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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1305.
PORTLAND. OREGON.
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THE ORE G O N SUND AY JO URNAL
C. . ACXSOV
PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL : PUBLISHING CO. : wo.' tjaou.
! 1 A NEW FACE AT THE DOOR. '' ; . ;
T IME TAKES NO NOTE of manV markings -or
division. Father Time- knows no holiday, no
beginning or end, no hour, year, epoch, or era.
lie is equally unconscious of entrancing music and agon
' wii misery. " To him there fre no dayror years, or
generations, or centuries, or periods. , Tonight little
, ephemeral man, will bid a sympathetic farewell to an
Xpirmg year, ana niu wim tw. uui"'. -.'"
new one, but Time's clock will neither delay nor hasten
' the minutest portion of a moment; will "not, for all the
gold and gear, the love and laughter, the praise and
prayer of earth, change in the slightest particular while
-t the twelve strokes of its bell are sounding the monoton-
pus measure of his tick. J To hird January is the san)e as
July, day the same as night, the year ot umine ana me
year of -plenty the; same. He has seen what to .ephe-
' meral man, are uncountable purobers. of new years, new
fcpochs, new eras, new eons; his journey may have
lasted -a, thousand billion years, , and may w have ten
thousandbillion year of travel ahead; what cares Time
for the illy calendars of us momentary flitting moths?
i Yet," such "as we are,we find it . convenient to have
f'times,"periods; the seasons take .care of themselves -four
of them form a natural period of time; and, ao
cording to-a quite generally accepted arrangement, one
year ends and another begins on Time's clock's stroke
of twelve tonight While thi. clock strike, 1905 passes
Into history, and gradually fading memory; 1906 on the
stage; we felicitate, and pray, and promise, and'revel,
and do good, and evil, and celebrate in various ways;
but Time's clock ticks on, as unheeding of us as the
, sun of gnats whose spanpf life is measured by the
flight f 'one of our day's. .' ';.r V-
; Yet the arbitrary division of thhe,- and the observance
of the' ending and" beginning of what we call aTyear,
are not without sentimental and moral as well as prac
ticat uses. The seasons make, a new year -so often, re
gardless of calendars, and, though it might seem more
appropriate to have the, new year -begin in the spring,
it is- immaterial ; any time will do; we are accustomed
to the present order; VeU if. be observed, and from 12
o'clock tonight "begin, awake .or asleep, a new year,
" The new year ought to be a useful occasion, in many
ways. It is a good time to square up accounts, to make
' a new start, to coin past experiences into legal tender
currency for future uses to provide sufficient and sus
taining food for" Will,' to' cleanse dross from motives
and purposes,tb remember unseen beams as well as
visible motes, to rejoice if we -may in past experiences
and future prospects, to e glad if w have done well
and'whether so 'or not to resolve to do better; to say,
finally, whatever!:happens, with Henley: ; ... -"I
am master of my fate; '-.'
- I am captain of my soul." '.
May it be a Happy Jfew Year to many, to most; may
i:-it be be the happiest New Year that old muzzled sphinx.
Father Time, ever saw; and may the' year Jo begin to
night be such as to give us an even happier1 New X'ar
when we bid 1906 farewelf forever l r. '
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" A THOUSAND DOLLARS A YEAR.'' l "
' .. . I 's . - .. . . .. ., ry . '
MUCH newspaper, and magazine'rois.cussio.n has
arisen over the question, propounde'd by some-
body with nothing 'useful or practical to 'sug
gest "Should man m,arry oh an income of a thousand
dollars a year r" Stated thus abstractly, the question is
s this: How late in the evening should bullfrog sing?
