The Sunday Oregonian., July 25, 1909, SECTION SIX, Page 6, Image 60

THE SUDAY OBEGOyiAX, FORTLAXP, JULY 25,
1909.
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BOY
To Editor of Oregonian. whose delicious brains arrive each morn
ing wrapped in a paper:
DEAR SIR: .
IS IT not recullar about Summer? So many business Men
put on careless hat and elope to woods so they can escape
away from the trouble and Newspapers. Why should they 7
Persons, does not wish to escape away from food In Summer,
do tbey? Answer Is. No! They set on moss-hack of deep forests
and eat more groceries than at other times of year. Then why
should they attempt to forget all brain food and neglect them
dear Newspapers, so full of nourishing information for the mind
to chew? I require no Answer.
I know this. Mr. Editor, because it happen to me.
About two weeks of yore Hon. W. H. Johnson, rich-wealthy
American who are quite proud because able to buy it. thank you.
wish to go to Kern River for hunt some fish. So he obtain Hon.
Frank Komura. Japanese cookery-boy. for fashionable price o0
monthly salary to do so in wildy-woods.
Hon Frank." declare this cash-wealthy man. "would you know
of some friend you got to go along and give you aid in cookery
job. price $25 monthly?" . .
"Kindhearted Mr. Sir." say Frank. "Hashimura Togo would be
very helpless for such a Job."
-Go and purchase this Togo, please." corrode Hon. W. H. John
son with carelessly rich expression.
So Hon. Frank Komura incroach to my room & declare follow-
l!1 -Hashdimura Togo." he say. "Hon. W. H. Johnson. famous fish
catch offer you $25 monthly sum for accompany him to Kern
River' ft help hunt trout. From this $25 salary I shall extract
85 as slight reward for my kindness. The rest is yours.
.Thanks to some . extent." I reciprocate. -Wbat advantage
should I get from this wildy-woods adventure, please .
It should be some delicious vacation for you." snuggest Hon.
Frank.
"Vacation from what?" I require.
"From whatever you are doing." reject this
BY rfASHtyURA TOGO (WALLACE I RWIr)
How Can Folks Enjoy Nature Without No Newspapers?
distinguished
Ja--ButS I are not doing anything." are bright answer from me
.-SHght change is always restful' devts, So I puton my
derby and chaperone this w. .
now. Mr. Editor, because I quit.
straw
River.
But I are not doing 60
EhaTlarr:fweynttrisysitUuated somewhere between Nature
me nvK When we arrive at ter-
of a Boss.
"Are we n
ot arrived there?" I require, looking at large forestry
draped everywheres
u i.. wifh trunk & baggage.
"Ten miles yet to waih.
. . wltTi rmM similes.
Hnw foolish!" deploy tms K.omui -
Grones from us.
So with immediate quickness we begin starting up steep trail of
mountains. We are lame already. In the midst of my spine I
was carrying following insulting groceries for W. H. Johnson:
2 damijohns Scottish alcohol.
6 Hon. Hams.
7 poles to include fly-hooks & fishing ammunition.
Mlxellaneous cooks stove, bed utensils & other delicacies for
camp. ,
"Why don't you carry nothing, please." I require from Frank
peevly. after we had scrambled several mountains with sweats.
"I are!" revoke Frank proudly.
"What ycu carry, then?" I ask-it.
"I are carrying entire responsibility for this expedition." revoke
Hon. Frank. .
"If you will chivalrously transport this cooks stove for 5 miles
I shall joyouslv be responsible for everything," I dib with angry
rages. But Frank tell me I should be more polite when talking
to a Cook, so I continue onwards tnjoying pain.
Of finally, after some hour-time spent in struggly & perspire,
we arrive to Hon. Camp close by this Kern River, which go swash
ing past making waterfalls midst of loud rores which sounds very
natural. ...
Hon Johnson & several other red gentlemen was a-setting on
front porch of his tent drinking hlgh-whlskles from cool tumblers.
