The Oregon daily journal., November 19, 1905, Image 6

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SUNDAY. .NOVEMBER 1&, 1CC3. 1
PORTLAND, OREGONT
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THE O REGON SUNDAY; JOURNA L
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THE DUTY OF XOOKING AHEAD.
' 'iJt iMl'UKlAnt misusers reiin"'r-
the law-making arid money-spenttng powers
national, state, municipal. '
And' the important thing, more important than, til
tfther business and duties, is to -; . ?,,-t
Look aheadl . ., , ..
We die; our works live after us, to plague or bless.
If some 50 years ago A Judge had tooted aheact if he
could have foreseen what Portland now. is, to say noth
ing of what it shall be which we are dimly beginning
to realize he would never have decided that case as he
did, would have given the city the land between Front
rtreet and the river. Technically, tha,t decision may have
been right; philosophically, practically, if was a tre
mendous mistake, from which we are suffering, and from
which, unless we act bravely and promptly, all future
generations will suffer."" ,.."'.'.'..'.'.
Then, a Judge could have said. And ought to have said,
that this land belonged to the city. : Or, even if he de
cided otherwise, as he did, the land ought to hare been
bought in by, and for the city. J But it was not. , Men
did not look ahead. ' . " i . ' . .
; The trouble was that the people -of that time good,
noble people, too, for the most part--did" not look far
enough ahead. And this is the trouble right now.
The same mistake, along other Tines and in different
directions,1 has beeri made since; and is likely to be made
again and againunless men put in office will look ahead.
If we elect a man to the council, or to the legislature,
we trust him to Look- Ahead. Too-often, generally, in
fact, his eyes are no keener than a bat's.
Can't you understand that Portland,with good, honest
local. legislation, is gob to be a city of a quarter of a
million inhabitants in the near future, and of half a
million later? Can't you understand that this, is a sea
port, with immense foreign commerce already, and a
great deal more con-in g if we properly prepare to take
care of it? , .. . ..v , ' .; .
' Don't you know that the thousands of ships that are
coming here must have "ample room and verge enough"?
Can t you understand tnat your ooys ana gins, 11 not you,
as members ,of a great municipality, will' need to own
and control, must own and control, the harbor and the
docks? What are one, or two, or a dozen, or a score,
of private dock owners' rights and privileges compared
with the very lifeblood of half a million toiling, aspiring
people? We ask you ephemeral legislatora that, and we
ask you to , ' .- ' : ,t, , :V ... ' ' ' ' , - yj
Look aheadl , . . M : ' , ' 1
' THE BUSINESS MEN'S EXCURSION. ,
-J-VERY ONE of the 84 men composing the busl
U"H 1 ness men's excursion to the towns between
here and Ashland returned home impressed more
than ever before with the glory and greatness of Oregon.
There were men with the party who had traveled over
those sections' in the earlier days and there were men
who had been reared in Various towns along the line,
put there were others, though very, few, some of them
newcomers to Portland and others business men so tied
up here with their dAtiea that they had done nothing
more than to pass through the extreme borders of the
State on their way south. Each And every one of them
brought. back' with them three very vivid impressions.
First,, the extreme hospitality and : friendliness of the
peopler second, the growth of the spirit of unity be
tween all sections, and third, the firm conviction that
nowhereis there a state more variedly blessed, ,
There was difference In the degree and character of
the welcome, but seldom in its quality. Everywhere the
people were glad to see the Portlanders. .Word had been
sent ahead that no entertainments were expected and
that no money should be spent in this way. Had it not
been for this, the excursionists would have been dined
and, in the "open" towns, wined clear from Portland to
Ashland and back-again. Bu it was -the -cordiaLweU
come everywhere extended, the feeling of friendliness
and good fellowship everywhere shown, the genuine
neighborly feeling exhibited,' that , most profoundly af
fected every one on the excursion and sent hira. home
with; A. hearty appreciation' of the hospitality of the
Oregotr people"- '-' ; -. v. . , ;"
, Everywhere were found signs of the newer and greater
Oregon. " Everywhere men spoke of their communities
as though they were proud of them. Everywhere they
had proofs in, plenty, to, submit ,of what they said. -All
gave cordial testimony of the value of the Lewis and
Clark .exposition.; New: settlers were coming, in, many
- more were to follow, and they-were-introdueing flewef
and more intense methods in their work, with the grati
fying results that always follow such intelligent efforts.
