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THE OREGON SUNDAY , JOURNAL, , PORTtAND, SUNDAY- MORNING, JUNE .12, 1904.
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WOMEN'S CLUBS
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towns, and nlns cities In foreign cun
, Work of Women's
Clubs in Public Life.
To those who have watched the
progress of the woman's club more
meat and have sen Its culmination at
tha treat convention In Kt. Louis last
month, its evolution would soeoi com
plete, and that there could be no ques
tion aa to whither it was bound and
what its tendencies. The "survival of
the fittest" would seem lo have been ar
rived at and yet what constitutes club
work, what are Its functions and what
Its purposes and objects, are still con
sidered of enough movement to form
the baata of not only much discussion,
but very positive action, by at leant
on large club of Pittsburg. Ta, This
club la one of the large ones of the
city, a member of state and general
federations, la credited with all the da.
partment work In the club catalogue
and has heretofore been an active factor
in tha city. At a meeting recently a
' paper waa read by Mrs. Charles Gerwlg,
a woman who Is not unknown in club
circlet even beyond tha limits of her
own city, on the subject of civic Im-
provamsnt and entitled "For the Good
of the Club."
The Strong tendency of women's clubs
during tha paat few years towards
, movements for clvlo reform, Mrs.
Gerwlg said, has been watched with
, deep interest and sometimes anxiety by
soma clubs and many club women.
Work for clvlo improvement afforded
an outlet for the energy of a large num
ber of club members .who had the
leisure and the desire to work In these
directions. One of tha first results was
voted In the increasing cost of club life;
; in the ordinary woman's club, and the
constant demands growing out of the
needs of one philanthropic object and
another, thus necessitating the giving
; of entertainments, the solicitation of
contributions from friends or of per
sonal donations from the club women.
. Mrs. Gerwlg made a plea for a return to
tha original idea of the woman's clubs
mutual improvement and social inter-
. course. The club voted to confine itself
hereafter to this Idea, leaving ita mem
ber a free to engage in any of tha vari
ous lines of philanthropic and public
' work undertaken by club women.
, Commenting on this, a New York club
woman says: :.
"This Is interesting, but not alarming.
There will be culture clubs, formed in
the future ss they have been in the past,
but few clubs tttat have taken up public
. work will ever be tempted to go back
to tha quieter, mora selfish Idea. Aside
from the sense of duty done there Is an
xoitement about the other form of
club ' life that la attractive. It Is
righteous . and wholesome excitement.
and means the broadening and leveling
of women's minds and sympathies.
.Women have no proper measure of
things, as a rule. They lack a sense of
proportion, and this they get when they
, begin to interest themselves in large
social questions. ,
Along this line It will be Interesting
, to note what Mrs. Eugenie M. Bacon,
president of the Illinois State Federa-
; tlon, said in an address, before the
., Woman's Columbia club of the North
western university settlement regarding
' woman's part, in clvlo betterment She
said:
"We are only asking that women con
tlnua to be tha housekeepers of tha na-
" tlon. We want to extend the house
keeping out of doors. Tba most con'
servatlve people admit that housekeep
ing is tha province of womed, and good
municipal economy is simply, good
housekeeping. Every municipal question
anects tba home directly or indirectly.
Therefore, in presenting the questions
of clvlo improvement the women's
clubs are acting quite within woman's
sphere. Women cannot escape the re
sponsibility of bad municipal govern
ment, because the law does not relieve
them of the necessity of complying with
tha law.
"Woman's duty to the home is to se
cure order, comfort, and loveliness, and
may she not extend this to the common
wealth? The beautiful is the useful
There Is no beauty without cleanliness.
Cleanliness, we all know. Is sanitary.
And beauty has a market value. A beau
tiful building Increases the value of the
property around it and a building neg
lected and falling to decay depreciates
the value of surrounding property.
"The work of civic improvement must
begin with the children. It is all very
well to teach them to salute the flag,
but it is also well to teach them not to
litter the streets. The streets we have
always with us, and the flag only occa
sionally. "Men never did enjoy house cleaning.
so It is the women's duty to show their
patriotism by cleaning up."
Evidently the Pittsburg club has been
attacked by a microbe heretofore un
known In club circles and it la to be
hoped that the attention there contem
plate bestowing upon themselves will
discover its origin and find the antidote
before it destroys the life upon which it
is feeding, but as the New Tork woman
says, no alarm need be felt, for It will
not be contagious and will only attack
those clubs whose systems are so badly
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out of order, and upon whom ths same
commiseration would be extended we
bestow upon the cancer safferer: "Poor
thing, it is a relief to her to go."
