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TINY CONGREGATION, BY HARD WORK,
EFFECTS STRONG CHURCH BODY
Presbyterian Institution at Clatsop Plains Is Oldest One West of Rocky-Mountain Range and Pioneer of Religious
Work Among Early Settlers of -Northwest Country.
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A SPOT sacred to Presbyterians is
the place where the oldest exist
ing Presbyterian Church wast of
the Rockies was organized, at Clatsop
Plains. The history of the struggles
of this- little church are deeply interesting-
and Its striving- for success has
at times been most pathetic, but never
once since It was organized. September
13, 1846. with four charter members,
has the church as an institution been
abandoned. Tile present church was
erected about 35 years ago where the
old church stood.
In 1847 Mrs. Nancy Irwin Morrison
gave the church 10 acres of land, on
which a parsonage was built In 188S,
and two acres were purchased and
added to the church property in 1896.
This church had a small beginning and
yet It has proved to be a potent factor
along with the early efforts in Chris
tian work by other denominations In
redeeming a great country. Business
foresight was not keen enough in
these early days to perceive that any
good thing coald come out of Oregon.
Early Opinion Unfavorable.
It is said that Mr. McDuffe in a
speech in the United States Senate halls
in 1843 declared that the country was
barren and uninviting; that he would
not give a pinch of snuff for it for ag
ricultural purposes; that a railroad to
It could only be made by tunneling
through 500 or 600 miles of mountains;
that if there was an embankment of
only five feet to be removed he would
not consent to the expenditure of J5
to remove it, to enable the population
to go there, and finally closed with
thanking God for his mercy In putting
the Rocky Mountains as. a perpetual
barrier to such an inhospitable region.
Another Congressman said a year
later: "Of all the countries on the face
of the earth Oregon is the least fa
vored by heaven. It is the mere set
tlings of creation. Russia has her Si
beria and England her Botany Bay,
RELIGION DECLARED NATURAL, NOT '
ARTIFICIAL GROWTH OF THOUGHT
Rabbi Jonah B. Wise Points Out That Experience of 5000 Years, Though Inadequate to Solution of Man'a
v Relation to Universe, Sheds Light on Peaceful Path.
In the later days the mountains of the
Lord's house shall be established above all
mountains.
BY RABBI JONAH B. WISE
(Temple Beth Israel).
THE mental mendacity that substi
tutes a stellar, lunar, solar - or
earthly deity and the happiness of
man, for cosmic God, is not religion,
according to the view of Israel.
The experiences of 5000 years are
not adequate to the solution of the
mystery of man's relation to the uni
verse, but they do w
lend light to those t
who seek a path on f.
wh i ch mankind I
may walk in peace. 1
Religion Is not an
artificial thing. It t
is a natural growth -J?
spri nging from
man's Innate en- ' 4 a
ministering to his t
emotional and bod- -lly
as well as his
thought life.
While it grew as
if indigenous to the
soil of human life,
artifice has entered
largely Into its ca
Rabbi Jonah B.
'M'lse.
reer. The vague suggestions of na
ture, willful and potent, the restless
mentality of man, human ambition and
other factors suggested to individuals
convictions which profoundly influ
enced the course of religion. The arti
ficialities of religion are individual
caprices adopted by a loyal faction.
Discord of Thought Shown.
"Power over men," says Tolstoi, "lies
not in material force, but in thought
and its clear expression."
No matter how thoughtful an indi
vidual may be, his thinking is his per
sonal reaction toward our world. It is
his own, his alone, and so distinctively
a personal thing that "few other per
sons can crothe their mind with it and
be at peace. Profound religious specu
lation is produced by solitude and pro
duces hermits. Only to the individual
can It bring peace. . To the mass of
men whom it moves it is an apple of
discord, a cause of war, just as the
strange fire was through Cantacuzene.
"We govern men with words," said
Disraeli."
Many vagrant vagaries have clothed
their shivering forms in religious
guise.
"It was the word that made the
gods," says Scherer. The older men
grow, the more they clog their day's
work with labor-saving devices, the
more they seem subject to theological
word-mongering. Science advances
slowly, yet it advances; medicine makes
progress haltingly, often gropingly,
yet it progresses; the arts advance de
liberately, yet they advance.
The secret of their growth is their
ability to shi !;e off outworn and use
less formulae. Science is mercilessly
exacting; it measures with just
weights, and what is weighed and
found wanting is discarded. It looks
with diffidence to the past, but it tries
to look clearly. It looks with hope to
the future, but it fears deception and
demands demonstration. Medicine does
not cling to a system based on phle
botomy because it has realized its
wider scope and nobler purpose. Art is
often willing to take up the stone
which the builders rejected and finds
in it a prop for a noble arch. Re
ligion alone seems fated to drag with
It the accumulated debris of its long
past.
