start as though she
divined the entrance of some person
of moment to her. She arose from the
table, turned her face to mine, and our
eyes met 'A smile of welcome broke
over her features, which was returned
by me in kind.
"Why were you so repellent" she
asked, "when I sent you my card? Yon
asked me to do so."
"I could not have answered that
question till this moment It was
meeting you in this delicious place."
;( "Perhaps that was what- was the
matter with me."
"To be sure it was.".
Never in my life was there so quick a
transition as upon my second entrance
to the library. There had been some
thing dormant ip me of which I had
been unconscious, but which sprang to
life the moment I re-entered the place,
where It had been born.. . '
"Come with me." 1 said. "Into the a I
cove," ' .
She went with me. There was no
one besides ourselves in the building
I took her in my arms.
nores this. - .-
"The Graduated Single Tax is not
a revenue getter; and will not be a
revenue getter," he declared. "The
Graduated Single Tax payers say it
will break up large holdings, reduce
the price of land and bring emigrants
and home-seoikers by the thousands
to take advantage of the low values
offered.
"Nowj if this is true," said Secre
tary Shields, and he was exception
ally .earnest, "the revenue they figure
out to come f ronr the -large land own
ers will not be forth coming. In the
meantime "you have exempted person
al property." , , V.'..v
REV. SMITH PREACHES AT
WILLAMETTE THIS EVENING
Rev. E. -A.. Smith will preach to
night at Willamette on "A Practical
Subject for Practical People." He will
give on Sunday at Logan a demon
stration sermon with the us j of chem
icals. This is for the benefit of the
Sunday school children- Sunday af
ternoon he "will preach at Wade
Prairie School House which he at
tended. This will be the first time he
has preached to his boyhood friends
and school mates. Sunday evening he
will , preach at the Gladstone Chris
tian church, and his subject will "be
"The. Overcoming Life." Mr Smith
has" ridden on his bicycle since May
1303 miles.
Anatomy Among the Ancients.
It has' been pointed out that the
statues and plaoues carved in stone
and wood to be seen in the Gizeh mu
seum prove that the priest muramifiers
of Memphis 6.000 years ago possessed
a profound knowledge of anatomy.
Science therefore, as Lockyer remarks,
is as old as art and they have ad
vanced together. Another remarkable
fact In this connection is tliat excava
tions In Italy have brought to light
scores of finely finished surgical instru
ments for certain operations, which
are in almost every particular of form
like those reinvented in modern times
and used by the most advanced sur
geons of today. Harper's.
Starboard-and Port.
Why do the sailors call the right
hand side of the ship "starboard" and
the left hand "port?" For the answer
it Ts necessary to go back to the days
of the Norsemen and Saxons. In the
viking ships the warriors hung the
"bords," or shields, on the side of the
ship above tie places for their oars.
The viking himself held the steer oar.
which was fastened to the right hand
side of the stern. Thus the right hand
side of the ship became known as the
steer side, and. as the bords of the war
riors were hung there it was called the
"steerboard," or starboard side, while
the lower, or lurking side, became the
larboard. Bord eventually became cor
rupted into port.
LOVE YOUR WORK.
Work thou for pleasure ; paint or
sing or carve
The things thou lovest, though the
body starve.
Who works for glory misses oft the
goal;
Who works for money coins his
very soul.
Work for work's sake, and it well
may be
That these things shall be added
unto thee.
Kenyon Cox. ,
Mecca's Lodging House.
The record lodging house is one for
pilgrims at Mecca, which accommo
dates 6.000 persons. -
PAPER HILL SHIPPING
CLERK IS BENEDICT
The marriage of Mrs. Marie Kanak
and George Brown, of West Oregon
City, was solemnized in this city
Tuesday, October 1. The bride came
to this city from Chicago and the
bridegroom has been for the past
three years . shipping8 clerk of the
Crown Columbia Pulp & Pafjer Com
pany. The ceremony was performed
by W. W: H. Samson. Mr. and Mrs.
Brown have gone to housekeeping in
Oswego. Only relatives of the con
tracting parties attended the cere
mony. The; afternoon was devoted
to dancing and music, and was fol
lowed by a chicken dinner. The house
was beautifully decorated with cut
flowers! and ferns. The- bride and
bridegroom received many handsome
articles oT cutglass, china, and linen.
