THE MOKNING -ORE GONIAL, MONDAY, DiSUEiVlBtfK 2, lyui.
TRIBUTE TO DEAD
Elks Hold Impressive Me
morial Service.
OCCASION FULL OF SOLEMNITY
Dr. Stephen. S. "Wise Delivered Splen
did Address la Remembrance of
Departed Members P. H.
D'Arcy Gave tae Eulogy.
The world over, -wherever there exists a
lodge of Elks, on the first Sunday In De
cember of each year the members gather
together to pay tribute to the departed
dead. The Marquam Grand Theater wis
tilled yesterday afternoon with members
of Portland Lodge, No. 142, their friends,
and visiting members of the order, to list
en to the programme arranged In loving
remembrance of deceased members of the
local lodge.
The dreary day outside had In it a sug
gestion of the solemnity of the observ
ance, of a meeting called to remember
with loving tribute the passing away of
friends and brothers. The barrenness of
the trees, the dying foliage, the sense of
dreariness, after the seasons full of life
and warmth, all lent an atmosphere thor
oughly in keeping with the sad observ
ance. Before the appointed hour, 2 o'clock, the
auditorium and the balcony were filled,
and many stood during the entire serv
ice. In the boxes were invited guests
and officials of the local lodge. Governor
and Mrs. T. T. Geer, and Walter Lyon,
private secretary to the Governor, oc
cupied the lower stage box on the
right hand side of the house. The flrbt
four rows of the dress circle had been
reserved for the members of the lodge,
of whom 300 were present. On the
stage was the choir of the Taylor-Street
M. E. Church, which, under the leader
ship of W. H. Boyer, furnished excellent
music. Exalted Ruler George E. Chamber
lain, Chaplain Horace Thleleon, and the
speakers of the day. Dr. Stephen S. Wise
and P. H. D'Arcy, P. E. R., of Salem
Lodge, Mo. 3SG.
One of Founders AmonR the Dead.
In the list of names of deceased mem
bers of the order on the programme the
first was that of Charles A. S. Vivian.
But few of the audience, except members
of the order, knew who the man was.
He was not of Portland, and though
known to but few of the local Elks, his
name Is a familiar one in the order, be
cause of the fact that he was one of the
coterie of splendid fellows who were the
founders of the Elks, and are responsible
for the being of the organization.
In the East Vivian -was well known to
the world at large as an actor of attain
ments, and during his long lifetime ho
endeared himself to the public as well as
to his comrades and friends. He died
during the year, and his remains repose in
the beautiful Elks' Rest in Mount Hope
cemetery, just outside Boston. Since the
copy for the programme had been given
to the printer another name was added to
the list, that of C. S. Waite, who died in
this city Thursday morning.
XUtaal One of Beauty.
The Elks' memorial service is a ritual
of simple beauty. Perhaps nothing was
more touching in its spirit of reverence
and 'remembrance than the reading of the
list of deceased members. As Secretary K.
"W. Rowe read each name, there wa6 a
second's pause, and then was heard the
sweet, clear tolling of a soft-toned bell
the token that there was no response.
Throughout the service there was con
stant recurrence to that spirit of com
passion and forgiveness of earthly faults
that finds trite expression In the lines
from the ritual whirh read: "The faults
of our brothers we write upon the sand,
their virtues upon the tablets of love and
memory."
In opening the service Exalted Ruler
George Chamberlain said:
"This day and date remind us that we
are again paying mournful tribute to our
honored dead. These annual gatherings
serve to cement the more strongly the
brotherhood of our order, and to create a
better understanding of the principles we
subscribe to."
Address by Dr. Stepnen S. "Wise.
Following the invocation by Chaplain
Thlelsen, Exalted Ruler Chamberlain in
troduced Dr. Stephen S. "Wise, who de
livered the address of the day. The key
note of Dr. Wise's address was that true
spiritual greatness comes from consecra
tion through grief, and ennoblement by
great sorrow. He said In part:
"The remembrance of the dead Is one of
the most sacred offices of the living.