Down toward the extreme point of the trip the presence
and dominating force of the younger men were plainly
apparent. .They were decidedly up-to-date' and some of
them ahead of it vThey were ahowing that they were no
longer satisfied with producing good results,- but, lik
the Medford orchardist who recently netted $5.40 a boa
on a carload of pears which wholesaled in New York at
8 cents apiece, were aiming at the highest pinnacle ol
production that had been reached in their line. Farthet
up along the line a transformation, much more gradual,
but still noticeable, is in progress. The day of wheat
raising is slowly passing and the day of the small farnt
is coming. The west side of the river, the last section
visited, .was apanorama of beauty and development
A striking feature 'of the trip was the great growth
of many of the towns. . New-buildings were springing
up everywhere and many of -the newer business build
ings were models of beauty and comfort ami of a size
truTyasr6HTShtng: Another sUikingHFeatute was ' th
utilization of the streams for the generation of power
and its adaption in so many manufacturing enterprises.
Everywhere there was a pleasing note of optimism ex
pressive. of the feeling that the particular section was
advancing, that it was destined to grow mucn more rap
idly in the immediate future than ever before and thai
the state itself had entered upon a period of unrivalled
development " i , ;. .
I These excursions have been of great value to the busi
ness men themselves in bringing them directly into con
tact with those who patronize them. But they have had
a further value in bringing together under social condi
tions and in intimate relations these men of Portland
and making them more thoroughly acquainted with each
other. This of itself-would flfake kthem worth while,
for they encourage a unity of purpose in public enter
prises and engender a feeling of fellowship that cannot
fail to mean the furtherance of the public interests of
. the city and state. "' ' ' " ' - -,; " ' . ; -; ( ' "
"IN TIME OP PEACE PREPARE FOR WAR."
ITWOULD BE an excellent idea if Multnomah's
"county officials could devise a complete system of
checks on all transactions, involving , the public
funds, so' as to absolutely insure for the future the same
businesslike methods that are now pursued. It is safe
to say that the county's financial affairs have never been
.'. so well administered as they are at the present time.
At the same time, it is admitted by those familiar
with the manner in which the county's business is con
ducted that the opportunity for dishonesty still exists.
If at any time dishonest men should be elected to county
office they could easily practice the same systematic
grafting and Stealing which brought disrepute on former
administrations. Except for the closer scrutiny of county
affairs given by the public, the-safeguards are in the
inainjwrother arid no greater than they were a few
years ago. The county auditor exercises a general super
vision of all other offices, but there is no such rigid and
exhaustive examination of books nd accounts as would
lruke fraud impossible without the collusion of the
auditor himself.'' Very likely the present county auditor1
does all that could be reasonably expected of him under
existing conditions, but it should be possible to make
provision for just such rigid investigation of each de
partment at stated intervals as was made two years ago
by the expert who was hired by the county for the pur
pose of unearthing the frauds of the previous adminis
tration. - " - ' -. f .. .,, ;V "
The suggestion that (here should be a better system
f checks on the coilnty's business carries no reflection
..t. mv official now in office. Indeed, it 1s became the
present adminiMretion is so free from suspicion of graft
that tie time is auspicious for safeguarding the future.
FORTY MILLIONS A YEAR.
A PRESS CORRESPONDENT figures it out, as
published in The -Journal the other day, that
John D. Rockefeller's, income ia now about forty
million dollars a year. Twenty millions, it is said, will
have been paid to him this year on account of Standard
Oil stock alone, of which stock he owns one half; and
the correspondent estimatea that his income from other
sources, mostly railroad stocks, is twenty millions more,
making the neat sum of .-;.':
Forty millions a year I
" Men are not very old yet who in their boyhood and
youth would no more have supposed such a thing pos
sible than that the earth should change to veritable gold
and the seas to molten silver. Sixty or fifty years ago
John Jacob Astor "and Commodore Vanderbilt were
America's richest '.men;-pedple- looked upon them as
marvels, as prodigies, as modern Croesuses, because it
was said they had acquired a million dollars each, or
possibly even little more.. They were actually mil
lionaires! By great industry and the exercise of fine
business talent these men became noted the whole world
'round because in the space of a lifetime they had made
a million. Wonderful, astonishing, . then a million!