Mrs. Brown wore a becoming travel
ing suit with hat to match.
Present were Mr. and Mrs. Carlie
and family, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Buse,
Miss Neta Brown, of .Portland; Miss
Tobit Kanack, who recently arrived
from Chicago; Miss Leslie Kanak,
Misses Mildred, Flora, Lavina Kanak.
In the evening Mr. Brown's friends
arrived at the BrdVn home and favor
ed him and his wife with a serenade.
ION CLUB
PLANS CAMPAIGN
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A well attended and important
Meeting of the Prohibition Club was
held in Dr. Milliken's stuiy Tuesday
night, when the .election of tll'cers
was held, resulting as follows: Dr.
Mliliken, chairman; S. McDoua.d. sec
retary and treasurer. Dr. Ford, chair
man Clackamas County committee
and C. W. Clark secretary cf same
committee were authorized on behalf
of the Prohibition Club to get sever
al thousand copies of the platform
published for circulation. It was an
nounced that fifty speakers' would
make a tour of the county. Money to
finance the work has been pr jmised
COURT HEARS EVIDENCE
IN LAND LITIGATION
Judge Campbell has heard evidence
in the suit of J. H. Coll against the
Mountain Irrigator Company and the
Holman Fuel Company to determine
the ownership of land in the Philip
Foster Donation claim. The plaintiff
alleges that the defendants have no
interest in the land and asks that
they be enjoined from entering upon
it. He further asks that he be de
clared the owner in fee simple.
REV. KRAXBERGER'S LITTLE
DAUGHTER SERIOUSLY HURT
Ruth Kraxberger, daughter of Rev.
and Mrs. W. R. Kraxberger, who fell
and sustained a fracture of her left
elbow is improving. The little girl
was playingj with several children
near the Kraxberger home and was
swinging from a tree when she- fell
to the cement sidewalk.
A small classified ad will rent that
vacant room.
WHY PAY
TE have a few
V i j a ' j
can be had $2.25 per set with a subscription.
If you are already a subscriber, we will sell
yoti a set at cost. Come in and look them oyer;
you will be surprised at the quality.
The Morning Enterprise
CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT
TO GIVE FREE PLAY
In consideration of the fact that
the Portland Equal Suffrage Dramatic
Club is giving its services gratis to
the cause, it is' thought that sympa
thizers in Oregon City will show their
appreciation by attending the play
"How the Vote Was Won" at Shive
Jey's Theater, Friday night. Colonel
Robert Miller will be the speaker.
The cast of .characters will be as
follows: .
Horace Cole ( clerk), Blaine Pea
laody; Ethel (his wife), Maud Holling
er; - Agatha Cole (Horace's sister)
Mrs- Lillian Downing; Molly (his
cousin), Opal Hedrick; Madame Chris
tine (his distant relation) Mrs. Pearl
Lotspauch; Maudie Spark (his first
cousin) Echo Zahl; Miss Lizzie Wil
kins (his aunt) Mrs. Maud Johnson;
Lily (His maid-of-all-work) Carol Mit
chell: Gerald Williams (his neighbor)
Walter Gillards.
Admission free, Friday October 11.
Emma Wilson Gillepsie, Mgr. and
Stage Director.
Regardless of Price.
At the antiquao- s shop:
"I am commissioned, monsieur, to
buy a Louis XIV console; have you
one?"
"No. I have one that Is a Louis
XVI."
"Oh. that will answer. .1 am buying
for a rich American. A matter of two
Louis is nothing to him." Paris Gau-
lols.
RED SOX WIN FIRST
OF
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Tesreau, supplemented his arm with
his head to better advantage. By us
ing better judgment and saving some
thing for the last, the smaller man
managed to go the distance. Even in
his case, however, the same strain
which worked the undoing of Tesreau
got in its work in the finaj session,
and with one man down, the Boston
ian faltered, and for a moment it
looked as though he would go the
way of his adversary. ' '
Three singles 'in a row torn off by
Merkle, Herzog and Meyers, gave the
Giants a run and put them within: a
single tally of tying the score. At this
stagey however, Wood tightened up,
and by splendid headwork held the
Giants safe and put the first game of
the world's series "on ice" for the
American League champions.
