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THE DEAF AND BLIND. a. boor who neTer uw but with his eyes, Whone dull ears told bira all he ever heard. Proved without doubt that "Soul" waa but a word Without a meaning; and that "Para dise" God" "HeaTen" these were nothing more than lies; That "Immortality" waa quite absurd, "Created" a misprint please read "oc curred." He proved all this, for be waa very wise. And not one flaw showed In his argu ments; His word has stood the test of many years. And it will stand the tests of centuries; Yet each true heart knows with a faith intense 'Tis true for those who hear but with their ears Only for those who see but with their eyes! Indianapolis Sentinel. 1 Love's Strategy Hit. tore down the steps of the ltelvldere and headed for me, "Ed." be exclaimed, "1 m In an awful hole! "I don't want to borrow money it's worse. I Invited Mrs. Brittaln and her daughter to lunch this noon you know the Brlttains?" I nodded. "Now on my way to keep this ap pointment I met my aunt and cousin Nathalie. "Unfornnately, I permitted the old lady to understand my Intention of lunching 'alone' at the Belvldere, and as a relative she forthwith Invited her self." "Well?" I Interrogated. "It's like this. Aunt Hall disapproves of the Brlttains, while my Inclinations, tend toward Miss Agnes. Nevetheless, I am dependent on my aunt's bounty for all extras and would be In a fix cimniil alio iIpcIiIp to raise hades, so you can see how I'm up against it." "How do you expect me " "That's all right, Ed. I've got the nrittlnn In the Eevotlan room and n initio In the regular dining- room. Auntie Is down on unnecessary ex- penditure. I Intend being present at both tables." I followed, humbly glad of an oppor tunity to feast my eyes on the forbid den fruit of my desire. Mrs. Hall stared stonily, but Nathalie was condescendingly affable, and I em braced the chance offered by devoting tny entire conversation to her, leaving to Tlill the pleasant task of thawing out bis aunt. "I say, Ed," he exclaimed, after ex pending an amount of persuasive heat, equal to three tons of best anthracite. "There Is considerable uneasiness on the street to-day. Copper Konge bal looning and Steel common depressed. If the ladles could excuse me an In stant I should like to telephone a stop order on Mohawk to Samuels." "Certainly, rhllip," replied Aunt Hall, frigidly, and she turned her en deavors Into an attempt to petrify me by staring through my head at the Grecian frets of the wainscoting. I struggled on manfully until I turn ed with some relief to an approaching waiter. "Mr. Fletcher, sir, wants to know, sir, If you'll step down an' see Mm. Rays as 'ow 'e 'us got an option 'e will sell you, sir." 1 offered my apologies and, divining Phil's whereabouts, made for the Egyp tian room. My fellow conspirator met me at the door. "Now," said Phil hurriedly. He pos sesses an Insulting amount of energetic hurry. "The Brlttains are behind the sixth palm. Tell 'em I sent you say anything, only keep them busy." "Mr. Ackley? Why, delighted. Cer tainly! But while we are awaiting Mr. Fletcher you might discharge one of Ills promises, namely, that Agnes and myself are shown Darlcn's latest bit of, portraiture on exhibition In the green room." I piloted the couple through the maze of passages with which the hotel abounded, ami Unally emerged In the green room. An Instant later Phil appeared be hind me. "Ed, I beg pardon, Mrs. Brittaln. Sn shocking of me to treat you In this way. but my iluty to my linn and all that, you know. Eil, Andrews wants to see you about the purchase of some Wt sllngliouse lights." "A-er Andrews?" I ejaculated. "Yon Idiot!" whispered Phil. "Oo to Aunt Hull In the reception room." I turned on my heel ami sought the other couple, rtnd Nathalie seemed gen ulncly pleased at my reappearance. "Now, mother, Mr. Ackley can show us the picture before Phil returns." 1 "I'm sure that Is Mrs. Brittaln," ex claimed Mrs. Hall, raising her lorgnon "ami Philip,", she said, advancing bo- fore me. "Do you know," whispered Nathalie to me, "mother heard of the Isrlttalns' Invitation and forced herself on Phil accordingly. She thinks you are un nc complice." "Ob!" 1 murmured. "Mother doesn't like the Brlttains Poesn't like you either, Mr. Ackley, sIia added, and I fondly hoped that I detected regret in her voice. "And I shouldn't talk to yon." "Is that so?" I said with Interest, oblivious of the trouble Phil was In, "Yes, but " Nathalie, come!" announced Mrs. llall, sweeping by haughtily. "Good-iuoti'lng, Mr. Ackley," and she glowered at me. I murmured my dicux. "Vou're W!' cried rhllip. while WHAT A PRETTY WORtD BEAUTIES SURROUND COUNTRY DWELLER. o n Isn't the world pretty!" exclaimed President Koosevelt, as he stood on a bill In Yellowstone Park, with other game spread out before him, in his ears and the early sun driving the great banks or dark clouds Into the west What a boyish exclamation ror tne ruier or tne greatest nation on earth! But It showed a trait or the man wmcn is lovable, ana loved. Did you ever sleep Just below the rafters, in an old country bouse where you could hear the rain playing on the shingles and the mice whispering In the seed corn that hung In bunches on the wall? The sun woke you up, didn't it? It first