Boys all through the country gaped at the stupendous
seven figures and soiled their Daboll's arithmetics figur
ing out what a million was, what it meant, what income
Ifwouldrprodnce, mnd-older-'-peopletonsidered -what
power there was in it for good or ill a great round,
magnificent, noble, stupendous fascinating sum six
naughts, orefixed bv a little straight fimire one. and that
by a dollar markl . ; - - -:- J ; y- "" '; .""
But later the wonder La million passedfor the.om-
modore and John Jacob grew richer and were possessed
oLmuch-more than a fniUtoq before they-died, and of
many tens of millions to come to their heirs, through
that best of all expenditures, investments in real estate.
Those wise old men knew that by getting possessipn of
Manhattan dirt they would leave their children And
grandchildren and great-grandchildren colossal fortunes,
as they did."77. T ... :-
How times have changed! What , wonders time's
magic whirligig hath wrought in half a century! Think
of the telephone, for instance. And of the uses of elec
tricity.. And of wonders and marvels all around and
about us, that have become ao common that we consider
them not at all, but that to our grandparents would have
been such marvels, such impossibilities, as could only
have been devised and constructed by supernatural be
ings. An Edison was born and set to work, and an
Ericsson, and a Morse, and many others; millionaires
became quite common and ceased to be a wonder Jay
Gould, Jay Cooke, Alexander Stewart, Marshall Field,
and a hundred others; but even in the midst of all these
wonders, this immense and intense development, and for
the most part honorable acquisition, it waa never dreamed
until just recently, and can scarcely be realized now, that
one frail man in the course of his life, could have built
up a colossal, staggering fortune producing an income
an annual income, remember, not a fortune but an in
come pn his fortune, of - . ,
iluir dullai's e'jear.
that 'a woman could do if she tried, and for generations
she l)ad been taught that she mustn't try. Even a. woman
doctor was regarded with suspicion and aversion, and
yet there certainly is no field in all business endeavor
in which women are more needed, or for which they are
by nature and taste better fitted, than the medical field.
. Records of high schools and co-ed colleges show con
clusively not only that there arc more girl than boy
students, butjhat. the girls are better students; learn
more readilj?re better behaved in all ways.-Tha boya
are crazy over athletica and games, while the girls are
digging at their books and striving for a high record in
deportment. A girl can learn botany, chemistry, history,
modern languages and elements of philosophy, m addi
tion to the "common branches," as well as a boy, and
does. As a rule, she learns them better, and appreciates
them more. For a quarter of a century .or more the
American girl has been successfully and splendidly fitting
herself for the positions into which she smilingly ' and
irresistibly is crowding. If a girl doesn't want to marry
"mere man and raise a family, that is her individual
business. If she can, get a man's job and put him to
sucking his thumbs and wondering what the world is
coming to, she gets it because she deserves it and it
Serves him right.
But there is one branch of human industry, the most
natural of all branches to women, which, we wish to sug
gest with diffidence, is almost entirely escaping, their
attention. - There are few positions in the world in which
competent Women may be so independent as in that of
cook. In the whole range of life there is no duty more
essential to human comfort and happiness and no trade
in which so much inferior service is rendered. In cast
ing about for independent, well-paid places, the business
of cooking receives very much less attention from women
than it deserves, and if there was some recession of the
tide in that direction it would be better for many women
and infinitely better for this and the rising generation
of Americans. . . .
- ' VICE OF INTERCOLLEGIATE SPORTS.
A WRITER in Collier's is showing up in a series of
articles the commercialism of football and other
games as . played by college . teams, and he
claims to have found that these games are not played so
much for the sport, the amusement, the recreation, the
fun of them, aa such gamea used to be played, as. for
the purpose of winning a victory at all hazards, and by
any means, fair or foul.. And sometimes there is even
a money temptation, which become the prime motive
of acollege football team, and ro such case it will on
sufficient temptation sell put, as footracers, sometimes
do. .In a word, this contributor to Colliers finds thai
the whole business for it seems to have become a
"business" rather than a sportof intercollegiate
games, is deaeneratiiiff. .This is his word. "One must
get into the uamc." he gavs. "or lose out."
