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4 multiply one-half of the amount of the auty computed at the prevailing rate by two hundred and forty-seven and a quarter, the rate of exchange for gold, and divide the product by one hun dred. This will give the amount actu ally payable in Mexican money. "DOUBLE HEADER" FORCING WAY THROUGH FLOOD TO RESCUE ARKANSAS REFUGEES TOPICS OF THE TIMES. Don't Impose on others In order to .make an Imposing show. .Nothing bores an optimist like the .history of other people's troubles. If men were as good as they claim to te they would not have to claim to be as good as they are. People who know there Is little of fod to be said of them are always liHtcnijig In the hope of hearing It. The question of who founded ltonie iJsn't half so Interesting as the identity of tho gentleman who made her howl. The term "deadly parallel" has about outlived Its usefulness. Incon sistency in a public man is no longer fatal. Is the accumulation of money you .don't need worth those gray hairs, .deep lines of care and decrepitude In middle life? It Is rather a pitiful fact that vener ,oble Oxford has so few generous sous that she must appeal to a Scotch American Ironmaster for help. The milliner who has discovered -that noBe defects (ire curable by , a hut brim does not mention a remedy lor eye diseases caused by veils. Congressman Lacey's efforts to pre serve some of the natural curiosities of the grent West will not. we hope, in clude many of the Western politicians. Ho long as Uncle Sum supplies the world with food he can afford to bo a .little short ou warships. Nations ure not apt to iiuurrel with their breud und J) utter. (If the pltultury gland at tho base of rthe cerebellum does, as Dr. Sajous con tends, govern all our bodily functions, why not have It cut out and so avoid the bother of tho bodily functions? Having become tired of seeing tho etory In print Mr. Rockefeller denies Abut he ever said he would give $1, '0011,000 for a sound stomach. A mil lion dollars Is a great deal of money. Since the President gave that em phatic opinion ou the subject of race ; suicide,' the aspirants for office under . this administration will hurry up In . the matter of rulsing large and Inter vustlng families. How strange it must seem to Spain lo have a minister from Cuba In Mud fid! Yet when the Cuban minister pre sented his credentials to the King tho other day, his country was compli mented as if it hud not rebelled ami set up for itself. , A Chicago University professor an nounces that mechanical shocks caused ly the "beating muscular movements, the Jar of walking, vibrations In vehi cles of transportation ami Hours of buildings" conduce to long life. We hope he doesn't approve of train wrecks and earthquakes as stimulants, Tho retaining of a corps of three score surgeons by a great railroad cor (Kiration In order that they may give llrst aid to the Injured In accidents will be generally commended, but Is It not the wisest policy for railroads to take such precautious that surgeons need not be called ou for the relief of disas ters? Nearly every State Legislature is uf flleted with freak legislators, whose ridiculous travesties upon law-making bring tho legislative machinery into -contempt. Their antics, unrestrained by the rules of tho bodies to which they temporarily belong, suggest cere bral iullrniity on the part of presiding officers whoso plain duty It Is to keep tho proceedings of Legislatures with in the bound of common sense. The chairman of the Harvard ath letic committee, Professor Hollis, de clares that rival teams are selected dishonestly and that players are In tentionally disabled. The percentage of Injuries Increases annually and the moral tone of Intercollegiate sport steadfastly declines. That these charges have a basis of truth has Ion; been believed. The gambling spirit has corrupted amateur athletics In the largest and most populous fields. Ex posure of convincing facts must tend to deter people from making the an nual contests scenes of social distinc tion and enthusiastic patronage. The Banest minds in higher education have long been of opinion that tne athletic fad has been carried further In the United States in association with high er education than Is wholesome for the Intellectual standard or the morality of the colleges. If the public would refrain from attending the excessively advertised games the true relation of sport to college life would be mora speedily ascertained. The reigning brutality of football, the almost total lack of generosity In the greatest con tests have aroused disgust and appre hension. There was never anything noble in hitting a man that was down Even the cultivated heathen were re olted by such brutlshness. Football as It Is now practiced has largely lost every quality of gentlcmanhood and s not above the debasing exhibition of low prlze-flghtlng when not a criminal fake. Neither tho blight nor the early frosts can affect the value of the Chi nese peach bloom, even If these things -do affect the American fruit growers. This is