Nothing can be more elevating, as noth
ing can be more unselfish, than to sum
mon back for a time to the halls of mem
ory the virtues and moral graces and
spiritual excellencies of the dead. What
ever may be our final destiny, these serv
ices and the spirit which underlies them
are eloquent of an Immortality which Is
the portion of those who are enshrined
in the Imperishable ark of memory. How
fitting, moreover, that thee services be
held on the first solemn rest day of the
Decnber month, when tree bared of
foliage and orchard reft of fruit and
field shorn of grain alike tell of death
and destruction and dissolution. AVho
would not believe In Immortality and per
petual renewal of life In the Springtide,
In the month of May or June, when Hhc
grasses begin to peer through the frozen
earth, the trees to put forth their tender
blossoms and the plant9 to send out their
early leaves? To meet In commemoration
of the dead and In the hope of everlasting
life at this season of the j ear. when Na
ture seems to be spreading Its ley pall
over Held and foreot and flower, bears
witness to a larger trust, a deeper faith,
a surer hope.
"In one of his remarkably Interesting
chapters on word stud, Trench observes
that the word 'tribulation' Is of deep sig
nificance. It is derived from the Latin
tribulum,' a threshing Instrument or roller
whereby the Roman husbandmen separat
ed the husks from the corn, the chaff from
the wheat, the light, trivial and poor from
the solid and the true. How expressive
this Is of the results of tribulation, the
chastening of grief, the ennoblement of
sorrow. For. js thf thresher brings
forth and preserves the best, o docs grief
call forth the bet In man and conserve
that for evermore. An upllftmont and
a consecration reside In grief which no
other human experience affords. Sorrow
.should be wing to lift up and not weight
to bear down. Powerfully was this,
thought brought home to me seme years
ago while Inspecting some great gold-mine
w orks In Alaska, where I beheld the huge
ore masses hurled Into a machine, which,
with massive and terrible strokes, crushes
and macerates the ore; again and again
it Is subjected to this treatment, until at
last the concentrate appears, bearing the
cold In easy solution. Life Is the ore,
which does not yield Its best and mObt
precious until crushed by the hammer
strokes of grief. Sorrow is the -magnet
which draws forth the golden particles of
character from out the ore of life.
"This Is the universal experience of hu
v inanity. Through losa and trial and sor
row, men and women and children, who
hefore served evil and darkness, are won
over to the good, the true and the beau
tiful, to God and the God-like. If we
this day dedicate ourselves to the mem
ory of the dead, the remembrance of them
will consecrate us, even as 'In Mcmorlaxn,'
Inscribed to the loved memory -f Arthur
Henry Hallam. is In trutn a death.lt??
monument to Its author, Alfred Tenny
son. The roi,ccns1!cn of Grief.
"In order that the consecration of grief
may be ours at this moment, let us seek
to define the ways in which this conse
cration can make Itself felt In our lives.
For one thing, we are to remember the
dead in love and tenderness and charity
and reverence, not alone in this hour,
but every day, a custom beautifully ex
emplified In the manner In which you
daily and nightly cast a loving and retro
spective glance upon the resting place of
your departed brothers. How pious, how
touching, how beauteous is this office of
commemoration! Whatever else man did
or was or had at the time of his death,
ho Is one of a brotherhood, the members
of which hold hhn In affectionate and
brotherly memory.
"The higher consecration of grief will be
our lot. the true comemoration of the dead
will have been achieved. If we be moved
and inspired in this hour to be more just
and tender and merciful and brotherly and
charitable than we ever were before to the
living. Shall not such a resolution find
support in the principle of your organ
ization, to write the faults of your fellow
men upon the shifting sands of time and
to inscribe their merits on the inefface
able tablets of eternity? Shall this noble
practice obtain only toward the dead and
not toward the living? Is it not the very
aim of your 'benevolent and protective
order to further the teachings of love,
to spread the gospel of charity, to pro
mote the spirit of brotherllness, to widen
the horizon of toleration? How better
serve and honor tho dead than by service
and consecration to the living, by being
more tolerant in our judgment, more kind
ly in our speech, more compassionate in
our deeds? I know of nothing more tragic
in life than the plaint of Paracelsus, which
voices the heartbreak of mankind:
" 'TIs only when they sprint: to Heaven that
angels
Reveal themselves to you; they sit all day
Beside you and He down at night by ou
Who caro not for their present muse or sleep.
And all at once they leave you, and jou know
them.
