The Sunday Oregonian., April 07, 1912, SECTION FIVE, Page 3, Image 65

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TIIE STJXBAT OREGOXTAX, PORTLAND, APRIL 7, 191g
GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR OREGON TO SHOW
RESOURCES WILL BE AT PANAMA EXPOSITION
WW. Eic.ll.nl Sit. (or Suw Euldi Alnly W1 ! New Mai. Ttot Oroa Pna-Fiflo Assod.lloa B. T.rm.d Work 0.1
Exhibit Plans on Broad Basis.
BT JCUl'S U MEIER.
Chairman Orron CommlMlon to Paun-
Parlfic KipoalUon.
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iIRST In upport of the Pinunl-
acific Exposition, first upon the
round for selection of a site, and
we hope to be first In state participa
tion during- the great rear 11S. Such
Is what the Oregon Commission, led by
Governor Oswald West, has already
achieved and plans to achieve.
That the people of Oregon may know
more of our work, I have had prepared
a summary of the Teneral plars at the
exposition, and have procured a plat
of the grounds. By this it will be seen
that our opportunity Is greatest. We
must rise to It- Not In the present
generation will Oregon have such an
other chance to force ahead.
.(Mflalln la Proses.
That all plans may be upon the
broadest basis, it seems to me neces
sary to perfect a state association." tak
ing the name Oregon ranama-Pacilio
Association. I would suggest that there
be one executive committeeman from
each county in this association. Mem
bership, which should be wltcout
charge other than some Voluntary con
tribution of small proportion, should
embrace every society and publlc-.plr-lted
worker in the state. Such a body
as this would be In position to press
Oregon's advantage, and see that the
state got full benent from the superb
opportunities that will soon be pre
sented. It la needless to say that the Com
mission would do everything- It could
to co-operate with such an assoc.atlon.
At a later date I shall undertake to
get together such an organisation, and
confidently believe It will be one of
the greatest powers for good. AU the
commercial bodies would co-operate
fully, as they have In the past.
The nations of the world will Join
with America In the celebration of the
opening of the Panama CanaL The
proclamation of the President. Issued
by authority or Congress, has been de
livered through the intermediary of
the Department of State to every Quar
ter of the earth, inquiries as to the
exposition are pouring- In upon th ex
position management from all parts of
the world, and assurances of participa
tion by the nations of the world sur
pUa every anticipation of the exposi
tion management.
The displays of foreign nations win
be the finest ever shown at a world's
exposition, but to Oregon. flrs to
choose a site, belongs tho unique dis
tinction of a preparednens. which will
enable It to make a howlng In com
petition with every region upon the
globe.
Site la Convenient.
The visit of the Qregon delegation
to Sen Francisco was the occasion of
a demonstration which in the opinion
of exposition experts' has never been
surpassed. The site chosen by the com
monwealth of Oregon la peculiarly at
tractive from a scenic viewpoint, and
leaves nothing more to be desired in
the lino of accessibility or convenience,
and Is situated on the Presidio military
reservation and within ten feet of the
eaplanade that will be built by the ex
position management along the shores
of San Francisco Bay. It Is adjacent to
the streetcar line and will be directly
reached from the heart of San Fran
cisco. .
The esplanade will serve as the main
scenic boulevard of the exposition and
will pass along the waterfront of Pan
Francisco harbor, and from It visitors
from all the world will -view the as
semblage at the openlnir of the ex
position of an international fleet of
battleships sent from all parts cf the
earth. The parades and pageants of
the nations of the Orient in Oriental
week will pass down up-n this esplan
ade directly before the Crezon build
ing. It is anticipated that these pag
rants will surpass any the worll has
ever seen. At the exposition the
greatest assemblage of strange tribes
mil people tf Pacific Ocean countries
ver orought together will Join lr. the
parades.
Kxtensive Improvements are planned
for the Presidio upon which the Ore
run building will be. The Government
WHAT SHALL I DO WITH JESUS" IS
What ha!t 1 do lth J-ra. ho U
caliwl Chrutt" Matt. Ixvll:J.
ItT WALTER REXWEU, R1NSON.
WAS reading this morning where
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Luke, writing of the birth of Jesus.
records the fact that there was no
room for him In the inn. much to
Mary's grief and Joseph's embarass
ment. There waa room on the earth
for the little blue lllv: and the bird of
the air bad a nest; and the fox of the
earth had his den; but there seemed
no room for Jesus. And I thought how
illustrative that fact Is of the world's
difficulty for the last 10 centuries.