Possibly this writer has somewhat exaggerated the
case, but we believe it to be true that the money microbe,
he commercial .worm, has eaten its way lar imo me
heart of college sport as well as of all American sport.
and is polluting the youth of the land. 'Anytning ratner
than "to lose out." Anything, , therefore, to win.
Money talks. Merit, blushing, retires to the rear. . This
is the situation, according to thia writer, and he cites
games between two prominent Chicago colleges as
sample, and promises many more. . ' .
It is this exaltation of mere victory above the sport
itself,' the desire to win by , any means, ' fair or foul,
rather than to have a good time, a fine, romping,' healthy
play, that has Jed to brutal slugging in football, and
''rattling the pitcher" in baseball. Yet slugging and the
purchase of the services of unconscionable athletes for
cash or otherwise; do not differ, in principle or in their
essential nature from cheating at cards or passing a
counterfeit coin.'; ,. ' '
. Thevstudents, the alumni and the faculties that wink at
and encourage such means of winning victories appar
ently have not yet realized that they are putting them
selves on the same plane as card sharpers or footrace
swindlers; else they would put an end to all the practices
that justify such criticism as is made by Mr. Jordan in
ColJieVs. Sport ceases to be sport the moment it be
comes unclean orv. tainted with commercialism, or is in
anywise influenced by the desire of money, or' even the
desire of victory won anywise except on merit, fairly,
decently, honestly. ,- v . : " : ; ; 1 " ' - y- .
There are surely no body of men of quicker conscience
or more clean in their instincts than the faculties and
students of our colleges, but that they are going wrong
in the matter of intercollegiate sports is. at least probable
if not certain. The exposure that' Mr. Jordan is making
means, we judge, reform of the methods he'eriticises;
for if what healleges be true his criticisms cannot be
sneered or laughed flown. " ' : V "'r; :, 7
So-called sports, many thoughtful people think, engross
altogether too much of the college youth's time and life
anyway; but if it-be diriy sport, if this be the rule in in
tercollegiate sports, then surely it is time to raise a
voice against the vicious custom, as Mr. Jordan is doing.
HYMNS YOU OUGHT
- TO KNOW
O Worship the King.
Forty million dollars a year is. three 'million, three
hundred thirty-three thousand, three hundred, thirty
three dollars and thirty-three and a third cents a month;
one hundred eleven thousand, one hundred eleven dollars
and eleven and one tenth cents a day, four thousand, six
hundred twenty-nine dollars and sixty-two cents an
hour, seventy-seven dollars and sixteen cents a minute,
one dollar and twenty-eight cents a second! Every tick
of an old-fashioned clock brings in enough to this old
man to feed, a poor Portland, family three days. Every
minute he receives enough money to give a family a
month's vacation. Every hour he gets enough to buy a
farm in Oregon. - Every day he could start a new bank.
Every month he could buy a heavy interest in a railroad.
Every year he can what can he not do with :
. Forty millions a year?
That one man can have such an income, or even three
fourths or one half that is something worth one's
deep pondering. .' What a .proof of the' stupendous op
portunities which this country, affords, how liberal its
laws and customs and finally how like simple little, chil
dren the people of the most civilized of nations who
realize so little of self protection that they permit such
unequal distribution of their wealth by fair, means and
by fouL -w-rr r- -s---, - : .- -; - ;;: -
WOMEN IN INDUSTRIAL LIFE.
FROM successive American censuses, studied -during
several decades back, it is officially and formally
' shown what we know generally by casual ob
servation that moreAtid more women are seeking, and
finding employment' outside the . limits of their homes.