'i It afl".depends on 'the man, and on the woman; and
no two -men,, or two Women, are just allki There are
plenty of men who should not marry on an irurome of
$1,000 a year, many who should not marry ontwo or
three or five or ten times that sum, and not a few who
, should not marry at. ail; and there are . women who
should not be married by men with only this income,
' and some who should not be married whatever a mart's
income. ' ' v - .. f, . '.'-, ' ' '7 - V-V
If a man is yet young, is healthy, industrious, ordi
narily intelligent temperate and moderately frugal, .he
tan safely marry the right sort of a young woman on
51,000 a year, or $800, or veri $600, providing, there is a
good prospect of an increase in that income later. It
depends a good deal on the woman; whether she is will
;, ing to be and capable of being a true helpmeet willing
cheerfully to live plainly and simply and help save,
without being disagreeably miserly; and it depends, too,
on the man, whether he is steady, thorough, faithful,
patient, perceptive -of future possibilities, capable of
. rising as opportunity offers. A young couple like that
can manage to save $300 or $400 out pf $1,000 a year,
but they will have to manage closely, live very plainly
and put on no "style" and this will not hurt them a bit
! A man who drinks, or gambles, or loafs, or depends
pn something turning up, or who has no self-confidence
or self-reliance, should not -marry on an' income of
$1,000 a year, or any other sum, nor should any young
woman marry such a man;. .' 1
A young man and, woman who wish to marry, and
who cannot be contented without having a nice house
costing $25 a month or more rent and fine furniture
bought on the installment plan, and clothes equal in
quantity and quality to those of rich people, and who
must go into society, and- go to theatres, and take
Vacation' trips, and be members of clubs, and receive
'company, and "put on style", for appearance sake, cannot
afford to marry on xi,uuu a year, nor scarcely on twice
.that sum, even if he has no vices and she is otherwise
fc model wife and' housekeeper, v 1 ''..' 1 "!
The young couple that marries on . $1,000 a" year,
Especially if they live in a town and do not own a home,
must practice some self-denial, which, however,' will do
Ihem good, not harm, and they can' be happier -tntis
than most couples are who have far larger incomes and
. Vet never have enough. . ,. , . ' s, - . 1;
r ''We know a couple that have been married some 12.
years and have two children, the husband earning up
till recently only $65 a month, $780 a year. They dressed
comfortably, always' had enough to eat, paid alljttheir
bills, and bought a lot and buift a Jiouse at a cost of
about $2,400, which , ta about 'one third paid , for; with
good luck will be paid for in. six or seven yeafrs, when
the property, well taken care of, will be worth $4,000,
and the man will be earning $75 or $80, a months-He
will then be 4U years old or more, and it- may be said
that he .has'' drudged and slaved away the'best years of
his, life, and his wife, 'too, merely to -live and acquire
' this home. ThHs"i one way of .Jooking at it; another
isVthey have always had a happy, congenial home; they
were always striving but not -straining themselves harm
fully for a good, worthy object, a home of their own:
they escaped all form4 of dissipation, and frivolity,, and
are as simple and pure in, thought word and action as
when they, were children. ; And these, are no "small
' thine. . ' ' - '.' ' V -. .
Again, the question, Should a man marry on $1,000 a
t year? is pointless, nonsensical, standing by itself. To
render it worth discussion or consideration a number
V of other questions must be asked, and every case of
contemplated marriage must be viewed in the light of
" ' its own circumstances, and especially of the character,
temperament and habita of the man and the woman.
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'Der Kaiser I threatening-to aend Misi Roosevelt an
oil portrait of himself as a wedding gift Wh doesn't
William get his portrait printed ta calendar and be
' .'done wili itl " ' y. 7. "
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! : WHAT JOHN R. WALSH LOST. , ,
IT HAS BEEN SAID that "every man's life is a text
from which Fate preachesivsermon." Too often
, the discourse may be condensed into Disraeli's mel
ancholy summary: f "Youth is a blunder, manhood a
struggle, old age a regret."-
. 'There is John R. Walsh, for, example, 69 years old,
crushed with failure and cares, almost penniless, and
scarcely able to preserve a close-shaven reputation as
an honest business man. . Fifteen years ago he was worth
$5,000,000, and remarked about that time, it is said, that
he could not spare .time to take any rest He had more
property and money then, at the age of 54, than he and
his family could reasonably spendall that they could
need. All the comforts and luxuries ol the world that
money could buy were then at his command, but other
men were far richer; he craved more, could take no
time for relaxation because the fever of great wealth
was in his brain and in his blood, and to accumulate
more, and more rapidly, he sacrificed what is worth
more than all his property and what money will not buy.