because the Chinese peach bloom appears on small vases made two or three hundred years ago. One of them, six Inches tall, sold in New York last month for thirty-two hun dred dollars, enough to buy a good- ilzed peach orchard In Delaware or California. After all this Is a good old world to live lu. Occasionally some ungrate ful cur will snap at the hand that for werly fed hltu. Once In a while some snarling nobody, wl neither brains nor ability, will assail those whom a community has already Judged his su lerlor. This Is ouo kind of human na ture, but It exists In a very small part of our population, and may well he Ignored on account of the Inconse quence o 1U results. The great ma Jorlty of people like one another. havs respect for honest manhood and trua womanhood, and care very little for those who try to belittle their neigh bors. The average schoolboy may thnnk fortune that he Is not a Mexican collec tor of customs, for If he were he would be confronted with problems In arlth metlc which would make finding the least common multiple seem easy. The finance minister has recently told the collectors that to And the duty to be Uvled In any given Instance they must Several years ago a German noble man who happened to be visiting In this country was ln.roduced one even ing to the family circle of a distinguish ed scholar of one of our Eastern States. The German hud "thirty-six quarter- lugs" In his coat of arms, together with all the prejudices, greatly exaggerated, of his class, and was Inclined to look on Americans as meretorious enough In their way, but as belonging distinctly nd of necessity to a lower order of be ings. The host was an archaeologist, and having received some of the an ient implements and utensils exca vated In Iiome'at that time by l'rof. Rodolfo Lanclanl, was explaining to the young and old folk that they were toys used by the little Romans ages ago, which establishes the "solidarity" of youth in nil ages. The assembled company forthwith descended to the floor of the: library and played the games with the antique Romun toys. Neighbors and friends dropped in quite Informally, music enlivened the gather- ng, talk which ranged from the grave to gay was not without Its humor and Its wit, and as all present were delight ed, they all contributed to the delight. When the guests departed, the German, who had drained life to the dregs, had seen society from the Paris Faubourg St. Germain to St. Petersburg, and from Rome to London, was Impelled to say that there was the Idyllic and the true society. No lackeys, no pro digious expense, no frigid formality, but nil simplicity, ease which was as attractive as It was natural and whole some. The German confessed he had discovered a new Arcady,' and that so ciety In Its new manifestations was a return to tho naturalness of former days, which Indicated a real advance, a higher civilization. The simple life is not, however, so common nor so fre quently an object of desire In America of to-day as to be typical. Those who have means are in so breathless a race to spend, to niuke a display, to outdo their rivals, to seek pleasure instead of letting pleasure come to them, that artificiality, us In all rich socleths, has rowded simplicity and naturalness to much Into the background. The desire for money Is natural, and It Is likewise highly commendable. Money means oinfort, education for children, pro tection ngalnst old age and sickness, opportunity for self-Improvement, and it provides many of the things which distinguish life In n civilized country from life In the haunts of the savage. Stored wealth Is, in a word, civilization Itself, or rather civilization depends on It. It is no wonder, then, that money Is the universal object of the keenest desire, but the wonder Is that when men have won wealth they should spend It so foolishly as they do lu mod ern society. -.v.w.-K,... - --- -,. , , : ...... . . U "K 'MfWST": mL. - T .v..::.:::i ' un.n:.u-...:. - i i i I : 7 . " ,A"'wr mrff -..Tit v:ll,-' n3m tTr sI. -r- t The picture, which Is from a photograph, shows a train with two locomo tives working Its way over an unseen track along the Mississippi In Arkan sas to pick up people who had been driven out of their homes on to higher land by the flood and to carry provisions and malls to towns, that had been Isolated by the high waters. At points the water was so high It reached the fireboxes of the locomotives, making It Impossible for them, to-pass through It THESE LANGUAGES ARE SPOKEN IN CHICAGO. Persian Ve) "OS 1 S) d7 CTh vOrcrr (O,, Singhalese o Arabia UJuLbpnLU lip Jup fuounLh CiqwlsoA T . k 1 - Stench i a e 0 0 $Li.,L lCd.fn tt, I. J)& yrroCt, 2&cxpr eWine. ffftaaua. cut s6&cagH &teatcn. c&t. 5&' Jl cover a. ou ?r cjtoxs2cuc s $j?n f '2y¢ znaoX&tg W-d&i&w J?-fjfeZs J 'oJLWS Ia) lows. TpWZ-0VL. VCU leu icfeici" 6 l ie Japanese &&6r TftXtrt 2 &ea4co- Italian Jo9U 5lgtCWk. 00U. 6TiaKoo Spanish rJ? ph Zeyz- So 2zvc fn Cic-zo Irish b&Jtt&ptov frtit c Ss JcL -iexs&&, 2C f&nrtrtst Z G&aIf Slavonian Xp&tfC&CLJX. VeuA: sctrcrfx. y ckt&a&f ?