There does not seem to be any room for
Jesue anywhere.
-What shall I do with Jesus?" has
wrecked kingdoms: and overturned
thrones: and crushed philosophies; and
even today the question convulses the
world. Where can we put him? What
can we do with him? We can't put him
among the gods of man's creating.
Baal, and Astoreth. and Confucius,
and Buddha, and Mohammed. He can
not be classed with them, because they
were all finite, and false; while he Is
the supreme truth; and so Pagon-llke
they fjJL when once the Christ ap
proaches fhem. And we cannot place
him among the legendary heroes of the
past. As John Stuart Mill said:
Jeeea Life JSe Myth.
'It la no use denying the history of
Jesus. He must have lived. Not one
of his disciples, not even Paul the
Apostle, could have originated such a
Hfe ss his." And you cannot place blm
among bad men; for bad men all say,
-Depart from us. and torment us not
with the white light of thy holiness."
You cannot put him among good men;
for all good men say, "We may not
stand on the platform thou dost occupy,
for we are sinful: and unless thou cont
ent to cleanse us. we may not stay In
t:-y presence." And we cannot put him
among the angols: for when God Intro
duced his only begotten Son. he said,
"1st all the angels of God worship
Mrr" nd unto him the cherubim and
srraphln continually do cry. "Holyl
Holy! Holy!" ...
He fits the 300 prophecies of the Old
Testament as nobody else can: the na
tures divine and human blend In him,
and he was of Hebrew stock, of Judah's
lrll. of Davids lineage, and born of
t'i Virgin, in Bethlehem, of Judea.
When we take all these prophecies and
allow them to make of themselves a
mold. J.sus Christ fills It. and fits into
It. everv rrevtce. He is alone In that.
We cannot put him among any of the
talkers of antiquity. A group of men
... fit themselves at a loss In
..,,v-, lk.r Mid. "Teach us to
pray ""Ar.d offhsnd he said. "When ye
.vruv ur: -Our Fattier who art In hea-
vrn.' " .n.l nrnre people said that prayer
t.xlav t'uin ever said it any mornm
vine Christ spake It. Tou hear it. and
.u know you never heard anything
rise like It. And his de'ds remove him
farther and farther away from mere
torn. Whether tf was God or sot. he
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will expend $1,800,000 upon the Presidio
reservation, which will be the scene
of the jreatest Government service
displays ever made, government fish
eries, lighthouse. life-savingr. transport,
as well as all phases of military life
will ba portrayed. During the exposi
tion great military meets in which the
crack cavalry and infantry of the
United States and of Europe and other
nations will compete will be held upon
tho Presidio.
Work Soon to lie Active.
First contracts have already been
warded for the construction of a sea
wall, which will serve In part as the
basis of the magnificent esplanade,
and bids also have been let for the till
ing In of the Harbor View site. Con
tracts have been advertised for the
removal of houses upon the Hsrbor
View site, and within a few month
the work will be In full blast.
Oregon readers will be Interested In
knowing something about the Harbor
View location. Harbor View lies as a
crescent on San Francisco Bay midway
between the Ferry building and the
Golden Gate. It is close to the most
populous center of San Francisco and
Is within 10 minutes" walk of Nob Hill,
where lived the millionaires of early
days, and adjoins the Presidio military
reservation, which will virtually be a
part of the exposition.
At Harbor View will be the "Mid
way" and the night life of the exposi
tion, and other features that lend
themselves to brilliant electrical ef
fects. An existing lagoon will be con
verted Into a superb yacht harbor; an
aquarium will be there, and a most
marvelous collection of the strange and
brilliantly colored fish of tropic wa
ters Is anticipated. Also at Harbor
View will be great structures to house
the heavy exhibits that may be un
loaded from ocean-going vessels di
rectly upon the grounds. Among these
structures will be the manufactures
and machinery buildings, the palace of
liberal arts, and the buildings to house
industrial features that will Illustrate
the. more serious phases of the exposi
tion. Scenery Is Beautiful. .