As ip the case ot many others, the mental strain in
volved in the pursuit of great wealth caused nervous
dyspepsia. . And then during these 15 years that he
has been a slave, a drudge, a hypochondriac, and hated
rathed than envied, he has sacrificed that many-golden
years of contemplative ease, of instructive and enter
taining travel, of blessed discriminating charity, of the
cultivation' of friendships "and. the weaving of strong
threads of attachment, of storing his mind with -noble
thoughts, enlarging his oersoective of this beautiful
wofrd, in looking outward arid upward and 10 drawing
nearer heaven instead of keeping his nose on the busiy
ness grindstone, racking mind and body and vainly
carrying on a contest with men far more powerful than
be. And at last he had to sacrifice not only property,
but the. confidence of his friends if not their respect,
and in some measure the future of his family.
And even if he had not financially failed, if he had
succeeded in becoming the richest man in Chicago,
what would it all have been worth in the e'nd to him?
Would it -have been worth the cost? "Everything falls
and is effaced," wrote Victor Hugo; "a few feet below
the surface of the earth reigns sd profound a silence,
and yet so much tumult on the surface." Is "so much
tumult" worth while when the near end is "so profound
a silence"? '-.;''' ..!,,..
THE FOOTBALL PROBLEM;
MUCH, OF THE CURRENT DISCUSSION of
intercollegiate football misses one grea.,1 source
of harm in the game. Too much attention is
given' to the game itself and not enough to the condi-"
tions under which it is played. Popular attention fixes
upon the danger to the playera in the game and con
demns it 'for this, insisting on the elimination of the
danger or the abolition of the game. Football as played
by the colleges is rough, inherently so, and as it is often
played brutally so, as statistics abundantly show and as
any one who witnesses contest for championship may
see for himself. v. -, ..-.
A certain amount of roughness, as the West Point
men in the conference of colleges pointed out, is not
undesirable in a game for boys, Possibly football, well
regulated and played under favorable conditions, might
not involve . undesirable roughness." As it is , played,
however, it certainly does involve . greater peril to limb
and life than school or college authorities are justified
in permitting, not -to say encouraging, those intrusted
to their care to incur. But even so, it is not in its in
herent danger, great as that is, that the great harm of
football as it is now played lies. It lies in the enhance
ment of that danger through the pretense in the play
of a vicious spirit, introduced largely through an in
fluence from without that has made the game the evil
that it has come to be. , - , 1 I
Undoubtedly this untoward influence from without
has some close connection with essential qualities of
the game. There could hardly be a clash or contact
of any kind on the field between 22 stalwart young
fellows without roughness and some attendant danger.
No set of rule that allowed the teams Jta come into
personal contact at all could wholly eliminate roughness
and danger from the, play. And if any set of rules
should eliminate personal contact interest in the game
would be killed.' For in the contact of the player., .in
the clash of individuals or of masses, lies the chief secret
of its fascination for the spectators. Extraordinary
punting, swift and spectacular runs, have, of course, an
interest for all and evoke bursts of applause, but it is
the individual tackle and the mass plays which, after all,
hold the spectator in breathless interest It is these
that distinguish the game,' and, make it singular among
all college games in its powef- to awaken the interest
and enthusiasm oi the college body. A few, doubtless,
who , are well versed in-the rules of the" game, ' follow
the play, with an interest in the science," but for the
greater number of the thousands who crowd the benches
and line the ropes on occasion of a great game interest
centers in the violent impact of the players and in their
fierce struggle for the mastery, an interest that is not
a little enhanced by the accompanying sense of danger.
This U chiefly why thousands of men and women-will
sit or stand for hours in chilling rain or a biting wind
and watch a game to the end. v. .
' The , interest of the .mass of the spectators, it is im
portant to observe, fastens upon and is intensified by
those very plays in which the roughness and peril of the
game inhere. Interest of this sort awakened by per
sonal contact involving peril to the players, has a pe
culiar tendency to intensify, zeal for victory. Intense
zeal for victory in -Jikely.to become inordinate and not
over nice about the rale, of means. This is especially
so if the zeal should have, in it, as it not infrequently
has, the vitiating element-of pecuniary interest from a
hazard upon the result. : ' ' '- '.