In the light of the experience of the
other atrocities of human intellect it
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and If the United States should ever
want a place to which to banish her
rogues and her scoundrels, the utility
of Oregon would be manifest."
Such was the estimate of this fair
land from a business standpoint, while
the pastor of this early church was
braving the overland trail to Oregon
for the purpose of planting the stan
dard of the gospel.
It was not until consecrated men and
women determined to face the dangers
and break down the barriers that the
redemption of Oregon was begun.
Pastor Is Appointed.
In September last Rev. Alfred Bates,
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was
appointed pastor of the Warrenton and
Hammond churches and was invited to
become pastor of the above church.
The present trustees are Mrs. M. C.
is of Interest to 'religion to Inquire if
it too cannot change. Are the Ephod
and Urim and Huramira continually to
hamper its progress? The thinking
part of humanity, its scattered and oc
casional ganglia, believes that the re
ligion which coddles archaic illusions
must pass. Thinkers are often too
hopeful. The prosperous forms of re
ligion today are those which most se
renely scorn the obvious and rely upon
the esoteric. . They not only claim
the greater number of communicants,
but they more successfully hold the
allegiance and create needs for their
votaries.
Popular verdicts would place the
crown of truth on any of a Bumber of
fin de siecle mystical movements. This
is. in a sense, a ferverism of religion's
ideals. -
The early teachers as well as those
who see in religion today a useful so
cial asset construe its utiHty to lie in
what it makes clear, not what it be
fogs.. To the frivolous all things are vain.
To those who judge religion hastily
it offers no serious aspect of useful
ness. If, however, they stop to con
sider that religious thought has tried
to fuse the best thought of all ages
into an amalgam adapted to human
need, they will find a field for It that
is extensive and ever fruitful. Moses
preached law, order, authority; Isaiah
and his successors the responsibility
of government to man and God: Jere
miah intoned the great cry of moral
ity that was a nation's responsibility.
I '1 of them spoke from a standpoint
that liberal religion would fain bring
out today.
Anarchic Tendency la Cited.
"Religion, when vital and active, is
ever revolutionary and anarchic. It
aims at substituting divine for human
ordinances." Brinton.) Religion, says
the liberal religion propaganda, is the
crucible for the reduction and refining
of human thought.. no matter how ad
venturous. It should be as broad as
the astronomer's vision, as deep as
the geologist's. It aims at a reduction
to human vision of all the ideas that
may well come into that limited area.
In short, it aims at a rational basis
that will not shock the mind of achild
but will arouse the wonder of a man.
There are two tests of faith that
seem unchanged by time: The one is.
does it Inspire, and the other, to what
does it inspire? Inspiration should be
an aroused consciousness of personal
ambition, fortifying of the moral fiber,
a strengthening of the human virtues!
It should tend to moral, purely moral
health and an active ethical vigor. In
spiration that results in catalepsy,
divination, thaumaturgy, necromancy
and the thousand and one platitudes
of our religious phenomena is a sign
of decay in religion, not of growth.
Isaiah, Amos, Hosea. Jeremiah for
mulated ethical concepts for the white
race. They worked no miracles and
demanded no critical standard except
human happiness. The wonder they
perceived is patent to every man and
woman. It led to the great act of
faith service. "Thou shalt love thy
neighbor as thyself" Implied action as
a result of inspiration and is the lever
by which humanity is raised and low
ered. Isaiah's Prophecy Recalled
Isaiah prophesied a Prince of great
wisdom who would bring peace. He
was to be inspired by faith and filled
with the romance of human service
Quibbles lead to quarrels. The plain
object of the prophetic faltli is to ben
efit man. By emphasizing the thought
chicanery of individuals, forms and
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Sayre, Frank Hurlburt. David Tagg. J.
R. Campbell and 'William 17 Morrison.
The Ladies' Aid is doing splendid
work. Mrs. Alsie Campbell is presi
dent, Mrs. Elizabeth Morrison and Mrs.
Helen Hurlburt vice-presidents, Mrs.
Rose Poole secretary and Mrs. Blanche
Smith treasurer.
x Recently a deputation from the La
dies' Aid met with the trustees and de
cided to paint the church, and make
needed improvements.
The Sunday ' school, of which Mrs.
W. I. Morrison is superintendent, is
making good progress and a great fu
ture for this ld historic church on
Clatsop Plains is predicted. ."
Those early pioneers built better than
they knew and the little fire kindled
by their consecration and faithfulness
has become a bright light. . .
formulas have superseded the ideals
of service and it is in that false em
phasis that the true symphony is made
a discord. Religion is a great radical
social force. It conserves the best of
the past and inspires an altruism that
makes. change not a danger but axduty.
