The Sunday Oregonian., November 16, 1919, SECTION FIVE, Page 3, Image 73

THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 1G, 1919.
MAN'S PLACE IN UNIVERSE LITTLE LOWER THAN GOD', SAYS PASTOR
Human Greatness Declared Proved by Sins Necessity for Man to Associate With Creator to Pass Gloriously Through Eternity Emphasized by Rev. Robert H. Milligaru
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BY REV. ROBERT H. MIL.LIGAN.
Pastor of Rose City Presbyterian Church.
Psalm viii:5 Thoi hast made him a lit
tle lower than God.
IT HAS been. too much the custom
of the pulpit In the past to em
phasize exclusively man's present
fallen condition rather than hia ideal
possibilities and his essential great
ness. It is poor psychology and poor
religion, The Christian appeal is di
rected to our respect for human na
ture not mainly to our consciousness
of what we are, but to our conscious
ness of what it is in us to become.
We shall therefore consider human
nature on its ideal side man's es
sential greatness. "Thou hast made
him a little" lower than God."
The best way to rescue life from
littleness is to associate oneself with
largeness. There is much in the
scenery of the nocturnal sky to en
large the mind and uplift the heart
of the man who has learned to "con
sider." "When I consider thy heav
ens" hose millions of shining
worlds, sweeping through vast or
bits, with inconceivable velocity, each
one affected by the weight of all the
others, and yet so minutely adjusted
weight against weight that they all
come in, as the locomotive engineers
say, "on the dot," not one of them
missing, not one of them a moment
behind.
The subject of the Psalmist's medi
tation is the glory of God. He finds
it revealed In the heavens. Then it
occurs to him that the revelation in
man Is greater and more glorious.
Kven. the infant, with no language
but a cry, when one considers its
mysterious origin, its possibilities, its
pathetic dependence, its growth, is a
more potent witness than the stars.
"Who hath set thy glory upon the
heavens: Out of the mouths of babes
hast thou established strength."
Significance 1m Compared.
Let us consider more closely these
respective revelations of God, in man
and in nature. The first thing that
impresses the psalmist is man's ap
parent insignificance. What is man
in contrast to the universe! How in
significant! The contrast in our day
is far greater. The psalmist prob
ably thought that the sky was a
metallic dome not much higher than
the mountains and studded with dia
monds. What if he had seen the
heavens through a modern telescope,
and words of light instead -of dia
mond points had flashed upon his as
tonished gaze, and worlds beyond
worlds scattered broadcast through
trackless and immeasurable depths of
space I
The modern mind is oppressed with
the feeling that the revelations of
science have dethroned man from
his assumed headship of creation.
Such headship is said to be a pathetic
instance of his ignorance. His self
xespect has also been wounded by his
physical relationship with chattering
apes and beasts of the forest.
It is worth while therefore to ana
lyze man's seeming insignificance and
to ask whether he indeed be de
throned, or what is his place in the
universe.
Man Small Beside Creation.
There is the vastness of creation
contrasting with the littleness of
man. It is said that there are six
thousand stars visible to the naked
eye. The psalmist never saw more
than that. But Lrd Kelvin a lew i
years ago estimated that there are j
a thousand million stars in our sky.
Chalmers once remarked: "The glory
of the extended forest suffers as
much from tne fall of a leaf as the
universe would suffer if our globe
were dissolved." We used to think
that the world was very large and
the center of the universe. But we
have discovered that the dim star,
which we call Jupiter is eleven times
bigger than the earth. The sun is
ten times bigger than Jupiter. Sirius
is one thousand times bigger than
the sun, and a million times as far
away. We are bewildered by such
figures. They mean nothing to us.
How far away is the sun?
A friend of New York, whose fig
ures I have borrowed, uses this il
lustration: If you touch a hot iron
with your hand you feel it instantly,
but if you had an arm long enough
to reach to the sun and should touch
it, it would be 150 years before you
would feel it. And I have said that
Sirius is a million times as far away
as the sun. In view of this amplitude
of creation, we are asked, what be
comes of man's claim of headship? Is
ii. not the product of his egotistical
imagination?
Telescope Reveal Order.
It may help our hold on God to con
sider just here that the telescope re
veals more than vastness. It also re
veals order. These myriad worlds
are not scattered through space at
random. The finest watch that ever
was made is not adjusted half so
nicely. For instance, the earth travels
one and a half million miles a day, and
never a jar, and not a dewdrop is
shaken from a petal. All these mil
lions of worlds are thus moving, and
vith greater velocity according to
their greater size,, and yet there is no
collision, no confusion, they all come
in "on the dot." Frederick the Great
once undertook to make a few clocks
swing their pendulums exactly to
gether. He gave it up as impossible.
