OREGON CITY, OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1913.
MR. HENRY PECK AND HIS FAMILY AFFAIRS
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MORNING1 'ENTERPRISE
OREGON CITY, OREGON
E E. BRODIE ....... Editor and Publisher
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CITY OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
BACK TO Were the wealth that the farmers of the country have gained
THE LAND in the last year distributed among the people of the state,
each man, woman, and child would receive $200 enough to start a bigger
bank account than the average person has to hfs credit. Were the wealth
that is represented in the growth, alone, of Clackamas county in the farm
improvements divided among the entire population of that county, the bank
account would be further decided increased.
From the reports that J. E. Jack, county assessor, has just completed, the
county shows a steady growth in the improvements that are to be credited
to its farmers that is remarkable. In all lines of the farming industry, the
growth .has been noted. The number of tillable acres that are found in the
county as against those of last year have increased. The stock reports have
fattened. The statements of farming increased. The stock reports have
fattened. The statements of farming implements have grown.
In every part of the county, this decided increase ha been noted an in
crease that speaks well of the properity of the Clackamas county farmer and
that shows his wealth is multiplying and his bank account growing.
The report shows that there were 101,121 acres of tillable lands during
1913 as against 99,175 the year before, or an increase of 1,946 acres at an
increased valuation of $144,880; cattle increased showing a growing senti
ment in the dairying business ; swine multiplied showing the realization of the
money that is to be made from hogs ; horses and mules were more numerous,
indicating the larger size of the stock farms and the increased number of
stock on each of them that are used in the routine work of the farm.
All through the report, the farms have hown an increase over last year
and a growth in the number of livestock and the decrease in the number of
non-tillable acres in the county. With the growth of the population in the
county, the increase in the tillable and decrease in the non-tillable acreage
of the couty and state.
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COURT DECISIONS Some question has been raised aj different parts
AND PEOPLE'S WILL of these United States over elections that have
been held and have been thrown out by the courts, because they have violated
.some peculiar legal technicality that has been presented after the election has
been held.
Few and far between, nowadays are the decisions of the courts that con
demn an expression of the will of the people on merely technical grounds.
Generally, the courts are slow to take a step that will mean the certain nulli
fication of what the people have shown they want.
In those cases wherever the people have decidedly expressed themselves,
the courts have taken the stand that, though the election may have been more
or less illegal from a technical interpretation of the law, the will of the peo
ple is paramount and their wishes are above the expression of the legislature
itself.
There have been a few exceptions to this stand, however. The notorious
. action of the Idaho supreme court was one, for example. The expression cf
the people's will in that instance was thrown out because the state supreme
court took a stand diametrically opposite to that taken by the supreme court
of the United States. After the excitement of the compaign had died down.
the court cited three newspaper men for contempt because they expressed
their opinions about the conduct of judicial officers who were placed in their
positions by the people of'an entire state. ,
' The case was merely an example of the extreme views that some of tmr
courts have taken in matters of this kind. Generally, though, the courts have
decided that the people's will in matters of every kind is the paramount issue,
and, if that will is clearly and decidedly expressed, few will endanger it by
throwing out the election on merely hair-splitting grounds.
Whether the judges of those courts believe that the action taken at th
polls is the wisest move that the people-can make in certain emergencies, has
nothing whatever to do with the case and the courts have generally ruled in
a way that shows they fully realize that point at issue. If the people want
to bankrupt themselves as long as they have determined to do so the polls in
an election fully announced and published, the courts have held that any trifl
ing aw in that election cannot invalidate it or force the governmental unit
to call another.
Action of this kind indicates the progressive trend of the times that now
influences-our highest courts of justice. In many states,' the legislature ha
enacted statutes that require of the supreme court a thorough review of the
merits of every case that is brought before it and none of them are reversed
or even remanded to the lower courts for further action unless, in the judg
ment of the state's highest tribunal, the rights and interests of one of , the
parties has been materially injured by the decisions of that lower court.
This is the rule in many states. It shows a new spirit of progress that
has entered the legal profession. It indicates that even profession more
bound by precedent and forms than any other in the country has seen the
light. Technicalities are a poor thing to base any suit at law upon and they
are finding less and less favor in the highest courts and before the most
learned jurists of the state and nation.
Secretary Bryan assures an American owner of lands in Mexico that "in
case of damage to property the state department would use its utmost en
deavors to obtain indemnity." The length of the bill accumulating will
therefore be extraordinary.
HOUSE AND FURNITURE
2-story, ' 8-room plastere.1
house. Can be used by two
families. Toilet and bath; cor
ner lot 66x105, large enough to
build another house. Consider
able furniture with the property.
Will sell all for $2500.00, or
take out the furniture.