They run our schools except as to principals and super
intendents and why shouldn t these De women, toor
They throng the department storesj'they almost monop
olize the 'business of stenography, public and private;
they are 'cashiers, ' clerks, lodging-house keepers, mas-
sueses-even barbers. - They haven t gone to work in
the fields and woods yet in this country, as they do in
Germanyt'SwiUerUnd, Hungary" and France; but they
may come to that 4b a generation-or two. . ' , v
tirL . . 1 .' . ' 1 1 I 1 . . t.M
wnat a nappy lime it win dc ior mein inai luiure
time when they are merely fed and don't have to work at
all when thejwomen will do it all T
Realy, and seriously, we think it is rather a good thing
that women are branching" and striding out and doing
something more than and different from what their
grandmothers 'did. - They may overdo it a little for a
time, but if ao there will be a healthy, cleansing recession
of the tide. -
Notice the reasons for this influx of women into bTTSi
ness vocations, formerly, monopolized by men. The
main reason is new occupations created during the last
few years. Fifty years ago, or even lcss. there was little
By Sir Robert' Grant
rwwii tha circumstance of the com
position of this hymn are not definitely
known It waa probably written lit- In
aiarmboufl S Jt From that land irHaa
Journeyed into alt others and ta now a
universal favorite m all church serv
ices. When auna to the tune "Lyona"
It makes an appropriate and tnapliing
opening hymn. Ita author. Sir Robert
Grant, born' in-gland, . 17S5, waa
Scotch Eelflfopairan. Be became mem
ber of -parliament for (Inverness and
later a privy councilor. itt-JS Je fct-wu
appointed aovernor of Bombay. His
literary activity, which reeultea in sev
eral books, Inoludlna twe on. India, and
number of Boodr nytnns, belong! to
this period, its died at Depoorte, In
dia, July , 1SS8.1; .
O worship the King all glorious above.
And srratefwlly sine- his wonderful love;
Our Shield and Defender, the Ancient of
- days, . ,'
Pavilioned in splendor, and girded with
.. praise. ,
O tell of his might and alng of bis
.. grace, , . . -
TChpse robe is the light, whosv canopy
space .
His chariots of wrath the deep thunder
clouds form, t
And dark Is his path en the wings of
. the storm. .
Thy bountiful care, what tongue can
reciter . .. -
It breathes in the air; It shines In the
lis-ht;
It streams from the hills; tt descends
to the plain!
And sweetly distills In the dew and the
." rain. . .
Frail children of dust, and feeble as
In thee do w trust, nor And thee to
fall;
Thy mercies how tender, how Arm to
the end, .
Our Maker, Defender, Redeemer and
, .. Friend!
O measureless Might. Ineffable Love, '
While angels delitjht to hymn thee
above, ,
The humbler creation, ' though feeble
" ' their lays.
With true adoration shall lisp to thy
praise.
.Sentence Sermons. ;
By Henry F. Cope.
Paralysis and piety are not the same.
A silent saint is an eloquent sermon.
Helping men is the best way of fcon
orlng God. . c,
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He who serves self ts paid by Satan.
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' litstness ia the costliest thing In the
world. ; .
No man's religion ever . got worn
out by working it.
An ounce of the olt of good humor
may save many a ton of pulL
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There is always a blessing to be
found In the other man's burden.' 4
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- This rough world makes short work
of all veneer Virtues.
It ia better to smile with a man than
to slg-h for him. - ...
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The preacher' who works for hire is
seldom invited to come up higher.
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' Folks who are too anxious to save
their bacon lose their beef. ; ;
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The. man with time ta wast Is a
bigger fool than the one with money to
burn. .. i
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Toil do not take the sin out of your
hatred of a man by calling him honey.
Some people 'think that a weakness
for rest gives them a right to wear
Wings. . - - ' -,
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It la not always the man who nods
Mr bead at everything the- preacher
says who, la doing moat for the glory
of God. . ....
VThey who axa effervescent in meeting
usually have nothing left In their
bottles .when they get to the thirsty
world.
A man of ' mixed honesty is about
as good aa an egg of mixed antiquity.
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When the roots 'of riches strike into
the heart they . kill the flowers of
charity. , . '. . , ....
Business honor Is a matter of a Just
balance of the heart aa well las a right
balance on tha books. . ' ; -
Richest harvests come from the seeds
that lie under the snows of sorrow. ,.
THE VIEWS OF ONE
.By Ambrose Bierce,
When Admiral ' Togo addresses the
souls of his slain sailors, praising
their courage and assuring them of their
country's gratitude.' tt is natural and
easy for the Christian to deplore, the
materialist to sneer and the philosopher
to smile, but a faith like that 1a. worth
mora than many battleships to tha na
tion holding it. . In calculating Japan's
military resources he reckons ill who
leaves It out. t proves, however, that
tha Japanese have made little real prog
ress In occidental enlightenment.'' They
still believe something.
" According to a Nevada astronomer
(may he ever astronom) "a atrange atar
has appeared In the heavens northeast
of Reno." If tt' is northeast of Rsno
and In another direction from another
town it is indeed a strange star and
might advantageously be followed not
only with the telescope of the astrono
mer, but with the lariat of the cow
boy. -,(";.'-,,
. ' J.