The faith that will survive and will
finally captivate all men's Imagina
tions will be one that will cherish the
ideals of the past as treasures of hu
man experience and will set so high a
value on the present as to make God a
great opportunity for man. not merely
a possibility for his departed spirit.
The great religion will see its mis
takes and discard them, it will rely on
the inspiration of its ideals, not on the
memory of the miracles. It will reach
out and Inspire men so that they will
seek to be a part of it in its elastic
growth, not slavish or rebellious sub
jects of its stolid self-BUfficiency. In
it they will seek a means of service to
man and God whereby they will ful
fill the yearning of all humanity to
bring happiness. The temple which It
will build will be built, as the taber
nacle in the wilderness, from the gifts
of rfll the people. Art. mechanics,
medicine, sociology, astronomy, biol
ogy, economics and all the learning
tnat man can cull will make that
building a mountain-crowning shrine
toward which men will turn for in
spiration and from which shall go
forth the command . to serve. The
prophet hoped for it when he analyzed
human needs and said: "In the later
days the mountains of the. Lord's house
will be established above- all moun
tains. Many nations shall turn to
ward it. saying, -.'Come ye, let us go
up to the house of the Lord. For out
of Zion shall go forth the law and the
word of the Lord from Jerusalem.' "
Sunday Church Services
(Continud From Pago 8.)
rooming prayer; 7:30. evening prayer: holy
communion flrat Sunday of month.
St. John-a. Mllwaukle Rev. John D ri
?,,ca.r! rmyeri ,: noly communion. 10
first Sunday of month. .
Blhop Morn. Memorial Chapel. Qood
Samaritan Hospital Rev. Frederick
Howard, chaplain. Holy communion. 7; veil
St. Mark's. Twenty -f irt " and Marshall
treets rector. Rev. J. E. H. Slmp.on. bum
mer schedule: Sundays. 7:30 A. M holy
eucharlst; :M, Sunday school. 10:15. matins
i ih?Iy ucnarlst nd sermon. Weekdays1
7:30 dally, holy eucharlst: during July and
August there win be no evening servlca on
Sunday or Friday. ,
KVAT,EUCAL
The Swedish Evangelical Free Church,
corner of Missouri avenue and Snmner
reetH. Q Rodin., pastor. unday hoo"
.; preaching, 11 A. m.; young peopl..
meeting. ):4r.: preaching. 8 P. M "
First English, East Sixth and starket
streets Rev. E. D. Hornschueh. pastor s-rv
ices. 11 and 6: S. S.. 10; Y. P a 7 Rev"
Schuknecht, presiding elder of" the Oregon
conference, will preaAi in the morning; com
munion service following.
St. Johns A. P. Liylon. pastor. Sunday
at 11 A. M.. pulpit theme. -Soma Church
Problems": evening, at 8. theme, "Two
Prayers and What They Accomplished."
i-LTHEKAH-
8t. James English, corner West Park and
Jefferson streets J. Allen Leas, pastor.
Services will be conducted at 11 A. M by
the Rev. Frank I. PauL Sunday school at
10 A. M. There will be no evening service.
Bethel Free. Sfoben Hail, Ivy ,nn Williams
streets. Rev. J. A. Staley. minister Preach
"Stll A. M and 8 P. M.; faunday school
Norwegian Lutheran Church. Fourteenth
and Davis Sunday school, in A. M.- other
services at regular hours. Everybody w sl
co me. Rev. W. Patterson will preach
St. Paul's Lutheran; East Twelfth and
Clinton streets A. Krause. pastor. German
and English Sunday school, 9:30 A M
German service. 10:80 A. M.; qii'rte-w
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meeting. 11:43 A. M.; English twrvlea, 8
F. M; dally grammar school Irona to XX
United Lutheran Church, 43 North Four
teenth atreet Rev. O. Unen, pastor
Preaching at 11 and T:4i.
Bethany Danish. Union avenu and Morris
street M. 6. Jensen-tngholm. pastor. Serv
ices 11 and 8: Sunday school and Bible class
10: young people's jneeUug, Tuesday. 8.
Trtnltjr German (Missouri Synod 1. Williams
and Graham avenues J. a. Ralnbach. pas
tor. Services. 10:15 A. M. Tto-evening serv
ice. . .
German Evangelical Luthern zina rhurrh
(Missouri Synod , corner Salmon and Chap
man street Service. 10:18 A. M., T:4i P.
M.-. S. .. :1J A. L H. II. Hoppelmann.
pastor.
LATTKR DAT SAINTS.
Church of Josus Christ of Latter-Day
Saints, corner East Twenty-fifth "and Madi
son streets. Sunday school jit 10; aervlcea.
11:45: evening service at .10. Everybody
welcome,
METHODIST.