The ranorama at Harbor View sug
gests the Bay of Naples in the neigh
borhood of Sorrento. Looking seaward
one faces almost dlreotly upon Alcatrax
Island, the site of a naval military
prison that atands white and shining
from the chameleon waters of the bay;
further are other Islands, everywhere
the ships, and as a background for the
setting there looms the rugged shores
of Marin County across the Golden
Gate, with Mount Tamalpais, loftiest
peak of all. Its summit often shrouded
In a turban of fog. At nightfall from
Harbor View one may see the sun set
beneath the mile-and-one-quarter-wide
rim of the Golden Gate. A chain of In
candescent lights will cross the Golden
Gate when the exposition openv
Lincoln Park Is a lofty knoll of 150
acres In area, and with contours form
S0O to J0 feet above the waters of the
succeeded In walking up and down Pal
estine in a godlike way; and as I some
times think If he were not God he was
a remarkably good substitute for God.
And you cannot duplicate his life. Take
any other man. and you can rise up and
attain the summit of his perfection, and
look upon It; but whoever scaled the
heights of Christ? Tou reach peak,
and you say beyond this the wildest
dream can never go. but the mountain
top Is away above you still. Who will
wear his armor? Who will bend his
mighty bow? Who will be his under
study? What shall I do with Jesus?
Where shall I place him?
. Christ's Pewer Shewn.
AU other men are at the merer of
the world In which they live. Winds
are contrary to them; waves mock
them; the world stands aloof and says.
-Who are you?" But be aald. "Winds,
go back to the fastness of the hills."
and they went. He said. "Waves, be
Ciuiet," and the fury of the tempest was
a thing of the past. And whenever he
looked Into the face of nature, nature
blushed with gladness at the high hon
or, and bowed her heed in allegiance.
All other men pass time In evading
mortal 111 and disease. He said to blind
ness be gone; to deafness, depart; to
dumbness, let the silence be broken:
to palsy, cease to shake: to leprosy,
cease to mar. For everybody death sits
and waits. And that call once beard Is
heeded by the strongest.
"Woe! Woe!" said the great King of
the Goths. "What God is this that tears
down the strength of the strongest
Kings?" and he died. This Man says.
"I have power to lay down my life,
and I have power to take It up again."
The chasm called a grave yawns for
every mortal, and when we cover up
the casket, we say "the end till the
resurrection"; for that final auit of
clothing they put upon the poor body
lasts well. But he. he picked up the
grave clothes and folded them up, and
laid them apart. nd walked out the
full orbed God of the resurrection
morning. Storms assail and annoy all
other men. and we drop anchor after
anchor, and even then we drift; and
cry out to God as the great scream of
the breakers and the hollow sob of the
surf smites the ear. The storm assailed
him and he dropped no anchor; but In
his own strength outrode the gale.
Limitations are a grief to me every
where. But I never heard him mention
the word.
1 never could gather, closely as I've
studied him. that ever once be thought
be was nearlng the end of his resources,
but he always Impresses me as one
who Is putting forth no strength at
alL roes he call people back from the
grave? He simply says, "Young man,
I say unto thee arise!" There are" no
limits; there is no struggle: there Is no
excltemnt: there Is no self-congratulation
that he has succeeded. He ex-pec-ted
to succeed: he was unconscious
of a limitation.
The vision grows difficult and co
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FOR TIIE OKEGOX BlILDIXG AT THE
Golden Gate. The park will be adorned
with terraces and statuary, and an ob
servation cafe, glass-inclosed and of
several stories, will afford visitors the
opportunity of looking out over San
Francisco Bay. over the hills and the
city, and above all one will see the
ships as north, south and weBt they
rise upon the horixon of the Pacific
Ocean and at last steam through the
Golden Gate.
The crowning achievement at Lin
coln Park will be a commemorative
tower that, like Bartholdls Statue of
Uberty, will welcome vessels to the
Golden Gate. Plans for the tower call
for one 850 feet high. Including shaft
and base. The shaft will rise 625 feet
from a granite anchored base 820 feet
square; the shaft will be 85 feet square,
of steel construction, and of marble
and terra cotta veneering. The ap
proximate cost of the tower will be
11,000.000. From Its summit one will
be able to look almost straight down
upon the waters of the Golden Gate,
1100 feet below.
Chinese to Have Exhibit.