Never in the history of base ball
were more nerve racking moments
known than in the last inning of the
game, and when it was all over the
crowd simply wilted.
Joe Wood was the hero of the hour,
and only Speaker, with his triple, ap-
First Inning.
Boston Hooper walked.- Yerkes
out, Doyle to Merkle; Speaker out,
same way, Hooper going to third;
Lewis flied to Snodgrass. No runs.
New York Devore fanned; Doyle
DOUBLE?
sets of those 3 1
rv " i. f
out Wagner to Stahl; Snodgrass sing
led over Wood's head; Murray walk
ed; Merkle popped out to Wagner.
No runs.
Second Inning.
Boston Fletcher fumbled Gard
ner's grounder, Gardner safe on first;
Stahl forced Gardner at second; Tes-
eau to Doyle; Stahl,' out stealing,
Meyers to Doyle; Wagner walked:
Cady flied to Murray. No runs.
isew xorK tierzog popped to Stahl
Meyers fanned; Fletcher fanned. No
runs.
Third Inning.
Boston Wood walked; Hooper sac
rificed, TesTeail to MerkUe; Yerkes
out, Doyle to Merkle, Wood taking
third; Speaker walked; Lewis filed
to Fletcher. No runs.
New York Tesreau fanned; De
vore walked; Doyle dropped a Texas
leaguer in short left for a single,
Devore reaching third; Doyle got to
second on his Texas leaguer; Snod
grass; fanned; Murray singled over
second, scoring Devore and Doyle;
Murray out trying to make second on
a hit, Speaker to Cady to Wagner.
Two runs.
Fourth Inning.
Boston Gardner fouled out to Her
zog;! StahJ fanned; Wagner fouled
oat to Merkle. No runs.
New York Merkle fanned; Her
zog singled over short; Meyers out,
Wood to Stahl; Fletcher fanned. No
runs.
Fifth Inning.
Boston Cady out. Doyle to Mer
kle; Wood out,; Merkle assisted
Hooper 'fanned. No runs.
New York Tesreau fanned; D
vore fouled out to Lewis; Doyle sing
led out to left; Gardner recovered the
ball, threw to Wagner and caught
Doyle trying to stretch his hit. No
runs. -Sixth
Inning.
Boston Yerkes flied to Snodgrass;
Speaker tripled to center; Lewis out,
Doyle to Merkle, " Speaker scoring.
Gardner fanned. One run.
New York Snodgrass safe on Wag
ner's error; Murray attempted to sac
rafice, but popped into Stahl's hands
and Snodgrass was doubled at first,
Stahl to Wood; Merkle popped to
Wagner. No runs.
Seventh Inning.
Boston Stahl out, Doyle to Me
kle; Wagner singled to center; Cady
singled same place; Wood rolled to
Doyle, who dropped the hall; Fletch
er picked it up and stepped to secon'l,
retiring; Cady, Doyle gets assist
Hooper doubled, scoring Wood and
Hooper; Mayor Fitzgerald, in Gay
nor's box led Boston in cheering;
Speaker fanned. Three runs.
New York Herog zfanned; 'Mey
ers hit by. pitched T)all; Fletcher
forced Meyers at second, Yerkes to
Wagner; McCormick, batting for Tes
reau, flied to Lewis. No runs.
Eighth Inning.
Boston Crandall now pitching for
New York; Lewis out; Fletcher to
Merkle ; Gardner fanned; Stahl fan
ned. No runs.
New York Devore out, Wagner to
Stahl; Doyle out, same route; Sno.l
grass popped to Gardner. No runs.
i Ninth Inning.
Boston Wagner doubled to the left
field fence; Cady sacrificed, Herzcg
to Merkle; Wood out, Crandall to
Merkle, Wagner being-held at third;
Hooper lined out t0 Doyle. No runs.
New York Murray flied to Hooper
Merkle singled over second base;
Herzog sineled to rieht field. Merkle
being held' on second; Meyers singled
to right, scoring Merkle; Herzog took
third; Meyers took second on Hoop
er's throw to the plate; Becker ran
for Meyers, Fletcher fanned; Cran
dall fanned. One run.
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