Augusts Person.- the eminent French
man, who Invented etinollae. is dead at
.the Aa-tJiJL Ib-JM JheeejEOjsJbeJtosJ
scribed on his monument: I
"Here lies the consummate geniua
who, after yeara of research, atudy and
labor, succeeded in inventing a new fol
ly for women."
The Washington girl who, having
taken out a license to marry a negro,
changed her mind and became a sister
to him "before," as she says, "it waa too
late," might as well have gone ahead
and married him. It has been too late
v tnpA ah rnnsentedi her next fiance
may entertain an unreasoning prejudice
againsi a coiorea orwwr-iu-ww au
change his own mind. .-
And that recalls the fact ,that too
many of our eateemed contemporaries,
in recording ' (In several columns) the
Incident of the president's oraft having
been in collision with another, were loy
ally pleased to name It' a "disaster."
He who thinks the harmless bumping
of two ships a disaster and the existence
of an exhibiting sycophant a blessing
has but a rudimentary sense of relative
valuea. y ; ..
One foot on Austria, on Hungary t'other,
And each receding from its royal
brother, - , . .
He hold attention gallery and pit,
Eager to see a king perform "the split"
Mr. Johnslng I'se readln' a good deal
about "de great white plague." Wot Is
It? . . '' '
; Mr.-Blffklns Tou'a a lgnant nigger
lata de Canslum race. ; - ': -
The Dead Bosses.
From the New Tork Times.
The political battlefields of the
United States were on Tuesday In one
way bloodier than on any previous elec
tion day.--. They were strewn with the
oarcasses of perhaps more local and
state bosses than had ever been slain In
a single engagemont before. . Here la a
partial list of the casualties:
Sate Boss Oormsn of Maryland, killed.
State Boss-Penrose of Pennsylvania,
killed. ; - - - .,
City Boss Durham of Philadelphia,
killed. ' - . . . . .
City Boss Cox of Cincinnati, mortally
wounded and committed suicide. . -
City Boas Murphy of New Tork, very
groeST but still In tha ring, - - -
Concerning the dead there la nothing
good to be said, and nothing good Is
said, even by their own recent "hench
men." None Is so poor aa to do them
reverence. The hera-kirl of Cnx offers
a graceful and dignified example to the
other victims, who have not yet shown
an1 equally intelligent- perception that
they were no more. . ......
TAKE A LOOK AT
SATURN ' V
- 4 By Garrett P. Servtsa
Saturn unique and most wonderful
of worlda, without mate or counterpart
in the whole universe. It hangs above
the southern horison In these lats au
tumn evenings to the eye simply a
bright star; to the telescope a marvel
of marvels! Kven If you have' no tele
scope, look at It. and aa you Jook re
call what It Is that your eyea are fixed
upon.- It la easily located about I
o'dTCfcfor ,then ft y'wtt due
SOUth. . .... ' - " ' - 1. .; V.;
There it Is In a field of amall faint
atars belonging to the constellation
Aquarius, majestically moving east
ward In Its great 80-year journey around
the- aodiao. There le no hurrying In
the footfalls of the father of the gods.
He will take two whole years to cross
the single constellation of, the Water
beare (Aquarius). Perhaps tt -was the
atately deliberation of Its march that
won for this great plane In - ancient
times the name of Saturn. , ', .-
As you look at It remember that
through all the ages of Egyptian. Chat
dean, Greek, Roman and Arabian as
tronomy and astrology, Saturn marked
the uttermost known limit of the solar
system. The more distant planets,
Uranus and Neptune, awaited tha In-
yantlon of the telescope for their dis
covery, ut during; all that time that
Saturn waa watched from the pyramids
on the Nile, and from the Babel towers
of Mesopotamia, and while the astrolo
gers were spinning their legends around
It, no one suspected the real wonder of
the great planet. Until Galileo invented
his telescope yesterday only 800 years
ago the vast ring -system of Saturn
remained hidden from human eyea
There la, to be sure, a theory, baaed on
certain sculptured symbols, that In old
Babylon the prieata had seen Saturn's
ring, with some early form of tele
scope, or had heard of It through some
tradllluil Uuiiflsa B6h"Tt,8m'a vanished
civilisation of Asia, and kept the secret
to themselves for purposes of mystification-
and such a theory would be im
mensely Interesting If . It could i be
proved. V t ;
As you look at It, with ita pale, ateady
light after all merely a bright point
on the aky remembey that It Is a
globe, a world, 7(0 tlmea as large as
this one on which we have made his
tory, and that it you were using a tele
scope (even a very- small one) you
would plainly see surrounding It a sys
tem of broad, flat tings, looking gener
ally like a single ring, placed with its
thin edge toward the planet, and meas
uring 628,000 miles in circumference
long enough to wrap twice around,, the
earth, and then extend trom the earth
to the moon and back again! And yet
this enormous ring, or system of rings,
one within another, suspended around
the planet Saturn, has a thickness not
exceeding a hundredjnlles! Moreover,
it has been proved that, the rings are
not solid, but are composed of Innum
erable minute - satellites crowded . to
gether In endless swarms.