1 Here lies the difficulty in successfully dealing with
the abuses of the game, in an inordinate zeal for vic
tory, not on the part of the players, but primarily on
the part of a wholly irresponsible body, that of the col
lege public-This public;., irresponsible), indeed, but by
no. means uninfluential, is a composite body consisting
of undergraduates, alomnj and friends of the college; all
united in a common and intense zeal for victory. .This
zeal in an 'irresponsible but Influential body, too often
urgent o fhis point of demanding victory at any cost,
reacts harmfully on the game. ihiS college public is
ant to grow insistent in its demand for victory. To this
end'dt makes the pressure of its demand felt by all who
have any part in the.organization, management,, in train-
ing 01 tne tearo, or in ine uirccuon 01 wic piay upon me
field. ' College faculties must organize or permit to be
organized a team that promises victory; managers are
pressed to search in every direction for men to compose
such a team and in turn urge upon faculties unwhole
some (concessions in the interest of individual members
of the team; coaches must train to wirT, their luture
depending on their ability to "organize victory ; teams
must win, by fair means if possible, by foul or at least
questionable, means, if they must; and officials on the
field must be prepared to face in every adverse decision
fierce protest,; if not personal abuse. Here is Jhe un
toward extraneous influence that threatens to defeat
every effort at regulating the game, t The pressure Of
this influence should have Urge credit for the abuses
of the game in the past and it Continued pressure ren'
ders the problem of the elimination of its evjls one of
exceeding difficulty. -iJf
The New Yok conference of colleges has not seen
fit to adopt the.'short and simple method of abolishing
the game altogether. It has preferred stricter regula
tion. In. it fii-st resolution,, adopted and sent down to
the.. several college for adoption, it, proposes to place
the responsibility of regulating and purifying the game
on the several college faculties, each faculty for its own
college. Doubtless this is where it should rest No
college faculty could be faithful to its trust and decline
to take this responsibility. No board of control could
take from the faculty this responsibility without seri
ously impairing its influence, as a governing body. '.But
it is safe to predict that in 'the effort to so regulate the
game as to eliminate its objectionable features college
faculties' will find themselves face to face with what
will in the end prove a hopeless task. The pressure of
the college public, if the game be retained, is likely to
prove too great in its opposing influence, since the in
terest of that public, it will be found, ia too closely in
volved in the game as it is to support any modification
of it that could possibly eliminate-its abuses. It now
seems probable, from expressions given so far,' that
this public, harmful in its influence on the game in
the past, will stand,' in most cases, with practical .unan
imity for the game substantially unchanged. ' This
means that the game will go on with its abuses, in the
main, ..uncorrected. ' f ,t ; .
' PLAN FOR JUVENILE HOMES. V
A DISPATCH in Thursday's Journal stated that
' Judge Ben B. Lindsey, the celebrated Denver
. juvenile court judge, had been requested to go
to New York to confer with some millionaire, whose
identity was not disclosed, who in connection with other
rich and philanthropic men of that city was considering
a plan for juvenile homes, and we suppose juvenile pro
tection and reclamation generally, throughout th coun
try. This is certainly a most worthy and laudable pur
pose, and it might be difficult for rich men whor desire
to spend their money doing good to devise any better
way of doing o. . : . . ; . '; V . ':. i
1 To turn a boy who from natural inclination or through
lack of proper parental supervision 3 and control has
started on the downhill road of vice and crime into a
straight, clean, honest, upgrade path of industry, use
fulness, morality, and honor is not only in itself a noble
deed, but it is one of great service to the state; and a
man who uses his money thus to influence and turn
many boys and what a multitude of tough "youngsters
there Hire in our cities probably contributes more than
he possibly could in any other way to the welfare of
the country in the next generation, and the benefit be
gins at once. .'s '"'';,. f-V ,
-'Every boy saved from a life of vice and crime is a
saving of a greater or less. expense bill to 4he state, on
his individual account Bur .more than that instead of
dragging other and younger boys and young men, and
perhaps girls, too, down with him, he helps, by his
example, if nothing more, to encourage thenr to keep
straight and honest and become useful, worthy citizens;
and this process goes on continuously, extending and
expanding, until the good done becomes simply incal
culable. As a rotting apple will cause the one lying next to it
to rot, so a bad boy will in many cases contaminate one
that but for him might have remained good; but while
a sound apple by remaining. cannot make its rotten
nerghbor sound, a straightned-up and 'genuinely re
formed boy can help much to make a bad companion
good. . '.
. Hence, the man who helps greatly , to reform the
boys and keep them straight is doing about the best
and greatest work for humanity that a man can do, and
he if anybody in this country is our most admirable
nobleman, for . ,
Tis only noble to 'be good. . , '
A GREAT YEAR BUT A BETTER COMINQ.