One wonder how an intelligent man,
one who "considers," can be an
atheist. But the vastness of creation
does at first thought oppress us with
the sense of littleness.
This sense of insignificance is deep
ened by our knowledge of the dura
tion of the material universe in con
trast to the brevity of human life.
Man has not only studied the atars
above him. but the rocks beneath him;
and rocks and stars together tell us
that creation is as old as it is vast.
A few years ago there were found
the remains of a primitive man which
those most competent to judge have
pronounced at least 100,000 years old.
Looked at in the full perspective of
the past, the generations of men ap
pear and disappear like an endless
succession of ocean waves beating
against some far-off lonely shore:
Thou carriest them away as with a
flood," to use the imagery of another
psalmist. That other psalmist said:
A thousand years in thy sight are as
a day." His first readers may have
thought that figure the limit of poetic
license. But it is not license at alL
To say that a million years are as a
day were as near the fact.
Earth's Age Astounds.
A geologist of note estimates that
it is 100,000,000 years since the earth's
crust consolidated from its former
molten state; and even then the
earth was old; so many ages have
passed since It was first separated
from the sun. If the brevity of hu
man life has never oppressed us with
a crushing sense of insignificance it
is because we lack imagination, or
have not cultivated our imagination,
so that large facts have no meaning,
And yet, when all Is said, shall you
and I be bullied out of our faith by
brute force?
It Is not in our best moments that
the vastness and duration of the ma
terial universe mock us with a sense
of insignificance. In these very facts
that we have considered. If we will
use our reason, we shall find a new
argument for man's essential great
ness. A lump of pigiron outweighs
the brain of Shakespeare. There are
some values that are not expressed in
pounds avoirdupois; some values that
cannot be measured with a yardstick.
When it comes to real values, if you
could put Mount Hood in- one scale
and your babe in the other, the babe
would outweigh the mountain.
Captain Deed Recalled.
Some of you may have read an inci
dent which is said to have occurred
during the gold fever of California. A
ship was returning from California,
when Are broke out in the hold. The
captain, despairing of saving her.
headed his vessel for the shore; but
before reaching the shore she was so
1 far consumed that she began to sink.
There was on deck a man who was
fastening a belt of gold around his
waist when a little, girl came up to
him, and. looking into his face with
that look of trustful innocence that
makes the child more than conqueror,
said: "Sir, can you swm?" Dashing
to the deck the gold that was the
fruit of all his labor, he replied: "Tea,
little dear, I can swim. Put your arms
around my neck and hang on." Thus
he leaped overboard and struggled
with the sea until at length a larger
wave lifted him up and flung htm on
the shore. He lay unconscious for
awhile, and when he opened his eyes
the little girl was watching over him.
Now, was he the victim of a lalse
estimate of values? According to ma
terialism that's just what he was.
Let me tell yon another incident.
Herbert Ward, of African fame, was
once standing upon the bank of the
Kongo when he saw a canoe capsized.
Several persons, after struggling with
tne powerful current for some time.
disappeared. But one strong swimmer
struggled on. A child was clinging
to the swimmer's neck. Mr. Ward
watched the struggle in an agony of
suspense. At last the man reached
the bank and our friend hurried for
ward to grasp his hand and praise his
bravery. But the savage, not realiz
ing the compliment, exclaimed indig
nantly: T tried my best to shake
that cursed pickaninny off." Was thai.
man a nobler type than the man of
California? He was certainly im
pressed with the insignificance of hu
man life. His conception of values
was in perfect accord with, materialism.
"Wfcat la Manf Is Query.
"What is man?" exclaimed the
psalmist. We are still asking that
question, and nobody has answered.
It may be that the duration of the
world itself will not afford sufficient
time to complete the investigation so
as to define personality.
Dr. Parkhurst once propounded this
question and went on thus in his great
way: "Borne of you have lived with
yourselves for quarter of a century,
or half a century, in daily intercourse,
and you have not yet begun to orobe
the mystery of your own being. You
know something about your body,
your thoughts, your feelings; but
what do thoughts and feelings spring
from? You have been living all these
years so close to yourself and yet you
cannot get at yourself. Some people
are saying that because we cannot
get at God there Is no God. You can't
get at yourself a whit better."
If it is wholesome and Bubdulng to
ponder the mystery of the nocturnal
sky, it is also wholesome occasionally
to ponder the profounder mystery of
your own being. An English writer
quaintly but truly remarks: "You
reach most of your decisions by a
majority of yourself, and your de-
cisions are seldom unanimous. These;
are the voters that live in you and
have a seat in the council of your
mind: Judgment, self interest, im
mediate success, curiosity, specula
tion, affection, health and 20 more.