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Woman's Trade
Union League Movement
Up to ths Urns of ths American rev
olution there were practically no wo
men working outside the home. Weav
ing and spinning of the linen, the cot
ton and the wool was done in the home
by the mother and her daughters. All
the sewing, all tha canning and packing.
Indeed, even the candles, that were the
only lights most of the homes had,
were "dipped" in ths home. Soma of us
bars heard our fathers tell of helping
to dip candles when they were child
ren. In the mountains of Kentucky, Ten
nessee and North Carolina I have seen
these processes of home Industries still
going on. You can aes In the window
less cabin in ths mountains the "blue
pot" for dyeing, the loom for weaving
and the spinning wheel ready for the
women when they have a moment of
leisure from the cooking, sewing, nurs
ing and farming. We do not long to go
back to the cabin industries, picturesque
as nil this sounds and interesting as
It all is to those of ns who go to the
department stores for not only the
materials to be made into clothes, but
for the clothes themselves; muslin.
linen, woolen goods all "ready made'
to fit each and all of us, whether we are
21 or 62 bust measure.
We go to the store, Instead of the
old-faahloned cellar for our canned
tomatoes, peaches, pickles, mince meat
pumpkins for pies like "mother used
to make," and slowly but surely we
are la danger of becoming "ready made"
women with machine made homes.
What will save our souls from bocom
lng machine made? This la tha ques
tion to be asked by all of us, but es
pecially by those who have the leisure
to work out answers to questions.
Taking so much work out of the home
has given to women of all classes more
leisure. Even the working woman
clothes and feeds her family on machine
made goods. Also the woman who stays
at home has had her leisure Increased
four-fold by the same process. She has
been given freedom to use this leisure
as she chooses. Hundreds of her kind
ho love to study, go to college, end
700,000 sre In federated women's clubs
in this country. Many of these clubs
are for self culture, but even this type
of club has its committees for social
service, and Is doing much to enlighten
women north and south as to condl
tions of labor. Through these clubs
as well as through the powerful fed
eratlon of Labor, child labor is becom
lng a national question. Miss Jane
Adams as chairman of a committee on
child labor in the National Federation
of Women's Clubs, Is bringing the sub
ject to the notice of women through
out the country, and urging them to
help the labor unions in their effort to
enact laws.
What else can these women, whose
leisure! Is secured by having their home
work done by women In factories, do to
help the cause of their proxies In the
industrial world? Many of them wish
to lend a hand, and many are waiting
to become more intelligent on this whole
subject which has overwhelmed us wo
men in the past few years.
The Woman's Trade Union league, or
ganized In Boston at the time of the
meeting of the American Federation of
Labor, and sanctioned by it, ts one way
of educating the women of free leisure,
and of giving them an oportunlty to
lend a hand In bettering the condition of
the working woman. No one can live to
herself, whether she belongs to a wo
man's club or to a labor union. We
rise or fall together.
So let us in all practical, sensible;
The "Silent Power in the June Election
"Taxation without representation Is
tyranny." This is the sum and sub
stance of, and the only claim women
should ever advance in their demand for
suffrage. We believe If no other phase
of the subject had ever been touched
upon, women today would be standing
on an snual nolltlral font lnar with man.
Women have supplied the arguments
themselves for their Opponents to use
against tbem by setting up ths "purity
plea." Sex plays a mighty little part
In human nature, and opportunity of
fers no greater inducements to a man
than to a woman If ths power of resis
tance is absent What women would
do, or how they would develop under
universal suffrage by universal, we
mean, If ths world over women were put
on an entirely equal footing with men
Is a matter purely speculative. A few
Isolated states of America to teatlfy
to its uplifting and beneficial effects
does not provs .the case, and while It
will do nicely for ammunition to lire at
ths doubters, It will, sometimes "kick
back." and a Ions woman who has
taken a brlbs be held up as a warning.
Chivalry, courtesy, gallantry are all
good words but only thinly veiled
flatterers, that most any man can see
through, and accomplish nothing. It
is only on ths ground of Justice, based
on business principles that women will
ever be given the right at tha -ballot
box, to say who shall tax her property
and administer the government under
which she has to exist.