ORTLAND will bid-adieu'to 1905 with fond re
gret and profound appreciation. Of all its years
- this was the banner year." At a single bound
the city sprang to the very forefront of enterprising
municipalities. It undertook a tremendous enterprise in
the Lewis and Clark fair and made an unprecedented
record in its financial management. It became the cen
ter of enormous rilroad enterprises and every pat of
the state already feels their quickening influence, Huge
new business structures are in process of construction
on a scale never before dreamed of. Every one now
realizes that this is only the beginning of a forward
movement unexampled in all our past history.
This is the material side, but it is not the only one,
for 1905 will leave, the city much better than it found it
The ulcer of public gambling has been destroyed for
all time to come, our laws are better enforced than ever
before, our elections are purer, our, public officials
measure up to higher standards, the people once again
rule and there is reawakened public conscience that
means higher and better things for the future,
: So on this last. day of the old year the people of
Portland and Oresron may well look forward hopefully
to the coming year, buoyed up by the consciousness of
what they have done in 1905, and with a perfect .realiza
tion that. if ijhey are but true -to themselves they may
be able to look back in the closing days of next Decem
ber to the attainment of the higher levels of which
they now only dream. 1 :
Forty-two years as editor and proprietor of a single
newspaper. ; lhis is the record ot Harrison K. Kincaid
of the Oregon State Journal published at Eugene, a
record that is, perhaps, not ''duplicated on the Pacific
coast Mr. Kincaid is still in perfect health and a factor
in public affairs.'. The Journal wishes long' lifean
abundance of prosperity and a continued flow of that
optimism which has always been such a fine elemlni
in his character. ......
1
LETTERS FROM
PEOPLE
THE
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- Portland,'- Or.,' Deo.' 18. Mr. John H.
Woodard, Portland, Or.--Dear Sir: --" In
your article published In the Oraronlan
of December Z4, 1(05, relative to the di
rect promary nominating law, you aa
ert the present law ia defective in that
1 provide tho following: ; .
Flrat That In cur political affair of
state it place th . man before " the
party. '
Second That It permit any eltlsen.
otherwise legally qualified, to aaplre to
office. "
Third That It doe away with politi
cal conventions, and make it incumbent
upon those aspiring to office) to declare
their platform and announce their
candldacle to the people upon the vote
of whom they must depend for their
nomination. .
Fourth That it permit thi- people.
a you term them, "a dlorgsjilsed mob
of voter," to rote tor whom and what
they please.
Fifth That the tnodeat eltlsen. un
willing to declare himself a candidate
and to announce ' the principle for
which he atanda, la eliminated from the
eonteat .
Tou propose, a a ' remedy for the
above named defect and a a aubetP-
tute for the preeent law, the following:
That a convention or representative
body of the people declare the party
principle, nominate men to fill the dif
ferent office, then submit the' proceed
ing of thi convention to the people
at the primary for their ratification, and
later for their adoption, at tne general
election. ' - - '
Believing that your remark and as
sertion should net go unchallenged,
that the defect which you point out
are imaginary rather than real, and that
the plan you propose atrlkea at tne
heart or the direct primary nominating
law. which a large majority of the
people "i favor, I repectfully challenge
you to maintain your aseertton and
proportion in a publlo debate, under
uch rule and at aucto a-llme and place
a w may hereafter name. Tour very
truly, HENRY g. WE8TBROOK.
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The Trait Vest &aw.
McMlnnvllle, Or., Deo. 0. To the
Ed' tor of The Journal Respecting the
fruit tree pest law, passed some time
ago for the destruction of the tree In.
fected. it ha been argued, and la now,
that no uQh law can be enforced, and
thnt a man has a right to do what he
win with. hl ownJ . The writer would
Ilk to have the Opinion of the pre
concerning it a ! be hi argu
ment on the fact that all nuisance can
ha abated under law, and that no person
ha 'a right to injur another in property
or person, and also that for the good
of all, or that wblqh 1 a publlo benefit
auch nuisance or pt shall be de
stroyed even to the enforcement the
cutting down of fruit tree.' -
No Dron can expect to raise good
fruit free from peat if hi neighbor
ha a breeding den for the purpose oi
raising them. Further,- uch person
eannot market uch fruit or put it to
an orofftabie use, not even to ieea
stock or consume it themselves. There
for the' ground would be more valuable
for other crops or other purpose, no
matter what "If it la a law, it should
be enforced. There la nothing more
unsightly than some of the orchard
In thi valley, and they should" be erad
icated. .A. U.XATBI.