First. Twelfth and Taylor streets Frank
L. Loveland. J. D., minister. 10:i0 A M..
sermon, topic. '"The Anchorage of a Soul";
13:15 P. M.. Eunuay school; 8:45 P. M..
young people's council: 8 P. M.. sermon,
topic, "The Mind of the Moslem, or the
Superstition of Paganism."
- Sunnyslde. corner East Tamhlll " and
Thirty-firth streets R. Elmer buillh, pas
tor. Sunday school, :50 A. M. ; preaching.
11 A. M-; Epwortb League. :3 P. M. ;
preaching. 7:45 P. M.; pastor preaches at
win services.
'at Tabor. Esst Stsrlt and East Slxty"
flrst streets E. O. Eldrldge, minister. Serv
ice Sunday sa follows: Praachlng. 11 A.
M.. subject. "Th. Mind of Christ y 8 P. M
"A Battle Royal"; bunday school. :5 A.
M.; Epwortb League. o:45 P. M.
Centenary, East N'lnth and East Prne
streets Dr. T. Y. T.ane. paator. Morning
service, 11, Rev. W. H. Selleck will preach;
even Ins service. 7:45. Mrs Mattla M. Sleath.
Multnomsh County president and atata lec
turer pc toe v. oman s Christian Temperanc
Union, .will speak; subject. "Peace-"
Vancouver-avenue Norwegian-Danish, cor
ner of Skldmore street Abraham V ere Ida,
pastor. Sunday services at 10:43 A. M. and
o P. M.: S. S. at 8 45 A. M. ; confirmation at
the morning service; morning subject. "Sal
vation and Spiritual Vagabonds."
Central. Vancouver avenue and Fargo
street bunday school, 9:45; morning sermon.
"The Friendship of Christ," by Rev. H.-T.
Atkinson, 11; class meeting. 12:1: Epwortb
League, 7: evening service in charge of
James Oakes soclul service class, 8; mid
week service Thursday, 8.
Woodlaira Louis Thomas, pastor. ' Sunday
school. 10 A. M. ; Epworth League, T P. M. ;
services. 11 A. and 7:45 V. M. Morning.
Dr.' McDougal will preach; evening, musical
service.
Rose Cltv Park. Sandy boulevard and East
Fifty-eighth street North WllUm Wallace
xuungson. minister. v:-o. eunuay scnool; 11,
"The Best Antiseptic": 7. to 8, community
onn service un the lawn.
First Norwegian-Danish, corner Eighteenth
and lioyt o. T. FWld, psstor.' Morning
servlca at 11 o'clock and evening at 8
o'clock; Young People's meeting Tuesday
evening at 8 o'clock: prayer meeting Thurs
day evening at 8 o'clock
Swedish services will be held in Oregon
City at a o'clock P. M. All Scandinavians
are most cordially Invited to attend. John
Ovall, Swedish minister.
Sunnyslde, corner East Yamhill and
Thirty-fifth streets R. Elmer Smith, pas
tor. Sunday school. :50 A. M. ; preaching.
11 A. M. ; Epworth League, 6:3o p. M-;
people's popular service. 7 :45 p, M.
University Park. Lombard and Flake
streets C. I Hamilton., pastor. Sunday
sctiool. l:45; Epworth League. 7; preach
ing 11 and 8; morning sermon by Rev t
T. SummervUle; evening sermon by Rev j'
B. Hoadly. ' ' "'
Trinity. East Tenth and Sherman streets
Rev. A. B. Cslder, pastor. 8. S.. It)- K L
i' -J1' "The Crueade Agalnat Profanity";
,reJ' J' H",nl' f - d singers
will have charge of th. service.
Epworth. Twenty-sixth street North and
Savler street C O. McCulloch. pastor.
Morning subject. "On. Like Unto th. Son
of Man': evening theme. "The Leading of
the Lord"; Sun lay school. 8:45; public
worship. 11 and 7:43; Epworth League, i.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL SOITH.
Union avenue and Multnomah street Rev
Vl. J. Fenton. pastor. Sunday school at lt A.
M.; preaching, 11AM. and 8 P. M.: Ed
worth League. 7 P. M. w
NEW THOUGHT.
New Thought Temple of Truth. Eller.
bldg.. 142 Broadway. Perry Joseph Green,
minister. Lecture at 8. "How to Find Your
Own Fortune."
PRESBYTERIAN.
Central 'eontmufnv- w . u-1 . - t- i.
Third churches), corner East Thirteenth and
Pin. streets 10:S0. "Th. christian Power
house"; 12, Sunday school: 7:4.v union
Central Christian Church, corner Twentieth
an East Salman streets, subject, "Th. Roy
alty of th. Christian." L. K Orlmea. min
ister.