Ws use ths words "right to say" ad
visedly; she does say, and most unmis
takably at times, but when she does it
it is under cover, with ths sense that
she Is doing it stealthily and at ths risk
of being called unwomanly, if nothing
worse. This la degrading to ths
"mother of men," whose highest' duty
always has been and will always re
main, the rearing of honorable man and
women for tha service of God and horns
and native land. Her right to do her
duty openly and above board; to assist
In putting in office men who will pro
tect her home and property from greed
and rapaclousness, and who will not
barter in tha holiest feelings and human
sufferings, for his own pecuniary; bene
fit sfre the rights God has given every
Human bolng regardless of sex. It is
no reform movement The women that
have threatened a purity wave, the
abolition of the saloon, the destruction
of dives and Joints, if they only were
given the ballot don't know what they
are talking about, it the women or
Oregon could march as a body to the
polls at ths next election and vote, there
would not be one less' drink of whiskey
sold, not ons less vies or crime com'
mltted. Woman's vote might for a few
brief moments cause all these things
to be done less openly, but that alone
would not put them out of existence.
but It would sound a note of warning
that In a generation to corns there would
be better men' and women, less material
for vies to feed upon because . the
mothers could do openly what they are
very largely doing secretly, controlling
out municipal elections, and doing It
more and more at every voting season.
Women, as a controlling power In
politics, is rather derided by one olass
of men who scorn to admit that there is
any power outside the "machine," andj
by another class, entirely denied, ex
cept when they want to defeat an amend'
msnt and parade woman's "silent 'but
powerful influence," coupled with ths
fear of her becoming unsexed. This
"silent power," has been ons of the
greatest weapons used against women's
enfranchisement and ons of her humilia
tions, realising as ths does that she
must protect her homo and her family
and her property rights under cover of
airection and marital duty.
That she hss retained her courage to
fight and work under such conditions
gives testimony to her ability to do
greater things were shs given larger
opportunities in ths open. That she
does maintain bar courage, and that shs
does fight and will remain fighting,
was evidenced la ths last election. June
6th.
We ars aware that ths statement we
are about to make will be met with in
credulity, and ws will ba told of "com
bines." "machines" and "rings," but
when Sheriff Storey went up to Salem
at tha last -legislature and with tha
connivance of Speaker Harris defeated
the bill to transport ths inssns of Ore
gon to ths asylum la a decant humans
way, they set in motion a "silent power
which thsy have both been mads to
feel with telling results. When it waa
proven that another candidate had pro
fited by this unholy graft ths "silent
power" was elastlo enough to embrace
him in- its influence) with like results.
Moral When tha women of Oregon
espouse a causa that is Just, It would be
well for its opponents to take Into con.
aideratlon ths "silent power," or hasten
to bring It Into ths open, where they
may reckon with Its .strength.
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MARY L. MCDOWELL.
University, of Chicago Settlement Chi
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The Growth of the
Sacajawea Statue Fund,
In a New York caper recently, a
writer, in giving a sketch of the oc
cupants of the Fins Arts building in
Chicago, has this to say of Miss Alice
Cooper, who designed the Sacajawea
statue:
"Apropos of the tenth floor, there is
I ne young sculptor there who is inter
lstlns indeed. This Is Miss Alios
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cooper, once ine pupu or uormuu
Miss Cooper Is a tall girl with smooth
hair and rather a grave pair of dark
eyes. She Is quiet and a good deal con
centrated, and she receives her guests
gravely, f rocked In long, white, rather
seamless-looking gowns. Shs has a
pretty fancy, and has made a "Frog
Girl,'.' which brings up a drifting
thought of Rautendeleln, and a "Zephyr"
which is a gay and Innocent thing, con
sisting of a half-grown child lying un
clothed, In ths grasses, with wind
tossed hair, blowing a thistledown. But
Miss Cooper does other work work,
Which is liked in ths villages where they
desire statues of Important men, por
traiture In clay, memorials of all sorts.
She brings her imagination Into play.
and redeems the most banal things with
it I think she has a sincere sympathy
with her subject, and that it gives
beauty to subjects which otherwise
would have none. At any rate, she is
much occupied. Her reputation grows
In the west She is an example of what
singleness of purpose and hard work
united to a fair talent can do."
The final design for the statue has
been received and is considered a re
markably beautiful work of art so far
as the committee has been able to Judge
from the photograph of the clay In the
rough and unfinished detail. By con
noisseurs of Portland it is considered to
far surpass any conception of Sacajawea
yet presented. Its life and action is
rarely achieved in clay and much
greater perfection may be expected
when it appears In finished bronxe.
It Is considered beautiful enough to
adorn the souvenir tickets which are to
be given as a complimentary recog
nition of the people who were public
spirited enough to pay up their subscrip
tion in full. Instead of taking advantage
of the time limit. Secretary Keed is
now at work upon them. J. K. Gill &
Co. have, within the past week, placed a
large order In Germany for colored sou
venir postal cards to be adorned with
the pictures of the various fair build
ings and places of interest adjacent to
Portland. Ten thousand of these cards
will be of the Sacajawea statue.
The last two contributions to the
Sacajawea fund have been $12.65 from
Condon, which has been raised by the ef
forts of Mrs. Thomas Mlcklln, and
112.25 from an entertainment given in
Marshfleld under the auspices of Mrs.