Those who are in favor of this course
say aye. Opposed, say no Then you
that innermost you that self that
you have never seen, says: 'The ayes
have if; or 'The noes have It. So
you do not carry your personal de
cisions unanimously.
Sometimes judgment does not vote
at all. and you play a trick on your
self and count this silent voter in the
affirmative, and say: MThe ayes have
it." But who is this judge, this Inner
most self? "What is man? Thou hast
made him a little lower than God."
Wherein does his greatness consist?
Man More Like God.
Man Is great In the quality 'of his
being. However advancing knowl
edge may enlarge our conception of
nature and of nature's God, man Is
more like God than he is like nature.
The interval between the material
creation and man is greater than the
interval between man and God. That
is what the psalmist meant when he
said: "Thou hast made him a little
lower than God." Man understands
God as he is revealed in creation and
reads his thoughts.
The dog that follows you through
the park sees the statue that you pass
by the way, but he sees it unheeding
and without understanding, while you
r&cognize it as a product of man's
making and read the purpose of mind
that conceived It. You understand it
because your mind and the mind that
conceived the statue are .essentially
alike. So man reads the universe be.
cause his mind Is akin to the mind 6f
its maker. Let us see:
The geologist finds certain rocks on
the flanks of the Rocky mountains
in Canada, and he tells us that those
rocks came from the Laurentian hills
north of Lake Superior, and that ages
ago they were carried across this con
tinent by glaciers and deposited there,
4000 feet high. And in those days, he
tells us, the greater part of this con
tinent was an ice-field, in which
slowly-moving glaciers ground the
rocks into soil. Again, the master
stands before his pupils in the school
room, illustrating his words by fig
ures that he draws on the blackboard.
He traces the history of the earth
back through countless ages, back to
the beginning when it was "without
form and void," back to the sun itself,
how that by the ascendancy of cen
trifugal over centripetal forces it was
separated from the revolving- mass;
Ihow it acquired its rotary motion, and
why it revolves around the sun.
Can we imagine the lower animals
wondering what preceded them in
this world? But however far the work
of creation is projected back into
eternity the mind of man goes back
as far. and follows the creator step by
step through the ages. We talk of
the brevity of human life, but the
human mind is timeless, at least as
timeless as creation itself.
His intellectual conquest of space is
even more striking than his superi
ority to time.. Let there be 100.000.000
worlds, he interrogates them all. com
putes their distance, maps out the
plane of their orbits, tells us their
very substance, declaring that they
are made of the same material as out
earth. There is something akin to
omnipresence In his intellectual ac
tivity. However vast the material
universe hp has discovered its vast
ness; nor is it too big a place for
him. His knowledge extends to its
his muscles. In short, by his inven
tions, which represent the power of
mind over matter, he makes of na
ture an additional body, a larger body
of unlimited power. And his con
quests seem yet in their infancy.
It is not chiefly in the individual
man. however, but In collective man
in the history of the race that the
greatness of personality is revealed.
For instance, the ape, our venerable
ancestor, has been longer on the
earth than man and has had more
time to achieve the full stature of
his apehood. But he stands today ex.
actly where his most ancient ancestor
stood, cracks his nuts and feeds him
self in the same manner, practices the
same arboreal architecture, swings
himself from tree to tree by the same
with all created things 1n subjection
under his feet. And he adds. "But we
see not yet all things subjected to
him." I should say not! Not even in
our day are all things subject to him;
still less in the day of "The Hebrews."
and still less when the psalmist
wrote.
It Is Ideal humanity of which the
psalmist is thinking; cot the man that
actually is, but the man that is to be;
man redeemed with all his powers,
physical, intellectual and moral, de
veloped to maturity and no shadow of
sin upon his face. We see him not yet.
What assurance have we that he will
ever appear? "The Hebrews" reminds
us that the ideal of this psalm has al
ready been fulfilled in one man.
Jesus Christ. The winds and the sea
organ and no more dexterously emits obeyed him. He healed incurable dts-
utmost bounds. Only his physical life i eloquent passage in his philosophy of
Is contracted! Ittae Christian religion, man may have
C1 " Greatness. us u uy uweuius in vavce, uui
tne same sounds or alarm or artection. leases. He cast out demons. He raised
iow, as alrbalrn reminds us in an trte dead. Above all he was master of
himself. Tempted in all points like
as we are, he was yet without sin.
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We are not forgetting his sin, his
moral unworthiness; but, to quote Dr.