crept across the old patchwork quilt at your knees. You saw it, but the husk mattress was the most comfortable thing on earth and you'd take Just one more snooze. The cows down In the lot wouldn't mind It and maybe dad wasnt up yet, anyway. But soon the sun got up the quilt to your eyes, and mother was poking at the cook stove downstairs, and you could He abed no longer. Out you Jumped and In ten seconds you had on shirt and breeches all dressed. Gosh! those were bully times no collars, no cuffs, no stockings, no shoes! Then you went to the tin wash basin on the bench beside the kitchen door and doused yourself with cool water from the rain butt A bluejay was yelling murder In the old apple tree by the well. The pigs were squealing peevishly. The red calf was bawling hungrily. The spotted one was sucking the end of a fence rail and butting It occasion ally. The turkey gobbler was making explosions by spreading his great tall and his blue and red throat sent forth one continual roll of gobbles. A blue bird on the clothes line was whispering his pathetic little melody as If afraid that the world would know he was happy and take his happiness away from hlra. , Then you drove the cows from the pastures to the milking yard. You walked In the long, winding path through the lot, because It was warm In the sand there and there were thistles at the side that were not good for bare feet. The bumble bees were already humming over the thistle blossoms and quarreling with the yellow butterflies. The big bunches of purple thorough wort were alive with honey bees and wasps. How that red-headed wood pecker was hammering on the old chestnut stump! The cobwebs in the grass were full of diamond dewdrops. The chipmunk that lived In the stone heap near the pasture bars was on his highest rock washing his face with bis paws. And dad comes to do the mlfklng, and he's cross. He's had to pass through the kitchen, where mother's fixing up fried salt'pork and milk gravy and baked potatoes, and griddle cakes with new maple syrup and Oh, Lord! Oh, Lord! who wouldn't be cross, not to go at all those things at once? The world Is pretty. Did you ever lie on the grass under the big pig-hickory, across the road from the house, and look up and up? Way up ever so far Is a cloud, sailing along In the blue, that looks like a great flake of snow. You can see its faint shadow passing over the wheat like a wave. Where Is It going? Is It possi ble that God Is sending It somewhere for a purpose? Does it mean rain to famishing people 'way off In India? How many other farmer's boys are watching It? Will it always keep together, or will It disappear as does that halo of heat that is quivering over the woods, down beyond the pas ture? How cool it is under the hickory! What a blamed good Idea was that got up by the fellow who Invented an hour's rest at noon! Those sparrows scouring themselves In the road kick up a lot of dust. The sun makes the two new shingles on the house look like silver. There's one of those little woolly caterpillars banging by his thread from that branch up there! He's coming down lower, and lower, and low-er-er-r. Then you are fast asleep. The world Is pretty. Did you ever grub for money ten hours every day, In a dirty office; ride home In a crowded car; come down again In a crowded car for another ten hours or more, next morning, and know all the time about the red clover blossoms, the birds, the bees, the blue sky, the green woods, the singing brooks and all the world which is Indeed pretty? Oh! for five, good angle worms, a fish pole and two hours In the world which Is pretty St. Louis Chronicle. the Brlttains looked on with amused comprehension. I gazed after the disappearing Na thalie, and .found her eyes directed to my feet. Glancing down, I stooped and picked up a card: MISS NATHALIE HALL. At home Thursdays. The Thursdays was accentuated by a shadowy penciled line. "A fool!" repeated Phil, angrily. "Certainly," I agreed absently, and my Hps conveyed a silent answer to Nathalie's backward glance as she turned the corner. And, to make a long story short, we are engaged. QUAGMIRES SWALLOW ROADBED. Cut-Off Across Salt Lake Proves Hard to Build. The attempt of the Union Pacific railroad to build a roadbed across the 1 Great Salt lake has proved a more 1 formidable undertaking than the en- glneors expected. Roadbed arter oadbed has disappeared In the maw of a quagmire, while human lives as well as cars and locomotives have been lost In these quicksands. There are two of these quagmires and Southern Paellle engineers believe the eastern uuagmlres Is the result of the wash- ing down for centuries of Biit rrom the Bear river. This has filled in a deep canyon and they believe persist- ence will result In finding the solid bottom. While they do not offer to explain the other quagmire, they be- lieve the siinie result may be obtained there. The greatest difficulty is expected in wuhii nimirmln. which Is now giving most trouble. Here the wind sweeps the entire length of the lake and the waves are high. The water Is thirty feet deep. It is the Intention to btilld ten miles of trestle across this portion, but so far the foundation has not been secured. The engineers have decided on an experiment which they hope will solve the problem. They