"Shall we not know the angels who
share our life, or must we wait until
they spring to heaven before learning
their true worth? Let us not wait to
strew flowers about the graves of the
dead; let us bring the beauty and the
fraerance of the flower of love Into the
lives of those who walk and toll and J
dwell and suffer with us. Let us not dedi
cate an hour of tears and regrets and
repinings to the dead, but let us conse
crate a lifetime of joyous, tender and un
selfish service to the living. Ono came
and said to a prophet in the East: 'My
mother has died; what shall I do for the
good of her soul?' The prophet thought
of the heat of the desert and replied 'Dig
a well, that the thirsty may have water
to drink' The man dug a well and he
said: 'This I have done for my mother.'
"Finally, the true aim of these me
morial exercises is to help us to grasp J
the earnestness and sacredncss of life, to
dedicate ourselves anew to all that Is best
and finest and highest in life, to make
life of lasting worth and undying beauty,
so that in time to come men may revere
our memory and cherish our fame. How
helpful and sustaining the thought that
it lies with us to fit ourselves for im
mortal living, that Immortal life Is not
a necessary corollary of earthly existence,
but a reward to be gained through en
riching and perfecting the content of life.
The sages In Israel command us: 'Live as
though the next hour might prove thy
last; work as If life were to endure
forever. This be our commemoration of
the dead. For those who are no more
our hearts' own tears and unfeigned sor
row; for those who yet dwell with us,
renewed love, deeper loyalty, truer friend
ship, larger forbearance, richer services;
for ourselves, consecration unto purity,
truth and holiness.
Eulogy of P. H. D'Arcy.
P. H. D'Arcy, past exalted ruler, or
Salem Lodge, No. 336, delivered the eulogy.
In which he reviewed the principles of
the order, and Impressed upon his hearers
the compassionate leniency with which
tho members deal with the faults of an
other. Mr. D'Arcy said In part:
"We have met this afternoon In a lodge
of sorrow to pay our tribute of respect
to the memory of our brothers who have
passed from this life to the great be
yond. We have assembled In loving- re
membrance to offer to the memories ot
those who have gone our affection and
our appreciation of the virtues which en
deared them, to us In life. In these cere
monies we are forcibly reminded of the
uncertainty of life and the certainty ol
death.
"On this day, wherever there Is an or-
ganlzed lodge of Elks, true to the prin
ciples of the order, memorial services
are being held In honor of the departed
dead. Tho members of the Elks under
stand the weaknesses of men In all their
ugly and forbidding aspects. We sympa
thize and we regrtt, but we forgive and
not condemn. The faults of our brothers
we write upon the sand, their virtues upon
the tablets of love and memory.
"I regret that I have not time to speak
of each of the brothers of the Portland
lodge, who are among those who have
passed away. You know them, and hold
them In loving remembrance for their
sterling and admirable qualities. Brother
Charles Vivian, one of the founders of
the order, heads the list of the dead. He
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The repairs ind extensions of the slopes and dam at the lock in the Tamhlll River hay
been com. Icted. The lock now presents about as finished an appearance as it Is possible for
Buch a -work ta hae. Owlnp to a succession of Hoods in the river last year It was Impos
sible to finish the work complete'. The, pavlns of the slopes with rock, has now been
finished, ard the dam extended 23 feet Into the east bank, which will prevent a recurrence of
damage from floods. The lock, which has a lift of 1C feet. Is about a mile below La Fay
tt'e. at the foot ot the Tamhlll rapids, and Is Intended to enable boats to overcome the 13.
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dled in his Eastern home, and lies In the',
beautiful Elks' Rest, In Mount Hope ceme-
tery, near Boston. Few of us were given
to know him personally, but wo mourn
for him because he was one of us, and
was one of that band of men who gave
to the world the Order of Elks.
The musical numbers on the programme
were splendidly rendered. The Taylor
Street M. E. Church choir sang three
numbers, under the direction of W. H.
Boyer. Mrs. Clare Edward Farnsworth
sang1 "Come Unto Me," by Hawley, and
the orchestra, under the leadership ot
Frank M. Griffin, played several selec
tions. The committee In charge of the
memorial service was composed of Henry
D. Griffin, chairman; Ralph W. Hoyt, li
R. Krleger, Harry Meyer and Frank A.
Heitkemper.
The namta of the deceased members of
the Portland lodge who died during 1901
are: H. H. Holmes, November 14; and C.