Hon. Johnson were bragging about his criminal ottomobile; sev
eral others was playing the American game of poke-card and one
slight youth of Colledge appearance were playing Yama-Yama
operas on a banjo-harp. "
American gentlemans always acts this way. They gets close-up
to Nature & then does something to forget they are there.
When evening arrive I say to Frank. "Where are Eve Papers.
Pl HSot arrived yet." he report deceptively in kitchen tent, where
he was battering together some flap-cakes.
Mr. Editor, I remain one complete week upon this Vacation, but
could not continue doing so, because Impossible to. Each sun
drops time I require of Frank Komura. "Where are Dailey Pa
pers, please?" and he response. "Not arrived yet."
There was too much Nature to be cozy. Daytime spent prepar
ing food & other drinks for Hon. Johnson fish-party, who was al
ways requiring some more. Night arrive, dishes washed away &
all American gentlemen drinking long quenches of high-whisKey.
so they forget how lonesome they was but what must Hon. Jap
anese Schoolboy do with his meantime & no newspapers to read?
When you see no newspapers you are not bothered by fires,
scandals, stock-reports & Disagreeable thoughts about the Tariff.
This are equally true of being dead.
Frank & Bunkio & S. Sago. Japanese Methodist, have close pri
vate minds, so they do not care what happen to Public Events. By
evening-time they wish to play that poke-card game like Ameri
cans; but I shall not do so, because I once lose 85c by this, and I
know how sinful it is to gambol.
"When do Boy come to deliver Eve Papers?" I again require
nervusly from Frank after 5 days had passed off.
"To tell "you truthful, Togo," report this Hon. Boss, "that De
livery Boy do not come so far into Nature."
"How should I get news about the entire World if not see
Newspapers?" are next question for me.
"Not to do," say Frank. "Folks should not read newspapers
when on vacation."
"Not should?" I otter. "What will the World be doing in my
absence without I know about it?"
"Just the same as it always done," abstract Frank, who chews
tobacco .because he is a cook. "Who cares how World moves so
long as Pay Day arrive around regular?"
"How am I sure that Hon. World is acting right when I am
away'" I require. "What amusing murders has been shot oft &
crimes in and out of Congress? Maybe Owlville & Wilburd
Wright have quit flying & been elected Mayors of Dayton, O-Hio.
Maybe Jo-Uncle Cannon have become a Socialist. Who knows
what?" . '
No response for Komura. - -
snnnnsinir Hon. Panama Canal should be suddenly explooded
away by Japan or some other Christian Power; and me idly pair
ing potatoes in Kern River where no newspapers is!"
"What good could you do li you did know it?" require Frank.
"I could obtain some excitement from it, perhapsly," are sharp
retort from me. "Are it not shocky thought to think that entire
World are whirling around full of reporters, printing-presses, tele
phones, editors, newsboys & other wheels what makes Progress
spin; and only Hashimura Togo is standing still? . If I remain in
this wooden focest for one month more I shall be like Ripped Van
Wrinkles what slept in Albany, N. Y.. for 100 years & only awoke
up when Gov. Hughes was elected. Will it not be umbarrasing
to me, when I arrive back at civilization, to buy newspaper &
read following slight news?
"Washington:
"The stirring & sensational events of the week have changed
very little in the past 24-hours, except that Pres. Taft's now
famous answer to Philander P. Knocks and TJbert Hubbard has
been received in gloomy silence by the prominent South American
citizens most Interested. Gatling guns have been trained on the
"new Willard Hotel and Gen. Leonard Wood has posted 10,000
troops about the Capitol. The Chinese Ambassador was seen in
public shaking hands with Vice-President Sherman. It is ru
mored that both will act together as they did in last Wednesday s
exciting crisis!"
Hon Frank Komura hear this information with upturned ears.
"That would be very excitable news," say Frank, "but what
would it mean?"
"It would mean that Something had happened to America in my
absence and I had missed it," are sad reproach I make.
So I depart off for lonesome company .by flossy waters of river
side Night are there accompanied by moonlight which look very
handsome in heaven. Owl-birds was making honk-noises In high
trees.