First United Presbvtarlas ChureK v..
Thlrty-aeventh anrt Hawthorne avenue
Frank DeWItt -Findley, minister. Bible
school, 10 A. M: morning worship. 11 o'rloek
Sermon topic. "Called to a Great Work";
installation of alders: Christian Endeavor. 7
r-. jo. evening services, 8. Topic, "Young
People and the Church"; a popular platform
meeting. ,
Spokane-avenue, East Sixteenth and Spo
kn J- E. YoueL pastor. S. S- at lO: mine-
ship at 11 and 8 o'clock.
Piedmont, corner Cleveland and Jarratt
streets Rev. A. L. Hutchison. D. D.. pastor.
ma. arm xr , gs. ; Baonatn scnool, :4a;
Christian Endeavor, 7.
Kenilworth, East Thirty-fourth and C.Ind-
stone avenue Rev. L. K. Richardson, pas
tor. Bible school. :43 A. u. ; services. 11
A. M. and 8 p. M.
vernon. corner Nineteenth and Wvrant
streets H. N. Mount. paator. Sabbath
school at 0:45 A. M. ; public worship at 11
A. M. .
Fourth Presbyterian Church, corner First
and Gibbs Henry o. Hanson, pastor. 10:1
A. M..4rearhing; 12. Sunday school; 8, Y. M.
C. A. gorpei team will conduct services.
Hope, East Seventy-eighth and East Ever
ett streetji S. W. Seamann. minister. Morn
ing subject. "Venture and Expectation in
the Christian Life"; in the evening, union
servicea in the Montavlila school building.
Calvary, Eleventh and Clay streets Rev.
Oliver S. Raum. pastor. Morning at 10:Su,
subject. "Mounlalns Lowered and Valleys
Exalted": evening at 7:45. subject, "Th.
Higher Tnought. or Living Uostalrs.
Rose City Park, Forty-fifth and Hancock
Rev. J. M. Skinner, paator. Morning wor
ship, 11; evening. S; Sunday school. 0:45;
Christian Endeavor. T; mid-week meeting,
Thursday evenings, 8. Ther. w ill b. no even
ing services in th. church beginning Sunday,
August 1.
REFORMED.
First German. Tw elfth and Clay O. Hef
ner, pastor. Services, 1:4 and In tb.
evening special song service. Sunday school.
:30; Y. P. 8., 7 P. M. .
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS.
(Regular service of t his desemissues mrm
held on Saturday .
Central, East Eleventh and Everett streets
Elder Milton H. St. John, pastor. Preach
ing. 11 A. M. : Sabbath school, 10; prayer
meeting, Wednesday, 7:30: Y. P. S.. 7:3
Friday evening; special services Sunday
evening at 7:3.
Albina (Germin) Skldmore and Mallory
avenue G. F. Ruscb. local elder. Sabbath
school la at lo; preaching, 11:80 and .
Preaching Sunday night Is at S.
Montavlila. East Eightieth 'and Everett
streets J. F. Heatty. elder. Sabbath school
Is at lO A. M. arul preaching at 11.
S. Johns Centrsix avenue and Charleston
street Elder E. D. Hurlburt. Sabbath
school la at 10 with preaching at 11; mis
sionary Society meets at t o'clock.
Mount Tabor East sixtieth and "Belmont
streeta Rev. C. J. Cmmlnxs. pastor. Sab
bath school la held at 10 with preaching at
Lents Marlon avenu. and Blumsuer D.
J. Chit wood, elder. Sabbath school Is at 1
with preaching at 1L Preaching Sunday
night Is at 7:80.
- Scandinavian Church, Sixty-second and
Thirty-ninth rvenue Elder O. E. Sandnea,
aiastur. Sabbath school Is at 10; preaching.
11 and Sunday services at 7:30.
.'PPIRITCAUST.
First Spiritual Church. Ms richest er build
ing. 85S Fifth street, between Stark and
Oak. Servicea I and I P. M. -
Christian. Allsky building. 265 " Morrison
street 3 P. M-. lecture "and raeassges; e
P. M.. lecture by I. Taylor.' "Meliumhlp."
Church of- the Soul. Ss)SH Third atreet
Rev.-J. H. Lucas, pastor.' Conference meet
ing. ii a. M. : mediums' m-rtlng. 8 P. M.;
lecture and demonstration 8 P. M.. by'Mra.
C Cornelius.
UNITED BRETHREN.
First. East" Fifteenth and Morrison John
D. MMwomifr, pastor. Hlble school. io
preaching. 11, by th. -Rev. J. Howersoz:
7:30. R.v. C. C. Bis
ancnai
srd; Endeavor.
o'clock.
Fourth. Sixty-ninth street and Sixty-second
avenu. Southeast. Tremont Station J. E.