Parkhurst again, this very fact of sin
itself argues man's, essential great
ness. A dog cannot sin. because he
is a dog. He acts by the compulsion
of his nature, and has no moral choice.
He is never divided self against self,
his nature is a unit. Only man has
been endowed with that inexplicable
power of choice which we call free
dom of will. Man has the awful pow
er of looking God in the face and
saying no. It may be appalling, but
it is a superb instance of his essential
greatness.
And in virtue of this same power.
residing in the freedom of his will, he
performs the most godlike of his
functions that of remaking himself.
His mind is a kind of spiritual acorn
which may or may not become an oak.
according as the man himself wills.
He Is the architect of his own char
acter. By strong willing he forms
his habits, which become a second
nature. He even changes his native
temperament and becomes the master
of his own moods. He is the product
of his own willing. Surely in the
quality of his being he is essentially
great, for he is essentially God-like.
He is also great in the extent of his
physical dominion. Me not only
traverses the trackfess depths of
space, but he harnesses the forces of
nature and makes them his bond-
I servants. The thought is so familiar
in our day that it is almost common
place, and we may well be brief. By
means of telephone, telegraph and
cable he extends his power of hear
ing by multiplied thousands. By
microscope and telescope he increases
his power of vision. By steam and
other-means he adds to the power of
did not stay there; he has learned to
build palaces. His first attempt at
art may have been the forms and fig
ures which he tatooed on his own
body, to make himself beautiful to
his friends or hideous to his foes; but
he has since learned to make flowers
bloom upon canvas and the landscape
to unfold its beauty. He may have
begun as a savage even devouring his
enemies but he has since built up
states governed by laws for the pro
tection of the weak, for the punish
ment of the criminal and the securing
of freedom to those who will use it
and not abuse it. His speech may at
first have been inarticulate cries of
alarm or affection, but he has learned
to weave sounds together into lan
guages for the communication of his
ideas, and language Into literature,
through which all succeeding genera
tions receive the heritage of his pro-
foundest thoughts and his noblest as
pirations.
The structural similarity between
man and the man-like ape need not
wound our self-respect so long as
manhood and apehood are not similar
at all except sometimes. Their
physical resemblances only serve to
make their contrasting history the
more astonishing, and to make it evi
dent that man starts with some splen
did endowment which the brute has
not. The ever increasing extent of
his dominion is evidence of his es
sential greatness.
Christ Power Revealed.
But this discussion would be incom
plete without some consideration of
the destiny of man. The writer of
"The Hebrews" quotes this psalm ex
tensively this picture of man made
a little lower than God, destined to
dominion over the works of God, and
His dominion is absolute. His tri
umph is the pledge and promise of
our destiny, namely, that through him
humanity shall yet fulfill the ideal
which the race through all the ages
has cherished. "For the suffering of
death, he is crowned with glory and
honor, that by the grace of God he
should taste of death for every man,
and bring many sons unto glory."
All the other evidences of man's
essential greatness are surpassed by
this that God found in human nature
an adequate vehicle for the expression
of himself; that he became incarnate
in the man of Nazareth, whose life
has been called "the human life of
God." Consider the implication of
such a phrase the possibility of God
living a human life!
That same life is also the revelation
of God's purpose to take away man's
sin and raise him to his proper domin
ion. The difference between man's
present insignificance and his future
greatness the psalmist finds is this:
"Thou art mindful of him." That is
the whole story of his progress and
destiny and withal a revelation of
God of the heart of the eternal
that the heavens with all their glory
cannot proclaim.
With God man rises through all
eternity. Without God he sinks for
ever. Let us trust mm. iet us Re
lieve that the meaning of life is found
by looking up, not .down; "in the
firmament, not in the dust." And may
this mighty faith serve to protect us
from petty ambitions and sordid pas
sions. May it enlarge our minds with
the thoughts of God and our hearts
with the love of God. Above all, may
it direct our wills to a definite pur
pose; "our wills are ours, we know
not how; our wills are ours to make
them thine." May this be a personal
decision with each of us.
FT. ROCK, NEGLECTED BEAUTY
SPOT, DESERVES BETTER FATE
Oregon's Scenic By-places Offer Unlimited Reward to Travelers Who
Appreciate the Glories of Mountain and Valley.
BY IA'CLLIS SAUNDERS.
BACK in the days of Greek my
thology a certain husky black
smith answering to the name of
Vulcan, who happened to have an
option on the principal large vol
canoes of the planet, made a serious
business error he failed to hire, a
publicity agent. As a result the fur- I
nai-e magnate probably died in se- J
elusion and the populace neglected to
commemorate his name by erecting
bronze statues or naming amusement ,
parks after him.