"Nature would be so comfortable if only newsboys came so far,"
I think gloomily while I imagine what that sweet Sugar Trust
must be doing now.
Soonly I go to bed-tent for sleep & there I find Bunkio Sagnchl
enwrapping a paid of rubber sneek-slippers in a venerable newspa
per of antique age.
"Bunkio," I say-so fondly, "could I rent that newspaper from
you for 10c price?"
"Cash payment would be accepted," report Bunkio; so I receive
this newspaper which was date Oct. 1. 1908. I go bed by candle
shine & enjoy 2 1-2 hours complete reading. -
It are wonderful how fresh News appears when it are stale
enough to be forgotten! I read how Hon. Wm. Jenny Bryan
might carry Kansas by happy majority. I assimilate this MoriM
tlon with horse-race feeling of pulse. I read how Hon. Republi
can Party will warm-over Hon. Tariff when they get elected I
enjoy hopeful sensations. I am agitated to read what Hon.
Arcnybold wrote to Hon. Foraker; and I enjoy thrills in thumbs
& elbows when I read what Hon. Roosevelt wrote to that Dear
SeMrt0Editor, next morning when the brite A. M. was dawning ore
the hills I pack my telescope-sachel & elope to R. R. depot and
returns soonly as possibly can to Great City where I have been
there ever since. For why should persons pay carfare to study
Nature when newspapers is full of Human Nature, which is the
most natural thing that grows?
For I love them dear newspapers, Mr. Editor! They are my
favorite sporting pastime. What exercise could be more good
healthy than galloping up & down steep columns, jump ing boldly
from Sporty Page to Society Notes and fearing "
ever big & black? If life appear very sorrow to me, I do not make
hara-kfrl-ah, no! I buy a newspaper & see how many delicious
Julcides, divorces & explosions have ensued. Or here are not
sifficlent in this paper to cheer me, then I buy another until I do.
Finally I become so strengthened by this stimulus that I can read
the Editorials and the Advertisements and other literary pages
full of refreshing truth.
If there was not no newspaper to be obtained, what would Jap
anese Schoolboy have to think about except his ancestors, who
are too dead to be interesting? And newspapers are comfort
feeling, no matter how much poverty I am enjoying!. Sach nice
consolation when cooking slight morning coffee & egg by oiled
Tve Tplck up that dear sheet of Intelligence discovei - how
.. . , Mi.cr fnr niv amusement! Some-
the entire wona bms ucu - ,
. .... pn Wm meets Zar Nick
body in Society has just laueu u ,.
for slight kiss; somebody has made axe-chop on his wife in Ind.
anaf jSou- husbands are shooting, National Leaguers are base
ban tag everybody is insulting Senator Aldrich-all for benefat of
mshimura Togo while he are waiting, thank you, for Hon. Coffee
& Egg to boll by kerosene.
Mr Editor. I am wonderful why so many persons spends so
much wealth going to Europe & baseball games when they can
get it All in the newspapers for a slight penny.
And if it ain't there it ain't fit to print.
Hoping you are the same,
Yours truely,
HASHIMURA TOGO.
(Copyright, 1909, by P. F. Collier & Son.)
ftp ST NEWSPAPER PRINTED IN CALIFORNIA
Established in 1846 at Monterey, a Month After
American Occupation.
dore
dore
New Tork Sun.
HERE was sold In this city the
other day a copy of California-.
newsoaner. the Monterey Cali-
fornian- It was dated December 19. 1W6.
was crudely printed, had four pages. SU
I3 inches, and was half in Spanish and
half In English.
The paper owed its start to Commo-
Stockton. who succceaeu
Sloat In command of the Pacific
squadron after Sloat naa noisicu
Vnlted States flag at Monterey on July
T. IMS. Upon looking ver the property
of the defunct Mexican government there
was discovered nn old font of long
primer type and a Ruu.ase press which
had been used since 1S24 to do the of
lic.al printing of the Mexican govern
ment In California. .....