S. Waito, November 2S. J. J. Baldwin died
December 26, 1900, after the memorial serv
ices for that year had been held.
WORKINGS OF CIVIC CLUB.
Things Pointed Out That Could Be
Done to Beautify City.
PORTLAND, Dec L (To the Editor.)
In regard to the matter of public Improve
ment noted editorially In this morning's
Oregonlan, will you allow me to speak of
a society to which I had the honor of
belonging in an Eastern city? It was
caiied "The Improvement Society,"
and the objects were precisely those which
you mention. Both sexes were represented
on the board of management, and every
member of the society paid annual dues of
th A committee was chosen, which thor
oughly canvassed the city by wards for
members. The board of management
consisted of a representative, man and
woman from each ward, together with a
president, vice-president, secretary and
treasurer. As a rule, men and women
were selected who were not too busy In
the Industrial world, and who could give
time and thought to the matter.
It is true that in that city there was
not a hundreth part of the work to do
that lies close at hand In Portland; but
the city would, Indeed, be ideal In which
there were no duties of that kind to be
performed.
A large share of the work done, aside
from the actual expenditure of money,
was in suggestions and petitions to the
City Fathers for the abatement of nuis
ances which menaced health, and for Im
provements In crosswalks, etc The so
ciety also made It a point to be Interested
In the blocking of sidewalks by merchants
and In various things of that nature which
seem to be totally neglectedhere. More
good can be accomplished In this way than
In the expenditure of money, for while
the average cltizTcn may rail at the laxity
and carelessness of a city government
which permits such a condition of things,
j et nothing but concerted action can avail
for correction of existent evils. The
money expended was principally for beau
ufIng with flowers spots which would
otherwise look barren. For Instance, a
small square like the plazas of Portland,
situated In the heart of the city, where
thousands passed by It every day, was
adorned with a flower plot which bloomed
Ihe entire season. A circular plot, very
near the sidewalk, was enclosed with a.
wire fence sufllciently high to exclude
the ever-present dog. This Was planted
solidly with tullp3, with the different col
ors arranged artistically, and proved each
Spring a thing of joy and beauty. As
soon as the tulip season was past, it was
replanted with scarlet double geraniums,
making a bit of glowing color through the
long sultry Summer, grateful to every
weary passer-by.
Later In the season It was again planted
with red and yellow cannas, and the bright
hues and green leaves were objects of
beauty, even after Jack Frost had stripped
the century-old, stately elms of their
foliage.
Now, even the newcomers, who have
set their feet for the first time on Oregon
toll, are interested in the great Exposition
which looms up for 1?C5, and the present
time Is none too early to make this great
and growing city a veritable garden spot.
The beautiful and luxuriant shrubbery,
the wonderfully vigorous flowers, and,
above all, the masses of dark green Eng
lish Ivy, trailing over lattice and wall,
and even wandering along the crevices of
the rotting and dilapidated sidewalks, are.
one and all, a delight to the New England
woman born and bred, and It Is the hope
of th writer that prompt action will be
taken to make the city one that shall
be the amiratlon of the thousands of East
ern tourists who arc sure to journey over
the Rocky and Cascade Ranges In IMG.
HELEN CLARK PACKARD.
Rev. Xlng-h Miller Rclnstntcd.
PENDLETON, Or.. Dec. 1. Rev. Hugh
Miller, pastor of the Pendleton Baptist
Church, who denounced religion and with
drew, was reinstated by unanimous vote.
He lives at Muncle, Ind., and will go
back to the ministry-
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WHAT A TRUE MAN IS
TOPIC CONSIDERED BY SPEAKERS
AT ST. MARK'S SERVICE.
His Duty to Family, State and
Church Speakers, A. C. XewIH, Ed
ward Johnson, A. E. Bernays.
Helpful addresses relating to the duties
of a man In the family and as a citi
zen wero given in St. Mark's Protestant
Episcopal Church last night. Rev. J. Id.
Shnpson announced that he hoped to ar
range for the delivery of a series of sim
ilar address to men on the first Sunday
in each month in the church, and asked
that the services be as largely attended
as possible for mutual Improvement and
enlightenment.