DILLMAN & HOWLAND
eart to Heart
Talks
By CHARLES N. LURIE
Western historical organizations have marked the Oregon, Salt Lake
and Santa Fe trails with guide posts. Pedestrians en route to the Panama
Canal expositions at San Francisco and elsewhere will experience no trouble
in finding the way. -:
Every cloud has its silver lining. After a sizzling summer Duluth has
Lroken its early snow record by one day, and many places report their earliest
frost. There is, nothing hackneyed about American weather, except its
changeabieness.
The' coming on of snow from the West should leave nothing to be desired
by those who, during the recent summer, wereiining for a change. The
world is made up of extremes, but not more in matters of weather than of
temperament.
Fugitives from Mexico say they left in accordance with the president'
advice, and are now waiting for further counsel from the White House.
Novelties in international law are seldom confined to oje chapter.
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One of the big ships is able to bring 50Q0 persons to America on a single
trip. They could pour in goods correspondingly under a free-trade tariff, a
serious fact for those placed in competition with 'the cheap labor of Europe.
A Texas stockman has decided to import and raise camels for use in
Arizona and New Mexico. Automobiles many be sent to replace the camels
for use in Sahara. .
So many hunters are killed by mistake in Maine that the license has
been raised from $15 to $25. The pastime still seems reasonably inexpensive.
The American fugitives from Mexico who invested a billion dollars there
would be thankful if President Wilson would tell them what to do next.
Experiments are still being made with aeroplanes as engines' of war.
They are certainly all right when an enemy falls from one.
Albanians and Servians are fighting each other desperately again,
seems to be the favorite Balkan recreation.
This
England Lags Because the New Things
In Life Don't Appeal to Her
By P. A. VAILE, New Zealand Barris ter and Writer, Author of a Book
Which Urged England to "Wake Up" -
IF YOU TELL AN ENGLISHMAN ANYTHING NEW YOU ARE BOUND
TO BE ONE OF FOUR THINGS IN HIS OPINION A FOOL, A
FADDIST, A REVOLUTIONARY OR A THEORIST. THAT IS ONE
REASON WHY ENGLAND LAGS.
Ten years ago, when they were at the top of the world in sports and
many things, I said to them : "That's all very well, but don't you make a
mistake. This lawn tennis you are playing is effeminate patball. It's
going to land you in the mud. Your principles are wrong. I could bring
a team here from Australasia and, after getting them acclimatized,
WHIP YOU TO A STANDSTILL." They laughed and called mv words
"colonial swank." Then we TOOK THE DAVIS CUP AND HELD
IT FOR FIVE YEARS. I told them seven years ago that cricket was
a thing of the past and out of joint with the times; that the game had
developed into a three day orgy, something like a Chinese theatrical per
formance, with nothing determined at the end.
. It was the same with football. Our New Zealand team' came tip to
Silay them the Rugby game. They cleaned up England, Ireland and Seot
and by a total of 839 to 36 points. When our team arrived the news
' papers said its members could not play the game. When the scores had
run np to 204 to 4 the same papers said the team did not play the game.
I am not mentioning these things to disparage the Englishman. He-is
as good AS ANYBODY ELSE IF HE WOULD ONLY ALLOW
HIS BRAINS TO COME TO LIFE AND USE THEM AT HOME.
"The man who does not and cannot
save m.ney cannot and will not da
anything else worth while." Andrew
Carnegie. .
The Bank of Oregon City
OLDEST BANK IN CLACKAMAS COUNTY
"AGAI1SST THE RULES'
There had been a wreck on an east
ern railroad. Thirteen persons had
been killed and many injured. In the
city offices of the railroad gathered a
crowd of anxious inquirers, seeking in
formation about passengers on the
wrecked train.
One of the inquirers, a woman, wan
dered from office to office in a vain
search for information and reassur
ance. There was difficulty in sending
to the city the names of the dead and
wounded. '
The woman intercepted a little office
boy hurrying through the offices.
. "My boy." she said, "can you tell me
anything about this wreck?"
"All that I can tell you, ma'am." he
replied, "is that there were thirteen
killed." "
"Oh," exclaimed the anxious woman,
"can a little boy like you tell me that
thirteen have been killed and not cry
about it?"
"It is against the rules to cry," said
the little boy.
And he hurried away to perforin his
duties.
Against the rules to cry!
Are there not many other occasions
when it is against the rules to cry?
When you are beaten, for example, in
the tight for fame or wealth or posi
tion, when you see the cause on which
you have set your heart lying defeated
amid the ruins of your hopes, when
the thing which you have desired
greatly turns out to be other than
what you expected
Is it not against 'the rules to cry?