have started on the building of Immense "cradles" of timber, which will be filled with stone and lowered Into the lake. By anchor ing these carefully and binding them closely together It Is hoped that they will stand the strain, All manner of expedients have been necessary to carry on the work, says the New York Herald. Trouble began as soon ns the lake was entered. Areas were encountered where the salt and sond made an apparently solid bot tom. Perhaps It was solid and the pile driver would sink only a couple of Inches at a stroke. Again the pile might go through the crust and sink out of sight at the second stroke. In other places the mud was so soft under the crust that it would not bear the weight of the construction train with out some device to aid In the support, In such a case planks were laid eight feet to the south ot the permanent roadbed, a temporary track laid and light cars of roek were sent out to be dumped over the side, forming the iwii-m-i nont rouilhetl wiwm wnfer mi reached the temporary track was extended by Baud THIS IS. a plain filled with grazing elk and with the morning songs of birds bags. These were loaded on rafts and plied out to the place desired.. There- they were piled into piers, and timber stringers were placed across, the track being laid on these. It was in this way that the first quagmire was reached. According to the best Information obtainable, the two quagmires have olready cost the company about $1,000, 000 more than estimated, while with good luck from this time on the work on the lake portion o.f the undertaking cannot cost less than $4,000,000. rUrong Army fop Mexico. President Diaz does not believe In limiting his military establishment. Although the republic has long been at peace, he Is pursuing a policy of mili tary expansion which seems likely to develop a highly efficient system of national defense. It is the desire of President. Diaz that within two years the Mexican government shall be able on short notice to mobilize an army oi uu.uuu unorouguiy trained and per- rectiy equipped soldiers. To make this result possible more than 300,000 boys and young men are now receiving regu- lur dally military Instruction in 11.000 public schools of Mexico and the army will be recruited from their number, This program for the creation of a greater Mexican army is supplemented with plans for a larger naval estab llshinent, two vessels for which are now under construction at the Cres- cent shipyard, Ellzabethtown, N. J. Jn this development of her military re sources Mexico is following the natural pouey or enugntenea nations. It Is believed In some quarters that the in legnty or Mexican institutions will be severely tested when President Diaz retires from office and that a strong government. Including an effec tive military establishment, will be needed to protect the republic against serious Internal disorder. It Is pos sibly with a view to providing for such an emergency that the present move ment for a large and trustworthy army has been Instituted. Lessons from the Bee. The bee teaches us to be Industrious, No bee ever shirks his work. lie teaches us to bo loyal and oberl- ent. Bees obey and love the queen who rules them. They teach us to be fond of our homes. No bee leaves his homo ex cept for a time if he can help it. They teach us to be clean. Nothing can be cleaner than the home of the bee. They show much sympathy or kind fellow feeing for each other In dis tress, and will never leave a friend In trouble without trying to help him. They are very early risers. They delight In fresh air. They are very peaceful, and seldom quarrel or fight among themselves. 1 ho KliiK She Did Not lieu Stella Mabel lost a diamond ring. Bella Too bad! How did it hap pen? "Jack dklu't propose." Smart Set. A woman U never V until she Is 40 or married, CARS TO RUN SWIFTLY MODEL OF ALBERTSON MAGNETIC TRAIN. Letters patent have been Issued by the American and European govern ments for a new system of railroading, which, according to Its Inventor, will carry a train of cars without wheels drawn by a one horse-power loco motive from New York to San Francisco In ten hours' time. This remarkable Invention, which will rush a regulation railway train through space at the speed of 300 miles an hour. Is the creation of Professor A. C. Albertson, an electrical engineer, late of Copenhagen University, Denmark. The facilities of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad have been placed at the professor's disposal for the working out of bis scheme. If the Invention proves to be practicable It upsets a law hitherto believed Immutable, namejy, that the heavier the load, the more power needed to move It. Professor Albertson seems to have proved that the heavier the load, the less the power needed. The scheme In brief Is as follows: The train Is equipped with a set of powerful electric magnets, which slide along under the rails and lift the cars from the track. If, for Instance, a car weighs ten tons, theengineer of the train would merely turn on a magnetic force of eleven tons, which would thus overcome the weight of the train and allow It to be propelled with a friction of only one ton. In other words, the entire weight of the train Is held up by the magnetic force, and experiments have