McCormac, the vice-president for that
town. A number of Individual mem
bership fees have also been received.
Mrs. Donald McLean, state regent D.
A. R. of New York, writes that she has
a nice little sum already collected and
the roundwork laid for more liberal
contributions among ths women of her
organisation. -
Thus the work progresses, slowly but
surely, and when the time comes to
make the appeal to Portland, the feeling
Is strong upon the board that It would
not be long till "finis" can be written at
the end of the chapter.
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To Keep in Touch
With Industrial Conditions.
The following resolutions were of
fered by the national Industrial oom
mltteee at the biennial convention and
after being referred to the committee
on resolutions were unanimously
adopted:
1. That each club should nave a
standing committee on industrial condl
tions.
S. That each club should devote at
least ons meeting a year to the consid
eration of some feature of Industrial
problems.
. That clubs having talks on cur
rent events should Include events oc
curring lh the 'industrial world, and at
ths end of the year have a summary
given, so that members could have a
knowledge of local conditions.
4. That at annual meetings of state
federations spacs on programs should
be accorded for addresses on some
phases of present industrial conditions.
6. That each standing industrial com
mittee should prepare a schedule of
laws relating to the employment of
women and children In that state to
send to the industrial committee of the
general federation, and that each state
federation should agitate for enforce
ment of laws and for amendments lo
laws, If they were not up to the stand
ard of the Massachusetts labor laws.
6. That the clubr, should endeavor to
promote the appointment of women as
factory inspectors wherever women and
children work in manufacture and com
merce. 7. That the clubs should agitate for
Juvenile courts and probation officers
wherever these do not exist.
In time these resolutions will be put
Into letter form and every affiliated
club or state federation will be sent a
copy. The trouble is these communi
cations come after the year's calendar
is made up and the committee and pro
gram work fully in swing. To then
take it up means a readjustment of
work with a corresponding confusion,
hence It would be well for clubs to take
Bpecial note of this action of the con
vention, and without waiting for a di
rect communication adopt the sugges
tion so far aa It is consistent with their
club work.
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Astoria Woman's Club
Has Fine Traveling Library.
The Woman's club of Astoria, Or.,
which was organized in 1900, has as its
stated object the "fostering of friendly
relations, and securing of a concert of
action in Intellectual, philanthropic and
social activities." It has at present
about 80 members.
One of Its chief ambitions Is the ad
vancement of the city, and the clvlo im
provement committee is accomplishing
considerable in Us work of cleansing and
beautifying ths town. The club has an
traveling library, consisting of five
boxes each holding over 60 books, which
is doing muoh good throughout the
county.
During the first three years, the de
partments of ths club for Intellectual
Improvement were art and travel, lit
erature, parliamentary law, history and
music. Good work was done in all these ,
classes, but this year parliamentary law
and music were dropped and the club aa
a whole, took up the study of civil gov
ernment under the very capable leader
ship of Miss Emma Warren.
During the paat year, the following
lectures were enjoyed by the olub mem
bers and their guests: Rev. W, S. Gil
bert, Mrs. P. J. Mann and Mr. Hugh
Hurdman of Portland; Professor
Schaffer of Eugene and Doctor Woods
Hutchinson, secretary of the Oregon
stats board of health.
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Gambling in High Places'
Shocks the Texas Ministers.
xne -purity crusaaa, the laat con
tortions of which Portland (purified.
every sincere person believes) is Just
recovering from, but still cognisant of
many stings from feelings hurt and In
Judicious advertising, was but a riffle
on the surface compared with ths tear
ing asunder of church and society Aus
tin.i Texas, is having over fashionable
gambling under the guise of euchre
parties.
The situation is this: Mrs. Baker,
fascinating, vivacious little woman of
artistic taste and attainments, and
penchant for its commercial value,
moved Into one of the highly fashiona
ble residence streets, and next door to
one of the religiously Inclined house
holders with which the thoroughfare is
occasionally punctuated. Mrs. Baker be
came popular and at onoe grasped the
opportunity to indulge her various
fancies, and with a weather eye to
business that the most saintly must ad
mire, conceived the idea of giving semi-
weekly euchre parties, charging a small
fee of 26 cents and giving a piece of her
own beautifully hand painted china as a
prize. To keep them strictly within the
charmed circle of Tilirh society" invita
tions were issued, and nobody admitted
without ons.
The result was, that as the fortunate
winners displayed their exquisite bits of
china to their friends, envy took posses
slon of their hearts and before Mrs.