Connor, pastor, termors. U A. M and 7:48
P. M.; Sunday school, 10 A. M.; Christian
Endeavor. 8:43 P. M.
rNITARJA.H.
Church of Our Father. Broadway and
Yamhill streets Kev.- Thomas L Eliot.
r. D., minister emeritus: Hev. William O.
Eliot. Jr.. mlnlster.w Morning servlca at 11,
Rev. Christopher R. Kllol. of Boston, slaaa..
will preach; evening se.rvics Intermitted.
CN1 VERSA UsT.
Church of the Good Tidings. Broadway and
East Twenty-fourth - street Rev. Jamaa
Dimond Corby, minister. Worship with ser
mon by the pastor m 10:43 o'cloek. Sun
day arhoo: at It noon. Special music
Strangers cordially welcomed.
California th. W-mdVrfnl. by Edwin Mark
ham. Illustrated- 82.50. Hearst'a later
national Library Co.. New York City.
The tlUe page of this eloquent ap
preciation of the State of California
has a kind glow about it.
Accomranylng the words "California,
the Wonderful," Is this message: "Her
romantic history, her picturesque peo
ple, her wild shores, her desert mystery.-
her valley loveliness, her moun
tain glory. Including her varied re
sources, her commercial greatness, her
Intellectual achievements, her expand
ing hopes with glimpses of Oregon
and Washington, her northern neigh
bors." In a .word, this message gives
the Pacific toast reader a glad Idea of
neighborlineut-r. without any attempt to
boost California as the one state ot
this region.
Mr. Uarkham la known and esteemed
in Oregon as one ot our former rest
dents, yet from his long residence in
California he is well equipped to write
this graphic uescrlptlon of her glories
and fixed values.
The list of chapters: Two Glimpses
of California: California la the Abyss
of Ancient Ages; Cortes, the Anlan
Strait and the Places of Mystery: The
Origin and Character of the California
Tribes; The Tribal and Home Life of
These Indians: The Romance of the
Old Missions; The Two Most Imposing
of the Mission Remains; The Pastoral
Era From the Padres to the Gold-Seekers;
California on the Hinge of Change;
The Gold That Drew the World; The
Kpicof the Overland Trail; The Forty
Nine Kinds of Fortune in '49: The
Gardens, the Orchards and. the i'lowed
Fields; Other Industries; The Great
City by tbe Gate of the Sex; Han Diego.
Los Angeles and Other Cities on
Breezy Shores or In Watered Valleys;
Picturesque California: Her Wild
Shores: ' H?r Desert Mystery; Her
alountaln tilory; The Women of Cali
fornia; Intellectual California: A Few
of Her Story-Writers, Poets. Painters,
Scientists. Historians; Glances at Ore
gun and Washington. Her Near Neigh
bors.
"California is well nigh as familiar
to me as my garden paths." writes our
author. "I spent 40 years and more
within her boundaries. I waa there
as a barefoot boy. nicking wild straw
berries in the fields near Vacaville,
herding sheep .on the Suisun Hills
ploughing the little valleys between
the ridges for wheat and barley, and
following the threshing machine in the
time ot me narveating; mere also 1
made my way through school and col
lege, and spent my after years in the
service of education and literature. My
traditions are all of the Far west.
"In April. 1847. my parents, with all
their worldly goods loaded an ox-team.
crept out of Michigan, headed for lnde
pendence. Mo. where they Joined an
ox-train that was going overland to
Oregon. After many adventures in the
wilderness, they trailed down tbe Co
lumbla River. In Ot-tober. and found
their way into the Willamette Valley.
My first' home was in Oregon City, in
a huge brown house under the great
bluff. My eye has a keen memory of
the while rush of the Falls, and my
ear has a clear memory of their eter
nal thunder. 1 have also an early and
vivid recollection of having been lifted
up in the sanctuary of a church in that
city and of looking down on the dead
face cf the famous Dr. John McLough
lln. 'the Father ot Oregon.' I can
never forget the hush and the solemn
pomp; It waa my first sense of the
dark mystery of death. As an eager
lad I sunn after Journeyed with my
mother down into California, where
she made her home on a farm and cat
tle range in little Lagoon Valley,
among the picturesque mountains vot
lar from the ureat tie.
Romantic, picturesque, artistic, Intel
lectual, literary, rustic and civic Cali
fornia peeps out at us through these
storied pages, and through it all lies
frank appreciation. Roth old and new
California are vlstoned.
In speaking of Oregon the same kind
ly appreciation Is noted, especially In
describing the beauties of Mount Hood.
the Columbia River, and Hood RlveT
Valley. In referring to modem Ore con.