&VQ1& ferXMfr Jefzyv-bc tfeccapcU Croatian w-te-c-fa-& fa--M4-dt s,yfanpartan flemish. A aque Porlujum Jsebodie L4Hi Mhuaniaa low German frteaian. Jtomanio SccteJi Gaelic 1 i Slovak 'Mulch i toheauea fontccian JSulpMriin Welsh J)nisA Jervfaif A Professor In the University ot Chicago Says Forty Languages Are Spoken In Chicago. Here Are Forty-three ot Them; MONUMLNT ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF BARON VON KETTELER Kipocted Altogether Too Much. Consumer See here! Aly family was out of town all of last month except three days, and yet my gas bill Is high er than for the month before! Clerk (severely) Well, sir, do you suppose we can keep track of the com ings and goings of all our customers? This office doesn't run a society de partmentKansas City Journal. Recently the Chinese government dedicated a noble monument to the memory of Karon von Ketteler on the very spot where the baron, then the Ger man minister to Pe king, wns murdered by the IJoxers ou June 20, 19U0. The erection of this monument was in sisted upon by Em peror William in the protocol of Sept. 7, l'JOl, to serve as a warning to unruly Chinese rebels. The ceremonies of dedication are described by Minister Conger in a report to the State Department. They took place in the presence of ,high Chinese officials, the diplomatic corps, the German gar rison, an equal number of Chinese sol diers, and nn immense crowd of gener al spectators. Prince Chung, the Chi nese Emperor's brother, poured liba tions and made a speech, and Baron Ism WW1 MINISTER COXa Kit. No More Tie Counting. "Do you favor a theater under the patroungo of the government?" "I do," answered Stormington Barnes. "I should like to see govern ment ownership of the treaters and government ownership of the railways, and then hope for co-operation between these two great branches of our na tional system." Washington Star. Fishing In the Wrong Place. Tommy W-we haven't caught any thing. The Farmer Wal, you will, b'gosh! New York Times. A youth recently married a girl after having proposed thirteen times. The old superstition Is still working. From the 'aw molasses of love-mak ing to the vinegar of domestic Infelic ity Is truly a bitter change. r turn i i Vr NLtffair"-y Pir. N ILr Tl MONUMENT TO VON KETTKLEB. von der Hoist, German charge d'af faires, replied. The monument is an Impressive structure of granite bear ing Inscriptions In German, Latin and Chinese. The Inscription, dictated by Emperor William, reads as follows: 'This monument has been erected by order of his majesty, the Emperor of China, for the Imperial German minis ter, Baron von Ketteler, who fell ou this spot by heinous murder on the 20th of June, 1000, In everlasting commem oration of his name, as an eternal token of the Emperor's wrath about this crime, as a warning to all." HOW THE WORLD WAS PAINTED. An Indian Legend of tho Wax the Spring Came Into the World. Once, long before there were men In the world, all the earth was covered with suow and lee. White and frozen lay the rivers and the sens; white and frozen lay the plains. The mountains stood tall and dead, like ghosts In white gowns, There was no color except white In all the world except the sky, and It was almost black. At night the stars looked through It like angry eyes. Then God sent the spring down into the world the spring with red lips and curling yellow hair. In his arms he bore sprays of ap ple blossoms, and the first flowers crocus, anemones, and violets, red, pink, blue, purple, violet and yellow. The first anininl to greet the spring was the white rabbit. The spring dropped a red crocus on his head, and ever since then all white rabbits have red eyes. Then the spring dropped a blue vio let on a white bird, the 4irst bird to greet' the spring, and that Is the way the bluebird was made. Ever since then It is the first bird to arrive when the spring comes down from henveu. So the spring went through the world. Wherever he tossed the leaves from his fragrant burden the earth be came green. He tossed the blossoms on the frozen seas and the Ice melted and the fish became painted with nil the tints of his flowers. Thnt Is the way the trout and the minnows and the salmon became gaudy. Only the high mountains would not bow to the spring. So their summits remain white and dead, for they would let the spring paint only their sides. The snow owls and the white geese and the polar bears fled from the spring, so they, too, remain white to this day. HOLDING A CABINET POSITION AT WASHINGTON NOT MUCH OF A "SNAP." Ti THE COTTON KINO. He Haa Made Million tn'the Advanc- - ingc Pricea Since Lat PalL Daniel J. Sully, who won renown in a night, as the bull leader on the New York cotton exchange, who made $100,- 000 a week for six weeks, Is a Provi dence, It. L, man. A rather mild man nered, unobtrusive person Is this new cotton king, whom his followers and the delighted cot ton growers of the South now hall as the greatest opera tor ever seen on the New York ex change. businesslike In manner, prompt In ac tion, well groomed and courteous. He has light-blue eyes, a