From Lincoln Park south to Golden
Gate Park the distance is almost one
mile. Between these parks the expo
sition directors have secured a con
necting strip of 100 acres of privately
owned land that will be devoted to
tho use of foreign concessionaries, to
livestock exhibits and to gardens. One
of the notable concessions will be a
Chinese display of large dimensions,
surrounded by a model of the great
wall of China. The concession will be
built at a cost of $1,000,000. Junks,
sampans, temples and pagodas will be
Included within the concession, and the
visitor may. If he wishes, take a rick
shaw around the top of the great wall.
Golden Gate Park will be the site
of the permanent structures which will
remain after the exposition. Forested
and created from dunes within the last
generation. Golden Gate park today
presents one of the most notable
achievements of landscape gardening In
the world. Roses, palms and pines,
small lakes and open vistas, and near
by the Pacific Ocean with Its broad
expanse of beach, create an Ideal loca
tion for the great buildings that will
be erected In the park.
Among the striking structures hers
will be a huge concrete coliseum, to
surround an existing stadium, with a
seating capacity of "5.000 people. In
architecture tho coliseum will be like
that at Rome. Awnings will shade
the coliseum, and It is planned that an
automobile racetrack shall pass Into
the stadium. A marble art gallery with
the noted paintings of the world will
be among the features, while a chain
of lakes at different levels will be con
nected by a working model of the
Panama Canal.
Its re Plaats to Be Seea.
In Golden Gate Park tho counties
of California may erect a classte struc
ture as a permanent home for Califor
nia exhibits, while the Japanese and
wv of Christ's Life as Example in Lives of All Is pointed
ne urn to all other people. It never does
to him. We move among the hostilities
and wondor. Ho moved among them
like a calm God, who understood It all.
We cry out. He whispered. We evade,
and shun, and flee. He said: "I have
three more days; I work today, and
tomorrow, and on the third day I am
killed." What are you going to do with
him?
Regret .Ti Expressed.
Everybody else expresses regret. But
you can never find him expressing a
regret. Poes he say, "I wish I had
done it the other way?" Does he ever
say, We must not further travel along
the road, but go back?" Doei he ever
change his plan? Docs he ever revise
his programme? Does he ever strike
out a number from It? Does he ever
alter a single word of It? Why. he died
without a regret. Remorse stings all
other men. and they cry out for mercy.
He never did. He came to the world
by the way of Bethlehem, and he went
out of the world by the way of Olivet,
and he had never once asked for mercy,
nor desired pardon for a single word,
deed or wish. Everybody else repents.
For Is It not true that without repent
ance no man goes to God? But he
walked up to God as free of repentance
as he was free of fault.
Where will you put him? We must
put him somewhere. O, I can find no
company for him. I can find a place
for Buddha. I can place Peter. I
know where Martin Luther should
stand. I know what to do with Moses,
and David, and Isaiah. But what shall
I do with Jesus, and where shall I put
him?
I think Charles Lamb was right
when be said, addressing a company
of literary men. "If Shakespeare came
In we should all rise; but If Jesus came
In we should all kneel." We may rise
in some circles, but we don't kneel. "I
will bend one knee before you. my liege
king." said the old hero, "I bend two
knees alone to God." But Instinctively
we bend both knees In his presence,
and we feel that we do well.
Presence Held Necessary.
As we close, let us ask what ahall
we do without him, and there will
come added emphasis to the argument
of where shall we place him. Let ui
bow him out. And so now he is gone.
But what shall we do? The little child
lies dead: the pale lily In its cold
grasp. Tou go to offer sympathy to
the broken-hearted mother, and to the
father who looks afar off, and says
nothing. Now If you had Christ, your
task were easy. Have I not said over,
and over, and over again. "He aaid.
Suffer little children to come unto me,
for of such la the kingdom of heaven."
But see you have lost that speaker
now. and what will you say?
What shall I do without him. when
the rains descend, and the floods rush,
and tho great winds blow, and I see
us Into my startled eara the agonized
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PAXAMA-FACIFIC EXPOSITION
Chinese residents of the Pacific Coast
may also build typical edifices in which
their societies may meet and their ar
chives be kept. Here will be a won
derful series of Chinese, Japanese and
Hawaiian gardens. The rarest plants
of the tropical Orient will be shown
with those of more temperate regions.
The marvels-of Oriental, gardening as
developed for centuries will be ex
pounded. Many acres will be com
prised In this exhibit, and a wonder
ful Hawaiian water garden is planned.