Mr. Markhara writes: "Oregon Is pro
gressive. Hhe was one of the first
states to adopt the referendum, to de-
st.. t-i Lnited States Senators
by popular , vote, and to grant the right
of suffrage to women. The Portland
Oregonian (newspaper) has the aspect
or a state Institutioln. It appears to
De -established in the habit of the peo
ple like tne i imes. of London, and the
TranserlpL bf Boston. If vou hannen
to be wandering in the wonderful Wil
lamette Valley In June, do not fall to
see the Rose Festival In Portland. For
months the roses hold their elorv in
her soft, warm air. Nor must you fail
to climb her Council Crest, a sort of an
Acropolis, because from this lofty ele
vation you can ace the city of Portland
below you. spread out trim and trig,
like a corner In New England."
In estimating literary Oregon. Mr.
Markham mentions that "the literary
name mat riasncs brightest upon th
rront or Oregon is Joaquin Miller. It
was under her rain-tight roofs and by
that library lamn that this mi h...n
his literary career." Appreciations are
aiso written or Sam L. Simpson. Ella
Hlgglnson. Eva Emery Dye. James J
Clark. Edward D. Baker and Homer
uarenport.
The book will bring many admirers
to kneel at the shrine of the author of
"The Man With the Hoe." "California
tne nonoerrui" is more than a guide
book. It is one great, big mirror of its
subject.
The Flemrnta of the t.reat War, by Hlllalr.
Relloc. Sl.fio. Hearst's International Li
brary Co., New York City.
Mr. Bclloe la remembered for great
literary achievements In his books.
"The French Revolution." "Robespierre
and the Old Road" and other successes.
For nearly 20 years he has been es
teemed as newspaper man. critic, po
litical writt-r, historian, essayist, poet
anil publicist.
Now he rorars to the erownln-r effort
of ail: a consideration of the elements
of the great war In Europe. He plans
to write six books to discuss the en
tire subject, from a critical standpoint.
"The Elements of the Great War" Is
book No. 1. It Is an Important mili
tary history, written by a man espe
cially fitted for the task. It Is the most
complete book of its kind yet Issued,
from an expert. It discusses the com
parative strength or the various ar
mies engaged, the exact difference be
tween French and German strategy, the
alleged secret military preparations of
Germany for- three years before the
conflict occurred, the Issues Involved
by the violation of the neutrality of
Belgium and the course of events up
to September 6, 114.
It Is shown that Germany and Aus
tria planned for years to strike, when
"the hour arrived." When the Arch
duke Francis was killed. June 18. 114.
It is thought that military preparations
by Germany and Austria were begun
and that the blow was planned to fall
about the end of July after the
hdrvest was gathered. Germany. It is
thought, was and is the master mind
behind the Teutonic alliance, but that
a grave blunder was committed in
lighting at the same time France
and Russia, arid In invadln-g Belgium,
which act brought Britain Into the
conflict. y
Parsing on to a consideration of the
operations of the war, tbe author thus
Pictures the puzxle before German mil
itarism: "If I am to hold Pelglum. I
must give up Alsace. How dare I do
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East Prussia. How dare IT I am at
bay and the east must at all costs be
saved. I must hold Prussia and Sile
sia, but to withdraw from Belgium
and from beyond the Rhine is defeat."
The French strategy, inherited from
Napoleon, as "the method of detached
reserves." is lauded.
This extract shows Mr. Belloc's
graphic style:
W. mi, sum tip. then, and say that the
fundamental conflict of wills In Europe,
which has produced this general war, U
th. conflict between the German wlil. or
ranlaed by Prussia to overthrow th. ancient
Christian tradition of Europe (to her ad
vantage directly; and Indirectly, as sh. pro
poses, to th. advantage of a supposedly
neoeasary German governance of the world
under Frussian organisation), and th. will
of th. more ancient and better founded
Westers and Latin tradition to which the
aanclty of separate national units pro
foundly appeals, and a great deal more
which la. In their eyes. civilisation. In this
conflict. Frussla has called upon and re
ceived tho support of not only th. Herman
Empire, which sh. controls, but also the
Hapsbnrg monarchy, controlling th. or
ganised forces of Austria-Hungary; whii.
there has appesrc.l against this Strang.
Prussian claim, all that values the Christian
tradition of Europe, and In particular the
doctrine of national freedom, with very
much else which very much else ar. the
things by which w. of th. elvlllxed West and
South, who bav. hitherto proved the creators
of th. European world, live and bav. our
being. Ahled with ua. by th. accident that
this same German cleam threatena them aiso,
la the young new word of the siava.