blonde mustache and waving sandy hair, which he parts In the middle. Though he has been a membes of the New York Cotton Exchange two years It was only last October that the ag gresslve bull leader actively Impressed himself upon the metropolitan market Ills home Is in Providence, R. I. There he has been a leading factor In the cot ton market for a dozen years, but none 3& DANIEL J. SULLY. He Is 42 years old. He Is HEItE Is not a member of the President's Cabinet, with possibly an exception here and there, says a Washington official, who gets out ot the game for less than $20,000 a year and no one under $10,000 or $12,000. To properly maintain the position of a Cabinet officer, to live upon the salary pnld, would entail the practice of economy which would be quite unusual. A member of the House can live, and many practically do, upon his mileage, but not a member of the Cabinet upon his salary. I have known of many members of different Cabinets who have spent from $30,000 to $150,000 a year. In the Senate and House combined there are scores of men who have practically no income other than their salary of $3,000 a year. These men work for what may be properly termed their wages. Cabinet officers do not work for their salaries; they merely accept whnt the Congress decided a century or two ago. In stage coach days, to be adequate compensation; the salary of the office did not enter Into their calculations lu 09 cases out of 100 when their portfolio was tendered them. Where a Cabinet officer Is a wealthy man, as most of them usually are, they work for a variety of rensons. Some have wives who have social ambitions and tastes which cannot be gratified in their former environ ment. Others work . for the personal pleasures, the privileges and the honors the position bestows, the last being more or less passed down to their posterity. Others give up $100,000 a year income, toil like messengers over their desks by day and eat official dinners at night for reasons past finding out. Some believe, usually erroneously, however, and occasionally correctly, that service in the Cabinet may prove of future use to them In presidential conventions, or in senatorial elections. Dozens of members of the Cabinet have become sick of their task and have resigned before the end of the first two years. The feminine members of a Cabinet officer's family are the ones who enjoy the position. They get about $1,000,000 a year each out of it in the gratification of their personal ambitions and desires and the fun they have ed him of being cast in the mold from which cotton kings or Napoleons of finance are made. Mr. Sully made an extensive study of cotton and passed two years In the South studying Its culture. He knows the business from A to Z. He is called Napoleon by his Intimates. of his neighbors until recently suspect- enterprise, A Young Captain of Industry. The crowds at the station of the elevated railroad In Herald Square, New York, are placed under tribute by a newsboy who has an eye to business, lie Is 16 years old, and sells newspa pers at the foot of the elevated stair way. The secret of the boy's rapidly Increasing business Is explained by the New York Evening Telegram: With every paper the boy sells he offers to the purchaser an elevated railroad ticket. There Is scarcely a person who does not see the advan tage of buying his ticket beforehand, and In consequence the little red slips are sold Just as fast as the papers. While people crowd about the ticket seller's window, the exclusive Individ uals who patronize the little newsboy hurry by the struggling mass and board their train in peace and comfort. To make the arrangement all the more satisfactory, some of the boy's regular customers pay him at the end of each week, and paper and ticket are received every morning without the bother of hunting for change. The boy has doubled his trade by his How Butchers Get Itlch The butcher had opener that morn Ing, and was awaiting his first" cus tomer. Presently the longed-for person ap peared. "Yes'm," said the butcher to the old1 lady, "and what can I have the pleas ure of getting for you ?" "Oh, I don't want butcher's meat this morning." she said, "though there's no telling what might happen. What I want Is the change of a quarter " The butcher's face fell; but, after all possible customers must be obliged. ' "There you are, madam," he said, "and very pleased 1 am to be able to oblige you." "Ah," said the old lady, "that's very well very well. But, young man, don't you give a bit of suet with It?" Canada's Timber Belt. The impression that British North America is covered with valuable tim ber is fallacious. Black walnut, red cedar and white oak are not found north of Toronto. A line drawn from the city of Quebec to Sault Ste. Marie will designate the northern limit of beech, elm and birch. The north shore of Lake Superior will mark the nortb ern boundary of sugar hard maple. The Bee's Flight. A bee, unladen, will fly forty miles an hour, but one coming home laden with honey does not travel faster than twelve milts an hour.