Can such a world bear Inhabitants?
Certainly not inhabltanta resembling
those of the earth in physical attri
butes. The substance 'of Saturn Is so
light that It would float In water. - It
haa been thought' possible that Saturn
Is chiefly a fluid planet. But whether
fluid or solid, there it Is before our
eyes, with all its vast bulk and - its
magnificent entourage of shining satel
lites and rlnga Perhaps, after all,
man Is not the only, or even- the high
est, type of Intelligent creature Inhabit
ing the worlds that , circle In the sun
light. '. v '.
Presenta His Side.
Sell wood. Or., Nov. IS. To the Editor
of The Journal I feel that Injustice has
been done me in the publication of my
trial and conviction for aalling tobacco
to minors. In that the testimony In my
fevr-wii not -given- tn TiubHrr.
Miss Titus testified that aha bad
clerked for me eight months, that 1 ituu
Instructed her - not- to - eeH - tobacco to
minora, that ahe had heard me refuse
to aell it to them and that she never saw
me scji it to them.
Kef Hogan. eight months In my. em
ploy, testified to the same ffsct. He
bad received the same instructions aa
to selling tobacco to minora as Miss
Titus and had obeyed them.
The coeta In the case were 131.01, and
n?t til, as stated..
It's hoi. much use for a man to set
np as a aoclal reformer when his chil
dren drive-the neighbors to- profanity.
A. Sermon for
' Today '
IMMORTALITY'S CROWN.
Henry K- Cope. ,
. ... ... n.v.v in ia i il up tut Ilia
crown of righteousness, which the Lord,
t. .i i. . j , . ..
. ni.jus juags, snau give me at
, . iiv. it, mg ill 1 1 J mi v uiltv
all them that love his appearing." II.
VIm I..
ll!., ,, . .
THERE are many- eherteMne; the -hope
of immortality who are
yet lunocent of the expectation
. . ' that another world win hold In
store for them the benefits which they
did not receive and probably did not
merit ' here. The passionate yearning
of the'llving to be assured of life be-
yond the grave 'la based on something
deeper than the desire to get something
for nothing. They are seeking no crowns
unearned. ,
Men no longer dellaht In the felicities .
of a fancy paradise. We are little con
cerned with golden streets, with, wings '
and harps and all the other unc'omfort- -able
furnishings of the. cruder pictures
of the blissful future state. .We have
ceased to wonder whether we shall be '
pert ecu y happy there. Men are not
won to bear their burdens and do their
work by tha promise of a Dlava where
neither burdens nor toils are known.
Neltnor do men bone for heaven be
cause they are eaten up with the dread
of hell. Few today are much Influenced
by that fear. - Terrorising, men lute
piety ia no longer practiced. We know
the effects of love lasts longer than that -of
fear. It Is better far to lead men to
Wish to do right than to force them to '
fear to do wrong. , . f -
Why,' then, should men seek hnmuVtaU.
Ity. aeeing they think, little of a heaven
to bo won or a place of torment to be
shunned t We want to know whether
we shall live and what that life shall be
because no one Is satisfied to lay don n
a piece of work unfinished. ' The passion
for Immortality la the desire to com
plete things, the longing to set upon sll
effort and labor the crown of Us own
completion. Us perfection and right
eousness.