Commodore Stockton hart appointed as
one of the alcaldes of Monterey the Key
TV alter Colton. chaplain of one or the
vessels of the squadron, and he suggest
! that Colton should issue an American
newspaper. Tills suggestion olton
pVomp.b- adopted, and with nr. Robert
.temple he b-pun the publication of the
Monterey Californian on August lo
n little more than a month after the oc
cupation of the country hy the American
forces. . . ....
Dr. Semple. afterward one of the most
prominent of California s citizens, was a
man of tmusiml personality. He was a
fipntist by occupation. feet S inches in
h-:sht. and possessed of tremendous
strength, he came oricinally from Ken
tucky and was a member of Fremont's
pirtv when the Fathiinder first went to
Monterev to join forces with Sloat. A
our English Lieutenant on one of the
vessels of Admiral Seymour's squadron
recorded his impressions of the Amer
icans aucompar.yi.ig r remont. and re-fe-red
particularly to Sempie. saying:
One man. a doctor. feet hish. was
an od1 looking fellow. May I never
tome under nis pannr..
When Colton and Sempie
Ksne of the Californlan they
important deiicienc-y t he
t. no: contain
lrplied to a i
was the nearest supply center In those
davs of the whole Pacific Coaat.
The needed supply of type had appar
ently not reached the Californlan up
to December 19. 1S4S. for In that issue the
same expedient of using two Ws for a
w was used.
In May. 1M7. the taiuomian
moved from aioutercj iu
the last number to be Issued at Mon-
erey bearing the date May o. i- -u
line 1. lMi. appearea ine nr. uuiuuci
of the second volume, wnica ran i
April. 1S18.
second newspaper published In
is a Spanish
cloister, and
is none
have sent to
began the
found one
font of type
This deficiency was
croe hy the use of two
n lrvvpr a w occurreo. i ne eun"
neologized for tl- lack of w's in an edi
torial wh'ch reaa:
Our AlphVorct "ur type
fi rvck.c.1 no here In f
In t.,1 vv's in It. as there
. - t...mwIi alnhabet. I
I-., c: i.. i,i,iuli for tiiis letter: in
-t- tlm VVA mUSt Ui-C tWO VS.
at nresent is that used for
...,;.,.. .,.-,,-! our object is to estatv
l; i a press in California, and this we
. -.n i nrohahilltv be ahle to ac
complish. The absence of my partner for
Te last three months and my duties as
Alcalde here have deprived our little
paper of some of those attentions which
I hone It will hereafter recetve.
WALTER COLTON.
Co'ton described the press as being old
...K o warrant Its preservation as
. rnrioaitv. The type was dirty and pled,
nnd !t was only by scouring that the
letters could be niado to show their
f u-s. There being neither rules nor
t.i some sheets of tin were cut up
Into pieces that
.. nirTTien Is.
The only paper available was In sheets
....1. lor-trer tT.an OTOinary
r-..- . -v.. carter on which most of
the archives of California
c- i,k imArirmi provinces
I ,v,,",hieker Quality being prepared
for' writing purposes, while the thinner
-rfe were used for ciKarette papers.
u. of the Californlan was
of the Monterey bar-
v. the first number created
. . .!'..., . .-row-d waiting for the first
'. from the press.
.. .r.r. frorn readina the apolo
ireu.- editorial that the font- also lacked
tt ma seem oaa mat m
Sandwtcli ialands should be referred to
.u. .o,o of the necessary supply
. but aa a matter oX fact Honolulu
would answer the re-
and other
were writ
California, the Terba Buena California
Star, appeared first on January 9, 1M'.
under the ownership of Samuel Bran
nan, a native of Maine and a Mormon
elder. Brannan chartered a ship in
this city in 1846. and on February 4
sailed with a party of Mormon converts
numbering about 240 for the purpose of
establishing a colony in California at the
time that the main body of the Mormons
were leaving Nauvoo. 111., for their long
trip tfo the heart of the Western wilder
ness. So many of Brannan's party set
tled in Verba Buena that for a time it
was known as a Mormon town.