Krf Sentence Sermon. ?,
' By Henry F. Cop
Deeds cure doubt. . , .;
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The lift ef your llf i the .proof of
your Jove. ' .
. Many a trial ia a test before promo
tion, v
' Love fillscven family jar with per
fume. - - - v
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Many saint are poor because their
piety la not vigorous enough to stand
prosperity. i
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Bom men think , that they, are doing
great deal toward remedying thi
world's wrong byclting them. ,
The only way to leave the bad la to
cleave to the good. -
The beat social refinement ia to be
refined of self. -, ,1" ' '
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The light of the church doe not de
pend on the ol lines of the saints. . .
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if is easy for the plug in the race to
despise the prise.
Tho virtue are at home in a man
which he manifest at home.
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The aermon that beat about the buh
always find It barren. . . ,
Tou cannot give a quart of love out
of a half -pint heart . . .
There' a lot of difference between a
broad mind and a awollen head. .
Religion will not .keep at all o long
a you keep it all to yourself.
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' There are people who never appreci
ate the rose until . they apprehend, the
thorn. - ' V" "
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- XTnneceasary help la always a sad
hindrance.
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The well of truth would be a good
deal clearer If w would keep our tlck
out f It .
" . :
'Create a little heayen now and you,
will not need to worry about your cre
dential for more of it by and by. -
, ; 1898 Geraldine 1901. '
Of all the aweet maiden fair of every
clime, . -
The. dearest of them all I myr own
Oeraldlne;
Fair a th lily, sweeter than the rose.
Oh, but ahe's charming, a every one
Wnowa
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I would go north, south, east, west or
anywhere, . .
If tho aweet charm did but lure m
there. . : '
Other may fancy It'e all castle or
. dream, , i i '
I know of none to compare to dear
. Oeraldlne. ; .... . , .
T, ah i first in my thought, wak
ing or dreaming.
My poor .heart 1 for her, while her llf
1 teeming;
All thi I to a moat wonderfully
- real.
I would not exchange; she la -my own
ideal. . - ;. . ; ...
But what doe alMhl signify or meant
That man la a rover without lomt
Oeraldlne. ' (.
Ood created both when Eden , was all
fln .
Were it not for'the fall, we would be
- v; .' happy there. - - ...
A woman was flrat in transgression or
' ln. ' .
She alio waa flrat In the breach and to
win
Th Master commendation and hi
' love, '
Aa, he stayed awhile here ere ascending
. above. ,
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Well In their weaknet or strength.
sorrow or Joy, : ''
Ood help them alway; they love to em
ploy V v
Their time and attention to win u
for heaven, ' .
While leading th way they serve as
, the leaven. , ' -
Then whether as Sara or Ruth, anon, ,
Or Mary, or Dorcas, or Lydla later on. 1
Or as angel of mercy to Buffering
man. 'i
They're sure to com In by original
. plan. . t '
Bo then,, aa dear mother, sweetheart
. or wlv, ", i
Their value. 1 not In accord with ther
-, t. v J- a;- r
Th smallest aomettftie prove th very
. best;
Oire me the loving ones, you may have
the ret
r-' WILLIAM V 'RKID.
Villa Park, Nw Jersey.
j LEWIS AND CLARK
At Fort Clataop. . . , ' .
December 11. A It wa now Impos
sible to ' have tt hour otr pleasant
weather, the sky last evening clouded
and the rain began and continued
through the day. , In th morning there
cam down two canoe, on from the
Wahkiakum village; th other contained
three men and aquaw of th Bkllhjot
nation. They brought wapatoo and phana
taque root, dried fish, mat mad of
flag and rush, dressed elkakin and
tobacco.' for ' whUJh, - particularly th
skin, they . asked a very extravagant
price. We purchased soma wapatoo and
a little tobacco, very much Ilk that we
had seen among the Shoshone put-up In
very neat bag mad of rushes. The
w obtained in exchange for a few ar
ticle, among which fishhooks were the
moat esteemed. One" of th Skllloot
brought a gun and wanted some repair,
and having put It In order, w received
from him a present of about a peck of
wapatoo: we. then gave him a pleca of
sheepskin and blue cloth to cover "the
lock and he very thankfully offered
a further present of roots. There Is,
in f ict an obvious superiority In these
Bkllloots over th Wahkiakum, who are
Intrusive, thievish and impertinent. Our
new YeguUtlona, however, and '-'the a pi
pea ranee, of the sentinel have Improved
the behavior' of all, our Indian via I tor a
They-left the -fort before sunset even
without being ordered. .