No man ever saw his work fully
rounded out here. No one ever looked
over the tasks of life's day without 1
wishing he might attempt them once
agsln. So many Imperfections, so many
mints tnat could be done better now
that the hands have acquired the skill .'
of experience and the heart Its enrich-
Ing of wisdom. As soon' as we have
learned how . to -live we get ready tu
die. This is a "atranae school: where .
and when shall we put all its lessons te .
uset . ' ' . . .-
If this is the'phtce of training, some-
Where " th " Workshop ntuat be, -- What
worth were7 all life if Ita accrued wis
dom never can be usedT . is it strange -that
man cherishes the hope of a. time .
and an opportunity to carry out the best
he haa planned and dreamed, to finish
all that he has but begun or drafted out .
berer . -' - . -
Imperfection, i Incompletlon Is upon
all things here. The riches o friend-
mp, vt nu.me.il jove ucvrr rcacnea ail .
their .ripeness; It seems as though .we
but begin to know our friends ere they
are gone. Ia it strange we 'long-' for
a summer time, long, enough' t" Tlptn
vur inenasnips (o peritenon I oirans;
would. 1tr be If we could let these Joys
lie Where death haa cast. them. '
Most of all la this tru of the .' pur
suits of character. "The good man dies
full of honors but emptied of all-self,
satisfaction. He knows how great' are
the glories yet unattained. While men
think he has earned the crown of right
eousness, he knows be is a beggar in
rags, ma great hope of the future Is
that It may afford the .opportunity for
him to be the good, the great, the pure,
the godlike he hsa seen and longed for
In his beat moments here.
Somewhere there - must dawn a -dav
fairer than this, In land -where all
thing a shall fulfill their promise. The
longing for that day end land is not the
desire for ease, for the grons pleasures
of the oriental paradise. It Is the frulti
age of our passion for progress,' our
longing for fight, our dissatisfaction
VI th our Imperfect selves, .our discon
tent with anything short of the royal
life of righteousness.
We would live where visions shnt)
i Llenei," wfll'H risIlfAKiTTfuui sJialT
ever be regnant,, where we shall have
overcome the dragon and shaken off the
mire, and we shall be what God meant
ua to be, the bona of the kingdom.
- LEWIS AND CLARK ,
' ,
At the site of Ilwaco, ' '
Nov. IS, In the night U 'began to
rain, and continued until 11 o'clock.
Two huntera were sent on to kill some
thing for breakfast, and the rest of the
party, after drying their blankets, soon
followed. At three miles we overtook
tha buntera and breakfaated on a small
deer, which they had been fortunate
enough to kilt. This, like all of those
we bave soen on this coast, are' much
darker than our common deer. Their
bodies, too are deeper, their legs shorter
and their eyea larger. - The branches of
the horns are smaller, . but the upper
part of the tall is black, from the root
to the end, and .they do not leap, but
Jump like sheop frightened. -
We then continued over rugged hills
and steep hollows near the aea, ort
course about north JO degrees west. In
a direct line from the cape, till at a dis
tance of five miles we reaohed a point
of high land, below which a sandy beach
extends in a direction north 10 degree "
west, to another high point, about 2a-
mlles distant. Thia eminence we dis
tinguished by the name of Point Lewis.
It la there that tha highlands, which at,
the commencement of the aandy beach
recede toward Chinook river, again, an
p roach the ocean.. The intermediate
country la low, with many small ponds,
crowded by birds, and. watered bv the
ChlndokT76n the borders of which re
side the nation of the ssme name. We
went four miles along the sandy beach "
to a small pine tree, and then returned
to the foot .of the hJlla,Msln-on
shore a sturgeon 10 feet long, and anv
eral Joints of the backbone of a whale,
both of which seem to have been thrown
ashore and foundered. . After dining on
the remains of the small deer, we
crossed In a southeastern dlrectloA to
the (Haley's) bay, where we arrived at
the distance of two miles (at Ilwaco):'
then we continued along the bay, croai r.d
Chinook- (Wallaeut) river, and camped
on Ita upper side in a aandy bottom.
j Jjueer Polltica,' ;1 ,s 2 ?
V :
. From Judav
Wyld Some nueer things In politics,
' Ryer--For instance? . .. .-.-- '
'Wyld A fellow has to t tip trie Ilia.,"
uids to make himself, solid, . ' .
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