Market street and Van Ness avenue
will be gay with white Grecian col
umn, which will be adorned with
bunting and tho flags of the nations,
and at night will be draped with elec
trical festoons connecting the pU.lars
and also passing over, the streets, giv
ing a pergola effect when viewed in
perspective. At convenient Intervals
arcades will permit sight-seers to pass
over the streets from one side to an
other. The Ferry building at the foot of
Market street will be the entrance to
Kxposltlon City with a grand court of
honor and a system of arcades permit
ting free passage in every direction
above the street. East street, to be
known as the Embarcadero, and lead
ing from the Ferry building along the
San Francisco waterfront, will be Im
proved, and visitors to the exposition,
after entering tho city by the Ferry
building, may pass down the Embar
cadero to the Harbor View site of tho
exposition, a distance of two miles.
If they desire. The State of California
has appropriated $9,000,000 toward the
building of public wharves, sea wall
and the Improvement of the water
front. Improvements To Be Large.
Plans for the Panama-Pacific Inter
national Exposition comprise the
adornment of San Francisco upon a
surpassing scale. Streets, parks,
waterfront and great landmarks will
be Improved at an expenditure of mill
ions of dollars. The Ferry building at
the foot of Market street will be the
entrance to Exposition City and Mar
ket street and Van Ness avenue will be
gay with Grecian columns and arcades
at Intervals above the streets. The ex
position structures themselves will be
grouped upon the shores of San Fran
cisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean in a
site that takes advantage of the com
bination of harbor and of hills that
gives San Francisco Its greatest charm.
The exposition structures at Harfior
View will rise from the shores of San
Francisco Bay against the line of
the hills, with the harbor crowded with
the fleets of the world, the exposition
buildings in the foreground, the hills
of the city and wooded slopes at the
Presidio as a background, the setting
will be unsurpassed.
A winding ' boulevard a bay and
ocean drive that will Bkirt the fringes
of San Francisco harbor and parallel
the Pacific Ocean, will be the link that
binds these sites and Intermediate lo
cations into a composite whole. The
the houses going down, and there leaps
cry of the drowning? He once said. I
could build on his word, and find It
rock; but you sea he has gone, and I
must go too in the wild storm. All the
purposes of my life hang In tatters
about me; I have failed: I am resolved
no more;- I've exhausted all my
strength; I look to the north, the
south, the east, the west, and there is
no help. My God. there is no help!
Because be is gone! With htm I could
outride tho hurricane, but he Is gone.
He would whisper in my ear, "Tomor
row comes soon, and I am here now,"
but he is gone. .
I have fought and I have lost the
battle. And the foeman's lingers grip
my throat, and what can 1 do? If I
could bear the old voice, why then I
should say, "Rejoice not against me, O
by enemy, for though I fall I shall
rise again; I am cast down but not
destroyed." But that voice is stilled,
and I shall never hear It again. And
now the sooner the foeman gets In his
work the better. I have gone astray.
I have lost my way. Every hope I turn
to is mirage. Water there Is none.
Rolief there is none. He Is gone, and
to which of the gods shall I call, and
what shall I do to be saved? What
shall I do without him when my life
gets gray, when I sit down and timor
ously make the admission that It is all
over? Nothing left to aim tor. There
Is nothing left to seek. For I am of
no more consequence than a red Au
tumn leaf blown In a gale. I am only
as a drifting derelict on a storm-tossed
sea. What shall I do? I know what I
could have done once! could have
gone and knelt down alongside a waif
of the street, as she washed his feet
with her tears and wiped them with
her hair, and with her. I in him could
have found relief. But the feet are
gone!
Absence le Mourned.
I know where I could have gone once.
I could have gone to him. and said,
"Lord, thou knowest all things; how
I lied, how I swore, how I denied; but
I love thee." And he would have said.
"Feed my lambs." But you see he Is
gonet He Is gone! And soon I shall
come to the last step of the pilgrimage.
And my light will be tow, and my blood
will creep, and my nerves will prick
and tingle, and I shall wipe my eyes
but the vision will stiTl be obscure;
and I shall listen, but still the hearing
will be dulled; and I shall move my
tongue, and vainly seek to say the last
word. What shall I do then? I know
what I could have done, had they only
left him here. I could have felt out
after him. and said, "Walking through
the valley of the shadow I fear no evil,
for thou art with me." But the shad
ows are long in the valley now, and
there Isn't anybody keeping step with
me. O my lost Christ!