- Beside the flea, we obaerv a num
ber of insect In motion today. Snake
are yet to be ieen, snails, too, without
cover are common. On the river and
along the shore of Meriwether bay
are many kind of large waterfowl, but
at thi period they are exceedingly wild.
The early part of the night wa fair.
Money Galore in the West
' From th Detroit Free Pre. -
. It 1 but a few year lpc th west
wa dependent upon Wall street for
money with which to move it crop.
Every autumn there came demand upon
the coffer of eastern capitalist until
th yield of the western prairie had
been marketed. The margin from these
transaction found thsir way Into the
pocket of th men who made possible
th moving of the crop and furnished
a profitable field of Operation. Con
dition have changed, however. The ac
cumulation of wealth ha been suffi
cient to reverse the former, order - of
things, and western capital I now find
ing it way eastward for . Investment
Wall street no longer shape the finan
cial destiny of th country.-. Lamb may
be fleeced there, but tne farmer 1 un
mindful of . thi fact He I too busy
haring In th general prosperity to
concern himself with such trifle. .
'. Vr ' - The' Past;., . ;,'.'
How few are left of those we knew
- When youth was In It bloom;
Then flowers wore their brightest hue
- And shed thsir beat perfum, -And
women aeemed to be more -true,'
When youth was in its bloom.
To all there' oome a bitter day,'' '
. When metn'ry spread her wing.
And take our though to cne so
' " gay. . s ,
I When llf was In ita, spring, i ' i
Th lip -w klss'd are wltber'd now,
, And eloeed the loving eye; -
No more on winsome cheek and brow
The look of glad aurpris;
We know,' but cannot answer how, . i
- They rest In paradise. , V
- 4 O. M. T. '
3 What Education Will Do. ,
From th 8t Paul Pioneer Pros.
Th Iowa . Agricultural college eent
two steer to the international exhibit
nd the steer took th first and sec
ond prise. .There I a practical demon
stration of the advantage of higher
education. , ' ... : : . .- .
. !, The Need of Peace.
From the gt.' Lout QIobe-Democrat.
Th era of universal peace should be
hastened, or else none of the harbor
will be deep enough to admit th latest
.batUhlpe.-, J
'A
Sermon
ToJayk
for
The. New Year's Outlook,
By Henry F. Cop. ,
' Blessed 1 the people that know the
Joyful sound; they shall walk. O Lord.
In th light of thy countenance. - In thy
name shall they rejoloe all the day..
Psalm Uxxlx:lS-le ,
T the, beginning of th new year
men take time for review and
preview. What the future ,
" will be deoend largely on the
eyes with which we now Took at it. If
we look for Joy we find it; if our er
are tuned to the ipyful sound our live
go singing all the-time. It Is part of
life' business to find this blessedness;
it I a duty to be happy, a sin to.be
artificially aad. - There are few thing
that in th coming year, men need to .
fight more seriously than3 popular pes
simism. .. - . .-'"..''
Th denouncing of lir a a rraua.
,11. u.w.t.tMV., . v ir
some petty, overgrown infant who ha
only played with life I a serious of
fense against humanity. It Is. like a
child kicking against th doorf he will
not try to open. With hi much crying
h make himself heard and heedless
men take his ravings to heart; the
hatred of life I stirred in them and It
floyoushee hidden. A moral anarchist ,
1 he who, too lasy to run in the race
and too blind to see the Tightness of th
rule, berates th whole gameof life.