Principal A. C. Newlll, of the Bishop
Scott Academy, was the first speaker, and
he choys for his topic, "The Relation of
the True Man to the Family." "I presume
that our rector in arranging for a series
of these addresses thought It was time
for laymen to take a helping hand In. this
work, and let us know frcm personal ex
perience what the feeling Is like when peo
ple leave church and say: I don't think
much of that sermon. Turn about is
fair play," began Principal Newlll.
"I don't think there could be a bet
ter title conferred upon any man than
this: 'He is a true man.' One hears of a
certain man spoken of as a 'family' man.
Why is not every man a family man?
Surely the duty of a true man Is his
family first. Before anything else. A true
man is a good son. The child is the father
of the man. Why a man as a son should
not be obedient to his father and mother
I cannot see. The commandment tells us
Honor thy father and mother,' and there
Is no limit placed upon the age of any
person. The first lesson to all men Is
that of obedience. A true son Is a good
son, and a true man la also a good
brother. Love must reign supreme. The
brotherhood of man means that we ought
to be unselfish and that we should regard
all men as belonging to a common fam
ily. "Then a true man who Is a husband and
father is a true gentleman with a spirit
of chivalry of medieval time a man who
Is ready to light for his home and fam
ily. We husbands are not true men when
we expect too much from the wife or
mother. A man, we will say, comes home
tired with the cares of business and
thinks his wife should greet him with
the same cheery smile. The maxim should
be reversed. Why should the wife not be
tired with the ceaseless round of her
family duties? It Is then the duty of the
husband to greet her with a cheery smile
and pleasant word. A true man as a
father has a sense of parental responsi
bility. Most fathers know that their duty
is to control their children, but some of
them are too lazy. They want to read a
book In the evenings when their children
ask to be helped with their home studies.
Where parental responsibility Is neglect
ed, wayward children will grow up."
Rev. Edward Johnson, of St. Paul,
Minn., spoke on "The True Man In His
Relation to the State." "The Individual
occupies a place In this world like the
relation of the fingers to the hand, the
hand to the arm, the arm to the trunk,
the trunk to the body and the body to
the head, brain and heart," he began.
"No life In this world can be absolutely
lived alone. The child finds Itself In a
community with different Individuals In
the family, and his Influence Is like that
of a stone thrown Into a pool, the circles
are small at first, but they gradually grow
Into larger circles. We belong to the
town In which we live, to the state and
to the Nation of which the state forms
a part. Each separate Individual has
a part to perform In deciding matters of
government around him. If he had eyes to
sec Each one can cause influence for
good to radiate from him. Some one has
said: 'The state Is a good one when In
dividuals In that state are themselvca
good.' An Individual cannot be good, un
less as an Individual his will and mind
are good. It rests upon them as Indi
viduals to take their part In electing thote
who govern the state. Never say: 'My
vote won't count.' We did not come into
this world by our own choice. We have
work to do. We have to live outside our
own circle, beyond our Immediate family.
We all have a voice In the election of
those who make our laws for us. Look at
the victor. won In New York the other
day over the vicious classes by good citi
zenship." "The True Man In His Relation With
the Church" was the topic assigned to
A. E. Bernays, one of the masters of the
Bishop Scott Academy. "If wo ask our
selves what Is the church, In the widest
sense It Is composed of congregations of
Christian people dispersed throughout the
world." he said. "What should be a man's
attitude, then, toward the church which
embodies Christian doctrine and ideals?
He cannot be true to himself and adopt
a purely neutral attitude. He can acquire
by reading, study and conversation, by
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acceptance or rejection of the truths pre
sented, by loyalty to conviction no pol
icy of mild acquiescence or half-hearted
belief. He cannot escape the responsi
bility thrust upon him; he cannot ration
ally. In this Increased light of modern
thought and knowledge, be an agnostic.
He must choose whom he will serve.
"The crying evil of the present age Is
that men are too Indolent to undertake
this course of action. Sheer laziness and
Indifference, not reasoned unbelief, are
our besetting sins. Christianity Is regard
ed by many men, who will not trouble
themselves to enter Into the question, as
a harmless superstition fit for women
and children, and not as a matter of par
amount Importance demanding patient
consideration, and dispassionate, mature
judgment. Hence It Is that so few men
are to be found In church. They are not
hostile to the church, and they often be
stow their patronage upon It In the way
of gifts distributed by their women-folk.