Baker realized it women were falling
over themselves to be introduced to
her, in order to get invitations' to her
"afternoons with the nope of being a
prize winner, and she and her china
closet were doing a land office business.
The various churches finding their aid
societies, auxiliaries and all afternoon
services deserted, ' determined to take a
hand, too, so arranged a prayer meeting
of a special nature, with Mrs. Baker's
next door neighbor, to be held on the
same day aa one of Mrs. Baker's "af
ternoons." The fashionable street was
agog; every curtain raised Just suffi
ciently to accommodate the tall of some
body's eye, and every woman, Invited
to neither, behind It to manipulate the
eye. ,
Carriage after carriage rolled up toi
MRS. FANNY HARDY ECKSTORM,
Author of "Ths Penobscot Man." Who
Formerly Lived in Oregon City. ,
ths horss block, which stood on mutual
ground and when ths dust rolled away,
it was spades against ths dsclc that Mrs.
Baker's party was running full handed.
Ths next Sunday tha storm broke;
from ths pulpit of every church roUsd
forth denunciation of fashionable gam
Ming, names were freely used and per
sonal recriminations wsrs indulged in to
an extant that would bars put Portland
to ths blush for timidity in her most
lurid moments of purification. Things
have gone so far that legal proceedings
are talked of and the end is not yet
Personality in any matter, whereby
public morals or government are to
be improved Is a grievous mistake, and
loses ths reformers ths sympathy and
support ths good work is sntitled to,
In this case ths ministers havs been
caricatured and ridiculed while the
"plucky little woman" has received the
plaudits of ths onlookers for ths "fight
she has put up." In this they are
Joined by the semi-rellglous suchrs de
votees to support their own questiona
ble conduct, and the matter has mors of
a demoralising effect than otherwise,
and a righteous protest has been dl
verted from its channels of usefulness.
Ths ministers undoubtedly havs the
right on their side. To paint china and
sell It for the money It brings, or is
worth, is also legitimate, but to Invite
a lot of women to pay about six times
Its value for the privilege of coming
Into a game. . where ths wheel of for
tune, good luck or a skillful manipula
tion of the cards don't be shocked, for
the woman who plays for It at all Isn't
far off from ths other puts It Into
their possession. Is gambling, pure and
simple, end carrying with It Just ths
same demoralizing elements that char
acterize the slot machine, the roulette
wheel or the faro bank.
Card playing Is not a high grade
amusement even when "sclentlflo whist"
Is chosen. The manner of leading, play
ing and ths mild exeroise of memory to
know what has "been played, lend It a
certain skill, but no science, for an acs
will take a king every time, no matter
how It's played, so it is very largely a
game of who happens to get the cards,
if you are playing an honest game. It
hasn't even the saving grace of the ex
ercise that Is derived from a gams of
croquet, and except for those wJho feel
that time Is longer than eternfty and
they want to get rid of a lot of It,
there Is no recommendation for cards
for pleasure, while there may be no
great harm In them, either; but whether
they are played for a cut glass vase, s
hand painted chocolate pot or e, lace
handkerchief or some other prize of
greater or less value In a fashionable
home, or for $5.00 worth of chips at
the Portland club, matters very little In
the moral aspect of the case, and as an
Austin minister said:
Social gambling Is ths most Insidious
form of the vice. It throws ths glamour
of respectability over a great evil, which
is none the less an evil because prac
ticed in modified form."
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International Sunshine
Society and Its Wonderful Leader
At the annual meeting of ths Inter
national Sunshine society, of which Mrs.
Cynthia Westover Alden is president-
general, which was held at the Waldorf-
Astoria In New York In May, fully 3,000
members were present Including dele
gates from every state in the Union.
Two days of the session were devoted
to business and the third day was glve,n
over to an excursion to Sea Cliff on
Long Island where they were delight
fully entertained by prominent club
women.
At tha buslnsss meeting Thursday
morning it was announced that 2,626
towns were interested in the Sunshine
work, the middle ' states leading with
671 cities. Canada la represented by 77
tries havs Sunshine organizations. The
revsnua of cities is led by Brooklyn,
followed by New York. In four years
New York has contributed mors than
$5,000 and Brooklyn soma 14,600, which
Is a much larger proportloa c
, Mrs, Alden, who was ths originator of
ths society, still continues its honored
head, and in all probability will so con
ttnus as long as shs Is physically abls
to wield ths controlling powsr, which
means an immense amount or most un
selfish and devoted work.
Mrs. Alden's deep sympathy with
women of ths everv-day typs has been
ths secret bf her succsss in not only
this particular line of work but In what
ever shs has undertaken. Born to the
nsosssity of earning a living, and with
an indomitable perseverance and energy,
shs mads herself a powsr in whatever
wsjk oz lire ths pursued, and with
herself raised ths standard of Its ex
cel lenoe.