Tet the cynic and th 'pessimist, th
devotee of melancholia, are often re-"
garded aa the apostle of . - modern
thoua-ht Th peenl who economise
their brain are ever ready to take th'
mooning of moraL malaria aa the height
of modern wisdom. It Is time for men
and women of red blood and rejololng
heart to preach the gospel of happl
hess. .This I a 'goo time for every
man to determine to .cultivate the- ear
for th Joyful Bound evfcry day of thi
year, to make a record collection of hap
piness. : i : .j-:.. ' '
, It la only the people who live on th
froth of life who ar reedy to adopt
th faith of r despair. . Life Is a aad
bualnea to those who have no other
business than that of being foolish or
of finding excitement and - merriment
If you will try to live on mustard you
will find the average -dally bread de
cidedly flat Life 1 alway a failure
to thosa who have no special reason
for being alive. But the people whose
hand are busy, the people who work
the hardest,, hav least Interest In - th
mumbling and murmuring, of th ,
drone and the dreamers -.-j,'
There ar .other way of drying up '
lough beside drfhking them dry, and
there are - other way - of helping this
world beside the exploiting of all It
horror. Faith In th essential right-
ness of things. Jn the 1 happiness and
loveliness of thi world. Is the first step
toward sweeping away ita. wrong, and
sorrow. and unlovellness. j you do
not hav to believe that the world Is a
good a t might be; but you do ned
to "give it people credit for as much
good, perhaps a little more, than ye -
find In yourlf. ' ' - f v, ' ,
Life I not such a sad business After
alL Every day bring good cheer, every
hour aom happiness; every step of the
way you can catch aom echo' of th
joyful ound .that' the All-loving rer
ing through-the age. Into the: dark-''
est live there ''cornea -some consolation. -
The deeper swr-go Into th valley, of th
hadow th mora keenly do we realise
th kindness, th sympathy, th essen
tial goodaea there I in thi world. -y -
j Sometime we need sorrow to give u .
new eye and keener ear. ' A man nrver ,
learn until he lose hi money the .
worth of friend not bought with gold,
the deed of leva that could not be '
hired, nor how rich 1 humanity in th
eternal wealth of everyday goodness.
Many a heart ha first eaugbt th
anthem of heavenly haoDlnea .through
Seek happiness, artultlvate faith in v
your fellow. In their sincere seeking to
be decent and kind, and better mea and
women. If this old world 1 a sad
world don't try - to sweeten It j with
Vinegar. Don't warehouse all your hap
piness . in heaven. Circulate the rvur
rency of that happy land here. If you
feel pessimistic get out and saw wood.
hunt up some on In need and help
them. . Pray God to deliver you from
th peison of despair. , r '
'-Seek th Joyful ound. Of all th
good thing of which men may boast at
laaat the beet of all will be to hav
touched up the dull place with .light
nd lifted th heavy heart with tne
inagio of love, to hav made th world
a little better oy oeneving in n ana
loving it ., i- .
YOU OUGHT
;: TO KNOW
.I....' '"' . "
Th New Year. 0 '
By Philip Doddridge.
TPhlllp Doddridge (London, June II,
1703 Lisbon, October IS, 1751). the U,
mou expoaltor, general writer and' au
thor of many 'hymn, was an English
Congregational . minister. - Ha 'became
pastor of a church at Klbsworth at the
age of 10 and at 17 he wa ngaged In
training other for th work of th mm- .
Istry. This ong for th new year wntfi
given to th publlo in tb collection of
Doddridge' hymn published 'In 176S.
It wa usually ung at what were known
a th "watchnlght . services'' of th last .
generation, midnight! meeting held to
observe th going out of th old year
and th coming In of .th new with ap
propriate hymn and worship.) ,
, , v. - ; , .
Great Ood, w lng that mighty hand
By which supported still w stand: .'
Tnejppenlng year thy mercy show;
Latlnercy crown It till It close
By day, by nlghV at home, abroad, ' V,
Still we ar guarded by our Ood; -By
hi . incessant bounty fed, . -By
his unerring counsel led. .
With grateful heart th past w own;
Th future all to Us unknown '
W to thy guardian car commit.
And peaceful leave before' thy feet.
In cne exalted -or depressed.
Be thou our 4oy and thou pur. rell
Thy goodness all our hope shall raise.
Adored, through all our chapglng day,
. , . "
When death shall 'cloa our.
sonar. t - '
And seat ia ellence, mortal tongue,
Oar Helper, Ood, in whom we trust, .
Shall keep our oul and guard ourdoat
iging daya,
rx arthly)
tongue, ,-
A Historical Correction. . . ,
From th St I-oul Oloba-Democrat .
' Another tradition ha , been swept
away. Ther wa no such person : as
Hsndrlk Hudson. It hss been found
by examining official document that the
explorer wa Henry Hudson, an English
man, and that he needed an Interpreter
in conferring with, th Hollander. ,..
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