It is at this final point of our exami
nation that w. may aee the Immensity ot
th. Issues upon which th. wsr turns. The
two partlea ar. really fighting for their
lives: that In Europe which is arrayed
againat th Germanic altianc. would not care
to liv. if It should fall to mslntsln Itsulf
against the threat of that alliance. It Is
for them Ufa and death. On th. other side,
the Germans having propounded this theory
of theirs, or rather the Prussians having
propounded it for them, there Is no rcMt
possible until they shall either have made
good" to our destruction or shall hav. been
so crushed that a recurrance of th. menac.
from them will for the future b. Impossible.
There Is here no possibility of such a
"draw" or "stalemate" as wa the results,
for Instance, of th. reduction of Louis XIV'i
ambition, or of the great revolutionary ef
fort throughout Europe which ended with
the fall of Napoleon. Louis XIV'i ambition
cast over Europe, which received it favor
ably, the color of French culture Th. revo
lutionary wars were f ought for a principle
which, if It did not appeal universally to
men, appealed at least to all those fhillions
whose instincts wer. c emocratlc In every
country. But in tills wr ther. la no such
common term. No on. outside the districts
l.d by Prussia desires a rrusslan life, and
plhaps most, certainly many, of those
whom Fruit-la now leads are In different de
gree, unwilling to contlaue a Prussian lire.
he fight. In a word, la not like a fight
with a man who. If b. beats you. may make
you sign away soma property, or make you
acknowledge some prttu'iplo to which you
are already half Inclined:- It la like a fight
with a man who ssa. "So long as I have
life left In me. I will mak. It my business to
kill you." And fights of that kind can never
reach a term less absolute than tne ae
struction of offrnsiv. power In on. side or
tbe other. A peace not affirming complete
victory in this grest struggle could, of Its
nature, b. no more than a truce.
There are 34 maps and diagrams in
this volume. It is obvious that the
views expressed, while cold and criti
cal, are from the French viewpoint.
The Art aad Ethics of Drews, by Eva Olnev
Furnswt.rth. Illustrated. .1. Paul Elder
Ac Co.. San Francisco.
Here Is a high-class authority on
dreas. with a sane plea for beauty and
dress beterment for women. Quota
tions are furnished from the writings of
Rufcktn. M. Worth and other noted art
and dress experts. "Safe colors." and
"watch what colors harmonize with
your complexion," are two principal
thoughts. It is stated on the authority
of M. Worth that the beat-dressed
woman In Paris, France, never buys
more than three dresses per year. It
is thought that more and more, the
Amerl'tn woman must give two Im
pressions In the matter of dress: one
of style, the other of Individuality.
The most educative chapter in the book
Is that one on "The Patricia Garment."
Aeat arwuan4 the War. by an anonymoua
autnor. i j cents. "... f niuunii 2xus.
N.w York City.
la this a book of Jokes? Is it meant
to raise a laugh?
The title looks, at first sight, as If
something of the above might be con
tained within Its pates.
But when you read the little book
you realiae that It Is an epic of th big
. in r.urope that It Is a wordy t.e.-.rl
of great price.
" Aunt Sarah and the War" consists
of a series of letters written by Eng-
iisn people to each other. The dmi,i.
belong to the English aristocrat io
classes and consist of Aunt Sarah llltn. J
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ine Vandeleor. and her nephew. Cap
tain Owen Tudor. The aunt ami niece
write from London. England, and the
nephew from tho llntidti buttle line
near Ypres. Franco.
Letter No. 1 shows Aunt Snrnh.
wrapped In her aristocratic distinction
and class-indifference, as she writes
about the petty "hardships" she Is male
to endure hrcauso of tho war. Her pet
footman. William, had actunlly left her
service to enlist as a soldier in tho
army! There Is a tender understand
ing between Miss Vandeleur and her
cousin. Owen, but now that he la in
battle and may bo killed any moment,
they know that they love each other.
Miss Pauline goe.i to visit her unci
Philip, who Is a lord In Wales. Owen
wins his Victoria cross for saving the
life of a comrade In battle, and there
is a tender romance about this com
rade. Captain Tudor writes singularly
spiritual letters- He wrltoa that he is
to enter the toughest battle in British
history.
It wouldn't be fair to say any more.
The Faith ef Fiinoes. and Other Sonnets,
by Harvey M. Watts. l. Th. John C.
Winston Co.. Philadelphia.
Mr. Watts has Just had a cheering
success at Lafayette College with a
Phi Beta Kappa poem. "Lux Erat."
where he was also honored with the
deirreei of doctor of letters.
In this little book of exquisite poems
the text is of war. and the poet's sym
pathies are clearly on the side of the
British allies. The most spiritual r
the poems is that one directed "In Me
morlam. Belgium." "The Lusilanla" Is
the most eloquent In the collection.
Tr.1 longest poem Is "The Faith of
Privtcea." and it has marked dramatic
value. It i.i a studv of lorirlaand Italy.
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