Recently ths has given to ths world
of wags sarnsrt a little book sntitled
"Woman's Ways of Earning Money."
ons of ths most practical, common-sense
works of that kind- that has svsr been
published, but Just what might bs ex
pected from ons of Mrs. Alden's ac
quirement a It ' la written not on
theoretical bases but , upon actual ex
perience.
In every department or path which of
fers an allurement to women who have
to task a living, or desire to Increase
thslr lnooms ths strong undercurrent of
advics Is to "find ths occupation you are
bast flttsd for." This has probably been
ths secret of her own success In the
Sunshino work. Her strongest sympa
thies wsrs for women who through 111
health wsrs sxcluded from nature's sun-
shins and into their life shs has en
deavored to bring ths sunshine of
human lovs and comfort
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Alpha Literary Club of
Baker City Builds a Library:
Ths Alpha Literary club of Baker city
was organized January 27, 1901, and was
sdmltted into the State Federation In
May, 1201. This club was started with
a membership limited to 20, the aim be
ing mutual Improvement In art and liter-,
aturs and the founding and maintaining
of a public library, of which Baker City
stood sadly in need.
Our linss of literary work have been
along English and American literature,
with soms side lines of domestic science
and civic improvement. Ths year 105
is to bs dsvoted to Oregon history and
literature. Ths Interest and enthusiasm
In ths work of ths club has grown to
such an extent that it' was deemed ad
visable to change the membership limit,
and ws now havs an activs membership
of 46.
In ths second year of our organisation.
the public library was definitely started
by means of a library association- with
shares at $6 each. Ths sals of these.
together with entertainments, have en
abled us to purchase about 2.600 vol
umes. Our latest venture being the
compiling of a cook book. Two thou
sand volumes are being printed, and
from the nroceeds of this, ws expect to ,
very materially Increase the number of
our library books.
Through the kindness or Mr. jrouman
ws havs always had a room free of
charge. The library is now self-supporting
through its membership cards which
are sold at the low price of $1. Upon
the completion of the new city hall we
are to move Into commodious quarters,
donated by ths city.
The constant growth of the library is
very gratifying to the club members,
who have so faithfully worked toward
this end, and they now have the pleasure
of seeing their Ideals fulfilled, in a
measure, at least, and the future of
Baker City's publlo library secure.
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The Artistic Needle
Workers' Club of Marshfleld.
The Artistic Needle Workers' club Is
becoming one of the powers for civic
betterment in the town, going to work
quietly and systematically to do tha
thinss that seem to them most neeaeu.
and using their endeavors and money
where it will havs the most tening ei-
fect.
The club was organized in November.
1901; its purposes and objects Deijig
civic improvement It has at present 25
'members and Its president is Mrs. Hat-
tie E. McCormao.
The first club effort was to give a
"loan exhibit" at which $27.60 was
raised for a school library.
Recently they headed the list with a
donation of $100 .for the Marshfleld
board of trade. Five dollars was con
tributed by the club to the Sacajawea
statue. The school grounds havs Been
Improved, and flowers planted at an
expense of $34.
The next work to be taken up Is to
assist the Volunteer Fire department In
furnishing a club room for their- owro
use. . The social side of club life Is not
forgotten, and once a month a feast is
spread, , when all ths " good things pro
vided are enjoyed. An annual picnic
closes the club season..
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GOSSIP OF SOME CURRENT BOOKS t
"When Wilderness Was King"
I saw a dot upon the map, a house-fly's
filmy wing
They said 'twas Dearborn's picket-flag
when Wilderness was King.
I heard the block-house gates unbar, the
column's solemn tread,
I saw the tree of a single leaf its splendid
foliage shed
To wave awhile that Ausrust morn above
the column's head;
I heard the moan of muffled drum, the
woman's wall of fife,
The Dead March played for Dearborn's
men just marching out of life;
The swooping of the savage cloud that
burst upon the rank
And struck It with its thunderbolt in
forehead and in flank.
The spatter of the musket-shot, the rifles'
whistling rain
The sandhills drift 'round hope forlorn
. that never marched again.
Benjamin F. Taylor. ;
Around this scene Randall Parrish has
woven one of the most remarkably strong
- stories that has ever grown out of the
'"- est, gaining a place for "When Wilder
ness Wat King" rarely enjoyed by writ
rs of a land where history Is still mak
ing and time has not cast its glamor over
Its events and actors.
. It is written autoblographically, and
' while one recognizee the strength, cour
age, intelligence and nobility of character,
it Is so subtly woven with modesty and
Xinconsclousneaat i self .in .th telling
: tio susplclotr of "forwardness creeps Into
' ths conception of the hero's character.