For the same reason advertis'ng
figunls got busy and put in a few
strokes in behalf of the Palisades of
the Hudson, the castles on the Rhine,
the home of Shakespeare and the
Swiss Alps, while Oregon went beg
ging. Private yachts and Pullman
cars were carrying idle millionaires
to the afore-mentioned famed spots,
while this state was inviting ox-team
and fishing schooner traffic. As a
result the scenic beauties in this sec
t ion kept out of tourist magazines
until Multnomah county decided to
exploit the beauties of the Columbia
gorge Some of the less prosperous
counties are still busy dry -farming
and raising cattle and hoping an oc
casional traveler besides forest serv
ice inspectors and geologists will
come their way. Inhabitants of some
of those communities have grown so
accustomed to their landmarks that
most of the wonders haven't even
names. As to searching for Indian
lngends connected with curious for
mations, that probably has never been
considered.
A few weeks ago K. N. Kavanagh,
assistant district forester in the Port
land offices, was called to central
Oregon on some prosaic matters con
nected with -the construction of two
wells on the government range to the
southeast of Bend. These are needed
to increase the gracing capacity of
the Deschutes and Fremont forests.
While he was in central Oregon Mr.
( Kavanugh had occasion to visit six
ranger and look-out stations, making
trips by automobile, on horseback or
afoot. When he was listening to
water and grazing statistics recited
by the supervisor of the district, who
accompanied him, he was curiously
regarding the scenic spots of the
country, especially in the neighbor
hood of Fort Rock.
When Mr. Kavanagh returned to
Portland on October 6. after a three
weeks' trip he began browsing around
the library at the forest service head
quarters, and running through the
pamphlets prepared by forestry and
geological survey investigators. While
there described the volcanic history
of nearly every cinder cone and duck
puddle in the vicinity, even the map
makers managed to forget the exist-
once of Fort Rook, and he was unable
to secure any authoritative data con
corning the place. Every worth while
point in the district apparently has at
least received some cognizance in the
forest surveys, with the exception of
Fort Rock. Mr. Kavanagh is quite
sure some of the folk like himself,
who look at Oneonta gorge or Rooster
lock and marvel at it would be
equally astoumled at the proportions
of this great pile of lava. Further
more it is not the only unchronicled
curiosity which he encountered on
his tour.
The forester has outlined what he
considers an ideal October trip for the
motorist who still has a vacation to
spend. It follows his own route down
the Deschutes valley, although the
first part Mr. Kavanagh made by
train, having no car of his own along.
The route is easy to follow and
will, if the traveler makes by-trips
and takes his time, reveal many un
suspected beauty spots. The motorist
may go over the Columbia highway
to The Dalles, then through Tygh
valley to Maupin and Shaniko, from
here turning south toward the Bend
country. After passing through the
orchard districts around Hood River
one soon goes into an open, treeless
stretch east of the Cascades. By
crossing the higher plateaus between
stream courses and particularly be
tween Shaniko and Maupin on the
west, a wonderful view of the higher
peaks of th Cascade range is se
cured. To the north the summits of
Mount Adams and Mount Rainier
pierce the skyline; farther south St.
Helens lifts its round cone. Mount
Hood and Mount Jefferson dominate
the central horizon, while to the south
the Three Sisters and other snowy
peaks stand clearly defined and pic
turesque against the clear blue sky,
a truly remarkable panorama.
The Deschutes river is crossed at
Maupin. as are also the two railroads,
which not long ago disputed with
each other for the possession of the
stream bed. Rolling on down over
the old stage road that at one time
reached into central Oregon before the
advent of the railroad, through a
country supporting many thousands
of head of cattle and sheep during
the winter months, the motorist fi
nally reaches the canyon of Crooked
river.
Many small buttes and hills have
been passed on the way, whose broken
and worn lava caps of a chocolate
color remind one of a frosting on
the cake that mother used to make.
Here one travels through a long, roll
ing country, broken here and there
by buttes and sharp uplifts of lava
rock, which bespeak the origin of the
country and are preliminary to what
is later seen as one nears Bend or
travels on farther south. Adams and
Rainier fade away, Mount Hood re
cedes in to the background, while the
Three Sisters, old Broken Top, Three
Fingered Jack and other peaks of
southern Oregon come more promi
nently into view. As the road ap
proaches Bend-, it begins to wind
through a scattering growth of tim
ber, reaching the Deschutes river
again, up the course of which it fol
lows to the th'riving town.