actually shown that the more the train weighs the less force Is needed to propel It. The great speed claimed by the Inventor for the magnetic train is made possible largely by the fact that friction Is almost wholly done away with. On such a railroad system ns this smoke and vibration would be elim inated; there would be no possible chance of grade-crossing accidents, no derailing, no hot boxes. Sleeping cars would be superfluous, as the distance between the oceans could be covered In one day. No mechanical or pneumatic brake would be needed, for the train is Itself a brake, for. In order to stop, the engineer would simply turn on more magnetic power, thus making the pressure upward greater. ' COOt. HEAD IS ESSENTIAL. Trainers of Wild Animals Must Be Kver o the Alert for Surprises, Wildcats, tigers, Jaguars, panthers, and leopards offer the greatest menace to their trainers.. These are the ani mals that appear to long most ardently stalk their prey and utter their night cries In their native haunts. Almost Incessantly they swing back and forth behind the bars peering over the heads of the spectators with - wild eyes that seem to be trying to discern the for est beyond the confines of their prison house. Besides their restlessness, a reason why the big beasts of the cat family are considered more dangerous than the others Is found in their de ceptive methods of attack. Lions and bears meet their enemies boldly, but a tiger or a leopard particularly the latter creeps up stealthily, crouches, draws back when faced and then, when the victim's guard is relaxed, elves a mighty leap. Kind treatment has but slight effert upon the crea ires of the forests. Their deep feel ihg of protest against a life that Is most unnatural to them cannot be Vanished by lumps of sugar and friend ly Dats. The process of subjection is, or course, a very gradual one. A train er's first step Is to make himself known In a pleasant way to his new pupil. He attends to Its feeding for a week or so, stands by Its cage talk Ing. to It and opens the door a little, rubbing Its head cautiously as it ap Droaches. Finally when the animal has become accustomed to his presence he enters the cage, being as unobtru slve as possible, so as not to frighten or irritate his host. For an hour or more at a time he may sit In the cage, reading or playing with the animal If he dares. A trainer's next move Is usually to give the pupil a taste of his power. A rope Is fastened to its neck and passed around two or, three liars of the cage. The anlm-l is given plenty of room In which to move, but when It makes a leap at its trainer, who has become more dictatorial In his manner than before, It Is pulled up short. This practice is resoriea to so often during the preliminary training that the beast loses confidence in its . , .1 ,L. ta powers. - A wnipping uu tuu men also necessary. When an animal Is well under con trol It is taken from Its cage into the arena, where instruction In tricks be gins. It Is first made to take ana retain the place assigned to it. On Its seat at the side of the big cage meat Is' placed. The animal learns that on entering It will find food there and soon acquires a habit of going oluntarlly to Its place. 1 hen it must be taught to keep its seat. When It Jumps down without being called it nnnlshed a little ana rorceu uhl-s. At length it comes to realize that it can have no peace except on its own perch and so it stays there. The same general tactics are usea in leacntnx animals their positions on pyramids and other formations. Success. ITALY TIRED OF HER PAST. Borne of Her Ancient landmarks Like ly to Disappear Berore Lonsr. Italy is tired of a glorious death, Her sons boast of Garibaldi and Mar coni, not of Raphael and Julius Caesar. Venetians may well shrug their should ers when foreigners complain of steani- hoats bi the Grand canal, lhey are not the grlevers when the campanile falls. The papers and statesmen ex uort the people to Imitate more power ful nations and abandon their Idle nleasure-lovlng spirit, their love of pegeautry, Idleness and fireworks, their in.iifTprenee to education, to sound Dolltlcs and finance. The Roman city government Is now willing to construct railways along side the Forum. The old Is mixed with the new. Industry with art, energy with decay. There Is a telephone a the spot where St. Peter Is supposed to have been crucified. I saw the king of Italy In an automobile by the ruins WITHOUT WHEELS. In which Christian girls were gored by bulls. His four attendant guards rode bicycles? Trams and buses start from the square in which are Nero's bones, where Luther knelt before his great revolt, by the gate through which an endless line of shadows pass, from guilty Macbeth, doing penance, to so many popes and emperors. The great est of churches Is now lighted by elec tricity as well as by Michelangelo's dome and the same new luminary Is turned upon the dying gladiator. The , Roman glories In his modern stations and ugly civil buildings and cares little for Cicero or Brutus, for the renais sance or the antique world. Underneath a statue of Garibaldi, on one of the Roman hills, are groups of figures, allegories, in which Europe presides over history and art, America over trade and Industry. Collier's Weekly. "Hot Time" as