John Wayland. the hero, Is the son. of
r Major Wayland. a bravs old veteran, and
has been reared on a quiet farm with
out friends or companions of his own age.
..:".v whole1 life had been spent in the
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"backwoods" among the hills and In
the forests of his father's farm; his em
ployment the caring for the cattle and
following the plough, thus he becomes a
cautious, thoughtful, industrious man,
endowed -with all the knowledge and
tricks of the woodsman and as quiet and
stealthy as the Indian on the trail. From
this quiet, uneventful life the youthful
hero of the story was called to take part
in one of the most dramatic Indian wars
in the history of the west.
A friend of Major wVland sent a dying
request that for old-time friendship's
sake his daughter, who was to be left
alone at Fort Dearborn upon his demise,
be sent for and made a member of the
major's family. With the request came
a hastily written postscript stating that
the girl had become an orphan, and the
dt-mand made upon friendship became Im
mediate. John, being the only available person,
waa sent to what is now the city of Chi
cago then Fort Dearborn to bring the
child home to his father's house.
It Is far too good a story and too sweet
and pure a romance to be spoiled by the
comments of a reviewer, for those who
have the reading of It yet In store and
a rare treat it will be for i them but
aside from this feature the work has
much Intrinsic worth in its historical
Character, with strong dramatic scenes
in Indian and garrison life. Some good
character sketching is also an attractive
feature, portraying the 'Indian in his
good and bad traits, as well as the selfish
ness and stubbornness of .the officers at
the fort. . -
In Bhort the book throughout la
thrilling. Interesting and Instructive, with
a deep note of coming promise for the
future of America as a field from which
to call rich, romantic and historic ma
terial for Just such writers as Mr. Par
rish to work into permanent and abiding
literature.
The book Is unusually attractive in
binding, being, of course, natural linen
and embellished with a more than ordi
narily handsome and appropriate design.
One of the most striking features of the
book Is six beautifully and highly colored
illustrations, which give a richness and
caste to the book quite out of line with
what is commonly called "the current
books." Initial designs of a unique pat
tern give a qualntness of appearance to
the book I hat Is good to look upon, and
on the whole make one feel the price of
the book is way below the value of the
pure enjoyment one gets out of it.
A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago. Price
$1.60.
, "The Ark of 1803" By C. A. Stephens.
This Is just a bit of history of the
Louisiana purchase times, when to take
wool, cattle and fowls, brandy and, all
other products of the upper Mississippi
to the New Orleans market meant
months of hardship and toil with a risk
to life -and loss of property we can
but little realize today and would know
nothing of tomorrow, if it were not for
Just such books as "The Ark of 1803;"
but it was the pioneers of those times,
daring everything, risking life and all
that was dear,?? open up .the country
and force its trade down through the
Mississippi to New Orleans, that created
the agitation which showed to our
statesmen the necessity for the pos
session of the country, and brought to
an issue at an opportune, time the pur
chase of the Louisiana territory.
The "Ark" was built at Fish Creek, a
settlement near Marietta, Ohio, and
taken to New Orleans, and the story of
the bonk consists of tha trln down the
river with its Interesting incidents, its
mishaps and even the pleasures gotten I
out of a perilous Journey, but It Is
wholly history which confirms the old
comparison between truth and fiction.
The city of Cairo at that time con
sisted of a' big flat boat, and the heroes
of "The Ark of 1803" played a trick
upon the "city" that would do credit to
the college boys of today out on a
"lark." These same heroes arrived in
New Orleans just in time to see, as the
author says: "The tri-colors of France
slowly lowered and tha stars and stripes
raised until they met midway of the
flagstaff, and were saluted. Then the
ilag of the United States arose to the
accompaniment of a great oheer from
the thousands of boatmen and soldiers,
and Now Orleans was an American city
for all future time." It la in this clear
dramatic Btyle the book s written and
the story told.
It would be well for every American
ooy to read the book and con well Its
lessons of patriotism and devotion and
faithfulness to duty with which the
pages are replete.
The book is well and attractively
bound, and in good, clear, readable type,
making It the boys' ideal book.
A. S. Barnes & Co., New Tone Fries
$1.26.
"The Penobscot Man" By Fatuiie
Hardy Eckstorm. In the above story
Mrs. Eckstorm does not make her initial
bow to Oregon. While not of Oregon,
but of the strong, masterful Penobscot
"race of which she writes, she was one
of Oregon some years ago, when, -she
resided in Oregon Ctty mild " wroTeso
charmingly of Oregon birds, and even
after returning to her native land of
Maine, turns lovingly to Oregon and
the friends she made while dwelling
among them and to whom she hopes to
return, for a visit; ; during the Lewis
and Clark fair. All this should lend in
terest to the little Hook of stories she
has Just sent forth, "strung," as shs
says, "like beads of remembrance, upon
ons thread of which ws who love it
never tire the river."