They never take themselves or the church
seriously., it must be observed, however,
that this Indifference Is less noticeable
among university students, who. for the
most part, tnke a definite stand either
for or against religion. Loyalty to the
church. If It means anything, means loy-
1 alty to Chrlht.
j "How, then. Is this loyalty to be shown,
' so that men may know under whose ban
ner we are ranged? By a faithful, lov
ing, unalterable adherence to that Chris
tian body to which either by training or
by choice we arc attached. Ideal of uni
ty should ever be borne In mind conslst-
. cnt with perfect charity to those Chrls-
tian sects In which, alas! the Christian
world Is divided. Where else beside the
( church fold shall true peace be found?
Lord, to whom shall wc go? Thou hast
the words of eternal life, and to thy
church thou hast committed the treasures
' of thy kingdom. May he make us all
, more worthy members of that blessed so
ciety, 30 that, having done our duty as
good soldiers of the church militant, wc
may at length be admitted to the ranks
, of the church triumphant."
EAGLE AND GERMAN CARP.
An Odd .Mls-Up In the Shallows of
the Sn.iqucltannn Flats.
"The shallow waters of the Susque
hanna River above Havre de Grace are
i alive with the big, hog-like, worthless
uerman carp that some crank of a plscl-
culturlst Introduced to American waters
j some years ago," said n Marvland man.
I "They root In tlv mud In droves, and
farmers spear and trap them by the ton
for fertilizer and feed for their hogs.
"Ospreys by the score constantly
turn their sharp eyes upon the carp from
I far up In the air, coveting the meat
that Is on them, but no osprey has as
I yet ventured to test Its strength against
I the bulk of those swinish fish,
j "Eagles, which are still numerous
along the Eastern shore, and of tremen-
dous size. In turn keep watch on the
ospreys, so that if one should at last
pluck up courage enough to drop down
and set its talons In a carp, and should
j have the strength to lift It, they might
( pounce upon the bold bird, rob It of Its
plunder and bear It way to feast upon
It themselves, after the practical habit
of the bird of freedom.
, "One of these eagles a big, bald
headed fellow having at last despaired
of any such attempt on tlv part of an
osprey, and being pressed by hunger,
determined one fine day recently to cap
ture one of these carp himself and shame
the faint-hearted ospreys, and It dropped
down upon one of the rooting piscatorial
.monsters In the shallows.
"Such Is the opinion, at least, of Cap
tain Jesse Popler, who, while cruising In
his little yacht over the Susquehanna
flats, saw at a distance a great commo-
tlon In the water, heard the unmistak
able shrieks of something in trouble, and
I presently saw a splendid specimen of the
J American eagle speeding along like the
wind over the surface of the water, pro-
'pelled by no effort of its own. In fact,
the eagle was using all Its efforts to stay
I its progress and to rise from the water.
i "Captain Popler turned his yacht, head
ed off the speeding eagle, and succeeded
1 In grabbing It by the neck, although the
bird fought fiercely against it with beak
and wings.
I "When Captain Popler got hold of the
'eagle he discovered why it was taking
that strange Journey against Us will. The
1 eagle's talons were burled In the back
! of a big carp burled so deep that the
bird could not get them out. The enrp
being too heavy for the eagle to rise with,
and the eagle being too much weight for
the carp to sink deeper Into the water
with, the situation to both was unfortu
nate. "The eagle would doubtless have been
eventually drowned, and the carp must
have died in the clutch of the eagle. If
Captain Popler had not Interfered. He
( was unable to loosen the eagle's talons
from the fish, so he lifted them both
Into the boat, where he cut the eagle
loose and let It go. The carp he knocked
In the head.
" 'I don't know but what I should have
killed that eagle, too. or at least locked
him up for life,' said Captain Popler after
ward. 'He deserved capital punishment.
YAMHILL RIVER.
foot fall In the river between that point and McMInnvIlle. It is a very substantial struct
ure, the walls being: of concrete 12 feet In thickness. The lower gates are each 25 feet
square, and the upper gates 0 by 25 feet.
The cost of th work was about $ 70,000, and by Its completion McMInni Hie. the county
seat of Tamhlll County, has ben brought In connection by steamboat with Portland, and a
long-chrished dream of the citizens baa been realized.