the National Air. , "Hot Time in the Old Town," de clare Prof. Georg Eduard, of the German department of Northwestern University, "Is bound to become the national air of the United States. Both the music and the words are in perfect harmony with the Yankee spirit, and when the people want to express them selves and can't think of anything else to sing, they break out spontane ously with 'Hot Time.' They've sung It all round the world. "The charge up San Juan hill was made to Its music, and the hand played It when the United States soldiers en tered Pekln, and to-day they are sing ing It In the Philippines." Prof. Eduard spoke In all earnest ness, for though he Is a native of Ger many and not yet a naturalized citizen of this country, he Is thoroughly In love with America and her progressive spirit, and declares that he will never return to Germany to live. These statements were made to his German class, and were occasioned by the les son for the day, which was the Ger man song, "The Lorelei." The profes sor became so Interested that he took up the whole time of recitation with his discussion. He spoke of German and American political institutions, and compared the character of Presi dent Roosevelt with that of the Ger man Emperor. Prof. Eduard came to Chicago In ,1893 as world's fair cor respondent for a German newspaper, and later accepted the position as teacher of German in Northwestern University Chicago Evening Post. Gounod the Man. Gounod was one of the most fasci nating men I have ever met. His inn uer had a charm that was Irresistible, and his kindly eyes, as soft and melt ing a woman's, would light up with smile now tender, now humorous, that fixed Itself lneffaceably upon the memory. He could speak English fair ly well, but preferred his own lan guage, in which ho was a brilliant con versationallst, and he could use to ad vantage a fund of keen, ready wit. He was at this time Influenced by a re crudescence of that religious mysticism which had strongly characterized hi youthful career, but his tone, though earnest and thoughtful when he was dwelling upon his art, could brighten up with the lightness aud gayety of a true Farlslau. Hermann Klein In Cen tury. Uncle Reuben Says! Truth am mighty an' must prevail, but human natur' only likes to hear de pleasant part of It. De man who goes about epeakln' de naked truth all de time Is less welcome dan de liar. Detroit Free Press. A Natural Inquiry. Little Nellie was out riding one day with her mother and as they passed a cemetery she asked: "Mamma, how long does It take for the tombstones to come up after they plant people?" Somehow, It always pleases men when a worthless boy comes out, and becomes a mighty good man. Mrs. F. Wright, of Oelwein, Iowa, is another one of the million women who have been restored to health by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. A Youn? York Lady Tell of a Wonderful Cure j " My trouble was with the ovaries ; I am tall, and 'the doctor said I grew too fast for my strength. 1 suffered dreadfully from inflammation and doctored continually, but got no help. I suffered from terrible dragging sen sations with the most awful pains low down in the side and pains in the back, and the most agonizing headaches. No one knows what I endured. Often I was sick to the stomach, and every little while I would be too sick to go to work, for three or four days ; I work in a large store, and I suppose stand ing on my feet all day made me worse. . "At the suggestion of a friend of my mothers I began to take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com- Found, and it is simply wonderful, felt better after the first two or three dosas ; it seemed as though a weight was taken off my shoulders ; I con-' tinued its use until now I can truth fully say I am entirely cured. Young" girls who are always paying doctor's bills without getting any help as I did, ought to take your medicine. It costs so much less, and it is sure to cure them. Yours truly, Adelaide Pb.bx, 17 St. Ana's Ave., New York City." $5000 forfolt If original of fldow MU proving Qtmlmntt cannot bo produced. By Way of a Lesson. "One of our cars ran over another man last night" announced the supeiin tendent of the street railway line. "Well," replied the preaident,"after awhile the people will learn that the i i i -v. -A nnIl "",0 K - n T - uiai o veuva is biuhu yrwa w yaj safety." There It more Catarrn in tm lertion of the country than all other disease! put together, and until the last few yean was aur nosed to be lucuraDie. ror a great many years umTiurs piu nounced it a local disease, and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitu tional disease, and therefore requires constitu tional treatment. Hail'i uaiarrn vure, man ufactured by F. J. Cheney it Co., Toledo, Ohio, 18 me only consiiimionai cureon mw hmi. it is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood ; and mucous surfaces of tlie system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it falls to cure. Sena for circulars and testimonials. Ad dress, F. J. 4t uu., loieao, u. Bold by Druggists, 7e. Ball's Family Fills are the best. False Pretenses. "Why does he always begin with the statement, "To make a long story short." 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