And what shall do In the day when
I am Judged? What shall I do when
the live lightnings of God tear the
tolaclt heavens Into ribbons, and the
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View site of the exposition, through the
wooded hilly slopes of the Presidio
military reservation, by frowning clltrs
that line the approach to the Golden
Gate, by flowered bungalow and green
lawned mansion to Lincoln Park, the
supreme observation point of the ex
position, and which overlooks the
Golden Gate; thence turning south, the
boulevard will parallel the Pacific
Ocean to Golden Gate Park, which will
be the site of -the permanent features
of the exposition. A trackless trolley
will run over tho boulevard.
Immense Fleet to Assemble.
Two features will stand out In the
exposition to render It so distinctive
that no one can afford to miss seeing
It. The first Is that the whole West
THEME Vir faoiuk
uut oavior kuiu
hollow thunders an r2.ring again
among the darkened rocks, and the sea
is afire, and the heavens curl in the
heat, and my poor soul stands before
the God I've sinned against? Who
will argue my case then? Who will
plead my cause then? I bad an Advo
cate once, but I lost him; they took
him away; they destroyed him. Well,
there Is one thing left There Is hell;
that Is alL Oil, what will you do with
out him? .
I am almost petulent, when men of
my own age talk to me about getting
letters from their mothers, and of go
ing to see their fathers! Why can't I?
I haven't got a letter from my moth
er for many and many a year. And
I may travel the round world over, but
I can't find my father. And mark you I
If the Christ be gone, 1 shall never
find my father. I shall never see those
whom I loved, and still love. They
are gone. Tou see, when you allowed
some little fool to tear down the sun,
it never occurred to you that with the
fall of tho sun there would come down
the Btarry heavens, and you would
have to grope In unmitigated gloom.
When he goes, there is such on awful
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the family having come to America In
1TS0. His jrreat-grandfather was a
banker of high standing In New York.
When Edison was seven years old
the family fortune Buffered reverses
so serious that It became necessary
that he should go to work, and that
the family should move from hla birth
place to Detroit. He had scarcely eight
weeks of schooling altogether, but he
had a great thirst for knowledge. He
read books of chemistry, and before he
was 16 years of age he had read all
the Important volumes In the Detroit
Library. At thla age he lost his moth
er, who had taken great interest In
his self-culture, and about this time he
became a newsboy on the Grand Trunk
Railroad, a business which, while it en
abled him to earn money, gave him a
chance to see many books and papers.
He kept up his interest In chemistry
and fitted up a small Itinerant labora
tory in an empty car. One day, while
performing some experiment, the train
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and all the countries of the Orient will
make the finest showing of their re
sources ever dreamed of, and the second
Is that a wonderful programme of
events will lend Interest to each, day's
doings.
The events of world Importance will
come In a regular succession of about
two months apart, interspersed with
minor events in between. The open
ing event, which will occur about two
weeks after the exposition formally
opens, will be the entrance Into San
Francisco harbor of a composite fleet
of the battleships of the navies of the
world. Upon invitation of the United
States the battleships of foreign na
tions will first assemble at Hampton
Roads, where. Joined by the ships of
the American Navy, they will be re
viewed by the President of the United
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lot goes with him; and I don't know
what we can do without him.
Oh, I have studied this matter In
you think you ought to be put? What
the mornings, and the noontides, and
tho midnights; and it Is not to mo a
dogma, or I would not care so much;
it is not to me a creed, or I should take
things easier; It is to me the bank
rupting of every hope I ever had, and
the rending asunder of every Joy I
ever cherished; and I say It again, and
I say it calmly. If he is gone I am
sorry I ever drew a breath. For oh, I
have built me such a palace about the
Son of God. But if he goes, the palace
is gone. I have rejoiced in an arch,
as stable as the throne of the eternal
God; but tho keystone of that arch
was Jesus Christ; and if the keystone
goes, the arch is gone.
Now 'what shall we do with Jesus?
I will tell you what we will do with
him. We will seek and take his coun
sel, and so I go to him and say: "Mas
ter, they are speculating in these wild
days where they will put you; and some
of them say they will put you among
the myths of the past, and some .of
them say they will put you among the
rounded a curve and the exploding
chemicals set fire to the car and put
the train in danger. The conductor,
whose patience had so long been tried,
ejected young Edison with a resound
ing box upon the ear.