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"A FAIR FACE MAY PROVE A FOUL BARGAIN."
MARRY A PLAIN GIRL IF SHE USES
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Just think of the great American eagle
disgracing himself by tackling a mud
rooting German carp.' "
WHO TOLD THE BIGGEST?
It Wna Sunday, but Thli Didn't
Feaze the Tmth-Tellers.
The sight of an earthworm, angleworm,
or fishworm on the asphalt pavement m
front of the entrance to the Union De
pot, while the hotel busdrlvers were wait
ing for the Astoria train yesterday fore
noon, was the cause of an animated dis
cussion among them.
"Now. where did that fishworm come
from?" asked one of the drivers, who no
ticed that the ground all about was cov
ered with concrete and asphalt.
"Rained down," replied a veteran of the
gang.
"I have heard of Its raining dogs and
cats, and flshworms, but I never be
lieved It." said another, "because I have
never seen It. I think It Is an old super
stition." "I never saw It rain dogs and cats,
nor flshworms, but I have seen It rain
frogs and flsh," chipped In a late acces
sion. "Where was that?" asked several, "and
how did. you know they rained down?"
"It was about 13 miles west of Omaha.
They came right down In the road, where
the water was running knee deep after
It had been raining 15 minutes. I knew
they rained down because there was not a
stream, pond, or even a damp spot within
16 miles of the place, before It began to
rain."
"When I lived In Western Mlssour'.
some 75 miles from the Mississippi," said
one of the old hands, "a tornado swept
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day, a week r month,
for the furnace that will cost vou less tnac
or cook stove at a slightly higher price,
on the market
AND ICE COIVSP'Y
STREET.
over that part of the state. When It
broke It created a lake about five miles
long, in a sort of natural basin, and this'
lake was found to be well stocked with'
big channel cat and other fish, which
must have been carried all the way from
the Mississippi. The boys hail good fish
ing there for several years before the
flsh were all caught out." '
"That is very probable," remarked a
tall, lank fellow, who had been listening.
"When I lived In Round Prairie. Tex.,
about 100 miles north of Galveston, there
was a sort of hurricane ono day, and a
tremendous amount of rain fell. When
the storm was over the ground was cov
ered for miles with salt-water flsh o
many varieties, and thousands of young
alligators and some half-grown ones. Tho
flsh must have come from the Gulf of'
Mexico, and the alligators from lagoons'
along- tho coast." f
Another bystander, wearing a nugget'
scarfpln and a watch-charm of nuggets,
chipped In: "I once witnessed a tidal
wave on the coast of Southeastern Alas
ka, which swept back over a. level tract
of country for some eight or 10 miles, and
left an old whale and two young ones'
ctmnrlAf n mllf frnm thn hpnrh Rpnlfnnc
seals and many kinds of fish. Including! (j
thousands of salmon, littered the ground'
for miles back."
Then the man who had discovered tho
fishworm remarked that It was Sunday,!
and nobody said anj thing for a minute. '
The Kansas man picked tho worm upt
on a stick and recited:
An Inadvertent step may crush the worm
That crawls at evening- in the public path.
But humanity, forewarned, will step aside and
let the reptile live.
He threw the worm over Into the grass
plot In front of the dining-room, and Just
them the whistle of tho Astoria, train was
heard, and the meeting broke up In a
hurry.
Changes In Olympia Ticket.
OliTMPIA, Wash., Dec 1. Two changes
have been made in tho Citizens nonparti
san ticket nominated here last Wednesday
for the coming election. Charles Talcott
has been named for Mayor, In place of
Allen Weir, and RoDert A. Graham as
Councllman-at-Largo In place of A. D.
Sheldon. Messrs. Weir and Sheldon de
clined the nomination because of the plank
In the platform favoring tho restriction
of saloons to certain districts.
ReanlBltlon, for Hardt.
OLTMPIA. Wash . Dec. 1. Requisition
papers for Charles Hardt, defaulting treaa-j
urer of the town of Tumwater, were se-
cured today. Hardt is under arrest in
Leadville, Colo., for embezzling $772 ir
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There is just
enough rice flour in
our pancake mix
ture to make the
cakes or waffles v
brittle and tender.
Rice flour is an
imported article.
Were it omitted
we would make
more money, but
you could not have
such fine waffles
and pancakes.
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