From Bend the route south is by
way of Pilot Butte into the Paulina
mountain country, where the tremen
dous volcanic efforts of a past age.
which were responsible largely for
the entire Cascade range, become more
and more apparent. The Paulina
mountains, low wooded hills from the
distance as compared with the mighty
peaks of the main range, rise sharply
on the horizon;, to the left Pine moun
tain, straight ahead China Hat and
Crater Butte, and to the right Paulina
peak on the rim of the old Newberry
crater. The soil here undergoes a
noticeable change and upon investi
gation is found to consist largely of
pumice sand. Streams of lava, black
and shining in the sun, cross the road
at intervals.
It is here in the Paulina country
that the real wonders are thick and hieroglyphics. These are cut or
etched into the face of a large basal
tic boulder facing the south. They
represent men and animals, the
largest figure being not more than 14
inches high. The significance of these
signs Is unknown today, but undoubt
edly they served their purpose in the
past as a sign board to wandering
redskins.
From the -pass Summer lake is
visible and to the right a high rim of
basalt looms up to the west and south
of the body of water. Near the north
end Ana river has its source, one
of the strangest rivers of the etate.
It wells up at the bottom of a deep
gorge from many springs, invisible
to the explorer at the top of the can
yon and rushes suddenly as if from
the rock.
Over another low divide Is the town
of Paisley on the Chewaucan river and
through Paisley and the Chewaucan
valley the road winds over another
timbered summit and finally down
Into the Lakeview country at the head
of Goose lake.
From here. If the traveler so de
sires, he can proceed on south Into
California, or go east into the War
ner lakes country, which at thissea
son of the year is a haven for wild
foul; or he may turn west into the
Klamath Falls region, going south
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plenty wonders that are in a dis
trict that needs only water on it to
make it a vast grazing ground for
cattle. The Newberry crater, of
course, is in the rugged uplands,
where in some prehistoric time tre
mendous eruptive activity occurred,
the smithy of '.he flaming forge in
the middle regions of the earth cast
ing -right and left his souvenirs in
the form of great volcanic bombs,
lava outcrops and beds of tiny cinder
cones.
The great main crater probably had
a history Identical to that of. Crater
lake, for It has within the big basin
two lakes, Paulina and Fast lake
Five distinct craters are located ' in
this vicinity, of which two are oc
cupied by the lakes, which lie at the
foot of Paulina peak. On top of the
mountain is a look-out station from
which a far reaching view may be
obtained. Glass, Hampton and Pla
cidia buttes lie far to the east, while
to the south many comparatively re
cent volcanic craters may be counted.
Fast lake is alkaline and has no sur- i
face outlet, but Paulina lake is fresh
water, which discharges through a i
canyon cut through lava flows.
On the way to Fort Rock nine miles
north of it, U the Cabin lake ranger
station, where the first big well, -54
feet deep, was put in two years ago.
At first the forest service officials
were uncertain as to the amount of
water it would yield and feared lest
any were wasted. It was decided to
construct cisterns to conserve it, so
that troughs would not overflow, but
no tanks were to be had. Foresters
secured in their place some large
burned out logs, sawed the ends out
nd boarded them up. These were
used until It was found that the weU
had an unlimited supply of water.
It is planned to construct two more
uch wells on the range this year.
In this same part of the country.
though further to the east, is the Pine
mountain timber belt wherein lives a
mysterious grizzly, a specimen of
'hich has long been desired by the
nited States geological survey. The
bears are of a desert type built on the
lines of a dachchund. They are very
wild and few have ever been cap-
ured. The next lap of the trip
made by Mr. Kavanagh and N. G.
acobson, supervisor of the Deschutes
forest, was to, the south, where the
road finally enters an open plain
ot far distant from the little town
f Fort Rock, which receives its name
by reason of its proximity to what
appears to be a massive pile of stone
ising out of the level sandy plain.
This is in the form of a gigantic
horseshoe, apparently at one time a
complete circle of basaltic rock, ris
ing 400 feet above the surrounding
country. From the top at one end of
the horseshoe, where a lookout sta
ion has been placed by the forest
service, a wide view of all the sur
rounding country can be obtained.
While Fort Rock and the plain
from which it rises have no trees, a
panoramic of a big forest belt can
be had on three sides. The lookout
has no timber under his immediate
surveillance, but he has a decidedly
comprehensive view of the entire ter
ritory and can easily detect smoke
rising from the trees. The country
surrounding the pile of rock is set
tled by homesteaders and stock
ranch era-
Fort Rock itself covers almost 160
acres, standing virtually alone. The
interior is a flat plain covered with
rabbit brush and sage. To theama
teur explorer there are no evidences
as to what it might have been.
whether a crater or some other forma
tion. One is immediately reminded
of its strong resemblance to views
of the ancient coliseum. The outer
wall on the west side Is almost per
pendicular.