Of course when Brannan sailed from
New York. California was still under the
Mexican domination. - Like other Mor
mons, Brannan was anxious to escape
United States control and was very dis
agreeably surprised to see the Stars and
Stripes floating over Yerba Buena when
his vessel 6ailed up San Francisco Bay
on July 31, 1846. He Is said to have ex
claimed In tones of the deepest disgust:
"There la that damned flag again!"
Another story told of the elder is to
the effect that for a long time he regu
larly called upon the Mormon colonists
for payment of church tithes. The tithes
..nh.itatinelv naid for a certain
time, and then discontent aruoc
resulfed in a flat refusal to make fur
ther payments to Brannan. The latter
stormed, Insisting that he was an elder
of the Mormon Church and the proper
person to receive tithes, but the Mormon
settlers had fully made up their minds
not to -pay. Upon Deing convinced of this.
Elder Brannan immediately changed
front, saying that he did not blame them
that they had been "damn fools to pay
the tithes as long aa hey had."
Brannan. who had been a printer, took
out with him on the ship the equipment
of a Mormon paper that had been printed
in New York. Upon reaching California
he at or.ee established a newspaper, the
Yerba Buena California Star. It was of
the same size as its contemporary, the
Californian, and was issued weekly. The
first number of the second volume came
out in enlarged form on January 8, 1S4S.
It continued until May 26, 1848.
Both papers were compelled to sus
pend when the gold excitement broke out
all over California in the Spring of 1848,
and everv person who could get to the
gold field's did so. Not only did all the
printers on the two papers immediately
stamoede for the Sierras, but about So
per cent of the subscribers went, too. In
deed, a number of the editors also joined
Growth of Bend, Or., Shown by Schools
In Eight Years the Attendance of Pupils Increased
irom x our to iwo jquuuicu..
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V. tha ol A lo? hOllSA and tllO
JVa .vt-' ' vr rff li modern structure he sees written the
- s' ' story of the country Itself.
- " ,,Vlf,, , ' S S H "If eight years have done this." he
J ' ' ' NL 1 X may well say, "what must be the future
; , "fy:" " :l -" ' J v " ot this land?"
- ' 111 l.r :!"'"s. "-i I An Octopus in CapUvity.
- if - If "A it . 4 v-, ij ji.-ii-f f 'jw
.;r-V uJi k ; v '
in the rush. Brannan instantly adapted
himself to the situation and soon had es
tablished himself as the owner of the best
equipped general store in the mining
country.
One of the members of the force of
ihe Californian made a valiant stand and
.ssued several extra sheets after about
every one else had deserted the office. In
one extra sheet appeared two columns
of news about fhe treaty of Mexico, Fre
mont's trial, etc., two advertisements and
this editorial:
"For the purpose of convincing what
Is left of the 'public' that the Californian
Is not extinct, nor yet altogether used
up. we, in our triple character of editor.
printer and devil, have compiled, set up.
worked off and circulated this extra,
which we hope will do our readers much
sood.-for it would probably perplex h'S
Satanic majesty to tell at what precise
period they will hear from us again."
From May until the latter part of June.
1S48. during the development of the sold
excitement, California did not possess a
single newspaper. About July 1. IMS,
some of the printers, disgusted with the
result of their gold-seeking ventures, re
turned to San Francisco and began tna
publication of the third volume of the
Californian. The paper was issued ir
regularly until August, 1S(8. when the
regular weekly issue was started again
under the editorial control of H. I. Shel
don. In September. E. C. Kemble, who
formerly had editorial charge of fhe Star,
returning from the mines and purchased
the interests of his partners in the Star
and united the two papers under the title
of the Star and Calitornian, commencing
publication where the Star had stopped.
Vol. HI, No. 24.
The Star and Californlan was the only
paper then published in California and
was Issued weekly until the last of De
cember, 1848. when the title was aban
doned, and on January 1, 1S49. Mr. Kem
ble, with Messrs. Gilbert and Hubbard,
began the publication of the Alta Cali
fornia, which was published for a good
many years afterward.
What are said to be the only complete
files of these first of California's news
papers now belong to the state library of
California.