This is no argument 1 against the
blessed relief of tears. There are times
when the surcharged heart can find no
other outlet, and the gentle rain of the
tenrs is a benediction. No one would
or should attempt to seal the merciful
fountains.
But there is the tearless crying, the
repining that is useless. That is
against the rules.
Let us school ourselves, as did the
little lad in the railroad offices, not to
cry when we are called upon to facp
defeat and disaster.
There is the crying that is a welcome
relief, and there is the crying that is
the confession of weakness. It is the
latter sort that is against the rules.
Australia.
The story of Australia Is. from smn
points of view, curiously interesting
It offers the spectaclef the evolution
of. a nation, lying so near to us in time
that, the process can be studied with
scientific niinnfeness and as under the
lens of a microscope And the factors,
if not the events, are on a great scale.
The stage is an entire continent. For
Australia offers the only instance In
history where a whole continent has
flying above it the flag of a single peo
ple." And this is a continent with the
climate of Italy, with more than the
mineral wealth of Peru and as fit to be
the granary, of the world today as
Egypt was for the world of the Cae-
sam. "The New World of the South."
Within and Without.
The man who lives within his In
come may some time be able to get
along without it. Exchange. .
A Tree and a Millstone.
-"Sometimes nature turns t; an un
expected use the handiwork of man."
says Dr. Charles G. IVrci'val in tir
book. "The Trail of the Iiulldos"' At
Sheldon's mill, near South Oovoro. X.
Y.. there is a very-comfortable scat of
stone around n huge tree which imz
zles visitors, as the stone is li.itiirnl
without a single break to show how it
got around the tree trunk. The story
Is that n discarded millstone lay on
the ground for many years and a seed
blown by the wind dropped into the
core of the stone and grew there, final
ly growing into a tree, filling the hole
in the "center of the stone, and as the
tree grew in size the stone was gradu
ally lifted, making the unique seat.
Truth.
Some people seem tp think that truth,
like rubber, will go farther if they
stretch it Youth's Companion.
The Yacht Contest.
Deer Isle. Me., tries to appear uncon
cerned wlief they talk aboutstbe crew
for rise cup defender. - Boston Herald.
Sir Thuma I.ipton says . the next
rare wiii be the best chance he has
ever had. Still, iD the light of past
events it's hard to see what effect this
exhilarating outlook will have on the
odds - Washington Star.
Sir Thomas I.ipton is seeking to take
hence the America's cup and an Ameri
can bride. Now, patriotism has a dou
ble motive in giving him an opportu
nity" to show again his qualities as a
splendid loser. Baltimore American.
Town Topics.
. Chicago needs a breakwater for the
annual wave of crime. Chicago News.
According to the city directory, the
population of Detroit and suburbs is
now tiH.4Sti. this being a sis cylinder
town. - Detroit Free Press.
Milwaukee is to have a $5,000,000
hotel. One "wonders why, since it is so
easy to run Into Chicago from Mil
waukee. Chicago Record-Herald.
There are more tat, prosperous, well
dressed men in Natchez than any other
city In the state and more pretty girls
than auywhere else in the country.
Natchez News. .
Testing the Iron.
The laundress puts a little saliva on
the flatiron to see if it is hot enough
If It runs along the iron rapidly it i
hot enough, but if it sticks to the bot
tom and is evaporated the iron is too
cold. The reason is that if hot enough
the bottom of the drop of saliva is con
verted into vapor and the drop rolls
alonz the iron rapidly: if too cold the
iron sticks and evaporates gradually.
WE REPAIR ANYTHING
AND EVERYTHING
MILLER-PARKER COMPANY
Next Door to Bank of Oregon City
CUT FLOWERS AND POTTED PLANTS
Also all kinds of Fruit Trees, Roses and Shrubbery for sale at the
new green houses at Third and Center Streets. Funeral work done,
at lowest possible prices. Orders received over phone Main 2511.
H. J. 'BIGGER
HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE.
It Caunes Hardening of the Arteries
and Other Grave Troubles.
Physicians have always studied the
pulse, because it gives valuable infor
mation concerning the . body's condi
tion of health or disease. But it is
only, recently that they have begun to
use the term "blood pressure" fre
quently and to regard the amount of
that pressure as of great importance.
Thai is because they now have instru
ments for accurately measuring the
pressure, which previously they could
only estimate'by feeling the pulse.
Blood pressure or the degree of ten
sion of the blood current within the
arteries is chiefly significant because
a permanent increase , in it is quite
sure to be followed in time by harden
ing of the arteries and by the degener
ation or disease of important organs,
especially the kidneys.