Six miles to the northwest is an
other equally interesting natural
curiosity, quite the opposite of the
fort. It is known simply as Hole
In the Ground and is a wide depres
sion in the floor of the plain, the
sides of basalt and the bottom as
level as the surrounding country. The
walls of this, too, are steep.
Mr. Kavanagh's next jaunt was to
the south toward Silver lake. In this
direction Hager mountain dominates
the horizon, with lesser hills in all
directions. Beyond the town of Silver
lake is the lake basin itself. In this
depression this year many home
steaders are raising excellent crops
ordinarily, however, practically the
entire floor is under water. It is
probable that in event of a norma
fall of moisture again this year the
water once more will return and the
lake bed will be covered.
Beyond this point the two foresters
climbed a divide and just at the top
in a narrow defile between cliffs on
a large rock to the right of the road
they came upon some, ancient xnaiaa
toward Ashland, Medford or north by I
way of Crescent and La Pine, and 1
again reach Bend. From Lakeview to ,
Klamath Falls on a clear day, the
mighty mass of ML Shasta appears
on the level. In tlve distance Dia
mond peak at the north end of Crater
lake looms against the skyline.
As the traveler returns from
Klamath Falls to Bend, he passes
through the Klamath Indian reserva
tion, largely through heavy timbered
country, interspersed here and there
with parks and mountain meadows
along the streams, the whole coun
try being of '.he same volcanic forma
tion, broken here and there by buttes,
some of which are heavily timbered,
while others are more rugged and dif
ficult of access.
If the traveler does not wish to re
turn over the route by which he
came, from Bend he can turn wesl
and cross the high Cascades by way
of Mackenzie pass and then down the
Willamette valley to Portland. In any
event. Mr. Kavanagh declares, the
trip by whichever route is followed,
is well worth while and gives one an
appreciation of the magnificent scen
ery which Oregon can boast, that
created by the wrathy blacksmith.
Vulcan, who blew up a mountain
every time the chimney of his mighty
furnace refused to draw.
MODERN WOMAN'S CLOTHES
AN INVITATION TO INSULT
Edna K. Wooley Rebukes Sex for Display of Nakedness Reaction Sure
to Come, Woman Critic Avers.
alongside the girl. In passing he laid
a hand on her shoulder and slid it
down her arm.
The girl looked around in surprise.
The young man smiled at her and laid
his hand, flat open, on her bare back.
I don't know what the girl might
have done, but the bold young man's
companion couldn't contain himself
any longer and haw-hawed out loud.
The girl heard it, turned quickly, saw
the two men exchanging glances, and
got angry.
"You horrid things!" she cried. "To
insult a lady like that! I'm going to
call an officer and have you arrested!'
The men hastily disappeared into
the Arcade near by and the girl, fum
ing, went her way.
Undoubtedly she felt that she had
been greatly insulted and that the men
were beasts.
But what can any woman or girl
expect when she openly bids for just
such attentions from just such people?
Her bare back was an invitation to
take liberties with her person, and one
has the right to judge that, in a less
before the male of the species. Just
as there are weak women who fall for
a man's blandishments, there are
weak men who are susceptible to the
woman who sets the fleshly lure be
fore them. One of these days, when a
full sense of decency returns to us, the
woman who sets the trap is going to
be condemned as fully as the man who
ruins a girl."
(Cooyrierht by K. K. w ooley.)
Ends S trxbborn Coughs
in a Hurry
Tr rent WfWiNs tfci eld
Um:nait rerol j lias no qaai.
kally and cbeaply prepared
You'll never know how quickly a
bad cough can be conquered until you
try this famous old home-made rem
edy. Anyone who has coughed all
rtv,r ansl alt nirrdt n-ill si.r 1 h c iKo
public place and without the accom- , nlmealaU relief Biven i8 almost like
paniment of a haw-hawing friend, the
bold young man might have taken
further liberties without much repulse
on the part of the fair lady.
These men did not admire the
nakedness. I heard them ridiculing
the girl in no uncertain terms.
their comments on
I were not flatterin
trary.
The average man, who is a pretty
decent sort in spite of all that's said
j against him, has no admiration for too
I generous a revelation of flesh. He
I is more inclined to be disgusted.
magic. It is very easily prepared,
and really there is nothing better
for coughs.