BEND. Or.. July 13. (Special corre
spondence.) It Is a long step irom a di
lapidated log schoolhouse. with one teach
er and four youngsters, to a commodious
high school building accommodating
nearly ihjO pupils and governed by six
i.,,b.n T,et this remarkable develop
ment be made in less than eight years.
and one has a notewortny examp.o
Northwestern advancement.
The town of Bend, on the Deschutes
River, in Central Oregon, has seen this
change. In 1901 the four children of the
then frontier hamlet of Farew-ell Bend
picked up a scanty education within the
little hut that still stands under the great
pines close to the curve of the river
that gave the town its first name The
Bend It was a crude little home that
the first school board had roughly built
of logs, chinks filled wita plaster
..ir.hrti fashion, and rooted
hand-made "shakes" the typical pioneer
schoolhouse of the frontier.
But as more settlers and their families
came into the virgin country and the
timber rush got under way. the school
outgrew its tiny quarters and built for
Itself a lumber-made home, with the or
thodox tower and bell.
Fast on the heels of this Improvement
came another cnange, mo
r,rors toward the top that marks the
development of every new country. In
1!S schoolhouse No. 3 went out of com
mission and was succeeded by the pres
ent institution, a high school and gram
mar combined, with 300 upils and six
teachers.
The visitor, looking at the new and the
old, feels that la th contrast oX these
Harrier's Weekly.
The New York aquarium has recently
obtained an octopus after a search last
ing over several seasons for one repre
sentative of its kind. It was captured
by native fishermen of Bermuda, being
hrouzht un from the bottom in a large
tran mad of cedar limbs. It is neariy
three feet in extent, from the tip of
one tentacle to the extremity of the
onoosine one. and has the ability to
rhanire color at will, which it does espe-
eiallv when attacked or molested. Hiding
and crouching in the crevices and grot
toes of submerged reefs, its body assum
ing- the same color as its surroundings,
the monster easily captures all kinds of
marine animals with its tentacles. In
the aauarium it is fed on live rock
crabs, which are seized by a quick out
thrust of one of the snakelike arms. The
octopus hae a grotesque walk or crawl.
dragging its eight legs, and swims
clumsily, in a backward manner, bring
ing all its limbs into play. It seldom
lives long In captivity.
About IT vean azo Thomas A. Edison
mtmiA tha world hv carrrinr on telegraph
in HiLmunlcatlon between a moving- train
and stations along the railroad -without any
wire connection tnerewitn.
Ia a Million Sears.
Gelett Buryess in Smart Set.
About a million years or so from now.
If my spirit perseveres upon the way. .
I would like to turn the pages
Of the records of the ages.
Till 1 come across ths Story of Today!
In the libraries of Heaven there axe books
that ne'er are hidden.
And the saints are not forbidden there
to read ;
For by virtu they're exempted, and they
can no more be tempted
And mine's the silliest story, yes, Indeed!
Perhaps I'll be serener then than now.
Be cooler then, and keener, aa a rule;
I shall see just how the ending
Of my fate was long impending.
And the way a maiden played m for
a fool.
In the corridors of Heaven you will meet
them, every maiden,
And their features will be laden with their
smiles;
You will often . see them wrigxle, with a
still, self-conscious giggle.
When they meet the men they've captured
with their wiles!
I'll doff my harp and halo In the shade.
I'll smile and maybe say low to my soul,
"I am one amongst a billion
In this blessed old pavilion
Who Is entered as an aes upon the scrollr
In the comedies of Heaven there are many
farces treating
Of the meeting of the lovers of the paitt
Of the widow who has tarried, finding hus
bands she has married. '
And of spouses grown polygamous at
last!
But now rm sad and weary of It all;
My eyes are rather teary. anyhew;
I am feeling dead and wilted
At the way that I was jilted.
And I wish It were a million years Irom
now t
In the palaces of Heaven, where the harps
are ever pllnking.
I shall find a maiden winking In the row;
And we. purged of all our follies, shall ex
change unnumbered Jollies
Over things that went awry, so Ion ago
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