Newspaper Is Published.
A little later he got a lot of small
type and a small sheet, the Grand
Trunk Herald, made Its appearance on
the train. Now the statlonmaster of
fered to teach the boy telegraphy, and
nights for months, when the long day's
work was over, ho returned to his
friend's station and took his lesson.
Learning rapidly, he soon found em
ployment as an operator, working his
way up until he had one of the most
Important positions In the country In
Boston.
He always managed to keep up his
experiments In chemistry, sometimes to
the dissatisfaction of his employers,
but in Boston his experiments brought
him more money than his position.
Though he succeeded finally he failed
for a time with his double telegraph,
and was down-hearted.
. Among his chief works are the per
fecting of a serviceable electrlo light,
the quadruple! telegraph, by means of
which four, messages may be sent at
the same time over th wi tn
Just received one carload of Exten
sion Tables, bought especially for
'tliis week's sale. These Tables
show the latest designs and pat
terns in golden oak, fumed, was
golden and Early English. All
popular sizes. This gives you a se
lection not to be equaled elsewhere.
The prices on this line range from
States and foreign dignitaries. Thence
the fleet will go through the Panama
Canal to the Golden Gate.
From unofficial advices now received
It Is anticipated that 100 battleships,
in addition to those of the United
States Navy will enter the Golden Gate.
Following' the coming of the battle
ships to the Golden Gate will be other
features of the programme that will
come two months apart. Among these
major events will be a series of inter
national yacht races and motorboat
races, aviation meets, Olympic games.
Intercollegiate contests, automobile
races and military maneuvers. In the
Autumn will be a week of festivities,
in which the Oriental nations will take
the chief part. The closing week will
be a week of California fiesta depict
ing the early days of the state.
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good people of the ages; but where do
sayest thou of thyself 2'" And he says:
"Child, 'go Into all the world, and
preach the gospel to every creature.' "
"But," I say, "Lord, that Is not what I
am talking about." Ha said: "Listen,
Preach the gospel to every creature,
baptizing them. But, master, it is
not 'them,' I am talking about. It is
you." And he says again: "Just be
quiet and let me finish the sentence:
"Go ye Into all the world and preach
the gospel to every creature, baptizing:
them into tho name of the Father, and
the Son and tho Holy Ghost.' "
And so he puts himself In the very
heart of God; In the very center of the
trinity; and he looms up there as
though he were quite at home. And
where he- bade me put him, I have
placed htm; and there, come weal or
woe, life or death, I will keep him.
What shall I do with Jesus7 I will do
nothing with him except love him
more and work for him harder and re
gard him with an ever-increasing af-rar-tinr,
anrt If ever he wanta a noor
life he shall have mine, and all the
V. T i.fi want 1 tn hnVA htm lnnlt
Into my face dnd say. "Well done."
opposite dlreotlons, his electric pen for
multiplying copies of letters or draw
ings, and the phonograph. Speaking of
this latter Invention, Edison once said:
"I was singing to the mouthpiece of
the telephone, when the vibrations of
my voice caused a fine steel to pierce
one of my fingers held Just behind it.
That set me to thinking. If I could
record the motion of the point and
send It over the same surface after
ward, I saw no reason why the thins
would not talk. I determined to make
a machine that would talk accurately.
The phonograph Is the result of the
pricking of a finger."
Phonograph Record Causes Trouble.
Perhaps with no other invention did
Edison have as much difficulty as with,
bis repeated efforts to make the pho
nograph reproduce an aspirated sound.
For a long time It refused to say
"specla," It dropped the "a" and said
"pecla." To produce that single 60und
he needed something delicate enough,
to receive Impressions not more than a
millionth part of an Inch In depth and
yet rigid enough to carry the needle
up and down, exactly reproducing the
vibration which had made the Impres
sions. The scientists told 'him there
was no such substance in existence.
"Then we must, produce It," said Edi
son. They declared that It could not
be done, because the qualities which
ha demanded were Inconsistent and ex
clusive of each other. He said, "From
18 to 20 hours a day for the last seven,
months I have worked on this single
word "specla," but the instrument re
sponded, "'pecla, pecia, pecla." It was
enough to drive me mad. But I held
firm and I have succeeded."
Edison's road to distinction Is paved
with years of self-denial, enthusiasm
and hard work.