True stories they are of ths Penobscot
river and the "West Branch Drive,"
with neither names or places disguised;
told simply jsu the author has heard
them in her childhood and womanhood
from the lips of the participants. One
can read between the lines ths real
love of the people and how near to her
heart they lie, from the tenderness with
which she handles their sternest char
acteristics or most glaring faults.
The forests of Maine, ' with their
tumbling, turbulent streams, admit of
little romance, but as the men who
have been reared amidst these austere
surroundings stride down and into the
outside world the wonder Is often ex
pressed, from whence they came, and
why these powerful giants. "The Pen
obscot Man" explains much or this.
The stories deal with the great log
glng industry, its hardships, its In
creasing toil and the manner of men
It tends to create. It treads an entirely
new field of story telling and has cre
ated a new and wide interest in a noble
race of-mea who are living their lives
of duty fulfilled, and facing death as
but an Incident of creation.
Thero are lCLOf these charming stor
sle, each a gem in the rough, but pol
ished to .exquisite brightness by Mrs.
Eckstorm' ready pen. We predict that
this first book Of. stfirles, in ita f rash
ness of location and 'subject, has opened
up sn avenue to greater Interest In ths
dwellers bf the Dins forests and granite
crags. , It will do more than this; It will
crystallize into permanent form- many
of ths incidents , in the lives bf these
me,n who have gone to make up ths his
tory Of their stats - which
would pass away, or be remembered only
as improbable tradition.
. The book Awill find ready sale and
a host of readers" among the sportsmen
who have. made it quits the fad to seek
the ! woods and streams of northern
Maine for their summer outing, and
who will no doubt greet with kindly re
membranes mors than one of Mrs. Eck-
storm's heroes. Ths book Is neatly and
suggestively bound.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston.
Price $1.26.
'Ths Long Night"- By Stanley Wey
mait - When the author chose Geneva as
the scene for his last novel he thereby
gained for himself ths eternal friend
ship of the people of the Swiss olty. It
is testimony to ths fidelity of Mr.
Weyman's story that the leading clt
Izens of Geneva have united In present
ing him with an illuminated and in
cribed address, and bust of Calvin.
"The Long- Night" is now being trans
lated into French for the special benefit
of the people of Switzerland.
McClure, Phillips A Co. the American
publishers of "The Long Night" state
that it hat made a greater success than
any of Mr. Wyman's former-works.
"The Mountalns"--Stewart Edward
Whits. The issue of Ths Outlook dated
June 4 Is its fifteenth annual illustrated
recreation number. As is 1 usual with
ths Outlook, this Issue, in addition" to
the regular editorial and interpretative
treatment of news events, important
public questions, and current literature,
contains a group of out-of-door articles,
ths majority of them carefully and fully
illustrated. Tha most notable among
these articles in this year's recreation
number is ths first installment of Mr.
otherwise ( Stewart Bdward White's aerial "The ,
Mountains." This may be called a com
panion series to Mr. White's "The For
est," which was published last' summer.
"The Mountains" describes and pic
tures the author's experience. In explor
ing and camping out In a section of a
California Sierras ' very little known.
Like "The Forest," It not only abounds
In practical suggestions for camping and
woods life, but is Infused with a spirit
and lovs of nature.
"Ths Blood Lilies"- By W. A. Fraser.
While rather a peculiar title, and not ex
actly attractive, except through Its un
naturalness, ' the book itself proves
neither peculiar or unattractive. In
fact there is a poetical imaginativeness,
which the title holds to some extent,
running throughout the book. It, how
ever, is a stirring tale of the northwest;
realistic to a degree and dealing with
that time about which so manv stories
are now being written, when the Hudson
Bay Fur company held empire over the
vast ' region known as the northwest
There Is no period in the ' history of
America so rich In legendary romance
as the days when the factors Of this
company held semi-feudal sway, in bar-
bario splendor over that boundless
country. Mr. Fraser deals with the
French and Scotch element that en
tered Into the lives of the traders, but
the jcentral figure Of ths book is the
Indian boy "Mas-kl-sls," ,whoss story
is a sadly pathetic one.vwtth a treat
lesson -70T the misdirected kindness of
the white man to ths. savage child of
nature. The characters throughout ara
cleverly drawn and tha nature pictures
so skillfully presented ons never misses
the love-story which is absent. ' Ths
book contains tome rich humor, - and
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