Into a pint bottle put 2 ounces
of Pinex: then add plain era nutated
n I sugar syrup to make a full pint. -Or
what they saw I wu 11 nnt.
uite the con- ' , - . ' 7 . b -
cikiici way nie iuu piui stivrs aouui
two-thirds of the money usually epent
for cough preparations, and gives you
a more positive, effective remedy. It
keeps perfectly and tastes pleasant
children like it.
iou can leei this take hold in-
the back it sagged below hef
shoulder blades maybe she was prac-
icing the new bare-back fashion. And
underneath the waist was a creation
lof cheap lace and pink silk calculated
hid
For a while I walked behind her and
I counted most of her vertebrae. Also
I'm pretty sure I saw the undulations
of some of her ribs, and when she
raised her arm to catch a wind-blown
hat. it was plain that the raror had
been applied to the armpit. Yes, it
was just that plain.
A couple of youngish men marched
along behind the lady mentioned.
They were snickering en joy ably, and
made some remarks that wouldn't
look nice in a good home newspaper.
Finally one of them said:
"I'm going to see what she looks
like in front."
He hastened his steps and sidled
The iccomoanvtnK article, which ap
peared in an eastern publication. o ini- to reveal considerably more than it
pressea a ronmna chid woman mai
secured a copyright release from its au
thor and submitted it for publication In
The Oreffontan.
BY EDNA K. WOOLEY.
SHE was old enough to know bet
ter. Probably she did know bet
ter, but had the all-too-prevalent
feminine notion that a bare skin is
just too perfectly fascinating for any
thing. Anyway, her Georgette waist was
cut low very low. back and front.
"Who are they doing It for?" asked j stantly. soothing . and healing the
one man when several ha If -dressed
women had passed him. "If they're
doing it for the men they're making
one big mistake. Men don't care for
nakedness as much as some women
seem to think they do. If they did,
they'd go to the South Sea islands,
where they'd get all they want with
out anybody making any bones about
it.
"Just now." he went on. "we seem to
be having a wave of recklessness, ex
travagance and immorality. Women
who think they are perfectly good
women are setting examples in cloth
ing and conduct which lead other girls
and women to think they have a per
fect right to go the limit. The won
der to me is not that there are so
many men of immoral habits, but that
there are so few, considering the con
tinual temptations and invitations set
membranes in all the air passages.
promptly loosens a dry, tight cough,
and soon you will notice the phlegm
thin out and then disappear alto
gether. A day's use will usually
break up an ordinary throat or chest
cold, and it is also splendid for bron
chitis, croup hoarseness and bron
chial asthma.
Pinex is a most valuable concen
trated compound of genuine Norway
pine extract, the most reliable remedy
for throat and chest ailments.
To avoid disappointment ask your
druggist for "2 Vj ounces of Pinex''
with directions and don't accept any
thing else. Guaranteed to give abso
lute satisfaction or money refunded.
The Pinex Co., Ft. Wayne. Ind. Adv.
:1
1 &uMiu mfei n
their ambition to keep the
ome in order, tidy and attrac-
, do their social duties and
ave tneir cniiaren well aressea,
many overworked house
keepers develop serious
female troubles which
make life miserable.
There is a perfectly safe remedy for
such conditions which contains no
narcotics or harmful drugs, and that is
Everyone Should
Drink Hot Water
in the Morning
Wash away all stomach, liver, J
and bowel poisons before
breakfast. ,
iVegetable Compoun
II ! 'Ill 'Ill I' " HH..I.I
cyP
To feel your best day In and day
out, to feel clean inside; no sour bile
to coat your tongue and sicken your
breath or dull your head; no consti
pation, bilious attacks, sick headache,
colds, rheumatism or gassy, acid
stomach, you must bathe on the In
sido like you bathe outside. ThiB is
vastly more important, because the
skin pores do not absorb impurities
into the blood, while the bowel pores
do.
To keep these poisons and toxins
well flushed from the stomach, liver,
kidneys and bowels, drink before
breakfast each day, a glass of hot
water with a teaspoon ful of lime
stone phosphate in it. This will
cleanse, purify, and freshen the en
tire alimentary tract before eating
more food.
Get a quarter pound of limestone
phosphate from your pharmacist. It
Inexpensive and almost tasteless.
Drink phosphated hot water every
morning to rid your system of these
vile poisons and toxins; also to pre
vent their formation. Adv.
PET CORNS
Few Drops of "Freeione."
Com Right Off
Then LIIl a
A tiny bottle- of "Freer-one" cost, ,o
little at any drug store: spply a few
drops upon any corn or callus. Instant
ly it stops hurting, then shortly you lift
tht bothenome corn or callus right, off
with your finzcrs. Truly! No humbug!