The blood pressure is increased by
a number of causes that increase the
force of the heart beat or that con
tract the smaller blood vessels. Any
excitement anger, joy. fear, "nervous-,
ness" raises it temporarily. But that
is of 'little importance unless the emo
tion is frequently repeated or unless
the person already has diseased arte
ries. The blood pressure that is per
manently high is more serious. That
comes from long continued mental ex
citement such as worry, business anx
iety or political strife or from the ac
tion of certain poisons that are formed
In the system and not properly ex
creted. These poisons come from the waste
products of digestion, especially in
large meat eaters. They raise the
blood pressure by causing the smaller
arteries to contract
In small amounts these poisons are
excreted at once, but in persons who
eat large quantities of meat, especially
of beef and mutton poultry and fish
are less harmful they are sometimes
formed in amounts so large that the
kidneys cannot dispose of them prompt
ly. When this happens, especially if it
occurs in a person who is under a con
stant mental strain, like the politician,
the financier or the chronic worrier,
there is grave danger of a permanent
ly high blood pressure and, following
that, of -hardening of .the arteries and
of kidney disease, mental disturbance
or apoplexy.
If you must worry be a vegetarian:
if you must eat meat do so only once
a day or. better still, every oier day.
Youth's Companion.
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of assistance to any worthy person.
LEON DAILY, Lathing and Plastering
Contractor. Lowest jrice possible.
LOST AND FOUND
LOST Between J. Adams street and
Elyville, a handbag containing a
sum of money and tickets to Bev
erlins' store. It belongs to an old
lady who cannot afford to' lose it.
t Anyone finding it please leave at
Beverlins' store and oblige a deserv
ing old lady. Reward.
HELP WANTED FEMALE
WANTED German girl for general
housework. Call Main 1501.
WANTED Middle-aged woman for
general housework; good home,
good wages. Call on or address,
Mrs. J. J. Tyrrell, Gladstone, Ore.
WANTED German girl for general
housework. Apply 610 Seventh St.
MISCELLANEOUS
FURNISHED ROOMS with board, in
private family.. Call Main 3714 or
108 Twelfth and Main.
Hisrical.
"Now. children." said the teacher of
the Juvenile class in history, "can any
of you tell'me Nero's greatest crime?"
"Playing the fiddle," promptly replied
the youngster at the foot. Chicago
News.
Europe's Birth Rate.
The average birth rate for Europi
shows that for every 100 girls 106 boys
are born.
S3SSSSSS8$
GUSTAV FLECHTNER
S Teacher of Violin
wishes to announce that he has
S resumed teaching at his studio,
' 612 Center Street.
Solo and Orchestra Work
? Phones: Main 1101 Home M l 72
SsSS1S'S'SSSSSSS?-
?$ 4- s $.
A L. G. ICE. DENTIST
Beaver Building '
s Phones: Main 1221 or A-193
Pabst's Okay Specific
$3-00
Does the worx. You all
know It by reputation.
Price ,
FOR SALE BY
JONES DRUG COMPANY
L. AUSTIN, the tailor, for men and
women. Suits made to your meas
ure; alterations and refitting.
Prices reasonable. Room A, Barclay
Building.
A CHANCE One acre suitable for
chicken ranch; 6-room plastered
house; chicken houses and barn;
creek, well and hydrant. Price $1800
half cash. See G. Grossenbach'er,
Canemah.
FOR SALE.
FOR SALE At "Orchard Egg Farm
Apples," Northern Spies and Bald
wins. Also 5 Indian Runner drakes.
Address J. L. Hendry, Rt. 6, Box
117 or phone Home 1513 after 6 p.
m.
FOR SALE House and lot on Mon
roe' street, lot 26xl05 feet; house
has five large rooms, bathroom,
pantry, three closets, a large wood
house and wash room ; street im-
- provements all in and paid. Apply
811 Monroe street.
FOR SALE Progress Automoatic Ad
justable dress form. Iquire Mrs.
Carrie Paetz, H. F. D. No. 5, Box 28,
phone Main 1891.
FOR SALE, at a bargain 2-cylinder,
7-horse, late model Excelsor motor
cycle. Equipped; has tamden seat.
Ask for E. Brown, Enterprise office.
FOR SALE Gasoline wood saw;
good as new, and 2 sucking colts, 4
months old. F. Steiner, Oregon
City, Rt. No. 3. Tele. Beaver Creek.
FOR SALE Fresh cow with calf.
. Grossenbacher, Canemah.
WOOD AND COAL
OREGON CITY WOOD & FUEL CO.
Wood and eoai, 4-foot and 16-inch
lengths, delivered to all parts of
city; sawing especialty. Phonn
your orders Pacific 1371, Home
A120. F. M. BLTJHM
D: C. LATOURETTE, President.
F. J. METER. Cashier.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
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CAPITAL $50,000 00
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